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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

🎬 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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