How To Beat NFL DFS Tournaments In 2025 (Episode 904 with Adam Levitan, Drew Dinkmeyer, Mike Leone, Sam Brott)

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

With weekly Daily Fantasy NFL contests returning this week, ETR's team of experts in Adam Levitan, Drew Dinkmeyer, Mike Leone and Sam Brott dig into what the analytics are saying about DFS and how you can use that information to beat DFS Tournaments this year.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:08 - Stacking The Right Way in DFS

13:34 - Simulations Favoriting Onslaughts

20:34 - Utlizing a Bring Back & Double Game Stacks

30:54 - Optimizing Your Flex Position

39:15 - The Elite QB Strategy

43:18 - How Sims View Ownership

50:20 - Playing a WR Against Your Defense
52:40 - Playing a RB With Your Defense

55:43 - FanDuel Adjustments

58:14 - How to Late-Swap

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 904 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast.
0:22.6	My name is Adam Levittan, and finally, mercifully, the greatest form of fantasy hath arrived.
0:31.1	The 2025 NFL DFS season begins this week.
0:35.0	I am at the full 3.9 inches to discuss this. I am joined by three of the best
0:40.6	DFS players I've ever known. Michael Leone. How's it going today? Going well. Getting excited for
0:47.1	the season. Indeed. Drew Dinkmeyer. How are you? Going great. Yeah. Ready to start firing at some
0:53.3	big GPPs that are always here week one and excited
0:55.9	to talk through tournaments not quite as excited as you but excited to talk through tournaments yes and
1:00.2	dink of course always looking to add to his world famous DFS graph brot has it going today it's going
1:07.6	great I am very excited to be done with best ball and on to the DFS season.
1:12.4	Yes. On today's show, we are going to talk about how to beat NFL DFS tournaments in 2025,
1:20.9	how to stack in sharp ways, where to spend your money, how to handle chalk, small field adjustments,
1:26.1	late swap, tons more.
1:28.7	By the way, if you are into betting NFL props, we have two options this year.
1:33.3	First is the NFL official prop sub, where we release plays through Discord slash Telegram.
1:39.2	This is not a casual subscription.
1:41.3	Please, please, please read the FAQ before signing up. The other option for
1:47.0	props people this year is full stat, detail projection subscription. Access to exactly what we
1:52.8	project for every player in every game. Also access to our table that compares our projections
1:57.5	to the lines on underdog pick them. There is a FAQ up on the site about that
2:02.9	new sub in the props tab as well. All right. Let's get into it here. First thing that I think
2:11.1	everybody needs to understand is stacking and how to do it in the right way. Stacking for those
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