Ep 18 – McJester Interview Part 1 – His FanDuel NBA Championship, lineup building, and being mentored

Ep 18 – McJester Interview Part 1 – His FanDuel NBA Championship, lineup building, and being mentored

PART 1 of 2 —

Jonathan “McJester” Zellers is a Daily Fantasy legend at this point. The 2014 Tournament Player of the Year has once again returned to the top of the podium to win another live final championship. This time a FanDuel Perfect Lineup at the NBA live final. He comes onto the podcast to talk about his lineup, his win, and his process. Lots to listen to and laugh at in this episode, so we broke it into two parts for all the content it provides.  Listen in to meet a fellow player in the Daily Fantasy Community and take away something you can apply to your own DFS process and strategy.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:

    • What new developments have lead McJester to becoming a ‘house wife’
    • How he was mentored and what he took from it
    • How McJester prepares for DFS
    • Deadspots in pricing you can exploit
    • His live final experience
    • Advantage to building lineups by hand
    • The processes he thinks about when creating a lineup
    • Finding alternatives off low priced chalk plays
    • Using your imagination
    • Why he’d remove late swap
    • Refunding players with true late scratch players in them
    • How they celebrated his win
    • Life advice on living in the moment
    • His first fight
    • and the 5 RAPID FIRE QUESTIONS to end the show with some insight, fun, and laughs about strange phobias, biggest regrets, and best life advice.

LINKS MENTIONED:

McJesters’s FanDuel Live Final 1st place lineup: https://www.perfectlineups.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/McJester_PerfectLineup.png

McJester with Jack & FuegoSteve: Steve_with_McJester_Jack

VIDEO: McJester winning and hosting trophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcismlcd4Hg

Perfect Lineup Movie:  http://www.perfectlineupmovie.com
Jason on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dfsfilmmaker
McJester on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mcjester_

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Ep 13 – Scott Hanson wins another $2,000,000!! – His strategy, sweat, and historic win in Daily Fantasy.

Ep 13 – Scott Hanson wins another $2,000,000!! – His strategy, sweat, and historic win in Daily Fantasy.

Hear our own Scott Hanson talk about his historic 2nd Fantasy Football Championship win at the DraftKings 2016 live final!! Listen in on what it is like to win a 2nd $2,000,000 playing DFS. Hear how he decided on his players, the sweat he had, and strategy he has implemented this year that he didn’t use in previous years. Hear what sites he uses in his process and gain some insight on how this now LEGEND in Daily Fantasy plays the game. Listen in to meet a fellow player in the DFS Community and take away something you can apply to your own DFS process and strategy.

TOURNAMENT WINNING “PERFECT LINEUP”:

Scott’s $2,000,000 DraftKings Perfect Lineup: https://www.perfectlineups.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Scott_1stPlaceLineup.png

Scott’s 125th place lineup:https://www.perfectlineups.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Scotts125thLineup.png
Scott’s 150th place lineup: https://www.perfectlineups.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Scotts150thLineup.png

IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:

  • How a Goff TD saved the win for Scott
  • How Scott’s strategy was different for this year’s Qualifiers that helped achieve 3 seats in the live final
  • How Scott built his 3 lineups
  • The difference process for a live final week than a regular week of DFS
  • How Scott uses ProFootball Focus stats in building his lineups
  • How Scott buys into Jonathan Bales idea of “Anti-Fragile” lineups
  • Scott’s structured approach to lineup building
  • Using Rotogrinders Chris Gimino’s ownership percentages
  • Profiling WRs vs Defenses
  • Using Yahoo for analyzing matchups
  • A discount code for watching Perfect Lineup
  • How it felt to win $2Million the second time around
  • How Scott dealt with a big losing weekend this year
  • Themes to his live final lineups
  • How Scott and his wife celebrated their big win in NYC

LINKS MENTIONED:

Perfect Lineup Movie:  http://www.perfectlineupmovie.com

Scott’s ProFootball Focus instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxnGJdHHYE
DraftKings video awarding top 3 winners on periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/w/1ZkKzqPawBZxv
Anti-fragility lesson from Jonathan Bales: https://rotogrinders.com/lessons/the-finale-an-antifragile-dfs-philosophy-807581
Ownership % Projections from Chris Gimino: https://rotogrinders.com/profiles/chrisgimino
Jason on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dfsfilmmaker

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