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Best Ball Musings: Don't Freak Out Over Stacking

Establish the Edge Fantasy Football

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How Many Players Do You Need Stacked in Week 17 to Help Your Win Rates?

There's a big range of players in terms of how many you need stacked in week 17 to help your win rates. Even if you're outside that range you're not like totally dead just for example on pure randomness If you had no players stacked with any of your quarterbacks opposing team scale players or same team pass catchers I estimated looking at the data last year that you would win a final size type field about 0.14 percent of the time. That's not very good but your base win rate 0.21 percent of thetime for having zero correlation whatsoever is better than nothing. The key to all this again is to be really flexible you do probably want to hit a minimum threshold of

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