Episode 208: How to Change Draft Strategy from Best Ball to Managed Season-Long
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Mike Leone discuss the differences in draft strategy between managed leagues and best ball leagues. It includes important notes on roster construction and changing player values.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Adam's Bronzed Adonis Look
- If "Better in Best Ball" is really a thing
- If we'd move up WRs in managed leagues and why
- The RB value differences between managed and best ball
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Timestamps:
How waivers changes draft approach (1:59) | How streaming changes draft approach (5:18) | Roster construction in Managed Leagues (7:15) | WRs in managed leagues vs Best Ball (9:58) | QBs in managed leagues vs. Best Ball (12:53) | Predicting explosion games in manage d league (15:54) | Is “best ball player” really a thing? (18:00) |
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, no, and welcome to episode 208 of the official established run dot com podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | My name is Adam Levittan and today I am joined by the man you know, the man you love, |
| 0:28.0 | the translucent analytics, Savant, it is Mike Leoni. How's it going, buddy? |
| 0:34.1 | I swear you have some sort of setting on zoom to make me look translucent. I feel like |
| 0:39.2 | when I'm on stream yard, I'm pretty good. And then we get we get on zoom and I'm back to being |
| 0:44.4 | a ghost. Look at me. I am a bronze the Donus for you guys watching on YouTube. This is what |
| 0:49.2 | bronze the Donus looks like on today's show. We are going to talk about the differences in strategy |
| 0:55.1 | between best ball leagues and managed leagues. And I think it's obviously a valuable topic if |
| 1:00.4 | you're playing both. But even if you're only playing a standard season long managed team, |
| 1:05.3 | which I know a lot of you guys are, I think there's a lot of important points to understand here. |
| 1:10.2 | Given that we have to pick our starting lineup each week that we have access to waivers that we |
| 1:14.0 | can turn our bench that we can have a different roster construction and manage. We should think about |
| 1:18.8 | all that and how the strategy should change. We're going to talk about all that today. Before we get |
| 1:22.7 | into today's show, one of her mind everyone, the program is brought to you by our friends at |
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| 1:53.7 | up by the time this podcast is released. So stay tuned on Twitter and the site for that. All right. |
| 1:59.4 | Let's get into it. Leonie, we're going to divide this into four kind of broader topics here. The |
| 2:04.3 | first point to make should be the most obvious one. I think to most people in managed leagues, |
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