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We have a six-game main DFS slate Saturday evening on both FanDuel and DraftKings, with the games starting at 7:05 p.m. ET. We have the Yankees and Astros in road games in Baltimore and Seattle, respectively, a Dodgers home game against the Reds, and a massive 11.5-run over/under in Colorado for the Cubs/Rockies game. Below […]

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 […]

Baseball lends itself to numerical intrigue — there have long been bountiful statistics surrounding the game, and in today’s analytics-heavy version, there are more numbers than ever before. Knowing what numbers are meaningful and from which actionable information can be ascertained can make all the difference. The margins have never been thinner, and the impact […]

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 […]

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 […]

At long last, Major League Baseball is back. While a cold, wet and windy game at Wrigley isn’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of spring, baseball certainly is top of mind this time of year, and thank goodness that we have baseball back in our lives. We’re here to […]

One thing I’ve noticed as an avid consumer of both fantasy baseball analysis and financial/economic analysis is that the lexicon and parlance have a good bit of crossover. While I suspect this is due to many fantasy analysts having math or economics backgrounds, it is rare to be able to capture the collision of two […]

With football season now a distant memory and weather starting to warm, much of the fantasy community’s attention has turned to MLB. While there is already an unfathomable amount of content available for your consumption here at FTN Fantasy on the known quantities of big-league talent, we’re going to aim to do something different here. […]

College football’s bowl season really kicks into high gear this week, with Thursday offering the Peach Bowl as the highlight and several other big games as well. Below, we’re taking a look at some of Thursday’s top college football DFS plays on PrizePicks. How to Play College Football PrizePicks If you’re new to PrizePicks in […]

We’ve made it to the final games of the college football regular season, and it’s been a fantastic and profitable DFS season for the FTN crew, with green screens galore, especially in recent weeks. Now it’s time to start taking down some GPPs and boosting our bankrolls for conference championship week and bowl season after […]

What a season of college football it has been so far, with all sorts of surprising performances and thrills along the way. With only two weeks left of full slates of action, we’ve got to attack as many slates as possible, including night slates like Saturday’s in order to get our fill. With the top […]

We are on the home stretch of the college football season, and the matchups continue to get tighter and tighter. One our customary eight-game night DFS slate Saturday, we have half of the games that I would deem as elite game environments, with totals of 50-plus and spreads of a touchdown or less, with three […]

As we move into the colder months and descend into the depths of college football’s conference play, it is understandable we are going to see a number of tighter spreads and more middling totals. The game with the highest total could have passed for a championship matchup just a few short years ago, but with […]

Saturday evening brings us an awfully tight DFS slate of college football games as compared to past weeks, with no outlier game on either end (and no UVA on the slate). The highest total on the slate is Auburn/Ole Miss, and while we think of Ole Miss as having a pushover defense, that’s not really […]

After last week’s late-night shenanigans in Knoxville that resulted in Lane Kiffin being assaulted by golf balls and mustard, among other projectiles, we’re going to be hard-pressed to find either a narrative or an over/under that comes close to rivaling what we saw in that game. With a much narrower slate of games on tap […]

It’s time to look ahead to the late Saturday college football DFS slate. If you recall the Alabama/Ole Miss game from a few weeks back, it got all the hype and was wildly disappointing unless you lock-buttoned Brian Robinson Jr. and didn’t really touch much else from that game. I point that game out in […]

Whew, what an adventure the Saturday evening college football DFS slate is. We’ve got a MAC game as the easy chart topper in terms of total, we’ve got Bama in a less than ideal matchup against A&M, we’ve got Kentucky/LSU, which always seems to have some fireworks, a heated battle for the “West Texas Championship” […]

If you’ve read my tweets or my writing for some time, or generally been a CFB DFS player for a while, you may have followed Bailey Zappe and Jerreth Sterns on their improbable journey of aerial dominance from Houston Baptist to Western Kentucky, where they continue to fight and claw for national recognition and relevancy. […]

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 […]

The Alabama/Ole Miss game rules the roost on the Saturday college football DFS slate. If you want to find a way to double stack Bryce Young and Matt Corral and attack by far the highest total on the slate, that will sure be a popular approach, and by all means go nuts. We rarely see […]

You don’t need me to tell you there are going to be some points scored in Tuscaloosa this weekend on Saturday’s college football DFS slate. If you want to find a way to double stack Bryce Young and Matt Corral and attack by far the highest total on the slate, that will sure be a […]

As is typically the case on Fridays, we have a condensed college football DFS slate with the same games on DraftKings and FanDuel, so there’s always an opportunity to look for pricing discrepancies between the two sites. The games are pretty neatly tiered which may lead to condensed roster construction, but I think there will […]

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 […]

We seem to have found ourselves at a college football DFS slate without any obvious game Saturday but still plenty of games to stay away from. With three totals under 50, it should be easy to stay away from the Kentucky/South Carolina, Oklahoma St./Kansas St. and Houston/Navy tilts, as a bleeding clock is no friend […]

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 […]

We are keeping it very simple and straightforward on this week’s Friday college football DFS slate, with a pretty clear-cut four-game slate that offers some reasonable values to go along with some expensive but worthwhile pieces in the likely shootout of the night. Thankfully the same four games are in play on both sites, so […]

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 […]

Once again, we have ourselves an incredibly diverse late college football DFS slate Saturday, with plenty of scoring in the SEC and ACC and along with some ugly football out west, capped off by a Stanford/Vanderbilt matchup between two teams that … let’s face it, deserve each other. This is just focused on the DraftKings […]

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 […]

The first thing that you should notice on Friday’s college football DFS slate is that it is only two games on both DraftKings and FanDuel. In other words, everyone will be chalky, and you will need to work even harder to differentiate if you want to hope to ascend to the top of a GPP […]

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 […]

First and foremost, I’d like to apologize if you guys got burned by Jalen Fowler like I did. Sometimes these things happen in CFB — unlike the NFL, there is no injury reporting, so all of a sudden out of nowhere there is a QB in a smash spot who isn’t playing. It sucks and […]