Episode 4: Why the Buy Low Model works with Josh Hermsmeyer
Establish The Run Fantasy Football · Fantasy Football
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Show Notes
Adam Levitan chats with Josh Hermsmeyer of FiveThirtyEight.com about his Buy Low Model and how it applies to successful DFS tournament play. They also discuss if expensive wine really is better, the Air Yards metric, Defense Doesn't Matter and lots more.
The Buy Low Model will exclusively be available on EstablishTheRun.com this season.
TIMESTAMPS: Josh’s background in Fantasy (1:59) | The football analytics niche (7:02) | An introduction to Air Yards (9:04) | Why is the NFL behind in analytics? (12:15) | What teams do analytics well (16:42) | Establishing The Run (19:50) | The Buy Low Model (21:53) | The “defense doesn’t matter” take (28:56)