DCF Covid year work around?

Might be a stupid question as Im new to valuations--doing dcf valuation for dave and busters and realizing from their financials that they had a rough 2020, leading to some messed up numbers on the 2021 books. was gonna use 5y historical data to project income, but was wondering how and why I should treat the 2021Y. Should i simply remove it and regard it as an outlier? what is the industry norm for actual banks when valueing a company with significant outlier years of performance?

additionally, struggling a bit to find the inputs needed to calculate wacc. Inputs needed are: Cost of debt, Tax rate, Risk free rate, Beta, Market risk premium, Cost of equity. not sure where on my financial database (factset) im supposed to pull these values from.

Any help is appreciated, but if anyone could be kind enough to give me some guidance and insights personally, please leave a comment

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