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In baseball, an “opener” has a simple job – help the team get off to a good start by limiting the opponent’s production in the first inning or two. He essentially paves the way for the rest of the bullpen and the offense to do their thing.   This fantasy baseball article is similar – […]

In baseball, an “opener” has a simple job – help the team get off to a good start by limiting the opponent’s production in the first inning or two. He essentially paves the way for the rest of the bullpen and the offense to do their thing.   This fantasy baseball article is similar – […]

In baseball, an “opener” has a simple job – help the team get off to a good start by limiting the opponent’s production in the first inning or two. He essentially paves the way for the rest of the bullpen and the offense to do their thing. This fantasy baseball article is similar – since […]

In baseball, an “opener” has a simple job – help the team get off to a good start by limiting the opponent’s production in the first inning or two. He essentially paves the way for the rest of the bullpen and the offense to do their thing. This fantasy baseball article is similar – since […]

In baseball, an “opener” has a simple job – help the team get off to a good start by limiting the opponent’s production in the first inning or two. He essentially paves the way for the rest of the bullpen and the offense to do their thing. This fantasy baseball article is similar – since […]

This piece is the fourth part of a series you should expect to see throughout the preseason. By the end of February, we will have compiled a list of the top-100 players in my 2023 Prospect Vault.   A quick note on “Future Value,” which you will see referenced here and on the accompanying spreadsheet. […]

This piece is the fourth part of a series you should expect to see throughout the preseason. By the end of February, we will have compiled a list of the top-100 players in my 2023 Prospect Vault.   A quick note on “Future Value,” which you will see referenced here and on the accompanying spreadsheet. […]

This piece is the fourth part of a series you should expect to see throughout the preseason. By the end of February, we will have compiled a list of the top-100 players in my 2023 Prospect Vault.   A quick note on “Future Value,” which you will see referenced here and on the accompanying spreadsheet. […]

This piece is the third part of a series you should expect to see throughout the preseason. By the end of February, we will have compiled a list of the top-100 players in my 2023 Prospect Vault.   A quick note on “Future Value,” which you will see referenced here and on the accompanying spreadsheet. […]

This piece second part of a series you should expect to see throughout the preseason. By the end of February, we will have compiled a list of the top-100 players in my 2023 Prospect Vault.   A quick note on “Future Value,” which you will see referenced here and on the accompanying spreadsheet. This is […]

College football’s bowl season is upon us. While we will need to be mindful of opt outs and coaching carousel moves and their relative effects on the DFS performances of the guys do take the field, there’s no denying that there is plenty of DFS money to be made for the next couple weeks while […]

We are here — college football’s Championship Week. Where the final exclamation points are put on fantastic seasons, or massive upsets can cause tidal waves to the bowl game power structure. Everyone has something to play for here, and while we do have two games with projected three-score favorites, most everything else is projected to […]

Ah, the home stretch… college football’s rivalry week is here. It’s been an extremely fun and profitable season with both DFS and PrizePicks, and we want to finish the year just like we have been all season, crushing it. This is an extremely fun and wide-open offensive slate, with six of our eight games in […]

The last of the MACtion is upon us. We’ve seen it all — late scratches without warning. Third-string QBs running for nearly 300 yards and 3 TDs. Bowling Green being competent. Lew Nichols being flummoxed. In MACtion, all things are possible.   Fittingly, the final true MACtion DFS slate of the season is a two-gamer […]

The first of two college football rivalry weeks is upon us. Saturday evening, we get a tantalizing matchup of high-flying offenses and disinterested defenses in the Pac-12 with USC and UCLA matching up in the Rose Bowl in a game that will potentially have national implications for what feels like the first time in forever. […]

This is an exciting matchup of two teams known quite a bit more for offense than defense, and as you might expect the total is well into the 60s and the game should remain competitive throughout. This should lead us to more balance DFS builds if we can get there, but with fairly concentrated offenses […]

We are now in the pinnacle of college football season, where we get games every day Tuesday-Saturday, due in no small part to the blessing in our lives known as MACtion. We only have two more weeks of MACtion, so I’m going to let my enthusiasm play out here a bit.   This is the […]

We are now in the pinnacle of college football season, where we get games everyday Tuesday-Saturday, including the blessing in our lives known as MACtion. This is actually our second week of MACtion, but my first week writing content for it, so I’m going to let my enthusiasm play out here a bit.   This […]

I’m going to keep this part brief — we have two games with totals of 70-plus, and one of those has only a 4-point spread — you better believe we are going to be extremely focused on fitting different ways to gamestack Wake/UNC in DFS and which value pieces to throw in to get all […]

We are now in the pinnacle of college football season, where we get games everyday Tuesday-Saturday, including the blessing in our lives known as MACtion. This is actually our second week of MACtion, but my first week writing content for it, so I’m going to let my enthusiasm play out here a bit.   This […]

We are now in the pinnacle of college football season, where we get games everyday Tuesday-Saturday, including the blessing in our lives known as MACtion. This is actually our second week of MACtion, but my first week writing content for it, so I’m going to let my enthusiasm play out here a bit.   This […]

We absolutely crushed on this college football DFS slate last weekend, and so did everyone else, with scores making it well into the high 200s. That is not something we normally see and was a function of all the underpriced running back talent.   We’re back at it as the calendar turns to November, and […]

After some unexpected offensive fireworks in Game 1, Framber Valdez held the Phillies bats very much in check in Game 2, striking out nine while being his usual dominant self, even if he allowed more than his typical allotment of non-ground ball contact.  As we move to Philadelphia for Game 3, we should expect to […]

Well, we were certainly let down by brand favorite John Rhys Plumlee last weekend, and while games like this are always a possibility, he was in such an elite spot that I may have gone overkill. Luckily some of our other DFS plays hit — with some particular emphasis on Damien Martinez being the star […]

Well, we did it. After a long and profitable DFS season we have finally made it to the World Series, and while it is no surprise to see the Astros here, the Phillies were probably not at the top of everyone’s list after having fired Joe Girardi back in June. Even resident Phillophile Alex Blicke […]

I am back from a weeklong hiatus wherein I traveled to Europe, was a groomsman in a beautiful bilingual wedding, saw the Sagrada Familia in all its glory and caught the flu in time to give it to my family. Quite the trip, all in all. I am elated to come back to a college […]

For all the fanfare of a decisive Game 5, this matchup of starting pitchers is particularly underwhelming. Aaron Civale and Jameson Taillon profile somewhat similarly – try to keep the ball in the yard by avoiding hard contact, and strike out just enough guys to keep opposing lineups honest. Neither are particularly dominant or appealing […]

By the time you’re reading this, I am likely on a flight to Europe, so hopefully our Walter Waddell has you covered on any injury news in Discord. We have a wide-open college football Saturday afternoon DFS slate with a few expected blowouts in the SEC and ACC and a couple of Pac-12 barn burners […]

There’s a reason that gambling lines list starting pitchers next to the odds and totals for baseball games, and books take games off the board when starting pitchers get scratched. Pitchers dictate the context of the matchup and have a larger impact on each possible individual event (ball, strike, foul ball, ball in play) than […]

We are back for some more college football DFS action, and I am excited to get into the Saturday afternoon matchups. We have several useful and juicy games to go along with a few completely un-useful games despite the beginning of conference play. However, even in some of the more one-sided matchups we still get […]

There’s a reason gambling lines list starting pitchers next to the odds and totals for baseball games, and books take games off the board when starting pitchers get scratched. Pitchers dictate the context of the matchup and have a larger impact on each possible individual event (ball, strike, foul ball, ball in play) than any […]

There’s a reason that gambling lines list starting pitchers next to the odds and totals for baseball games, and books take games off the board when starting pitchers get scratched. Pitchers dictate the context of the matchup and have a larger impact on each possible individual event (ball, strike, foul ball, ball in play) than […]