Establish The Run Fantasy Football

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Jul 14, 2020 • 36min

Episode 78: State of ETR Address

Adam Levitan and Establish The Run CEO Taylor Caby sit down for a chat about the fantasy industry. Where it's been, where it's going, the vision for ETR, our new NBA product, breaking into the industry and lots more.   Editor's Note: Our NFL Draft Kit is just $35 and comes with a $25 coupon to use at FFPC. It includes Evan Silva's rankings and tiers, plus tons of content from Adam Levitan and the team. Click here for more info.    TIMESTAMPS: Authenticity in The Fantasy Industry (1:53) | Talent Splintering (5:12) | Moving into the Sports Betting Market (8:28) | The Future of Fantasy (15:12) | Fantasy hosting sites under threat? (17:36) | The Current State of ETR (19:55) |A Different Approach to Fantasy Content (21:55) | Why ETR Basketball (25:54) | More Sports to Come? (27:18) | Advice on Breaking Into Fantasy (28:18)
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Jul 10, 2020 • 47min

Episode 77: Coaching Change Impact

Coaching affects player performance in the NFL more than any other sport. Evan Silva and Adam Levitan discuss all of this season's new head coaches and offensive coordinators, highlighting what to expect from a tendency and style perspective.    Editor's Note: Our Draft Kit is just $35 and comes with a $25 coupon to use at FFPC. It includes everything Evan Silva, Adam Levitan and Drew Dinkmeyer think you need to get ready for the season. Click here for more info.    TIMESTAMPS: The importance of coaches (4:11) | Matt Rhule/Joe Brady in Carolina (7:00) | Kevin Stefanski/Alex van Pelt in Cleveland (12:14) | Joe Judge/Jason Garrett in New York (19:00) | Ron Rivera/Scott Turner (23:01) | Matt Nagy/Bill Lazar in Chicago (28:40) | Mike McCarthy/Kellen Moore in Dallas (31:51) | Vic Fangio/Pat Shurmur (35:20) | Doug Marrone/Jay Gruden in Jacksonville (37:49) | Brian Flores/Chan Gailey in Miami (40:12) | Mike Zimmer/Gary Kubiak in Minnesota (43:17) | 
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Jul 8, 2020 • 30min

Episode 76: Drew Dinkmeyer joins ETR

Drew Dinkmeyer, one of the most successful DFS players in history, has joined the Establish The Run team as the Head of NBA. Drew talks to Adam Levitan about our plans, the NBA restart in Orlando, his role and tons more.    Editor's Note: Our NFL Early Bird Special expires July 8th. And our NBA products are now available for purchase. For the best fantasy information on both sports anywhere, go to EstablishTheRun.com.   TIMESTAMPS: Establish The Run Basketball (2:15) | Drew’s start in NBA (3:39) | The differences between NFL and NBA DFS (5:53) | Is NBA DFS easier? (8:22) | Playing to GPPs over Cash (10:35) | Leveraging the restart slate structure (19:30) |Neutral score keeping (21:55) | Gamestacking in NBA (24:49) | 
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Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 7min

Episode 75: 2-on-1 with ESPN's Bill Barnwell

Bill Barnwell is one of the most accomplished veterans of the football analytics and analysis industry. He sits down with Adam Levitan and Evan Silva to talk about his work, Cam Newton signing with the Patriots, chances for a Baker Mayfield bounceback and lots more. The trio also takes Listener Questions.    Editor's Note: Our Early Bird Special EXPIRES on July 8. This will be our best offer of the season, packaging the Draft Kit, In-Season Content and FFPC coupon all for $199.99. Head to EstablishTheRun.com for more info.    TIMESTAMPS: Bill’s beginnings in Football (4:00) | Statistics in Football (6:45) | How ESPN views Stats (12:28) | Cam Newton in New England (14:17) | Drafting Lamar Jackson and Pat Mahomes (21:39) | Post-Hype Baker Mayfield (26:09) | Evaluating Carson Wentz (31:19) | Debating the 2020 Buccaneers (35:50) | Trusting Drew Lock (41:36) | Running Back Holdouts (46:09) | Joe Mixon vs. Derrick Henry (48:50) | Listener Questions (51:47) |  
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Jun 26, 2020 • 39min

Episode 74: Silva Top 150 Risers and Fallers

Evan Silva is participating in drafts and researching every single player for his team-by-team previews. That (plus injuries to Deebo Samuel and Sony Michel) has caused a shakeup in the rankings. He sits down with Adam Levitan to discuss.    Editor's Note: Our Early Bird Special will be expiring soon. This bundle includes our Draft Kit, In-Season Package and $25 FFPC coupon (a $275 value) for $199.99. This will be our best offer, by far, of the season. Head to EstablishTheRun.com for more info.    TIMESTAMPS: Kyler Murray (2:24) | Sony Michel (7:29) | Zack Moss (9:33) | Allen Robinson (12:59) | Deebo Samuel (16:44) | A.J. Green (21:22) | Miles Sanders (24:48) | D.K. Metcalf (27:00) | Antonio Brown (29:16) | Top 150 vs. Tiers When Drafting (32:52)
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Jun 26, 2020 • 52min

Episode 73: Memory Lane with Gregg Rosenthal

Gregg Rosenthal is now wildly famous as part of the NFL Network and NFL.com. But before that, he was the man who hired both Adam Levitan and Evan Silva at Rotoworld more than a decade ago. The three of them sat down to reminisce about old times and how the fantasy world has changed. Editor's Note: Our Early Bird special won't last much longer. It includes our Draft Kit, In-Season Package and $25 FFPC coupon and will be by far our best offer of the season. Head to EstablishTheRun.com now for more details. TIMESTAMPS: Gregg’s Start in Fantasy (3:41) |  Hiring Adam and Evan (11:14) | First Impressions (12:42) | Moving Away From Rotoworld (18:08) | The Current State of Fantasy (20:01) | The NFL and Gambling (25:20) | Calvin Ridley (30:46) | Josh Allen (34:48) | The Rosenthal & Jeselnik Vanity Project  (36:19) | Listener Questions (40:05)
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Jun 17, 2020 • 33min

Episode 72: Zero RB with Pat Kerrane

Adam Levitan sits down with ETR's high-stakes season-long specialist Pat Kerrane to talk all things Zero RB. What is it, why does it work, in what formats is it best implemented and how does it interact with this year's market? Everything you need to know about the contrarian strategy. They also discuss some Zero RB targets for the later rounds.  For more on Zero RB, check out Pat's series in our Draft Kit.    Editor's Note: Our Early Bird special is LIVE and available for a limited time! Get our Draft Kit plus our In-Season package in addition to a $25 FFPC coupon for just $199.99. Click here for more info.   TIMESTAMPS: Defining Zero RB (1:59) | Why Zero RB works (3:47) | Using Zero RB in Best Ball (5:29) | The advantages of being contrarian (8:17) | Competitive Waiver Wires (10:23) | Favorable Zero RB Formats (12:14) | Is this year different? (14:09) | Refuting the argument against Zero RB  (16:34) | RB profiles to target (19:04) |  Antonio Gibson (23:23) | Zack Moss (26:43) | Ronald Jones (29:00) |
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Jun 11, 2020 • 29min

Episode 71: Draft Kit Companion -- FFPC Strategy

Adam Levitan is joined by ETR's new Director of Analytics, Mike Leone, to go deep on FFPC-specific strategy. They discuss how the 2-WR, TE-premium format affects rankings. They also talk about the research Mike has done on stacking in season-long fantasy football. Editor's Note: For our FFPC-specific rankings, Mike's stacking article, Silva's Top 150 and tons more, check out our Draft Kit. It's just $30 and comes with a $25 coupon for FFPC.    Timestamps: FFPC Rankings and Draft Strategy (2:27. ) |  FFPC Starting Lineup Format (5:43) | Tight End Premium (8:00) | ADP Adjusted Rankings (11:53) | FFPC Running Back ADPs (14:27) | Approaching Wide Receivers in FFPC (16:50) | Season Long Stacks (20:57) | 
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Jun 10, 2020 • 1h

Episode 70: Silva Top 150 Adjustments

Running backs are flying off the board at record rates in season-long drafts. Adam Levitan and Evan Silva discuss how that affects strategy and how Evan adjusted his Top 150 for it. They also hit on a bunch of recent players Evan moved after testing his rankings in drafts. Editor's Note: Our 2020 Early Bird Package is officially LIVE! It contains the Draft Kit ($30 value), our In-Season Package ($220 value) and a FFPC Coupon ($25 value) for just $199.99. Head to www.establishtherun.com for more details.    TIMESTAMPS: Approaching Running Backs in Season Long (3:23) | Dalvin Cook (13:10) | Alvin Kamara (17:51) | James Conner (20:58) | DJ Chark (26:25) | Mike Williams (29:55) | Diontae Johnson (33:13) | Ian Thomas (36:54) | Jimmy Garoppolo (40:27) | Alshon Jeffery (46:15) | Le’Veon Bell (48:52) | Mark Ingram & J.K. Dobbins (52:42) | Steven Sims (56:43)
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Jun 5, 2020 • 1h 6min

Episode 69: One-on-One with Options Trader Jason Strasser

With sports on hiatus for the last three months, many DFS players have dabbled in the stock market. So Adam Levitan sat down with Jason Strasser, co-founder and chief investment officer of Caption Partners. They discuss the markets from an elementary level.   Editor's Note: Our Early Bird Package is now LIVE! Get our Draft Kit, In-Season Package, and a $25 coupon to FFPC for just $199.99. It will be our best offer of the season by far. Head to EstablishTheRun.com for more. TIMESTAMPS: Entering the stock market (3:18) | Jason’s Background in Poker (7:00) | Moving from Poker into Wall Street (10:08) | Options for Dummies (17:45) | How the market works (21:51) | Stock Market efficiency (24:32) | How backstops work (28:21) | Approaching Stock Market competition (30:59) | No-Rake Stock Market Trading (33:02) | Best Approach for 401Ks and IRAs (35:17) | Are market crashes “flukes”? (37:30) | Transferable Poker skillsets to stock market trading (40:52) | What makes a stock price change? (43:13) | How newcomers have affected the markets(49:08) | Should the common man be buying stocks? (53:27) | Is “buy what you know” smart advice? (55:47) | Jason’s DFS life (58:08) | DraftKings going public (1:00:56)

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