Ep. 402 - Will Best Ball Survive Real Time Assistance Tools? w/ Brian Hooper

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

News, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Sports News

4.9 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Draft for $1,500,000 on UnderDog Fantasy & Get A $1,000 Deposit Bonus With A FREE Pick 'Em Bonus Entry: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-davis-mattek Davis Mattek is joined by Brian Hooper to discuss a wide array of very online topics GET 10% OFF RUN THE SIMS W/ CODE "ENDGAME": www.runthesims.com Davis Mattek and Connor Allen do a complete round 1 NFL mock draft! Try Out UNABATED'S Premium Sports Betting + DFS Pick 'Em Tools: https://unabated.com/?ref=davis Draft for $1,500,000 on UnderDog Fantasy & Get A $1,000 Deposit Bonus With A FREE Pick 'Em Bonus Entry: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-davis-mattek Try Out UNABATED'S Premium Sports Betting + DFS Pick 'Em Tools: https://unabated.com/?ref=davis 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 Timestamps: 00:00 Will Best Ball Survive Real Time Assistance 4:40 Games Get Harder…That is life 11:50 What if you actually created a solver for best ball? 16:00 Being biased towards the tools…Are we grifters? 22:15 The Underdog Statement On Draft Tools 29:30 Are you throwing away money if you do not have aRTA draft tools? 37:00 Davis Mattek The Sellout 43:30 How do you define EV in best ball tournaments? 50:30 How many people will change how they feel about best ball

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0:00.0	Brian, very simple question.
0:16.0	Will best ball survive if real-time assistance tools get better?
0:24.1	Um,
0:24.9	survive.
0:28.7	Yes, be profitable, no.
0:31.0	Will you still be able to theoretically win $2 million in 2030
0:35.8	if best ball real-time assistance tools become what the people who are
0:40.4	very vocally against them say that they are going to become will real-time assistance tools
0:46.2	get that good that the game is is not profitable for all but the nerdy tenors of the world
0:53.7	well these are two different things, right?
0:55.5	Because the lottery exists.
0:56.9	You can't beat the lottery, but it's still huge prize pools.
0:59.7	So, well, basketball still have huge prize pools.
1:02.3	If there's awesome solvers released tomorrow, I think so.
1:08.3	I think they'll still be, I don't think you'd be very hard to win on your own, would be my guess.
1:16.4	You'd probably be fine the first year, but then once they get more popular, there'd be too many guys with really good strategy.
1:25.4	Now,
1:28.3	basketball is,
1:30.9	basketball mania,
1:32.4	aka best ball monster.
1:35.0	AKA best ball monster.
1:35.9	Is,
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