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Establish The Run Fantasy Football

How To Win $1 Million Playing DFS Tournaments (Episode 430 with Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, Drew Dinkmeyer)

Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Picking the right players is important, but it's not a real strategy. Adam, Mike, and Drew discuss what to look for in players and how to set up your lineup for large-field DFS tournaments.


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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Stacking
  • Bring Backs
  • Sum vs. Product ownership
  • Where to get weird
  • Tons more

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Timestamps:
2:56 - What data are we looking at?
4:16 - Difference between DraftKings and Fanduel
6:57 - What the data says on Stacking
8:22 - The value in rushing quarterbacks
10:30 - Stacking RBs & TEs with Wide Receivers
11:59 - Is Triple-Stacking viable?
16:20 - The rise in “bringing it back”
17:58 - Who to “bring it back” with?
20:53 - Flex strategy
22:25 - How to handle committees
26:27 - Is it worth paying up or down for Quarterbacks?
28:36 - Explaining Product Ownership
32:16 - D/ST Scoring

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, hello and welcome to episode 430 of the official, established the run.com podcast.

0:21.3

My name is Adam Levittand and finally, at long last, I thought this day would never come,

0:26.6

but it is time for the indisputable best form of fantasy, the highest stakes form of fantasy,

0:33.2

the most intense form of fantasy, it is officially DFS AK daily fantasy sports season for this

0:41.1

momentous and glorious occasion.

0:43.7

I am joined by two of the best DFS players in the history of DFS by almost any metric,

0:48.8

it is Michael Leonie and Drew Dinkmeyer Leonie, good morning.

0:54.1

You sound very legitimately excited to be talking DFS and not season long fantasy,

0:58.8

unlike your draft the other night where you ended it with, this has been fun.

1:03.4

Yes, I am ready for DFS season, there is no doubt about it, Dink, how's it going?

1:11.0

It's great man, I am super excited just what, a week away now from the start of showdown

1:16.6

season and full slate, main slate classic, so I am super pumped and ready for a big NFL DFS

1:22.5

tournament season ahead.

1:23.6

Yes, we are recording this on Thursday, September, first we will have the full showdown breakdown

1:28.5

up for the Thursday night opener as part of our in season package, check that out.

1:33.2

On today's show, we are going to talk about large field DFS tournaments and how to win them,

1:37.8

specifically things like the millemaker on draft kings tournaments where you put up a relatively

1:42.8

little bit of money to try to win a lot while competing against enormous fields, you know,

1:46.3

often 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 entries before we get into that important announcement.

1:51.6

Our in season player prop subscription is live on the site.

1:55.8

I want to be very clear, this is completely separate from our fantasy subscription.

2:00.1

This season has just been an insane amount of people asking me about our plans for props

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