How To Beat Playoffs Only Best Ball In 2025 with Adam Levitan and Justin Herzig (Episode 946)
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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How this year's flat NFL landscape changes things
How to structure +EV lineups
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 946 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | My name is Adam Levittan, and we are just one month away from the NFL |
| 0:23.9 | playoffs. That means only one thing. It is time to draft some playoff best ball teams. To discuss this |
| 0:30.9 | today, I am joined by the king of the best ball streets, the Rolling Stone himself. Ourin herzig herzig how's going today i mean |
| 0:40.8 | my bucks have a 72% chance of making the playoffs i've got my holiday dk sweater on we are ready to be |
| 0:46.8 | drafting some playoff bestball indeed we are on today's show we're going to discuss strategy for playoff |
| 0:53.5 | only bestball how that strategy fits into this |
| 0:56.6 | season's landscape. And by the way, if you want access to our constantly updated rankings and |
| 1:01.9 | strategy around playoff only best ball, you need our best ball subscription. It's just $49.99. That also |
| 1:07.4 | includes the normal regular bestball stuff that will do all summer for details. |
| 1:11.7 | Head to the subscribe tab on Establish the Run.com, then go to NFL and then go find the best ball |
| 1:17.1 | hyperlink. |
| 1:19.3 | All right, Herzig, this is a unique format. |
| 1:22.2 | And I think some people, a lot of people, new people, even maybe some experienced people, |
| 1:29.0 | get tripped up by the format and how we have to shift our thinking here. |
| 1:33.4 | The biggest thing that we have to think about, can you make a team that can actually win |
| 1:38.5 | first place? Like I know that sounds simple, but you would be shocked how many people in these |
| 1:42.6 | drafts aren't actually drafting |
| 1:44.5 | a team that can get first place. Now, what do I mean by that? You need to be able to make it to the |
| 1:50.0 | Super Bowl round and have a fieldable team that can actually beat a reasonably big field in the Super Bowl |
| 1:56.7 | round. So Herzig, Strategy 101, highest level for this format, what would you say to people about |
| 2:05.5 | making plus EV teams? Yeah, I mean, playoff, like fantasy playoff contests are some of the most |
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