🖱️ The 2024 Best Ball Meta

In this week's P.O. Box:

While seemingly every edge has been zapped from salary cap DFS, best ball is still in its infancy as a game type.

This means that there are still plenty of edges to uncover, and even when they feel like they’ve gone mainstream—like Week 17 correlation and Zero RB—they are often confined to only a small subset of sicko drafters and zealots.

This dynamic makes best ball ripe for exploration. The first ever Best Ball Data Bowl yielded all kinds of new discoveries and the data envelope is constantly getting pushed.

My co-host on LOLz, Brian Hooper, recently tried to predict the best ball meta for 2024 drafts—scrolling the eff down.

I was initially surprised to hear this take. The Badge Bros popularized this strategy for the daily contests on Underdog Fantasy and I had used it to win $10,000 in a Week 9 Battle Royale contest.

But I was skeptical how applicable it could be to season-long best ball dynamics where the long drafting windows and 17-game sample size complicated the thesis.

But after digging in, I realized I was wrong.