Best Ball Roundup #7

Tips for targeting breakout players and Superflex strategies

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Fake Sharp
June 30, 2023

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In today’s email:

  • Tips for targeting breakout players

  • Superflex strategies

  • and much more…

The Best Links

💡 Strategy

You’re Undervaluing Age When Drafting In Fantasy Football (link)

  • Big increase in RB production from year 1 to year 2

  • Years 2-6 are peak years for RBs

  • WRs typically underwhelm as a rookie before taking a big leap in year 2

  • WRs generally improve all the way to year 5, which is typically their peak season

  • Top-12 WR breakouts occurred overwhelmingly in Years 2 and 3

  • The sophomore TE breakout is among the most powerful and reliable laws of fantasy

Best Ball Live Training with Pat Kerrane and Hilow (link)

  • Game Theory

  • Dictating the draft

  • Late-round upside

Superflex strategies by Justin Herzig (link) (link)

  • Optimal to game stack QBs

  • Draft 4-5 QBs

  • Focus on elite talent

  • Be willing to stop drafting WR early, sometimes drafting more RBs

  • Tight Ends are free at the end of drafts, meaning you can find value late

🌶️ Player Takes

Fantasy Football Bargains: Four WRs in the Mid-to-Late Rounds (link)

ESPN beat reporters’ choice for standouts on each team (link)

Underdog Risers and Fallers (link)

RB Success Rate Scrubs via Legendary Upside (link)

👀 ICYMI

Why late round WRs are equally as good as late round RBs (link)

Relationship between advance rate and draft capital spent at WR and RB (link)

Why drafting WRs over RBs in late RD1-late RD3 is suboptimal (link)

Early round RB upside is as important as ever (link)

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