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Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Paris: Gane vs. Tuivasa. Let’s jump into some high-upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.  This looks like a pretty tough slate at first glance. Lots of steep lines and not too many dogs to feel […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2. Let’s jump into some high-upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Kamaru Usman/Leon Edwards I really expect Usman to wrestle in this spot. He has gotten away from his roots […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz. Let’s jump into some high-upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   From last week: Jason Witt/Josh Quinlan Easily my favorite fight for DFS purposes. Witt is an excellent wrestler with […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Hill. Let’s jump into some high-upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Jason Witt/Josh Quinlan (update: Fight Canceled) Easily my favorite fight for DFS purposes. Witt is an excellent wrestler with […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC 277: Peña vs. Nunes 2. Let’s jump into some high-upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Don’Tale Mayes/Hamdy Abdelwahab This fight is likely very one-sided, and I am leaning toward Mayes getting a big finish. […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night London. Let’s jump into some high-upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Tom Aspinall/Curtis Blaydes Both guys have been DK gold throughout their UFC careers — Aspinall for his quick finishes, Blaydes for […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC on ABC 3: Ortega vs. Rodriguez. Let’s jump into some high-upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Jack Shore/Ricky Simon Last week we began by highlighting Khakromonov vs. Lawrence as a grappling-heavy fight that was […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Vegas 58: Dos Anjos vs. Fiziev. Let’s jump into some high upside fights to target this week. As always, look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Ronnie Lawrence/Saiyokub Kakhramonov This is a super fun fight with incredible DFS potential. Lawrence has shown relentless […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier. This week I’m going to use projected rostership at the time of writing to break down this card, as I think there’s a couple of nice spots to make pivots. Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Israel Adesanya Izzy […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest-rostered exposures, giving context to why they project so well. Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Umar Nurmagomedov Nurmagomedov is crazy well-rounded and has legit finishing ability. He takes on Nate […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Calvin Kattar vs. Josh Emmett. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest-rostered exposures, giving context to why they project so well.Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   A note on this slate before I get into this week’s plays: Looking […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC 275 Teixiera vs. Prochazka. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest-rostered exposures, giving context to why they project so well. Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday. I’m doing an all-underdog eddition this week, with projected rostership at the top looking pretty efficient to […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs Rozenstruik. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my most-rostered exposures, giving context to why they project so well.Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday   Alonzo Menifield The UFC seems to have egg on its face with this one. Menifield […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira.  Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest exposures, giving context to why they project so well. Look for final cheat-sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday!   Jailton Almeida Hugely explosive Light Heavyweight prospect who is moving up to fight the overweight Parker Porter […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Rakic. I’m going with a slightly different format this week in hopes of providing a little more context to the slate as a whole. Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   High-Priced Chalk Aleksandar Rakic Five-round favorite. There are […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest-rostered exposures, giving context to why they project so well. Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Charles Oliveira/Justin Gaethje (See the MadLab DFS breakdown of this fight!) I will have close […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Vera. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest exposures, giving context to why they project so well. Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Alexander Romanov Same story as last week. This is a mismatch of epic proportion […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Andrade. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest exposures, giving context to why they project so well. Look for final cheat sheet exposures late Friday or early Saturday.   Alexander Romanov Not much to say here. This is one of the biggest mismatches […]

Welcome to my DFS breakdown for UFC on UFC Vegas 51: Luque vs Muhhamad 2. Below you’ll find a breakdown of my highest exposures, giving context to why they project so well. Look for final cheat sheet exposures as the event draws nearer.   Vicente Luque The main event favorite, not much needs to be […]

We’ve got one final two-gamer to wrap up the season. On slates of this size, ownership can obviously get quite concentrated. More important than who the plays are in GPPs this week is roster construction itself. With that in mind, let’s look at three rules to use in the FTN Optimizer today.   Stack Joe […]

Shout out to DraftKings for making this weekend’s featured DFS slate the Saturday/Sunday four-gamer. We now have what feels like a relatively normal slate with lots of intriguing options and ways to build. We also have fairly decent pricing without too much chalk concentrating, outside of Leonard Fournette. I think he is a great play […]

It’s Wild Card weekend around the NFL, and DraftKings has hooked us up with all types of different DFS slate options. I will be going full degen and firing into all of them, including showdowns, so I am looking ahead at plays that encompass the entire weekend. We still have a few guys whose status […]

The final DFS slate of the NFL season contains all sorts of game environments. Things really vary based on motivation, so it will be imperative to stay in tune with news as it breaks. There will almost certainly be some surprising lineup announcements prior to lock. We’re going with a slight deviation from the usual […]

We have an enormous slate today that really has it all. We have some huge spreads, weather concerns, lots of players returning from protocols, and even a few game-time decisions. I’ve got my eye on three guys in particular that I am planning on being well overweight relative to the field today. Jonathan Taylor, RB, […]

We get a holiday weekend this weekend, but we also get a big day-after-Christmas NFL DFS slate for Week 16. Unfortunately, there is still some time for things to change between now and kickoff, but this looks like a really fun slate with lots of different ways to build. With all the good options available, […]

With some of the better games to attack this weekend being rescheduled, we are left with a pretty tricky main slate today. Without that many exciting spend-up options, it looks like the key will be identifying which of the many chalky options are worth prioritizing. My goal this week is to do just that. DeVante […]

I’m not sure I can remember a slate this season with this many good high-end running back plays. We have, by my count, at least seven guys with a legitimate chance to be RB1 today. Conversely, there don’t seem to be many quarterback-wide receiver pairings jumping off the page this week. Overall, today’s games are […]

It’s a weird week in the NFL. Unexpected injuries that have opened up value at basically every price point this week. Stay tuned to inactive updates at 11:30 eastern, as we’re still awaiting news on Lamar Jackson that could further swing the slate. Let’s get to this week’s plays: A.J. Brown Facing probably the worst […]

Each week I will be highlighting three plays that I am looking to be overweight on in FTN optimizer 150-max builds. There won’t be any rhyme or reason to the position(s) or projected ownership of the players I highlight, but I will do my best to point out how popular I anticipate each guy being. […]

Showdown slates are some of the best sweats that NFL DFS has to offer. If you’re building lineups correctly, you can take advantage of these quick sweats week in and week out. I’ll be going through position-by-position to break down everything you need to know for that night’s showdown slate.  Vegas Outlook The Cardinals check […]