How To Beat NFL DFS Tournaments in 2023 with Drew Dinkmeyer, Mike Leone, and Adam Levitan (Episode 619)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Week 1 is almost here. And with that, we have NFL DFS contests to enter. Drew Dinkmeyer, Mike Leone, and Adam Levitan discuss the nuances of playing NFL DFS tournaments.
In this episode, we discuss:
A chalky 2022
How to find low-owned difference-makers
TE strategy
Different ways to stack
How to utilize ETR's projections
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Timestamps:
(3:09) - Chalk going nuclear in 2022
(7:18) - Are <5% plays necessary to win large-field GPPs?
(9:59) - How to mix in low-owned plays smartly
(12:53) - Identifying elite wide receivers
(15:10) - Punting tight ends
(18:55) - Why is double tight end still a thing?
(23:30) - How the field utilized stacking in 2022
(30:30) - Stacking with RBs vs. stacking with WRs
(35:28) - Bring-back strategies
(39:38) - How to play defenses
(44:25) - Using ETRs projections to know who is over-owned/under-owned
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hello and welcome to episode 619 of the official EstablishTheRun.com podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | My name is Adam Levittan and DFS season, aka the best season is nearly upon us. |
| 0:29.7 | We've had our fun with Dynasty, we've had our fun with Best Ball. |
| 0:33.6 | We're all prepped for season long drafts. Let's be honest, my favorite style of fantasy, |
| 0:38.8 | the highest stake style of fantasy, the most competitive style of fantasy, is indeed |
| 0:43.8 | daily fantasy football. To talk about this today, I'm joined by two of the very best |
| 0:49.3 | DFS tournament players of the last decade, Drew Dinkmeyer, and Michael Leone. Drew, how's it going today? |
| 0:55.3 | It's going great, very excited for the start of the DFS season, very glad to be passed, |
| 1:00.0 | hopefully, the best ball season. It's enough already, it's enough already, it's time for DFS season, |
| 1:04.0 | Leone, how's it going? Yeah, every time I get a slow draft pick and it's the final round, |
| 1:10.4 | I have such such a wave of relief. All right, on today's show, we are going to specifically |
| 1:17.5 | talk about how to win large field DFS tournaments, such as the Millie Maker on draft kings, |
| 1:23.6 | how to build your roster, where to gain leverage on the field, how to think about our projections, |
| 1:28.1 | et cetera, et cetera. Two things before we get into it here. First, if you plan to play DFS this |
| 1:34.3 | year, I honestly think it's really hard to compete unless you have our in-season product. Now, |
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| 1:49.2 | are poured over and worked on and modeled by a team of incredibly sharp people for hundreds of |
| 1:54.7 | combined hours a week. And I literally can't do that myself, my family would kill me. I need |
| 2:01.2 | the most accurate and up-to-date projections as the backbone for all my DFS play. So for $12, |
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| 2:13.6 | I, well, before I say also, I actually really loved DFS and I know, you know, at the top, it was |
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