Secrets to Winning Best Ball Mania: Historical Data and Trends (Episode 732 with Mike Leone, Justin Herzig, and Adam Levitan)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
What strategies were best for Underdog Fantasy's Best Ball Mania IV? Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, and Justin Herzig look at different concepts and historical data from last year's Finals teams to see what worked and what didn't.
In this episode, we discuss:
Optimal strategy to compete in Best Ball Mania
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 732 of the official established the run |
| 0:21.2 | podcast my name is Adam Levitan. We are now in mid-June. It is officially a scorching hot best ball summer. I know this because |
| 0:31.3 | Leone was not at the pool. he's not at the beer garden, he's not at the baseball game, he has been in the sheets, spreadsheets of course, not bedsheets, examining NFL bestball data. |
| 0:44.2 | Lioni has it going today. |
| 0:46.5 | It's it's going well. It's tough to know that the sun is out there somewhere |
| 0:50.3 | but I will not see it for quite some time but it's worth it. |
| 0:55.0 | Similarly, Her Zig is doing Best Ball drafts while he's shopping for Oreos and stuff like that. |
| 1:02.0 | Former Best Ball Mania Champ is also with us. |
| 1:04.0 | Justin, how's it going? |
| 1:05.5 | Doing well. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I've got a little more flexibility. |
| 1:07.4 | It can draft by the pool, can draft, you know, |
| 1:10.5 | in the mall, in the shopping, publics, wherever we want. |
| 1:13.6 | We're versatile. |
| 1:15.5 | All right, on today's show, |
| 1:17.0 | we're going to talk about what kinds of best ball teams |
| 1:20.2 | are actually set up best to win the best ball mania finals. |
| 1:24.4 | Not necessarily what kind of teams get there, not just what kind of teams get there, |
| 1:27.9 | but also the ones most likely to win the 1.5 million to first. |
| 1:33.0 | To do this, our lead data scientist here, |
| 1:36.2 | Mike Lioni analyzed every team in last year's |
| 1:38.8 | Best Ball, Mainia 4 final. |
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