Episode 295: How Mike Leone Won the Thunderdome Again
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🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Mike Leone has won the Thunderdome on DraftKings twice in the last month, totaling $100K in winnings. He sits down with Adam Levitan to discuss his process.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Mike's thought process on his lineup
- How to use projections to leverage the field
- How to play with a lead or when you're trailing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a week 12 DFS tournament recap. |
| 0:22.1 | My name is Adam Levittan, one of co-founders here at ETR I am joined by the most unstoppable |
| 0:27.4 | man in high stakes DFS tournaments it is Mike Leoni who is coming off his second win in the |
| 0:34.1 | Thunderdome in the last what month to wins in a month for Leoni in the Thunderdome which by the |
| 0:39.6 | way is the flagship tournament for high stakes on draft kings is that correctly only two wins in a |
| 0:44.2 | month hashtag how rich yeah two two wins the last four weeks it's been a lot of chalk chaos and |
| 0:52.2 | chalk failure and that sort of plays into the hands of of how I like to make teams so it's it's |
| 0:57.0 | been a good run as exactly what I want to talk about today so Mike I think plays a contrarian |
| 1:03.7 | super contrarian style of DFS better than anyone and I think as you see here in this tournament and |
| 1:10.0 | you know this tournament the Thunderdome is only 40 people it's not it's $5300 buy-in but I |
| 1:15.9 | think some of the things that we can take from Mike's team here can be extrapolated to all |
| 1:21.8 | tournaments and biggest thing that we can take is what happens when the chalk fails when we |
| 1:26.3 | buy the chalk is the players that most people are playing and really the good plays I mean the |
| 1:30.6 | plays that on paper are good the thing is football is a game of absolute chaos of one game sample |
| 1:35.9 | size of NFL football absolutely anything can happen and so what Mike is trying to do when we're |
| 1:40.6 | trying to do in terms is capitalize when things go crazy so why don't you talk to the people here |
| 1:45.7 | they're going to say Leoni you spent $5300 to play Ben Rockisberger and Adam Thielin |
| 1:52.5 | and and Cordell Patterson and all these plays that nobody else even thought about playing so tell |
| 1:58.6 | to the people about this team there there were some ugly plays in here for sure but |
| 2:04.5 | what there's a few things that can go right when the chalk fails or even like rewinding before the |
| 2:09.0 | chalk failing like if you're going to play contrarian as long as it's not stupid contrarian and you |
| 2:13.2 | have you know a reasonable projection on your total team guys with high ceilings and good correlation |
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