How To Beat DraftKings NFL Best Ball In 2025 (Episode 867 with Adam Levitan, Justin Herzig, Mike Leone)

Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football

Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan, Justin Herzig and Mike Leone analyze the difference between playing Best Ball on DraftKings compared to other sites across the industry and how your approach should change going into a DK draft.

In this episode, we discuss:
- How strategies from EP 867 change on DraftKings

- Why pass catchers hold more value on DK

- Why Adam isn’t reaching for rushing QBs

- How do rookies fare on DK compared to other sites?

- Is stacking still important?

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:22 - Zero/Hero RB Increased Value

6:22 - Volume Pass Catchers Get A Bump

8:22 - Hammer WR Position

10:22 - Elite TE More Valuable Strategy

14:20 - Rushing QB Have Less Value, Pocket Have More

16:21 - Drafting Three QBs

18:11 - Less Demand For Rookies on DK

22:21 - The Lesser Importance on Stacking

26:19 - Be Aware of Questionable Tags on DraftKings

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 867 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast.
0:21.6	My name is Adam Levittan, and the fantasy community is set to embark on a summer of zero
0:27.3	intercourse, but a ton of best ball drafts across all sites, including our friends at
0:33.3	draftkings.com to discuss how to beat best ball on draft kings.
0:38.4	I am joined by two of the best.
0:40.8	Michael Leone, how's it going today?
0:43.1	It's going well, how are you?
0:45.0	Fantastic, Herzig, how's it going?
0:47.5	Doing great, doing great.
0:49.1	On today's show, we're going to talk about
0:50.8	these systemic differences between draft kings and underdog and how we can take advantage of them.
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1:41.0	All right.
1:42.1	Two big things about draft kings for me.
1:44.1	First, everybody needs to understand.
1:46.1	It is full PPR, whereas Underdog is half.
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