Levitan's Solo Pod: Team Play The Best Plays Crushes AGAIN, The Great Alcohol vs. Marijuana Debate, and More (Episode 918)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan breaks down a chalky Week 5 in NFL DFS, where another week of Playing The Best Plays dominated again, before tackling a new batch of hard-hitting listener questions.
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2. Week 5 DFS Tournament Review
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:27 - Adam’s Week in Review
4:35 - ETR's Projection Team's Recent Success
9:40 - Listener Questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 918 of the official. |
| 0:21.5 | Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:24.7 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:26.9 | We're coming off of a team play the best plays cannot be stopped kind of week. |
| 0:34.3 | Yes, that's right. |
| 0:35.3 | Through five weeks of the NFL season, what you've needed to do to win |
| 0:39.2 | in DFS is simply play our best values at each position each week. It's so wild. We've gotten to a point |
| 0:46.6 | where cash like teams or cash teams with one to two pivots are competing to win GPPs seemingly on a weekly basis. |
| 0:56.3 | Shout out to our own King Simbro, Sam Brott, who got second in the game changer |
| 1:02.2 | with what I think was a 3V3 off what I played in cash. |
| 1:06.4 | Brought made a 50K score there. |
| 1:08.1 | Someone won the $20 millie maker. |
| 1:09.9 | I don't know if it was an ETR guy or what, but someone won the $20 millie maker. I don't know if it was an ETR guy or what, |
| 1:11.3 | but someone won the $20 millie maker on draft Kings with a true cash team, except a Mechegbuka |
| 1:18.0 | at wide receiver. I mean, it's insane. Through five weeks, my ROI in cash is an absurd |
| 1:25.2 | 27.2%. I've been playing cash, DFS cash seriously, for roughly 10 years now. |
| 1:32.5 | My best previous ROI in a season is 22.1%. |
| 1:36.1 | Typically, land in the teens, even like 10 to 15% ROI in cash, I think is pretty good. |
| 1:42.5 | So this 27.2% this season is obviously running incredibly |
| 1:47.7 | hot, but also just a huge testament to our projections team, data side team, ball knowers, everything |
| 1:53.0 | that goes into our projections, more on that in a minute. But yeah, so when team play the best |
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