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NBA DFS
NBA DFS Strategy and Picks for Saturday (1/20)
We’ve got a seven-game NBA DFS slate on tap for Saturday. 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 of […]
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Mike Randle
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NHL DFS
NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays for Jan. 20
There are eight games on the NHL DFS main slate Saturday, 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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NFL DFS
NFL DFS Injury Report: Divisional Round
It’s one of the best weekends of football of the whole year as the best eight teams are left standing. We don’t have an overwhelming amount of injuries on the offensive side of the ball, but there are a couple that are key to certain teams.  Below is the Saturday update. Check at bottom for […]
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Adam Strangis
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NFL DFS
Saturday Night Divisional DFS Showdown: Packers vs. 49ers
One good thing about the primetime NFL game this week is we don’t have to worry about winter weather, as the 49ers host the Packers. Both teams have a clean bill of health for once, which could make the build a little challenging. Let’s talk about ways to attack this DFS slate and as always, […]
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Adam Strangis
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NBA DFS
5 Stats to Know: NBA DFS January 20
The NBA rolls on as we have another seven-game DFS slate Saturday night, and there are some strong storylines. We have the Raptors heading into New York to face the Knicks after they just recently made a big trade while the Thunder and the Timberwolves square off in a matchup of Western Conference powerhouses.    […]
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Adam Strangis
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NFL DFS
Tenacious Targets: NFL DFS picks for the Divisional Round
Welcome to my personal NFL DFS article that will give you my plays for the Divisional Round. I will walk you through my process of selecting each player while landing on the best spot that give you an edge at being profitable at NFL DFS in 2023. I have gone through each game and each position […]
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David Jones
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CBB DFS
College Basketball DFS Picks and Strategy for Saturday (1/20)
It’s been a great week, and I’m simply thrilled to see all of the college basketball DFS success in our community. We are just under two months away from Selection Sunday, and it’s going to fly by, so we need to take advantage of these big Saturday slates. Things kick off with a 12-game main […]
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Walter Waddell
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CBB Bets
Best College Basketball Bets Today (Saturday 1/20)
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 Saturday slate.    Marquette vs. St. Johns (Marquette +1.5, DraftKings Sportsbook) Two high-powered Big East offenses square off in at the […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL DFS
TwoGun’s GPP Core NFL DFS Picks for the Divisional Round
This is the final NFL DFS slate of the season that isn’t a super short slate or a showdown. With just four games, I tend to like to choose a few specific players to get a lot of leverage on versus the field or a chalky player or two to completely (or close to it) […]
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Michael Cohen
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NBA DFS
NBA DFS Strategy and Picks for Friday (1/19)
Friday offers a solid seven-game DFS slate in the NBA, and we already have plenty of news. Trae Young (illness) has been ruled out for the Hawks, while Victor Wembanyama will rest for San Antonio. This opens up plenty of avenues for fantasy hoops purposes, on top of whatever else happens before lock.   Core […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Tennis DFS
Tennis DFS plays for the Australian Open (1/20)
Well, we’ve made it to another Grand Slam. After a six-week offseason, we get to jump straight into the first Grand Slam of the season in the Australian Open. If you’re a fan of staying up late and getting no sleep, this is the Slam for you.   On the women’s side, Aryna Sabalenka will […]
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Josh Gross
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NBA Bets
NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/19)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Happy Friday to you all, but my condolences to the family of Dejan Milojevic. The Golden State Warriors head coach suffered a fatal heart attack and passed away Wednesday morning. This is a place where the NBA angles are generally the most important parts of any story, but not today. […]
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FTN Staff
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CBB DFS
College basketball DFS picks and strategy for Friday (1/19)
The college basketball DFS slates have been high scoring lately, as pricing has been much softer than it was for the first two months. While we prefer lower scoring slates for edge purposes, results have been great for the community as a whole and I’m seeing a ton of green screens each day which is […]
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Walter Waddell
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NFL DFS
5 Under 20%: The Best Overlooked DFS Plays of the Divisional Round
The path to winning DFS tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, garnering single-digit ownership. Building chalky lineups filled with the most popular players can work in cash games, but they are usually sub-optimal when trying to take down small or large […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NBA DFS
5 Stats to Know: NBA DFS January 19
The week closes out with a solid seven-game DFS slate around the NBA Friday . We already have Trae Young out for the Hawks, which will sure be a talking point, while Victor Wembanyama will also rest for San Antonio.    1. Dejounte Murray sees a 10.8% bump in assist rate with Trae Young off […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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MMA DFS
Top DFS Picks and Plays for UFC 297 (1/20)
Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis headline the first PPV for the UFC in 2024 Saturday. If you had told me that, at the beginning of this year, Strickland would be defending his belt against anyone, let alone Du Plessis, I would’ve called you a liar and thought you were crazy. Well, UFC 297 is here, […]
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Andrew Valencia
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NFL Bets
NFL Divisional Round FTN Staff Bets
It was a perfect Wild Card Round for the FTN NFL staff bets. A perfect 4-for-4 on picks, which leads us directly into the four big matchups in the Divisional Round in the next two days.  I surveyed our entire FTN Bets staff and asked them for their one favorite side, total or prop bet […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Bets
Divisional Round Betting Breakdown
There’s no better time to get some sports betting action in than the NFL playoffs. Divisional Round bets abound on this weekend’s card. Whether it’s sides and totals or player props, we have you covered here at FTN with our NFL betting models and NFL player props tool. But before we put some wagers in […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Divisional Round Betting Breakdown
There’s no better time to get some sports betting action in than the NFL playoffs. Divisional Round bets abound on this weekend’s card. Whether it’s sides and totals or player props, we have you covered here at FTN with our NFL betting models and NFL player props tool. But before we put some wagers in […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Bets
NFL Divisional Round Best Bets
It was a fantastic Wild Card weekend for the NFL picks, going a perfect 2-for-2 with a Rams and Packers cover. We now enter the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs, with the No. 1 seeds in both conferences coming into play. The four matchups occur over two days, with Kansas City at Buffalo as […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Splits Tool, Divisional Round: Big Games to Monitor
The FTN Fantasy Splits Tool rolls into the postseason, where I’ll be looking at how changes in environment and situations have impacted teams/players in the past, projecting their outlook in the playoffs. Most of the content will be centered around injuries, thanks to our new partnership with Dr. David Chao and Sports Injury Central. For those of […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Bets
Week 20 Player Props: Receiving Yards for Isaiah Likely from EV Insight
Isaiah LikelyReceiving Yards Player Props – Week 20 Ravens vs. Texans Right now, Isaiah Likely’s receiving yards prop is set at 39.5 yards (-145/+106). The public has bet the OVER up to 39.5 (-145) after it opened @ 35.5 (-119). O/U 39.5 -115/-115 O/U 39.5 -110/-110 O/U 39.5 -145/106 O/U 39.5 -110/-120 Pros Given the […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL DFS
Best DFS Stacks in the Divisional Round According to DVOA
I absolutely love the first few NFL playoff rounds for DFS. I predominantly will play the “main” slates that consist of all the games, since I find that slate size to be ideal. It’s just small enough that we’ll get a handful of bad chalk options to leverage, yet large enough to also have some […]
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Alex Blickle
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NFL DVOA
Chiefs at Bills: DVOA Preview
After a season full of panic, doubts, and thinkpieces about these two franchises, here we are again: the Kansas City Chiefs against the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs. This will be the third meeting in the past four postseasons. The previous meeting in the Divisional Round was a classic that saw the Chiefs tie the […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Fantasy
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Need for Speed
Every fantasy baseball season, there are players who end up returning a higher fantasy baseball profit than a player selected much earlier in fantasy baseball drafts. This series will attempt to identify players who grade out with a similar profile despite an ADP discount. This segment will dig into the need for speed, looking at […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL DVOA
Bucs at Lions: DVOA Preview
If Lions fans ever dared to dream that this would be the season their team won its first playoff game in 32 years, then they likely dreamed it in Week 6. The Lions had finished 2022 strong, spoiling their rival Packers’ playoff push and securing their first winning season in half a decade.  They had started […]
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Scott Spratt
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MLB Fantasy
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory: ADP Pockets (1/19)
We’ve all been there. Your hand is on the mouse, but your body is frozen.   You stare at the computer screen. Three names are staring right back at you. You could make a case for any of those players. But which one? You shift your focus to the top left of the screen where […]
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Adam Young
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NFL Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Football Awards
The 2023 fantasy football season recently came to an end, which means it’s time to celebrate the winners (and highlight some losers) with the fantasy awards for the 2023 season. As always, I’ll be your host. Let’s get to it.   2023 Fantasy Football Awards 2023 Fantasy MVP: Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers Christian McCaffrey […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NHL DFS
NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays for Jan. 19
The puck drops for Friday’s four-game NH: 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
NBA DFS Strategy and Picks for Thursday (1/18)
Thursday presents a modest five-game NBA DFS slate around the association. A recent trade shook things up around the NBA, as well as this slate in particular. As always, be sure to keep tabs on news throughout the rest of the day.    Core Plays DraftKings Core Shai Gilgeous-AlexanderScottie BarnesT.J. McConnellRJ BarrettKris DunnGG JacksonIsaiah Hartenstein […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL DFS
Underdog Battle Royale: NFL Divisional Round Plays
The fantasy football world has already gotten a taste of Underdog Fantasy’s amazing interface in best ball drafts, with this year’s Best Ball Mania awarding $15,000,000 in prizes, but believe it or not, for a few years now, they’ve also offered a “Battle Royale” mode, which is a draft format, solely based on the Wild […]
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Kenneth Le
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NFL DFS
NFL DFS Breakdown: WR vs. CB Matchups for the Divisional Round
DFS is all about the matchups, especially when it comes to WR vs. CB. Remember when fantasy matchup analysis used to be “Team A gives up the most fantasy points to wide receivers”? Well, we’ve moved from analog to digital and now look at matchups on an individual level.  Each week, I dig through the […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe