Josh Larky
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Josh Larky is the Director of Fantasy and Gambling at The 33rd Team. He joins us with a unique blend of educational and professional experience.
Josh studied economics at the University of Redlands, double minoring in Math and Psychology. Working on his honors thesis was the catalyst to realizing he exclusively wanted to pursue work in the sports industry. Focusing on the impact of the 2008 recession on Major League Baseball, Josh demonstrated MLB’s economic resilience through econometric research. Â
Post-college, Josh pursued a Masters in Business Analytics at the University of Texas at Austin to acquire the technical skills needed to land an analytics role with a professional sports team. While attending a sports analytics conference at MIT, Josh met Matt Kelley, the founder of PlayerProfiler, and began conducting fantasy football research for him while completing grad school. He worked with Southwest Airlines for his capstone project, analyzing their employee incentives and perks program to assess its effectiveness.Â
Year-long stints with the Detroit Tigers (baseball analytics) and San Diego Padres (business analytics) followed, and Larky continued his fantasy football research during this time. Despite 100 percent accuracy with his attendance projection while working for the Padres (Josh predicted zero fans in 2020 due to Covid), he was Covid-furloughed in May 2020. That summer, he started his own R coding business, ThatRCodingSite.com, where he teaches people analytics and coding using football datasets.
The 2020 NFL season was his first full-time season in the fantasy industry, as he led all DFS (daily fantasy sports) efforts for PlayerProfiler. After the season concluded, he was promoted and began leading all analytics projects for the site. Early in the 2022 NFL offseason, Josh joined FTN, another company in the fantasy and gambling space, to lead their analytics efforts. During his time in this industry, Josh has done everything from coding a DFS optimizer from scratch to creating viral TikTok videos, and he prides himself on his versatility.
When The 33rd Team reached out, Larky jumped at the opportunity to lead this new department. Josh has a general disdain for groupthink and the commonly traveled path and is confident the fantasy and gambling department’s content and tools will never read or operate like any other site’s.
Outside of work, Josh rock climbs, snowboards and eats burritos.
Josh'S CONTRIBUTIONS
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2023 NFL Draft: Awkward Fantasy Football Fits for Day 2 Prospects
Josh Larky and Ryan Reynolds break down some of the most awkward fantasy fits from…
By Josh Larky & Ryan Reynolds
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2023 NFL Draft: Best Fantasy Football Fits for Day 2 Prospects
Ryan Reynolds and Josh Larky break down their favorite fantasy football fits from the second…
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Fantasy Football: Projecting Jaxon Smith-Njigba's Seahawks Output
D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett are established as one of the NFL's best wide receiver duos,…
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Fantasy Football: Bijan Robinson RB1 Pick, Wait on Jahmyr Gibbs
Josh Larky breaks down how you should treat first-round running backs Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr…
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2023 NFL Draft: Awkward First-Round Fantasy Football Fits
Josh Larky and Ryan Reynolds are breaking down some of the most awkward fantasy fits…
By Josh Larky & Ryan Reynolds
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2023 NFL Draft: Best First-Round Fantasy Football Fits
Ryan Reynolds and Josh Larky break down their favorite fantasy football fits from the first…
By Ryan Reynolds & Josh Larky
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2023 NFL Draft: 9 First-Round Bets Our Experts Made
Below, you’ll find nine 2023 NFL Draft bets Ryan Reynolds, Josh Larky and Daniel Racz made…
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Instant Fantasy Football Analysis of Jets Trading for Aaron Rodgers
Josh Larky breaks down the fantasy impact of the Green Bay Packers trading quarterback Aaron…
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NFL Draft Betting: 2023 Mock Draft Based on Betting Markets
Josh Larky and Ryan Reynolds present a mock draft that’s heavily influenced by the current…
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2023 NFL Draft: Bets to Make on AFC South Teams
Below, you’ll find our thoughts on what each AFC South team will do in the…
By Josh Larky & Ryan Reynolds