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Speaker 1: This is the with your host JJ ZACHERAJJ Zacherson.

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Speaker 2: What's up everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's JJ zachar Reeson, the editor in chief over at

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Speaker 1: Number five dot com and this is episode thirty six

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Speaker 1: of the Late Round podcast, one of the many shows

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Speaker 1: that are part of the Number five podcast network.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: Since we're getting close to the start of the NFL season,

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Speaker 1: I want to be clear about something. My opinions will change.

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Speaker 1: Some of you have listened to this podcast since I

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Speaker 1: started doing them back in April, and I thank you

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Speaker 1: for that. But you're also going to hear or inevitably

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Speaker 1: hear conflicting analysis on some players. That may be confusing.

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Speaker 1: But here's why it happens. With more information, my opinions

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Speaker 1: will often change. You know. It's kind of like I

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Speaker 1: don't know anything in life. If I ate Popeyes chicken

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Speaker 1: my whole life, and someone told me, yo, bro, there's

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Speaker 1: this joint down the street that has way better chicken

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Speaker 1: for the same price. It's called Bojangles, that I would

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Speaker 1: no longer go to Popeyes. I would go to Bojangles

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Speaker 1: because Bojangles became superior with new information. By the way, guys,

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Speaker 1: if you're in the South and feeling like you want

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Speaker 1: to be unhealthy, get a four piece Chicken Supreme with

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Speaker 1: honey mustard from Bojangles.

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Speaker 2: Your life will change.

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Speaker 1: But seriously, I just don't understand the idea that an

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Speaker 1: analyst of any kind can't change their opinion.

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Speaker 2: This isn't necessarily true for me.

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Speaker 1: But if I wasn't thrilled about Dalvin Cook, for instance,

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Speaker 1: as a prospect because of his athletic profile, but Dalvin

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Speaker 1: Cook then goes to camp and in the preseason and dominates,

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Speaker 1: why in the world would I continue to say Dalvin

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Speaker 1: Cook isn't good. So if you hear those things, feel free.

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Speaker 2: To ask me why.

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Speaker 1: Ask me why my opinion changed, Ask why I feel

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Speaker 1: differently about a player now than I did in April.

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Speaker 1: Because my goal here is to be as real, open

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Speaker 1: and honest as possible, and that doesn't include me just

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Speaker 1: getting things wrong, but also me changing my opinion on things.

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Speaker 1: Regarding today's show, it's a mailbag Friday.

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Speaker 2: But before we get to.

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Speaker 1: The questions, a quick reminder that NFL season is just

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Speaker 1: Tune In is your everything audio app. Now let's get

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Speaker 1: to some questions. This first one comes from Twitter from

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Speaker 1: Tom Whalen at Tom C Whalen. You often insist that

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Speaker 1: fantasy football is a weekly, not yearly game. What are

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Speaker 1: some non intuitive strategies that stem from this distinction? I

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Speaker 1: do insist on this, So this is a great question,

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Speaker 1: tom as I like to say, looking at season long

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Speaker 1: numbers explains the end result, but not the journey. So

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Speaker 1: when you're going into a draft and strictly using season

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Speaker 1: long projections, you're missing a ton about how the game

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Speaker 1: is played. You're basically working with what you believe is

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Speaker 1: perfect information in an imperfect fantasy football landscape. Because players

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Speaker 1: get hurt, players bust, players break out, you're going to

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Speaker 1: be wrong. So working within this fake world where you're

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Speaker 1: not going to be wrong makes absolutely no sense. As

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Speaker 1: a result of that, when you draft, you should be

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Speaker 1: thinking about how the waiver wire can work in your

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Speaker 1: That's partially why zero RB can work, or an obvious

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Speaker 1: strategy like streaming. You know you're not playing the same

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Speaker 1: value over replacement player formulas don't really work well for

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Speaker 1: the defensive and quarterback positions. There are other reasons why

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Speaker 1: I hate VORP too, and episode twenty two of the

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Speaker 1: Late Round podcast covers that, But I think the less

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Speaker 1: obvious strategies have to do with what I talked through

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Speaker 1: on episode twenty nine on predictability. People tend to ignore

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Speaker 1: the how when making start sit decisions, and they ignore

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Speaker 1: next one is an email from Adrian Charlie Hijj. As always,

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Speaker 1: the show is straight fire. I'm here for the Frank

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Speaker 1: Gore takes. I'm here for the Frank Gore takes to Adrian.

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Speaker 1: With training camp in full swing, what are some red

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Speaker 1: I thought one of the best things that Adam Schefter

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Speaker 1: mostly ignore what coaches are saying to the media about

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Speaker 1: Rob Kelly, as I've noted before, because Rob Kelly would

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Speaker 1: on p Ryn, coming out this offseason, he certainly trumped

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Speaker 1: Kelly's overall profile, but we have to be cognizant of

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Speaker 1: Jones had a minus point zero three rushing neep per

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Speaker 1: Expected points our expected points model factors in fumbles, which

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Speaker 1: Basically, all I'm getting at here is that it's no

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Speaker 1: So when we know a team likes a certain trait

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Speaker 2: Good about that player. It's that simple. Kevin White is

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Speaker 1: The dude is in the news each day and seemingly

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Speaker 1: Latavius Murray being injured, and Murray even said that the

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Speaker 1: From Twitter at fan Profession. With Latavius Murray out for

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Speaker 1: a few weeks, Cook looks like a good grab, But

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Speaker 1: what about Carlos Hide. Team comparison's got me head scratching

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Speaker 1: on who's the best bet? Yeah, neither of them are

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Speaker 1: Coming around on Hide a bit more than I was,

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Speaker 1: That led to the team running Terrence West one hundred

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Speaker 1: This next one's an email from Andrew Poles. He says

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Speaker 1: JJ as a relative nubie to the MFL ten best

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Speaker 1: ball format. I've encountered two issues and am interested to

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Speaker 1: hear your intuitive thoughts or, if such research exists data analysis.

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Speaker 1: The first issue is drafting players with the same bye weeks.

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Speaker 1: I assume this matters especially among early round draft picks,

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Speaker 1: and so I try to avoid having more than two

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Speaker 1: from say the first eight rounds. The second issue is

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Speaker 1: drafting players, particularly running back and wide receivers, from the

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Speaker 1: same team. Again, my senses this matters more in the

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Speaker 1: early rounds, but by drafting Zay Jones in the double

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Speaker 1: am I unreasonably capping my team ceiling. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to make the mistake of handcuffing my own players and

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Speaker 1: limiting my upside, but at the same time, I feel

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Speaker 1: fun content. Thank you for listening, Andrew, I greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Sheppard will just be fine. This next one is from

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Speaker 1: at More Better than You, Pats, and he says PPR

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Speaker 2: The first place, So why does this matter so much?

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Speaker 1: If fantasy football is like real football, then quarterbacks would

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Speaker 1: I just think the PPR to non PPR debate has

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Speaker 1: As much as I like Mike Evans the player, we

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Speaker 1: Last season, Evans had an absurd near thirty percent market

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Speaker 1: Underscore Boy Underscore mikey B. What are the metrics slash

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