Optimizing Daily Fantasy: QB Picks and Budgeting Tips

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00:00Let's take a look at the Daily Fantasy slate and find out who our favorite quarterbacks are.

00:05Seems pretty clear-cut to me. I mean, I don't know how...

00:08I mean, it's going to be hard to set a lineup using Derrick Henry at 8,000,

00:11and McConkie at 6,800, and Lamar Jackson at 8,000.

00:15So maybe you would pivot and go another direction.

00:17Maybe it's Herbert at 6, but there's just such a big drop-off here for me,

00:21from Lamar to everybody else.

00:23CJ Stroud is 5,500 today.

00:26I feel like a lot of folks in Daily Fantasy have played Stroud over and over again,

00:32hoping for this-is-the-day kind of thing.

00:35I don't know that this is the day.

00:37And then, I mean, Russell Wills has got that playoff experience,

00:40maybe runs a couple, I certainly think it's possible.

00:42You're not going to play Fields, you're not going to play Mills,

00:45and you're definitely not going to play Taylor Heinecke.

00:48So those are the options there.

00:50But you've got to get real cute here, George, to pick Lamar,

00:53because if you're going to go with one of the top options at running back

00:56and wide receiver, I almost feel like if we're building the lineup today

00:59and you pick Lamar, then you have to maybe eliminate Henry from your lineup too.

01:05I don't think you can financially fit those in.

01:08I don't see it possible.

01:10I'm actually trying to do it right now.

01:12And, by the way, I'm not just picking the lowest guys.

01:15I'm still picking, like, a McConkie, guys like that.

01:20You're not going to be able to pick the guys we talked about.

01:22I'm just tier 3 or tier 4.

01:25I think I'm going to probably have to save the two grand

01:27and go with Justin Herbert, because there's no running backs.

01:32I really want Derek Henry.

01:34I think I'd be okay with Justin Herbert.

01:36The use of secondary is not good.

01:38Herbert's been playing well here.

01:40So I think that's the direction I'm going to go here.

01:42There's no doubt that Lamar is the guy I want.

01:44I'm not going to be able to fit it.

01:45I'm not.

01:46I just can't make this work here.

01:47So I'm going to go Justin Herbert just because of the other guys I want in my lineup.

01:51Yeah, and you know, by the way, I guess that's the difference with quarterback

01:54as is with the others is that the running backs, there's no guarantee of getting points.

01:58The first four names on that list, there's some sort of guarantee of something.

02:02And there's not in tier 2 and tier 3 at running back and wide receiver.

02:06So perhaps that's the goal.

02:08I probably would play Stroud and save 500 over Herbert.

02:13I think I would say – I'm not saying that he's going to have a great game,

02:15but I think that I would like to save that money

02:17and maybe even pivot to Wilson, even lower than that,

02:20because again, it's a guarantee of some fantasy points.

02:23But it would seem to me the winning lineup could come with Lamar Jackson

02:26and we'd look back on this and say, wow, what a mistake we made.

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