Episode 160: How to Beat Best Ball with $200K winner Justin Herzig
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with Justin Herzig, who won Underdog's flagship Best Ball tournament for $200K last season. They discuss Justin's process, mistakes he sees people making in Best Ball, when to draft, what the optimal strategy is for roster construction and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 160 of the official establishment run dot com podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | My name is Adam Levittin, one of the co-founder's here at ETR and today we have a very, very |
| 0:28.0 | special guest. This is a young man who is on the grind in a big way. He was in the XFL streets. |
| 0:33.4 | He was in the second half DFS streets. He's in the NFT streets and most importantly, most importantly, |
| 0:40.9 | I think arguably the top NFL best ball format player in the game today. It is our own Justin Herzeg, |
| 0:48.7 | Justin. What's going on? How's it going on? It's fantastic. We are living the grind of post-supable, |
| 0:56.1 | which means it is my time to shine in the best ball world. Okay, I got to start with some |
| 1:02.1 | background here because frankly, I don't even know too much about where you came from, how you got |
| 1:06.8 | here. I saw this Jay Herzeg in all the games, both sites, all the XFL stuff in all the best ball |
| 1:13.9 | games and I was like, I don't know who this dude is. So how did you get to being in all the action |
| 1:21.8 | and is this your full-time job grinding all these various DFS-slash-fainty football things? |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, no, I'm still in the corporate grind. So a little background in me from a sports side |
| 1:34.5 | through college. I worked for a sports agency, did a bit more in the recruiting side, |
| 1:38.3 | actually primarily focusing on baseball. And then Pong graduation kind of had to make a choice |
| 1:43.2 | of whether I wanted to go on the road, make around 30K a year doing the recruiting lifestyle, |
| 1:48.3 | kind of stouting, or kind of selling out and going more to the kind of business world. |
| 1:52.9 | And so I found myself at financial services industry doing more than analytic side and had a few |
| 1:59.4 | friends who were similar to injured sports, but took a look at how to data analytics viewpoint |
| 2:04.4 | in the world and combine those two. And that's kind of got us headfirst into the DFS world. |
| 2:11.0 | And more recently it's been about primarily just NFL and just finding edge. And that's where |
| 2:17.7 | XFL second half best ball. Maybe there's just not as much attention and a lot of focus to it, |
| 2:24.5 | but that's where I found the clear edge and really just said, let's go for it. |
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