Sleepers: Who To Target In The Final Rounds Of Best Ball Drafts with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan (Episode 575)
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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva go through their favorite targets in the late rounds of best ball drafts. They discuss the rationale behind their favorite picks and explain why you should aim for upside in these stages of drafts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hello and welcome to episode 575 of the official established the run dot com podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | My name is Adam Levittent as always joined by Evan Silva. |
| 0:24.7 | We are entering what I would consider the absolute peak of best ball summer. |
| 0:29.1 | It will be a great time to be alive. |
| 0:31.1 | Evan, how's it going? |
| 0:33.3 | It's going very well. |
| 0:34.3 | I get about 15 drafts under my belt so far. |
| 0:39.2 | So building up some decent exposures to specific players today, we're going to be talking |
| 0:43.2 | about late round flyers, yes, who can be difference makers at low cost. |
| 0:50.0 | Yes, and for this exercise, we are going to define late round as average acquisition |
| 0:54.8 | on underdog of 150 or higher. |
| 0:57.4 | I repeat. |
| 0:58.4 | 150 or higher average acquisition as of Tuesday, June 20th, when we are recording this. |
| 1:04.1 | I want to note that this exercise differs slightly from redraft AK season long formats. |
| 1:10.0 | In best ball, you know, there's no waivers or trades. |
| 1:12.0 | We need these late round picks to contribute to our team, which is why we spend so much |
| 1:15.8 | time in optimal roster construction. |
| 1:17.3 | You know, you can listen to the best ball series we did a few weeks ago for more on that. |
| 1:21.2 | But think about it like this. |
| 1:22.2 | I mean, in redraft, you can take someone like say a peer strong, who will talk about in |
| 1:26.2 | a bit. |
| 1:27.2 | If you don't have a role, just cut them from your redraft team and move on. |
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