Episode 102: How to Win NFL DFS Tournaments
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan is joined by two of the most profitable DFS players of all-time, ETR's own Drew Dinkmeyer and Mike Leone. They discuss how to think about NFL DFS tournaments, what kind of roster constructions win and dive deep into their strategy.
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TIMESTAMPS
Approaching large field tournaments (2:52) | Game selection strategy (5:35) | Price sensitivity and salary allocation (9:58) | How to handle the flex (13:39) | The stats on stacking (17:10) | The Bring Back (22:31) | Fanduel strategy vs. DraftKings strategy (25:30) | Lineup construction through ownership (28:03) | Using projections to get leverage (31:03) | Defenses when max-enteringing (37:18) | Should sites eliminate defences? (40:29) | Most important stats per position (41:22) | Week One Millymakers (45:09) | Where to start where building lineups (47:19) | DK $4k salary floor (50:23) | Single-entry GPP approach (52:28) | Adapting to GPP modes (56:11) |
SHOW LINKS
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DFS Game Selection: https://establishtherun.com/dfs-game-selection-which-contests-to-play/
Silva’s Top 150: https://establishtherun.com/evan-silvas-top-150-2020/
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Silva’s Sleepers and Undervalued: https://establishtherun.com/2020-sleepers-and-undervalued/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome |
| 0:17.0 | welcome to episode 102 of the official Establish the run |
| 0:20.7 | podcast my name is Adam Levitan I'm the father of the most |
| 0:24.3 | beautiful beast in the world Jerry and it is almost time for the greatest time of year. |
| 0:29.2 | Yes that's right folks it is time to engage in 17 weeks of mental warfare against our mortal |
| 0:35.9 | DFS enemies. For that, I'm joined by two of the best DFS players of all time, two young men, have won a millimaker, one live finals, |
| 0:44.2 | so actually play MME in a very thoughtful way |
| 0:46.9 | which I actually didn't think was possible. |
| 0:49.1 | And is our own Drew Dinkmeyer and Mike Leone. L Leone, what's going on? |
| 0:55.0 | I get in, you know, ready to go for the start of the NFL season. |
| 0:58.3 | It's one of those things where with COVID going on and everything, you know, it sneaks up on you a little bit more because you there was some uncertainty about the season, but it seems like all systems are go now, so pretty pumped looking at these week one contests, knowing that we're about a week or two out. |
| 1:13.2 | Yep and I know Leona spent a lot of time talking about season long. |
| 1:16.2 | I spent a lot of time talking about season long. |
| 1:18.3 | Drew spent a lot of time talking about NBA. We all know where our bread is buttered though, in the NFL streets max variance max upside all of it what's going on |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, it's you want to talk about sneaking up on you guys good Lord I'm not used to NBA playoffs going on |
| 1:33.3 | what the NFL season is starting. |
| 1:34.8 | So it's been an adjustment for me as well, |
| 1:37.0 | but I'm super excited. |
| 1:38.4 | It's obviously the time of the year |
| 1:39.6 | where, you know, as a professional DFS player, |
| 1:41.9 | you can make a break your year with just one one great week which is the great thing about NFL DFS |
| 1:47.0 | Especially these huge large field tournaments and I'm super excited to attack. Yeah, okay on today's show we are going to talk specifically about how to play NFL DFS tournaments correctly. |
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