Hello and welcome to the Dynasty Dude podcast.

I'm your host, Corey Evans.

This week's show is titled Fantasy Football Lessons Learn in 2025,

and I have 10 lessons that I learned myself that I wanted to share with you, my audience.

Hope you all had a happy new year.

Let's get right to business.

Number one is to use FAB aggressively

that being free agent, acquisition budget, or free agent blind bidding. I have learned that if you

don't use it all, it is simply a waste because it does not roll over for the most part in most

leagues year over year. And we all like to be hesitant or wait for that lottery

ticket player to spend FAB on. But more often than not, if you don't use it early or midseason

or a huge dump at the end, then it's a complete waste of resources. So I have learned and going

to apply it in future seasons, whether it be redraft or dynasty, to use my acquisition budget a lot more

strategically when I think there is a player or set of players that is worth the premium.

Because even in all my leagues this year that use fab, I wasted 50, if not more percent

of it in each of those leagues when I could have gone far more aggressive on my

bids instead of missing out on players. Even if that means they panned out or not, the process

could have led to different results in terms of the players I was able to roster. And if that

resonates with you, then it's a lesson learned as well. Number two, ignore platform, win,

lose matchup percentages. I even myself

can fall for this, whether it's on sleep or my fantasy league, ESPN, Yahoo, whatever the platform may be,

you see your either favored or the underdog in a matchup. And then as the matchup continues to go on

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