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NHL DFS
NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays for Feb. 21
There are five games on the NHL DFS main slate Wednesday, with puck drop set for 7 p.m. ET. I ranked my favorite line stacks and a few value plays below, as well as contrarian plays to consider in tournaments.  Before we get after it, the team here at FTN Daily featuring Kenneth Le, Griffin […]
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Chris Meaney
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 2024 Mexico Open
It takes a special kind of crazy to be good at PGA DFS. It is perhaps the most volatile of all the major sports, there’s little correlation to take advantage of, and we only get six roster spots for each lineup. Consequently, to gain an edge over our competition we have to be bold – […]
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Alex Blickle
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today – Free (Wednesday 2/21)
One of my favorite things to start looking at as we approach the end of the college basketball regular season is fading teams who clearly are ready for the offseason. Finding the squads who are done for the year can be quite profitable, and we have at least one of those playing Tuesady.  All odds […]
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FTN Staff
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CFB NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report: Devontez Walker
Last Updated: 2/21/2024   Devontez Walker has had a turbulent and uphill climb to get to this point in his career. He started with a commitment to NC Central, but an ACL injury and the pandemic year caused him to transfer to Kent State. He had two impressive years there, earning first-team All-MAC Honors in […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Players to Watch at the 2024 NFL Combine
The NFL offseason is in full swing, and the NFL Combine is upon us. Obviously, it’s a pivotal week for many of the incoming rookies, with some looking to cement their draft stock and others looking to shoot up draft boards.   With that, we have to take a look at the over 300 prospects […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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MLB Fantasy
Mager’s Musings: KDS Strategy and Draft Mapping (2/21)
Kentucky Derby Style is the feature that the NFBC utilizes to assign draft spots in the vast majority of fantasy baseball leagues. Instead of assigning draft spots on an entirely random basis, KDS allows fantasy managers to rank their desired spots in order of preference. KDS then randomly selects teams, and they are assigned, in […]
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FTN Staff
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Tuesday (2/20)
Tuesday is a huge day of college basketball DFS with contests that feature a surprisingly flat payout. After a low-scoring Monday night, things will be popping with a ton of fantasy-friendly matchups on tap. In this breakdown, I will highlight the top options for each game while also providing you with a core to build […]
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Walter Waddell
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NHL Bets
NHL Prop Bets with Chris Meaney (2/20)
We have eight games on the NHL slate for Tuesday, so there’s plenty of action to be had on the ice. Below you’ll see a list of three of my favorite NHL props, with a couple of bonus NHL prop bets as well. The odds change pretty quickly in the NHL, so take advantage of […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football 2024 Bounceback Candidates
The Super Bowl isn’t even three weeks removed, but our attentions are already turned to the 2024 NFL and fantasy football season.   There is no denying the frustration and disappointment you feel when drafting a player relatively high in drafts, only for them to massively disappoint. And while it may feel easy to simply […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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MLB Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (2/20)
Spring training is a wild time for fantasy baseball players, as we see considerable overreactions to tiny sample sizes, changes in player value due to velocity jumps or drops and other big swings.   So as we head toward the start of the 2024 MLB season, we’re going to go around all the news from […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Fantasy
Crossed Up: Infield Prospects to Target
The start of spring training brings plenty of hope throughout the baseball world, both in the major leagues and the minors as well. For the minor leagues, a lot of that hope gets focused on certain prospects progressing in their development or taking a step forward from the previous year. Most of that is considered […]
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Eric Cross
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PGA Bets
2024 Mexico Open Betting Preview
Welcome to Vidanta Villarta, land of birdies and big numbers, always welcoming to the biggest of hitters. This will be the third hosting of the Mexico Open for Vidanta Villarta. We saw Jon Rahm take home the title in the debut 2022 edition with Tony Finau posting a runner-up finish. They flipped that script last […]
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FTN Staff
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today (Tuesday 2/20)
The 2023-24 college basketball season is winding down, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have loads of great matchups across the country and below is my favorite bet of the Tuesday slate.    BYU vs. Baylor (BYU -3, DraftKings Sportsbook) Another massive Big 12 showdown takes place Tuesday, as the […]
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FTN Staff
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NHL DFS
NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays for Feb. 20
The puck drops for Tuesday’s eight-game NHL DFS slate at 7 p.m. ET. Once again, I’ll be providing GPP stacks, positional rankings, and pick’ems on Underdog.  As always, I’ll also be on Discord throughout the day to answer all of your questions.    Below you’ll see a list of all the games on the NHL […]
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Kenneth Le
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Ownership Report: 2024 Genesis Invitational
Now four weeks into this article, we can confidently say that we have the best PGA ownership projections in the industry. We’ve magnified this advantage by introducing our new GPP scores, which have resulted in back-to-back weeks of tremendous success at Pebble Beach and TPC Scottsdale, and more recently an enormously important fade at The Genesis […]
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Alex Blickle
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CBB Bets
2023-2024 NCAA Tournament Futures and Best Bets
With the college basketball season quickly winding down and March approaching, here are my favorite future national title winner bets. Building a futures portfolio is always fun, and sportsbooks tend to offer some exploitable spots to attack.    Of course, value is super important, and even though you may think Team X has the best […]
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FTN Staff
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Monday (2/19)
Today’s slate is a tough one, as it features just six teams, three of which are considered among the best defenses in the country. Scores will probably be relatively low across the board, so we will need to place a priority on raw points. As usual, you’ll want to stay active in the FTN CBB DFS […]
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Walter Waddell
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NBA Bets
NBA Best Futures Bets (2/19)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! NBA All-Star Weekend is over and players get a few days of rest before the final stretch of the season. Every team has played at least 54 games, which means we are almost 66% of the way through the season. With less than 30 games left, teams are in their […]
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FTN Staff
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NHL DFS
NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays for Feb. 19
There are 10 games on the NHL DFS main slate on Monday, with puck drop set for 12:30 p.m. ET. I ranked my favorite line stacks and a few value plays below, as well as contrarian plays to consider in tournaments.  Before we get after it, the team here at FTN Daily featuring Kenneth Le, […]
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Chris Meaney
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today – Free (Monday 2/19)
Four weeks from today, we will have a bracket to dissect and a workday filled with all sorts of college basketball discourse. Until then, resumes have to be improved and teams have to continue to push for more victories. Let’s try to pick out a winner on Monday.   All odds are per DraftKings Sportsbook. South […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Free Agents in Dynasty Leagues
With March 13 on the horizon, we need to take a break from rookie content to peek at just how strong this free-agent class is this year. As dynasty managers, staying ahead of the curve is vital, so understanding who could see a value spike or decline after free agency is pivotal to sustained success.  […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NHL Fantasy
NHL Fantasy Hockey Waiver Wire Rankings (2/18)
Welcome to the Week 20 Fantasy Hockey Waiver Wire article here at FTN Fantasy. Below you’ll see some of the best waiver wire pickups, players to stash, players to buy low and sell high, which players to drop and who to stream. I’ll also highlight some of the injuries, what it means for you and […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL Fantasy
Best Ball Drafts: What We’ve Learned So Far in 2024
The week after Super Bowl LVIII is the official end of the 2023 NFL season, but it also signals the start of 2024 best ball drafting! Underdog Fantasy immediately posted two 2024 Pre-Draft Best Ball contests: The Big Board and The Little Board. Both are the standard best ball format with 20 players on each […]
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Mike Randle
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NBA DFS
NBA All Star Game DFS Breakdown
The 2024 NBA All-Star Game is here, and with it comes our annual DFS showdown contests for the true NBA sickos. If you’re reading this, you and I are kindred spirits, and I appreciate your dedication to the mantra that “ball is life” even in a silly annual exhibition with no stakes.    In this […]
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Zac Graham
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Sunday (2/18)
The NBA All-Star break is in full swing, and that means CBB contests are fantastic for Sunday and should be going forward. Now that football is in the offseason, we will get to live, breathe and sleep college hoops.   For today’s slate, I will highlight the top options for each game while also providing […]
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Walter Waddell
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NHL DFS
NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays for Feb. 17
There are six games on Saturday’s NHL DFS main slate, with puck drop set for 7 p.m. ET. I ranked my favorite line stacks and a few value plays below, as well as contrarian plays to consider in tournaments.  Before we get after it, the team here at FTN Daily featuring Kenneth Le, Griffin Swanson […]
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Chris Meaney
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today (Saturday 2/17)
The 2023-24 college basketball season is in full swing, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have loads of great matchups across the country. Below is my favorite bet of the Saturday slate.    Marquette vs. UConn (UConn -7, DraftKings Sportsbook) This is a highly anticipated matchup atop the Big East […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Draft: First Round and Full Draft Order
The 2023 NFL season is now complete, the Kansas City Chiefs have hoisted the Lombardi Trophy, and now we can all turn our attentions to the 2024 NFL Draft. In addition to finishing off the season, last week’s Super Bowl gave us the last piece of information we needed for our draft prep: The final […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024 Positional Tiers – Outfielders (Part 1)
This is the fourth part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
Potential Injury Discounts in 2024 Fantasy Football
You draft a player in the middle to late rounds of your fantasy football draft, they appear to be a league-winner and suddenly they go down with an injury. Just like that, their season is over and you’re left wondering what if. There’s nothing worse. Except wet socks. Or stepping on a pile of Legos. […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Saturday (2/17)
There are a ridiculous number of college basketball games Saturday and three solid DFS slates to delve into. This breakdown will cover the 12-game main/early slate. I will highlight the top options for each game while also providing you with a core to build around in all formats. Don’t forget to check out the latest […]
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Walter Waddell
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NBA Bets
NBA Best Bets for the All-Star Break
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FTN Staff