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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Tuesday (2/6)
It’s Big Tuesday, and we have a 12-college basketball DFS game slate on tap featuring a multitude of tantalizing teams. In this breakdown, 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 episode of the CBB […]
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Walter Waddell
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NBA Bets
NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/6)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s time for a TNT Tuesday of NBA action. We have mostly nonconference matchups with a few division games as well. Nonconference games are always interesting because these teams don’t play each other as often, but they can be harder to handicap because there is less reason for each team […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Top Takeaways from the NFL Coaching Cycle
The fantasy football offseason can be even more exciting than the actual season. Each team starts anew, with dreams of a better record and legitimate run at the NFL playoffs. As we approach Super Bowl LVIII, it’s time to take stock in the first “shoe to drop” on the 2024 fantasy season: head coaching changes.  […]
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Mike Randle
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today (Tuesday 2/6)
The 2023-24 college basketball season is underway, 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.    North Carolina vs. Clemson (UNC -8, DraftKings Sportsbook) Two teams trending in very opposite directions as UNC is […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL DVOA
Super Bowl LVIII: Learning from the Worst of the Chiefs and 49ers
Teams don’t get to the Super Bowl without playing good football. But not all teams are perfect and there are often bumps along the way. With that, we’ll continue a DVOA tradition of looking at not when the Super Bowl participants played their best, but when they were at their worst. Let’s look at the […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Fantasy
Crossed Up: Top 100 Starting Pitchers
In the blink of an eye, the 2024 season is less than two months away, and fantasy baseball draft season is really starting to heat up. If you recall, I wrote a weekly pitcher planner article for FTN last season, which included my top 100 starting pitcher rankings for that particular week. Today, I’ll be […]
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Eric Cross
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PGA Bets
2024 WM Phoenix Open Betting Preview
Welcome to the hottest ticket in town, the WM Phoenix Open, where PGA Tour golf collides with a rowdy desert party. Known affectionately as the People’s Open or the Greenest Show on Grass, this event held at TPC Scottsdale draws in the largest crowds in all of golf, creating an electrifying atmosphere that leads right […]
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FTN Staff
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NHL Bets
NHL Prop Bets with Chris Meaney (2/6)
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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NHL DFS
NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays for Feb. 6
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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NBA DFS
5 Stats to Know: NBA DFS February 6
We’ve got another six games on the NBA DFS slate for Tuesday night with another set of injuries to deal with. As of now, the headlining injury is Fred VanVleet for the Houston Rockets because that opens up an awful lot. Let’s talk about that spot and more.    1. Fred VanVleet has only missed […]
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Adam Strangis
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NBA DFS
NBA DFS Strategy and Picks for Monday (2/5)
The week kicks off with a solid six-game NBA DFS slate Monday that features a Philadelphia ball club without its MVP, a popular power forward/center from Atlanta, and a Brooklyn team that feels very underpriced. As always, be sure to keep an eye out for news as the day goes on.    Core Plays DraftKings […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Ownership Report: 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am
In PGA DFS, the landscape is a bit different from its NFL counterpart. Unlike the gridiron battles where individual player performances can significantly impact each other, golf is a solitary pursuit. What one player does cannot help, nor prevent, another from doing the same on the course. In other words, the correlation that plays an […]
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Alex Blickle
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Monday (2/5)
Things are heating up in college basketball as teams fight for resume-building wins. The parity of the season means we are going to be in for a wild finish, and bracketology projections are changing by the hour. We had mixed results over the weekend, but props/betting picks held down the fort and ultimately allowed us […]
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Walter Waddell
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NFL Bets
NFL Super Bowl FTN Staff Bets
We are less than one week from Super Bowl LVIII, with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs ready to battle in Las Vegas. I surveyed our entire FTN Bets staff and asked them for their one favorite side, total or prop bet for next Sunday’s game. Here are our favorite FTN staff bets […]
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FTN Staff
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NBA Bets
NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/5)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We only have six NBA games Monday as the league creeps closer to the All-Star break, which begins Feb. 16. There is also the trade deadline looming at 3 p.m. ET Thursday. This is a messy time of the schedule, and it requires us to be very careful and vigilant […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL DVOA
Super Bowl LVIII Prop Bet Extravaganza
In 2004, the original Scramble for the Ball writers, Ian Dembsky and Al Bogdan, wrote the first Prop Bet Extravaganza at our old website, previewing the upcoming Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl. Twenty years later, the betting landscape has slightly changed. Twenty years ago, actually betting on these things was a bit more challenging. Unless you lived […]
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Bryan Knowles
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NBA DFS
5 Stats to Know: NBA DFS February 5
There are six games on Monday’s NBA DFS slate, and there are plenty of injuries that can help dictate the slate. If Luka Doncic is out for the Dallas Mavericks, it’s going to make the builds quite interesting. On DraftKings, that would mean no player is more expensive than $10,100, which doesn’t seem to happen […]
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Adam Strangis
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today – Free (Monday 2/5)
It’s the first Monday of February, which means we are getting closer to college basketball conference tournaments and all the fun of March Madness. It’s amazing to see some of the teams on the bubble as of now so every win counts and every loss could be the difference between the big tourney and the […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Fantasy
Sinking Your Battleship: The Riskiest Fantasy Baseball Picks By Round (16-20)
Every fantasy baseball season, picks are made that inevitably don’t return a profit in certain parts of the draft. Each draft spot should be looked at as an acquisition cost.   Returning a profit with your pick(s) while avoiding picks with a negative ROI is vital for contending. The players chosen in this article are […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Bets
Super Bowl 58 Player Notes: San Francisco 49ers
Everyone loves to bet individual player props for the Super Bowl, adding even more interest to the biggest sporting event of the season. Using our incredible tools at FTN Bets, we can analyze each player’s strengths and project where they can see success in the grand finale of the 2023 NFL season.   Here are […]
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FTN Staff
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Sunday (2/4)
It was a chaotic Saturday, and we are now one step closer to Selection Sunday. Today is a bit more relaxed, as the main slate includes just four games. But there are still plenty of opportunities for us to add to the bankroll. Let’s get right into it.   Vegas Odds Team Odds Team Odds […]
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Walter Waddell
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NBA DFS
NBA DFS Strategy and Picks for Sunday (2/4)
The first Sunday without competitive football in the NFL means the NBA has a bigger slate of seven games, so we have plenty of options to choose from. There is one team that will be heavy chalk, but that’s not a surprise given how many players they are likely to have available for the game.  […]
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Adam Strangis
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NFL Bets
Super Bowl 58 Player Notes: Kansas City Chiefs
Everyone loves to bet individual player props for the Super Bowl, adding even more interest to the biggest sporting event of the season. Using our incredible tools at FTN Bets, we can analyze each player’s strengths and project where they can see success in the grand finale of the 2023 NFL season.   Here are […]
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FTN Staff
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today (Saturday 2/3)
The 2023-24 College Basketball season is underway, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have a handful of great matchups across the country, and below is my favorite bet of the Saturday slate. Let’s have some fun.   Duke vs. UNC (Duke +4.5, DraftKings Sportsbook) The greatest rivalry in all of college […]
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FTN Staff
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Saturday (2/3)
This is the first weekend of the CBB season without football, and we can expect an influx of casual players looking to get into the action. This gives us a great opportunity to take advantage of some softer competition. There are three large slates today with coverage for all, but it starts with the 12-game […]
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Walter Waddell
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NFL Fantasy
The Fantasy Football One-Hit Wonders of 2023
Today is wet blanket day. There are plenty of players who, this time a year ago, were afterthoughts or worse in fantasy football, but who are now big names based on their 2023 performance. Some of them were breakouts, guys who are now set up to be long-term contributors. But some aren’t. There are one-year […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NBA DFS
5 Stats to Know: NBA DFS February 3
There are only five games on the Saturday main slate, but it has the potential to be a loaded one since there are 10 players who are above the $9,000 threshold on DraftKings. Now, that’s subject to change because we have four teams on the second leg of a back-to-back situation, so we never know […]
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Adam Strangis
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NFL Bets
Top Taylor Swift Super Bowl Bets
Most sports betting for the Super Bowl will revolve around the Chiefs and 49ers, but there’s an entire world of new NFL fans paying attention to Taylor Swift Super Bowl bets.   There may not be data analysis used to break down how to make these bets, but we’re here to round up the top […]
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FTN Staff
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NBA DFS
NBA DFS Strategy and Picks for Friday (2/2)
We have a strong nine-game NBA DFS slate on tap for Friday. Below, I’ll give you my core plays for the slate on both DraftKings and FanDuel. It is extremely important to keep up with the news up until lock. If you are new to NBA DFS, players often get ruled so staying on top […]
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Mike Randle
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CBB DFS
College basketball DFS picks and strategy for Friday (2/2)
Another huge weekend of college hoops is upon us, but we have to tackle Friday’s five-game college basketball DFS slate. This is an interesting group of games that includes mid majors along with some P5 matchups. In this breakdown, I will provide you with my preferred player pool options while also highlighting any advantageous PrizePicks […]
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Walter Waddell
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MMA DFS
Top DFS Picks and Plays for UFC Vegas 85 (2/3)
Get ready for an action-packed event Saturday as the UFC returns to the Apex after the year’s first PPV. The event is headlined by Roman Dolidze and Nasourdine Imavov, two fighters looking to make their mark in the UFC. Imavov aims to break into the top 10 and bounce back into the win column after […]
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Andrew Valencia
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NBA Bets
NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/2)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We have just a week left until the NBA trade deadline, and rumors are flying everywhere. This can be tough on some teams, as players aren’t sure of what jersey they’ll be wearing in a few days. Locker rooms can get nervous and players looking to get out of town […]
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FTN Staff