Ep. 377 - How DO NFL DFS Sims Work, Handbuilders Can Still Win In 2024 & Exploiting Bad Drafters On Underdog w/ Brian Hooper
The Taekcast
Davis Mattek
4.9 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Takecast. My name is Davis-Matic. You guys can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic. In this episode of the show, I am joined by Brian Hooper. Normally we do these overpaid Patreon feed, but this is a main feed take-cast episode where we talk about some of the issues with public-facing DFS Sims, how Sims actually work, and then how people are generally making some |
| 0:25.3 | errors in Battle Royale and how those are exploitable. If you guys like this show, please consider |
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| 0:40.8 | or leave a rating review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. Let's go ahead and get into the show. |
| 0:46.8 | Hello everyone and welcome in to another episode of the take cast Davis Maddock with you here |
| 0:50.9 | joined by Brian Hooper. Normally these episodes are on the Patreon feed, but, as you guys might have noticed, |
| 0:57.7 | kind of it was a Brian bit ambitious to think that we could crank out a two-hour podcast |
| 1:02.7 | in the middle of doing all of the fantasy football content over on the paid feed. |
| 1:08.1 | Obviously, those will return. |
| 1:09.3 | We owe the people, a Lord of the Rings, |
| 1:11.7 | Rings of Power, Season 2, Recap podcast. We're not going to get into that here. Let's save it. I don't |
| 1:17.6 | want to argue. I do not want to argue about Rings of Power. I don't know, but I don't want to |
| 1:23.1 | talk about it. Just yet. So, I mean, I think this is where I want to begin how is your DFS season going |
| 1:31.3 | this is this is the first year I've used Sims for Maine I've used Sims for showdown for two years |
| 1:39.0 | with like good results not not doing post-contest simming for Showdown, which I think is, is interesting. |
| 1:45.2 | My dupe numbers have been pretty low, but how is your DFS season going? |
| 1:50.7 | Well, if you don't, if you only play GPPs and you don't take first, you're not going to have a good time. |
| 1:56.6 | So I haven't taken it first, so I'm down. But the last two weeks have been fine. |
| 2:02.2 | The post-contest sims, I only look at Saber Sims. |
| 2:07.4 | I don't have a solver account. |
| 2:10.6 | And I don't use Saber-Sims numbers. |
| 2:14.2 | And I'm usually doing pretty good in their post-contest SIM ROI, which is really a good sign. |
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