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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Why you're drafting your team all wrong

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Nfl, Sports News, News, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.7737 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Forecast! Yahoo’s Scott Pianowski and Davis Mattek from SportsGrid are here to talk draft strategy and why conventional advice to guide managers in the draft room gets it wrong.[Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today]Don’t draft players from the same team, wide receiver is deeper than ever, focus on running back volume — for the past two weeks or so, the team at Yahoo Sports has brought you a plethora of fantasy football strategy takes, advice and wisdom to get you ready for drafts.In this episode, we destroy it all!Davis Mattek joins the show to explain his draft strategy, “modified zero RB or die,” why the wide receiver isn’t as deep as you think it is, and why, if you believe in your starting fantasy QB, you would be wise to pair him up with multiple receivers from his team.Follow Scott: @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone, welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast.

0:06.8

I'm Scott Pianowski, and I want to jump right into our guest today, who is Davis-Matic.

0:11.3

I was just telling him right before we started, this guy has got so many good takes and so many good angles and so many good strategies.

0:18.0

I'm almost reluctant to share them because I know they're going to be used

0:21.1

against me in my leagues. It's going to cut down my EV a little bit. But hopefully it will

0:24.4

help yours. Mr. Maddick, how are you? You know, I'm doing, I'm doing great. We are in the thick

0:31.1

of draft season. I think I've done about 15 drafts the last two days, just been grinding them

0:37.1

out.

0:40.8

I think it's one of those things where football season is kind of, you know,

0:43.9

sneaking up on all of us because we didn't know if it was going to happen or not.

0:47.9

And, you know, we're really making up for lost time getting as many drafts in as we can.

0:50.2

Yeah, we are definitely in the middle of draft season.

0:55.8

For me, it's best ball early. That's how I get the feel of the draft pool and how I, you know,

1:01.5

where the nooks and crannies are, the ebb and flow. And then I want to apply that to my seasonal leagues. And then, of course, in season we'll be playing DFS. And let's just start with an idea of stacking.

1:07.2

We were recently in a best ball draft together and you were able to get a kansas

1:11.3

city stack very juicy kansas city stack and a very juicy dallas stack in there and it's

1:16.6

starting to think about stacking we know stacking is a dFS strategy and we know stacking can be a

1:21.3

best ball strategy it does stacking apply to seasonal how do you feel about stacking in general

1:26.4

do people what do some of the dues and don't to stacking just i say stacking to you How do you feel about stacking in general? What do some of the do's and don't

1:28.3

to stacking? I say stacking to you. What do you say? So I think that there is kind of this

1:33.9

misconception that, like, you don't need to do it or it's not really all that important. But I think

1:38.9

the number one thing that I would just tell people about stacking is think of all the start

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