Episode 84: Optimal Best Ball Strategy with Drew Dinkmeyer
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Drew Dinkmeyer sit down to discuss Underdog's $1M Best Ball Mania tournament. They hit on how to optimally play "draft only" Best Ball, when we should be stacking, mistakes people make in roster construction and lots more.
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TIMESTAMPS: Finding The Edge in Best Ball (1:24) | Explaining Best Ball (3:42) | The “Best Ball Plays” Myth (6:01) | Underdog’s Best Ball Mania (8:35) | Adjusting For Flat Payouts (11:538) | Preparing For The Playoff Format (12:41) | Stacking Quarterback (14:16) | Quarterback-Running Back Stacks? (17:16) | Including Backups in Stacks (20:46) | Will Contrarian Work? (21:36) | Hyper-Fragile Construction (25:14) | Discussing Specific QB Stacks (29:39) |
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 84 of the official Establishing and run |
| 0:20.1 | podcast my name is Adam Levitan I'm one of the co-founders here at |
| 0:24.3 | ETR I am the father of Jerry the most beautiful beast in the world and today we are |
| 0:28.8 | joined by the man of no roses the king of the tournament streets these days the The man known as Dinkpiece, it is Drew, |
| 0:35.0 | Drew, how's it going? |
| 0:36.7 | I'm excited. I'm here for a completely different reason that I'm normally here for. |
| 0:40.6 | We're talking season-long fantasy football. That's usually not my gig, but I'm here. There's a big tournament, so I'm ready to attack it. |
| 0:47.0 | Exactly. Very, very big tournament, where he gets that in a second. Drew is set to embark on the NBA journey starting Thursday of this week into which he will go into a |
| 0:56.4 | whole and not emerge for three months. Reminder that Drew, Mike Gallagher, Andrew Wiggins, |
| 1:02.4 | Leone, our NBA dream team, have launched our new |
| 1:05.0 | NBA product, there's already content up. |
| 1:08.0 | Everything you need to play DFS during the restart action. |
| 1:11.0 | I mean, we talked about it on the salary release show action I think is just |
| 1:14.0 | going to be absolutely off the wall so if you guys are interested in playing NBA DFS really |
| 1:19.3 | think you'd benefit from checking it out again if you're going to be in the NBA streets. But today |
| 1:24.6 | today Drew we are not talking NBA DFS no we are talking another form of |
| 1:28.6 | peer-to-peer fantasy sports this time NFL basketball and I actually do think that our edge in Bestball can be fairly large |
| 1:37.5 | Kind of in a similar way to NBA. MBA DFS can be for those who are working hard and are good but but of course you have to tie up money for a really long time. |
| 1:44.7 | You can't play as high at volume as DFS. |
| 1:46.7 | But I still think that like the edge and the value |
| 1:49.7 | is there in bestball. |
| 1:51.4 | What do you think just in general about what kind of edge we can have over |
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