Hello, and welcome back to the best best ball show on Roadaviz radio.

My name's Collum Kelly.

You can follow me on Twitter at Over to Marlin.

Delight to be joined again on this show and on the entire series by Zachary Kruger,

who you can follow on Twitter at ZK underscore FFB.

It has been a lot of fun bringing you through this series so far,

and we continue to ramp up the episodes here,

bring it all your way over the next couple of weeks throughout the offseason.

I know best ball is becoming more and more popular.

We've been playing it for a number of years, but I can see it just gaining traction more and more each and every season. And I think if you've listened to the show so far, you'll know why we love it and why it's time to either dip your toes in or to continue to lead yourself towards success in your leagues. On today's show, we are going to be talking

about the benefits of drafting early. Now, this might be something that you need to think about

for 2022 because when we're talking about early, we might be talking about pre-draft, we might

be talking about just post-draft. When we're getting into July, August time, it doesn't

really have the same effect. So it is something that's a really keen part of

anyone that listens to sean on the podcast drafting early and ourselves as well and Curtis on some

great work recently in terms of drafting um rookies before the rookie draft and how much their value

increases after the rookie draft and so you know there is there is an edge to be had there.

What we're looking here is to identify those edges and be able to use them.

And also another area of that is exploiting the uncertainty before free agency.

And as I mentioned there, the draft as well, to help win your best ball leagues.

I guess the first question is we're talking about early.

You know, how early does the early board catch that warm in terms of basketball drafting,

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