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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

Rewind: Relying on the Waiver Wire

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How easy is it to find reliable options on the waiver wire each year? JJ brings back an old episode of The Late-Round Podcast with guest Brandon Gdula, who talks about studies he's done that show how unpredictable the waiver wire is during the fantasy...

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's another late round podcast rewind.

0:03.2

I'm not going to talk a whole lot to introduce this episode because the intro of the episode

0:07.2

itself explains things pretty well.

0:09.3

But it's a show from a couple of years ago that I did with my colleague, Brandon Gadoula,

0:13.0

and it helps us all understand how easy it actually is to play the wavre wire each year in

0:18.0

fantasy football.

0:19.3

As always, I hope you enjoy and I'll talk to you on Friday with the weekly mailbag episode.

0:26.0

Things are always easier to predict in hindsight.

0:28.4

We see it in fantasy football each year.

0:30.3

Why weren't you hired on Jared Goff last year, someone will ask me?

0:33.2

Well, I'm sorry I didn't foresee him having the biggest jump in adjusted net yards per attempt

0:37.2

from one year to the next in NFL history.

0:39.6

Hindsake can certainly be helpful.

0:41.2

We need historical evidence to make a case for the future.

0:44.1

We need to look at results to help us with future predictions.

0:46.9

Otherwise, we'd still assume that Rams offense is bad.

0:50.3

But Hindsake can also get us into trouble.

0:52.8

Hindsake can force us to create narratives that really aren't true.

0:56.2

Hindsake can cuffing in fantasy football as a perfect example.

0:59.0

Remember when DeAngelo Williams went off in 2015 after Lavinia Mbell suffered a season

1:03.1

ending injury?

1:04.6

That year, Williams was drafted higher than usual for a backup because Lavinia Mbellia

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