Ranking The Top-9 Strategies For 2025 Best Ball (Episode 866 with Adam Levitan, Justin Herzig, Mike Leone)
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan is joined by ETR's Best Ball experts in Justin Herzig and Mike Leone to talk through their rankings of the top nine NFL Best Ball strategies you can use for your 2025 NFL Best Ball drafts.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What strategy suits the 2025 NFL Fantasy situation best?
- Can last year's Fragile RB builds repeat their prosperity?
- Is there ever a time to draft FIVE Tight Ends?
- Is Zero RB still a viable strategy in NFL Best Ball?
- How likely are you to take down your league by drafting two elite QBs?
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:05 - Hero RB
7:12 - Fragile RB
17:43 - Zero RB
24:25 - Three Late-Round QBs
29:25 - Elite QB
31:39 - Elite TE
40:17 - Double Elite QB
43:07 - Double Elite TE
46:45 - Single QB & Single TE
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 866 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | My name is Adam Levittan, and the sweltering hot best ball summer is officially upon us. |
| 0:28.1 | It is time to start developing some strategies. |
| 0:31.7 | To discuss this, I am joined by two of our great nation's finest best ball players in my |
| 0:36.5 | completely unbiased opinion. |
| 0:38.3 | Michael Leone, how's going today? |
| 0:40.4 | I'm a little thrown off. |
| 0:41.6 | I thought you were going to say two of the world's finest virgins, but, you know, we'll take |
| 0:46.3 | finest best ball players as well. |
| 0:47.9 | You can't be a fine best ball player here in May without being a virgin also. |
| 0:51.3 | Herzig, how's it going today? |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, I feel like I am living very much in the virgin sheets right now. |
| 0:58.1 | Herzig developed some game. |
| 0:59.6 | I don't even want to talk about this, but Herzig developed some game. |
| 1:03.5 | Fantasy for Fantasy. |
| 1:05.6 | I don't even want to know what this is. |
| 1:07.2 | I actually don't want to waste time on this on here, |
| 1:08.7 | but you can go to Herzig's Twitter to see just peak, peak patheticness. You can play fantasy for best ball this year somehow. |
| 1:17.2 | Anyways, on today's show, we are going to be ranking roster construction strategies for |
| 1:23.8 | 2025 best ball on underdog fantasy. |
| 1:31.2 | I think it's a good way to talk through some thoughts about what happened last season and also how ADP is shaping up this year and how that should affect our strategies. |
| 1:36.8 | Reminder, if you are looking to take best ball more seriously, you need our best ball product. |
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