How To Beat Underdog Best Ball: Best Ball Strategy Part 2 (Episode 564)
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, and Justin Herzig talk best ball strategy on Underdog Fantasy. They discuss the scoring system, the current draft landscape, UD's new regular-season prize, rookie ADPs booming, and much more. This is the second podcast of a six-part series to prepare you for #BestBallSummer.
In this episode, we discuss:
Everything you need to know to better prepare for best ball drafts on Underdog Fantasy
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Timestamps:
(1:39) - Drafting for Underdog's Regular-Season Prize Pool
(6:39) - How The Scoring System Affects Playoffs
(8:53) - The Value of Quarterbacks
(10:54) - Differentiating Between 18-Round and 20-Round Drafts
(12:25) - Rookie ADPs Booming on Underdog
(14:12) - Exact Playoff Structure
(18:43) - Other Tournaments on Underdog
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode five hundred and sixty four of the official |
| 0:18.2 | StubbsRund.com podcast. My name is Adam Levitt and today I'm joined by our best |
| 0:22.4 | ballbrows for part two of our best ball series. It is Mania one champ Justin |
| 0:28.9 | Herzeg, Michael Leoni, author of the best ball manifesto. Herzeg, how's it going? |
| 0:34.8 | Doing well. Doing well. Leoni, good morning afternoon. Good afternoon. Okay. Today's |
| 0:41.8 | show is part two of a six-part series. In this series we have already covered |
| 0:46.4 | what's the thing about when you're on the clock. I think that's the most important |
| 0:49.1 | one. We're going to talk about some concepts we talked about on there. We're |
| 0:52.0 | going to gloss over them here because we assume that you listen to part one. So |
| 0:54.8 | please make sure you listen to part one. Part two, three, four, and five. We're |
| 0:59.2 | going to cover the strategy for each of the four biggest best ball sites. They |
| 1:02.7 | are slightly different based on payouts, based on structure, based on scoring |
| 1:06.6 | systems, based on rosters. So we need to go over the quirks for all of those. We |
| 1:11.8 | will end this series with some advanced encounter intuitive strategies. |
| 1:16.6 | Reminds that if you're looking for micro player takes, our player takes those |
| 1:20.8 | flow through to the rankings that are part of draft kit pro in that draft kit |
| 1:24.4 | pro. We have continuously updating rankings for every best ball format. You |
| 1:27.3 | can upload our rankings to format to platforms where that's allowed. We also have |
| 1:31.4 | a ton of context around those rankings for all the best ball grinders out |
| 1:36.6 | there. Underdog. Underdog, to me, and I know you've said this in the only, it's |
| 1:41.7 | like its own world. Like what's going on on underdog is not going on on any |
| 1:46.8 | many or any other sites. It is absolutely wild. The people in my opinion have |
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