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The Taekcast

Ep. 383 - DFS Is Dead? Owning ETR, Projection Fragility, Downswings, Crypto Luck w/ Andrew Wiggins

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

Fantasy Sports, News, Sports News, Sports

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Davis Mattek and Andrew Wiggins from Establish the Run dive deep into daily fantasy football game theory and discuss how draftkings has evolved over the years. They explore modern gambling and DFS strategy while examining the impact of sports betting on the industry's growth. The conversation covers innovative approaches to betting, DFS and includes discussion of bitcoin, crypto and downswings in gambling. 00:00 Andrew Wiggins Makisupa Introduction 2:00 Is DFS Dead 4:20 Why is gambling so popular right now? 7:01 Are you old enough to remember watching TV without a phone? 10:20 Owning ETR in a short attention span economy 15:15 The downswings of DFS 19:10 Getting off the top optimal in cash (and why you can do it) 22:01 Jauan Jennings Is The Greatest Player In Football 25:10 Getting off of hyper efficient players before the projections adjust 31:55 NBA Projection and the difficulty of median projections 36:30 Why don’t people like the NBA as much as football? When was the last collective sporting event? 41:00 Some of the dumbest people on Earth are going to get insanely rich because of Bitcoin 44:55 What is going on in the crypto casino? 48:10 Davis’ biggest conspiracy theory belief 50:55 Nuclear Power Could Be The Future 52:30 Wellymaker https://x.com/DrewDinkmeyer/status/1832057141126930784 53:30 Do Not Use The For You Tab 56:00 Andrew Wiggins Training Schedule 1:01:15 Bets To Improve Your Health 1:03:30 The Greatest Grateful Dead Live Recording Get $40 Off A Six-Month RotoGrinders Subscription: https://rotogrinders.com/premium/nfl?promo=davis Sign Up For THE SOLVER Here: https://thesolver.com?ref=yzk0mda Try Out UNABATED'S Premium Sports Betting + DFS Pick 'Em Tools: https://unabated.com/?ref=ymjkzgj Sign up for premium fantasy football content and get exclusive Discord access: www.patreon.com/davismattek Subscribe to the AutoMattek Absolutes Newsletter: https://automattekabsolutes.beehiiv.com/ Download THE DRAFT CADDY: https://endgamesyndicate.com/membership-levels/?pa=DavisMattek Audio-Only Podcast Feed For All Davis Mattek Streams: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grinding-the-variance-a-davis-mattek-fantasy-football-pod/id1756145256 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Tatecast.

0:15.1

My name is Davis-Matic.

0:16.2

You guys can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic.

0:18.4

In this episode of the show, I am joined by my good friend, Andrew Wiggins from Established to Run. Been a long time since Andrew, Maki Supa, as you might know him, has been on the show. Just kind of wanted to get his temperature on what he thinks about the space of DFS, fantasy sports, gambling, prop betting, ETR, all of that good stuff, a little bit of a Bitcoin

0:38.5

chatter at the end. Really enjoyed talking to Andrew, and I hope that you guys enjoy this show as

0:43.4

well. If you were listening to this in a podcast, please consider checking up the show on YouTube,

0:48.4

subscribing there, liking there. You can also get bonus episodes of this show and more content

0:53.1

on patreon.com slash Davis-Matic.

0:56.4

You can also just tell a friend about the show.

0:58.1

It's very useful and helpful as well.

1:00.1

Now let's go ahead and get into it.

1:01.6

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the TakeCast.

1:04.5

I am Davis-Matic and I am blessed to be joined by Andrew Wiggins, Maki Supa from Established to Run.

1:11.9

Andrew, you've actually been on this show before.

1:14.0

Long time ago, I looked it up, episode 60 of this podcast.

1:18.2

So that was like five, six years ago.

1:20.5

You and Drew Dinkmeyer came on talking about how DFS was dead then.

1:25.1

And look at us now, buddy.

1:26.5

DFS was dead five years ago. And that was before you could go to the solver.com and punch like six buttons and generate plus E v. lineups. So we've, we've come a long way with DFS still being dead. Yeah. What's the saying about beating a dead horse? Well, you know, I mean, that's so I, that's really what I wanted to start talking about is,

1:48.9

is you are, you're probably the first person I ever remember saying that, that DFS is dead.

1:54.4

Oh, the game's dead.

1:55.7

You know, I got to, I got to give you credit.

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