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Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Four Tight Ends? Stacking Without QBs? Advanced Concepts To Separate From The Pack: Best Ball Strategy Part 6 (Episode 569)

Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, and Justin Herzig discuss best ball strategy to help you separate from the rest of the field. They share some different strategies and ideas to help differentiate your teams. This is the final podcast of a six-part series to prepare you for #BestBallSummer.


In this episode, we discuss:

  • Everything you need to know to help differentiate your best ball teams


Links mentioned in the episode:

  1. Leone's Best Ball Mania Manifesto

  2. 2023 Best Ball Playoff Schedules

  3. ETR's 2023 Late-Round RB Targets


Timestamps:


(2:18) - 4-TE builds

(10:37) - What to do after you get an elite TE or QB

(14:46) - Handcuffs

(19:15) - Stacking without the QB

(22:27) - Two QBs from a Week 17 game

(25:18) - Bye weeks

(29:35) - What times to draft


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, hello and welcome to episode 169 of the official established the run.com podcast.

0:21.1

My name is Adam Levittan.

0:22.1

Today, I am once again joined by two of the most thoughtful, insightful, no-sex having

0:27.4

best ball grinders on the planet.

0:29.6

It is our own best ball, Mania Onechamp, Justin Hersig, and Michael Leoni, leader of our

0:34.6

newfound analytics department, also author of the best ball manifesto.

0:41.3

Leoni, how's it going today?

0:43.4

It's going pretty well.

0:44.6

Excited to talk some advanced best ball strategies, peak nerd him.

0:48.6

Yes, in full transparency.

0:50.3

We recorded the first five episodes of this podcast seven to ten days ago.

0:54.8

By the end of that, nobody had enough energy for part six.

0:57.9

We're going to save it for this very important one.

1:00.1

Hersig, how's it going?

1:01.7

I think it says someone that my boss calls me thoughtful, but my wife has never said that might

1:07.0

mean we're a little too much into the weeds into the fantasy football space.

1:10.3

But yeah, definitely are too much into the weeds.

1:13.2

If you guys want to see some serious virginity stuff on best, Bobby, for your following at

1:18.4

Justin Hersig at two hats, one mic.

1:20.8

Okay, as I mentioned today, we are wrapping up our six part best ball series.

1:24.8

Hope you all found this series helpful and enjoyable.

1:27.6

If you did, we'd appreciate you, tell a friend about the podcast.

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