Levitan's Solo Pod: Dealing With Downswings + Your Listener Questions (Episode 949)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan breaks down Week 16 and discusses how he manages late-season DFS burnout and its impact on performance, before tackling a bunch of hard-hitting listener questions.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:28 - Managing late-season downswings
6:04 - Listener Questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 949 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, and we are coming off of a |
| 0:27.2 | it's okay to feel burnt out kind of week. Yes, that's right. As we enter week 17, I simply |
| 0:35.5 | haven't been playing my best of late. |
| 0:38.6 | Not sure exactly why. |
| 0:40.3 | Doesn't really matter. |
| 0:41.5 | No excuses. |
| 0:42.6 | Play like a champion. |
| 0:44.0 | But I just feel like I haven't been seeing things clearly enough in DFS. |
| 0:49.9 | And I just want to tell myself, tell anyone out there feeling like that, you know, it's okay. |
| 0:58.3 | I didn't play big at all in DFS in week 16, way less than normal, felt like I needed to |
| 1:05.4 | regroup a little bit. And I'm sure, as with most things in life, the way I'm feeling is kind of a mix of |
| 1:13.0 | things. You know, first and probably most inexcusable, I've been letting the best ball tilt |
| 1:20.1 | really affect me. And I shouldn't. You know, all the decisions in best ball were made months ago. |
| 1:26.5 | There's nothing I can do now. |
| 1:28.2 | If I was a real pro, I wouldn't even sweat the best ball stuff. I'd just check in at the end of the season and see how I did. But that's no fun. And it's also not practical. But man, there's just so many things to tilt in best ball. It's really sick. I mean, you can find anything to complain and to whine about |
| 1:45.4 | from pod luck to anything else. I mean, I could go through all of the things that are tilting me |
| 1:52.3 | about best ball. I'll try not to bore you. I'll just say the one that really made me sick this |
| 1:57.7 | week was who went off in week 16. |
| 2:07.7 | George Pickens was my most drafted player this season across 159 drafts, took him 38 times, |
| 2:09.6 | 4,700 entry fees. |
| 2:15.2 | Chase Brown was my third most drafted player, took him 31 times, 5,600 entry fees. |
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