Matthew Berry’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective Fantasy Drafters

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

August is ESPN’s Matthew Berry’s favorite time of year: fantasy draft season. After participating in hundreds of thousands of drafts over his long fantasy career, Berry has everyone from Jay-Z to the Avengers cast asking him who they should draft. To better your chances this upcoming fantasy football season, Berry shares his “7 Habits of Highly Effective Drafters,” so you too can dominate your peers. Then, following Major League Baseball’s “Field of Dreams” game, ESPN Daily’s own Ryan Nantell shares a story of his time on the storied diamond from the 1989 film. It was not dreamy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Handoff goes to Camara looking for space on the right side towards the goal line.
0:09.0	Touchdown, Alvin Camara.
0:12.0	So Alvin Camara with his sixth rushing touchdown of the game ties the most ever in an NFL football game. Taking Alvin Camara early in your fantasy football draft is pretty much a no-brainer.
0:25.6	Anyone can do that.
0:27.6	But like in real life, building a fantasy championship roster requires discipline.
0:33.6	It requires principles.
0:36.6	So today, with fantasy draft season now upon us, we bring
0:40.6	you news you can use as the king of the keeper league, the pharaoh of the flex position, the
0:46.6	sultan of the survivor pool, the helper of Hove himself. Matthew Berry shares his draft manifesto and the habits that enabled him to
0:57.7	build a truly ridiculous life. I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, August 13th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:10.4	Matthew Barry, you are a personal fantasy football concierie to, like, legitimate
1:15.5	A-list celebrities, rappers, actors, athletes.
1:19.4	And I've summoned you here because I want to give our listeners the same VIP treatment
1:23.6	because I want to be honest here, Matthew, America is addicted to football, both real
1:28.9	and imagined, and you've manufactured this entire incredibly strange career that's premised on the
1:36.6	ladder.
1:37.3	I've been very blessed, and thanks to the popularity of fantasy football and ESPN, I've gotten to experience and meet a bunch of amazing people
1:48.0	that I never would have otherwise.
1:51.0	Matthew Berry is ESPN's fantasy football expert
1:53.0	and the co-host of the Fantasy Focus podcast.
1:57.0	So I'm incredibly grateful and yeah, it's been a good ride.
2:00.0	It's definitely been a good ride, no question.
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