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The final pieces of Super Bowl confetti have fallen, and we can now officially shift our attention to MLB. While baseball season never ends for some of us, the excitement reaches new heights as our timelines are flooded with video clips of players playing catch in Arizona and Florida. Even though a handful of stars […]

It’s Valentine’s Day, so it’s time to proclaim your love for college basketball, the sport where almost anything can happen on any given night as players try for the ultimate prize of a championship. We are just over one month away from Selection Sunday, so teams need to keep winning to get their way into […]

I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with baseball and fantasy baseball. I love drafting and managing fantasy baseball teams and, every season, take on at least several more teams than I know what’s good for me. In 2023, I had 25 NFBC teams. This year, I’m scaling back, all the way down to […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The All-Star break is almost here. Wednesday and Thursday night feature the last games for every team before about a week off to make time for the All-Star festivities.   This can be a scary time of the season to bet. More than ever we have to question the motivation […]

From ruckus to respect, the PGA Tour heads from TPC Scottsdale over to Riviera Country Club for this week’s Genesis Invitational. This is Tiger’s event, and this year it features a 70-man field with interesting cut-line rules of Low 50 and Ties (or anyone within 10 shots of the lead after 36 holes).   Attracting […]

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 and below is my favorite bet of the Tuesday slate.    Iowa State vs. Cincinnati (Cincinnati -1.5, DraftKings Sportsbook) Another Big 12 battle here as a surging […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We are finally past the end of the football season and can now focus entirely on the stretch run of the NBA season. Teams are about 65% of the way through their season, and once we get past the All-Star break this weekend, we will have a hard push through […]

The Chiefs are once again champions of the NFL, winning back-to-back Super Bowls for the first time since the Patriots nearly two decades ago. Patrick Mahomes won his third Super Bowl MVP and totaled 333 yards and two touchdowns through the air, with an additional 66 yards on the ground.    Like the Patriots, the […]

Now that the Super Bowl is over, more people will be watching college basketball, as we are about a month away from conference tournament time. It’s kind of a weak card for a Monday, so I’m going to give you a couple of futures to play.    Remember, we are looking for value and playing […]

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.    Colorado vs. Arizona (Colorado -1, DraftKings Sportsbook) The Cats are fresh off a triple-overtime thriller Thursday night in […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The trade deadline is over, and although no stars changed teams, there were several moves that made good teams better and should make the postseason even more competitive. The Knicks and Mavericks each added players who fix problems and add more dynamism to each squad. The Suns, 76ers and Thunder […]

Another fight week gives us another opportunity to be great. This week’s MMA slate features Joe Pyfer and Jack Hermansson as the main event. Pyfer has been on a meteoric rise since setting the tone for last year’s contender series with a win that had Dana White imploring future contenders to “Be Joe Pyfer” if […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s NBA trade deadline day, and as I type this several players are being swapped around with dozens of draft picks. Good teams are trying to improve without moving any of their key players. That means using draft picks with players not getting minutes to acquire players who can bring […]

Thursday brings us 63 college basketball betting opportunities, a full slate of sports wagering magic. For the day’s pick, we head to the Pac-12, where current conference leader Arizona goes on the road for a challenging matchup against Utah. These two teams met just one month ago, with Arizona blowing out the Utes, 92-73. Let’s […]

One of the best parts of the Super Bowl is the sheer number of props involved with the game. Included in those are the cross-sport props in almost every sport that will be played that weekend. The key when trying to play these potential bets is deciding if there’s value and if you can find […]

This Super Bowl, like last year’s, is not light on the questions or storylines. For example: It’s a rematch of the 2019 Super Bowl, and if Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs can beat the 49ers Sunday, the Tom Brady comparisons will get ever louder. Can the children of the ‘90s Denver Broncos (Kyle Shanahan and […]

I’d like to think I’m a decent to pretty good college basketball handicapper, but the number of one-basket and overtime losses I’ve had this season are quite numerous. Despite all that we push on as we get closer to the best tournament in sports. Let’s try to find a winner or two Wednesday.  All odds […]

After diving into early auction market trends last week, we now turn back to focusing on players whose fantasy baseball ADP rose or fell materially in NFBC Draft Champions leagues, which are 15-team, 50-round draft-and-hold contests. In the next week or two, the focus will shift to Online Championship leagues, which are 12-team, 30-round contests […]

Sports gambling continues to rise in popularity, especially this week, with the Super Bowl just around the corner. Approximately 68 million Americans are projected to place a wager on the Super Bowl, with an estimated total of $23.1 billion worth of bets. Below, I’m going to break down the key stats and trends you need […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]