Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Tatecast. My name is Davis-Matic.

You guys can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic. In this episode of the show, I am joined by my good friend Cody Main from Establish

the Run to talk about DFS in 2025, showdown, building projections, being an originator

of props for the UFL market, and of course, getting jacked.

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Cody Main, the originator, the man who owns the niche sport fort over to establish the run.com.

What is the number one thing that people do wrong in Showdown based on your deep statistical analysis?

What are people doing wrong?

Well, unfortunately, Davis, the thing that people are doing wrong now in 2025 is a lot different

than the things that people were doing wrong in 2020, in 2021, even as recent as 2020 and

23, like I feel like the field has gotten quite a bit sharper, especially with public-facing

Sims, obviously the stuff that we're doing over and Establish the Run, the Sims that we rolled

out this year for both Classic and Showdown, I think, have helped improve the field quite a bit.

And you don't see a lot of the very common mistakes that you did on in the early days,

just poor roster construction teams running out with, you know, there's still dupe issues and

stuff like that. But I think the Sims, the products that people have

been able to get their hands on now have made the field quite a bit sharper. That definitely

played itself out in my, my 2024 ROI and showdown. But I think the thing that people are

still probably making the mistake most of is probably correlating lineups a little bit too much. And that's

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