What To Think About When You’re On The Clock: Best Ball Strategy Part 1 (Episode 563 with Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, and Justin Herzig)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, and Justin Herzig discuss their respective strategies when they're on the clock in best ball drafts. This is the first podcast of a six-part series to prepare you for #BestBallSummer.
In this episode, we discuss:
Everything you need to know about best ball strategy
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(2:06) - Where is your edge?
(6:13) - Best ball roster construction
(10:08) - How to approach regular-season stacking
(15:08) - Why ADP (average draft position) is important
(20:11) - Positional capital and player takes
(25:50) - Week 17 stacking
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 563 of The Official, established in Run.com podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | My name is Adam Levitan and today I'm joined by two of the most thoughtful and insightful. |
| 0:26.4 | No sex having best ball grinders on the planet. |
| 0:29.6 | It is our own best ball, mania champ, best ball, mania one champ Justin Hersig and Michael |
| 0:34.8 | Leoni. |
| 0:35.8 | You know him. |
| 0:36.8 | King Virgin leader of our newly founded analytics full blown department and author of the |
| 0:41.4 | best ball manifesto, which we'll get into through this series. |
| 0:44.6 | Leoni, how's it going today? |
| 0:46.6 | Pretty good. |
| 0:47.6 | I ate like two weeks a year to have sex and this year I decided to just write the manifesto. |
| 0:51.8 | So staying here around this time. |
| 0:56.0 | Hersig, good afternoon. |
| 0:57.4 | I mean, I'm not far behind you. |
| 0:59.5 | I used to only think best ball was just a couple months out of the year. |
| 1:02.6 | Now it's turning into an annual thing and now my wife becomes like a couple months out |
| 1:07.1 | of the year or something. |
| 1:08.1 | Yes. |
| 1:09.1 | No. |
| 1:10.1 | Best ball is 24, 7, 365 these days and that is why this is the first of a six part summer |
| 1:16.2 | of best ball series in this series, which is designed to give you everything that you need |
| 1:21.0 | to get a base level of knowledge and some advanced knowledge as well to compete in the |
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