Cody Main joins Davis Mattek for a discussion about DFS in 2025, sweating showdown, projecting ownership, lifting weights and much more

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Timestamps:

00:01 What are people doing wrong in DraftKings showdown contests

4:15 Being Directionally Accurate with projected ownership

8:00 Showdown is the worst sweat of all time

10:00 You can evaporate half a million dollars so easy

13:00 How does projecting ownership for NFL DFS actually work?

19:00 How does ownership in DFS work for sports that do not have correlation

26:00 DraftKings ruining achievements

30:00 Is UFL coming to Underdog?  

35:20 Being an originator of prop lines  

36:00 THIS MAN IS CHARTING UFL GAMES !

41:20 Cody Main Got Jacked  

46:00 Sam Sulek Is The Actual GOAT

50:00 Motivation vs Discipline  

58:00 Learn To Like Yourself

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🎬 An amateur analysis of David Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Drive,  Pat Mayo on Youtube, USA vs Canada, Saudi Soccer, Luka Doncic the Laker, the first time deposit game and more

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Timestamps:

00:01 What the fuck happened in Mulholland Drive?

5:40 Your first experience with David Lynch

9:40 Are Tarantino and Lynch similar at all?

14:00 The most weirdly unsettling movie of all time

17:00 Canada Vs The United States?

28:00 Is Hockey the perfect international sport?

33:01 Is this finally the moment for soccer (Spoiler: no)?

36:01 Should the Saudi’s move their soccer money to the United States

40:00 Why does no one play baseball anymore?

46:00 Fantasy Football is the most luck based fantasy sport

48:45 Adam Silver is so thankful for Luka Doncic and Nico Harrison

55:00 Should Mayo be attacking the algorithm harder?

1:02:15 Is YouTube the new Magazine?

1:06:00 Making a business vs finding hacks

1:14:00 Could Mayo be even bigger than he is?

1:27:00 The First Time Deposit Game Is Rough

1:28:00 Mayo is so old he now has to have a heating pad to run

1:35:00 Justin Tredeau Stepped Down

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Davis Mattek welcomes Kevin Cole from Unexpected Points for an in-depth discussion about football analysis and data analytics. Using python and sports analytics tools, they explore the intersection of statistical modeling and football strategy. They use these tools to discuss who should win NFL MVP, Coach Of The Year, Offensive Rookie of the year and more! The conversation delves into data science applications in sports, making this football podcast episode essential for anyone interested in the analytical side of the game. 🏈📊

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00:00 Taekcast Kevin Cole Unexpected Points Introduction

2:01 Who Will Win 2024 NFL MVP ?

5:45 Is it okay for Saquon Barkley to win NFL MVP?

13:03 Are Lamar Jackson’s bad games worse than a normal QBs bad games

14:30 Caleb Williams learned the wrong lesson Patrick mahomes on the sideline scramble

16:04 What is Jared Goff’s NFL MVP case?

21:45 Are the Chiefs bad or just unserious? Why is Andy Reid not pressing the edges?

31:30 It Always Comes Back To Brock Purdy and Kyle Shanahan

35:30 What do the Panthers and Dave Canales do with Bryce Young?

43:30 2024 Offensive Rookie Of The Year

52:01 Jayden Daniels vs Drake Maye

55:02 2024 NFL Coach Of The Year: Who should we bet?

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Davis Mattek is joined by Brian Hooper to discuss ChatGPT solving best ball and DFS, the Twitter algorithm, Hardcore History, the 2024 presidential election and much more

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Davis Mattek is joined by author Jonathan Wilson to discuss his new book Two Brothers, about the life and times Bobby and Jack Charlton who were two of England's greatest footballers

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Davis Mattek is joined by Pat Kerrane, the champion of Underdog Fantasy's Best Ball Mania 3, to discuss the multi-day sweat, how it feels to catch the ship finally, and much more.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Eric Patterson, who works in risk management in the golf betting segment of The Score sportsbook in Ontario, Canada to discuss how golf markets function and how to get into golf betting.

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Davis Mattek is joined by @JeffreyBenson12, the Sportsbook Operations Manager at Circa Sports to discuss how a sports book actually runs, the problems with the soft book model and limiting winning customers and much more in the sports betting industry.

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Davis Mattek and Paul (PewPewPew on DK) recap and discuss the 2022 World Cup in it's entirety with a focus on the amazing 3-3 final between Argentina and France

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Davis Mattek is joined by Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss bitcoin regulation, SBF's arrest, problems with crypto, and the devastation the IMF and World Bank have perpetuated on the developing world

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Davis Mattek and Kevin Cole discuss the MVP race, the killer weaknesses of every NFL team, what the hell can Denver do going forward, and if Kevin should become a political grifter on Substack

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Davis, Brian, and Jon take a thorough look at Season 1 of Disney +'s Andor and recap what did and did not work about the finale episode before pondering what the future of the Star Wars franchise will look like.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Brian Hooper, Nate Nohling and DangyWing to examine every aspect of the FTX collapse, Sam Bankman-Fried's crimes, CZ's Game of Thrones and Gary Gensler's complicity in all of this.

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Davis Mattek is joined by former top-level DFS professional and high-stakes poker player Ryan Daut to discuss his retirement from gambling, realizing he had a 160+ IQ, taking the official IQ test and much more.

00:00 Ryan Daut Taekcast Introduction

1:27 Ryan’s DeFi Realization: What is wealth?

4:45 No One Really Retires From Gambling; how did Ryan?

11:00 Gambling as someone who hates losing

12:10 We need ambitious people on this earth

17:02 Is Davis Mattek an NPC?

23:01 Ryan Daut Decides To Take An Official IQ Test: Why?

27:58 The Mega Test???

32:02 Ryan Breaks Davis’ Brain With A Math Problem

35:21 The Actual Reasons To Take An IQ Test

40:30 What was the IQ test actually like?

49:50 How To Measure Memory For IQ

56:35 What do you feel when you realize you’re a genius?

1:01:01 What does any of this matter? Why should anyone care about being intelligent?

1:09:50 Microstrategy Blowup, when?

1:12:01 Social Media Response To Posting Ryan’s IQ Test

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Davis Mattek is joined by the authors of "Messi vs Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game" Joshua Robinson and Jon Clegg to discuss their book and the two GOATs of world soccer

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Davis Mattek is joined by Brian Hooper & Peter Overzet on a LOLZ/Taekcast crossover to discuss Elon Musk buying Twitter and their ideas for how the platform can be improved, with some NFL DFS Showdown conversation thrown in at the end.

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Davis Mattek and Pat Mayo discuss their feelings about the LIV tour, what is wrong with fantasy football content, if they will ever be able to retire, and much more.

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Davis Mattek and Peter Overzet dive deep into how DFS strategy has changed, discuss how much harder fantasy football is and propose some changes to the large-field best ball NFL tournaments.

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Davis Mattek is joined by high-stakes DFS grinder PewPewPew to break down the 2022 World Cup, going group by group and predicting the winners of each and winner of the tournament.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Mike Gallagher to place a load of bets on the 2022-23 season, including MVP, most improved player, win totals, and much more.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Kevin Cole to discuss what narratives have been proven wrong this NFL season, shifts in the betting market, the five greatest QBs ever, and much more.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Brian Hooper to discuss how the field is adjusting in Showdowns, astrology vs heuristics, The Ethereum Merge and much more.

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Davis Mattek and Ben Baldwin overreact to Week One of the NFL season, wonder what the value of an elite offensive line is, debate PFF QB grades, and much more.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Liam Murphy and Kyle Dvorchak of Rotoworld to draft a TRUE Zero RB team in the FFPC Main Event with a $2,000 entry fee and $1,000,000 to first place!

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Davis Mattek and Andrew Wiggins from Establish the Run dive deep into daily fantasy football game theory and discuss how draftkings has evolved over the years. They explore modern gambling and DFS strategy while examining the impact of sports betting on the industry's growth. The conversation covers innovative approaches to betting, DFS and includes discussion of bitcoin, crypto and downswings in gambling.

00:00 Andrew Wiggins Makisupa Introduction

2:00 Is DFS Dead

4:20 Why is gambling so popular right now?

7:01 Are you old enough to remember watching TV without a phone?

10:20 Owning ETR in a short attention span economy

15:15 The downswings of DFS

19:10 Getting off the top optimal in cash (and why you can do it)

22:01 Jauan Jennings Is The Greatest Player In Football

25:10 Getting off of hyper efficient players before the projections adjust

31:55 NBA Projection and the difficulty of median projections

36:30 Why don’t people like the NBA as much as football? When was the last collective sporting event?

41:00 Some of the dumbest people on Earth are going to get insanely rich because of Bitcoin

44:55 What is going on in the crypto casino?

48:10 Davis’ biggest conspiracy theory belief

50:55 Nuclear Power Could Be The Future

52:30 Wellymaker https://x.com/DrewDinkmeyer/status/1832057141126930784

53:30 Do Not Use The For You Tab

56:00 Andrew Wiggins Training Schedule

1:01:15 Bets To Improve Your Health

1:03:30 The Greatest Grateful Dead Live Recording

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Davis Mattek is joined again by Evan Silva and Pat Thorman from Establish The Run, RIch Hribar from Sharp Football and JJ Zachariason from LateRound.com to draft another $2,000 entry FFPC Main Event fantasy football team to try and win $1,000,000.

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Davis Mattek is joined by RIch Hribar, Evan Silva, Pat Thorman and JJ Zachariason to draft a team in the FFPC Main Event to try and win a million dollars out of the 1.06

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Davis Mattek is joined by Joe Holka to discuss Twitter threads, their favorite life optimization tips they have picked up, the stressors of getting married, and much more.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Brian Hooper to discuss some of the deeper elements of game theory optimization in best ball, how the average player should be interacting with Daily Fantasy Sports and of course, the wider geopolitical climate, George Orwell, Communism and much more.

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Davis Mattek and Skyler Hoke take a look at the impact of LIV Golf on the PGA tour and wonder what will happen next in the world of professional golf for pros, hopefuls, Americans, Europeans, and everyone else in between.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Eric Eager from Pro Football Focus to handicap the major NFL futures markets for the 2022-23 seasons and give out some of their favorite futures and season win total bets.

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Davis Mattek is joined by JJ Zacharisason (@LateRoundQB) to preview JJ's exhaustive 2022 Fantasy Football draft guide (purchase at www.lateround.com), while previewing every position and giving fantasy football players a plan of attack at every position and in every round for their 2022 fantasy football drafts.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Jason Strasser (@Strassa2) to discuss how the Fed is responding to the impending recession, the problem with Vanguard ETFs, how crypto is handling the extreme bear market, and more thorny financial topics.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation to discuss the massive chaos in the financial world, the downward trajectory of cryptocurrency prices, why stablecoins and Bitcoin are so valuable outside of the United States and much more.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Brian Hooper to discuss the LIV Golf Tour and the associated ethical dilemmas, World War 1 History, Rasputin, Gun Control, and everything in between.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Mike Zakarian from the NBA Bit to discuss content creation, self employment, self doubt, always being on the clock, the YouTube economy and much more

00:00 Mike Zakarian Introduction

1:45 The Journey into self employment and content creation

3:55 How sports betting changed the entire landscape for the sports content market

6:45 The reality of the fickleness of peoples viewing habits

12:30 Marketing versus Knowledge

18:40 The over saturation of the content market: there is too much to watch!

27:00 The upside of working for yourself

31:55 No one works for the same company for their entire life anymore

38:55 The 99% versus the 1% in content and in life

47:05 Why does something bad have to happen before we are ready to make the leap?

53:00 You could be working 100% of your waking hours theoretically if you wanted to

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Davis Mattek is joined by Pat Mayo to discuss their golf games, the Canadian housing market, dress codes in Paris and everything else in between.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Jordan Cooper (@BlenderHD) to discuss changes in the DFS landscape, how to not get wrecked at sports betting as a casual and how DFS may work for the upcoming FIFA world cup.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Kevin Cole to recap the 2022 NFL Draft, figuring out if the Eagles/Cardinals made good WR trades, what the shit the New England Patriots are up to, and if the betting markets have changed in a significant way after the draft.

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Davis Mattek and the LOLZ boys Peter Overzet and Brian Hooper engage in a crossover episode conversation about Elon Musk buying Twitter, the Bryn Kenny cheating accusations and if it is possible to cheat in DFS.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Hayden Winks to run through optimal roster construction in best ball, surprising research results from 2021 best ball contests, Zero RB vs Hero RB vs Superhero RB vs Robust RB, and optimal stacking allocations

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Davis Mattek is joined by Chase Devens, a research analyst from Messari.Io, to discuss the function of network and application staking, what various Layer 1 cryptocurrency solutions are attempting to do, and if we will ever buy our coffees with Bitcoin.

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In a mammoth episode, Davis Mattek is joined by the Gillcast boys (Nate Nohling and Sammy Reid) to draft an NFBC Main Event fantasy baseball team.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Eric Eager (@PFF_Eric) to discuss the Chiefs rebuilding window, how real the NFL salary cap is, which teams are in the market for rookie QBs, and much more.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Eric Turner, the VP of Market Research for Messari Crypto to discuss how cryptocurrency could play a role in a non-revolutionary future, practical applications of NFTs, nation-states adopting Bitcoin, and much more.

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00:00 Election Consequences Intro

4:30 Is Political Polling dead?

10:44 The Biden Campaign vs The Harris Campaign Strategies

16:30 Comparing the 2024 election to the 1968 election

19:20 There will be no end to inflation

26:30 The Wrong Strategy vs Trump

34:01 Harris did not run a good campaign

45:00 How easy it is to bet on elections?

52:40 Harris not going on Rogan is one of the biggest unforced errors in political history

59:30 If the economy is good, incumbent party wins.

If the economy is bad, incumbent party loses.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Laura Shin, host of the Unchained Podcast, to discuss her new book about the genesis and history of the Ethereum blockchain.

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Davis Mattek is joined by John Daigle from 4for4 and BetSperts to discuss the blockbuster Russell Wilson trade, betting on golf, their favorite books, and caring about everything and nothing.

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Davis Mattek is joined by Pat Mayo to get a Canadian's perspective on the trucker convoy, how far we have come since March 2020, why people hate Bitcoiners, enjoying bad movies, and much more.

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