Michael Cohen's Articles

FTN's TwoGun goes through some of the lessons he learned in best ball last season and how to apply them to your 2024 drafts.

In past years, I made a more generic Super Bowl article covering not just DFS but other random bets I liked for the Big Game. This year, I’m just dedicating my article to showdown strategy for this slate. For whatever reason, this year has been the year of small-slate DFS for me. I won all […]

I had my fifth million dollar win on DraftKings last Sunday. Out of these five wins, two were in the playoffs. The previous one was during the NFL Divisional Round in 2015, so it was a four-game slate. It was a $100 buy-in with around 20,000 total entries. Last weekend was a $4,444 buy-in with […]

I don’t normally play more than a lineup or two on a two-game NFL DFS slate. However, DraftKings is hosting another Mega Millionaire, so I can’t resist making quite a few lineups for my last shot at a non-showdown milly hit this season. With just two games, I value lineup construction far more than just […]

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) […]

When the NFL went to six games for the Wild Card Round, I was initially ecstatic, since I thought the main DFS slate would be all six games. I was then frustrated that they essentially do two small slates and then a showdown.  For whatever reason, this year I seem to excel at the small […]

The Week 18 Sunday NFL DFS main slate is by far the most annoying of the season. It’s annoying to project who will play and annoying to guess what rostership will be, and the fact that the prize pools are smaller adds in that final kick of annoying. Because of the reduced prize pools, I’ll […]

When it comes to two- and three-game NFL DFS slates, there are some I like more than others. The one we have for Saturday of Week 18 doesn’t fit the bill as a small-game slate that I like. There aren’t a lot of expensive, fantasy-relevant players, so there isn’t a great way to get different […]

Fantasy football’s championship week is here! While Week 17 used to just be like any other week for us DFS folk, the Main Event on DraftKings and the finale of these best ball tournaments really make this week special for us too. This is my second-favorite week of the year after the FFWC … which […]

After going 3-2 last week in the Circa Millions NFL picks contest, my best entry sits at tied for 15th. Like I mentioned last week, I’m aiming to try to get top five, so I’m willing to take some risks these last two weeks.   Third place is just 1.5 points better than me, so […]

Like Thanksgiving, we have a nice three-game football slate this Christmas. We can blissfully watch football and look at our phones instead of conversing and paying attention to our families. The tournament prize pools aren’t nearly as large as Thanksgiving, so I won’t have as much in play personally. But they’re large enough to justify […]

We’re near the tail end of the season. We’re not quite there yet in terms of factoring in the playoffs for player usage, but we’re very close. For a slate this late in the season, I find it very much like a usual one, where there’s some chalky players I like and some I don’t. […]

As we head to Week 16 of the NFL season, we’re down to the last three weeks in the Circa Millions NFL picks contest. My best lineup is currently tied for 13th:   You can see how close we all are, with Saint31-1 having an impressive two-point lead over second. Now that we’re near the […]

We’re officially in the most magical time of the year. The best ball playoffs have started, and we now get to really sweat those teams that we built over four months ago. The traditional fantasy football league playoffs also start for you home leaguers. For me though, this week in particular is by far the […]

We have a nice little bonus NFL DFS slate Saturday. My primary focus will be on the main slate and my five entries into the DraftKings FFWC, but I’ll still enter a few lineups into the day’s three-game slate. Here are a few of my thoughts for Saturday’s games:   Minnesota Passing Attack In general, […]

We’re getting down to the wire. With four weeks left in the NFL regular season, my best entry in the Circa Millions contest is tied for 18th. At some point soon, I may need to choose lines that are just half points to hope to go 5-0 to shoot into the top five, where all […]

I’ve had the weirdest season. I get whallopped often on Sundays outside of that one big week on FanDuel, but I manage to continually slay as Gen-Z’ers like to say at showdown. I now have five entries to the DraftKings championships next week, all via showdown. So if you read and care about what I say in […]

After going a disappointing 2-3 last week, my best entry in the Circa Millions NFL Picks contest dropped to tied for 26th place, though I’m still just three correct picks away from first. Here are some of the sides that pique my interest in Week 14.   Week 14 Circa Millions Picks New York Jets […]

As we enter December, we really start to get into my wheelhouse. Late-season NFL DFS is where we’ll often get the opportunity to roster some really solid, contrarian plays because people have just given up on some players due to recent performance. We’ll also sometimes see some mega chalk that just doesn’t deserve to be […]

After going 4-1 in Circa Millions last week, my top lineup is 40-18-2 and tied for 13th place. It is one correct pick from being tied for fourth, three from first. To stay near the top, I’m going to have to continue to get at least three picks right each week.   I’ll be a […]

This is always the most hectic week of the year with essentially two main slates for DFS. After sweating out the Thanksgiving games, we need to quickly turn around and prepare for the main slate.  The over-unders on this slate are fairly low, and people tend to have an almost allergic reaction to rostering any […]

In addition to having a big DFS win last week, I went 5-0 with my Circa Picks, catapulting my best entry to 22nd place out of 5,273 total entries. My other entry is in 1763rd place, so it doesn’t really matter much still.   Generally, people don’t play the Thursday NFL games much and wait […]

Thanksgiving is hands down my favorite day of the year. As my fellow parents fully understand, your birthday takes on less and less importance as you grow older and have children. So really, Thanksgiving is the only day of the year where we can eat whatever we want and watch football all day long. We […]

The second half of the NFL season is when I typically shine as a DFS player. I think it’s mainly due to the public aggressively latching on to trends that have worked for the first half of the season even if those trends are largely due to just randomness. Also, some players with high potential […]

After going 2-3 last week, my best entry in the Circa Millions dropped to being tied for 112th place out of 5,273 total entries. My other entry is basically languishing in the middle of the pack at 2,591st. With a little less than half of the season left for this contest, I still have quite […]

This week’s slate looks very familiar to last week’s, so expect the typical overreaction by the public. Part of it will be player-focused. Everyone will think Tank Dell will repeat his performance with Nico Collins out (essentially counting on C.J. Stroud to throw for another 475 yards) while assuming Chris Godwin can’t get double-digit points.  […]

My second entry in the Circa Millions contest went a very respectable 4-1 last week, catapulting it to tied for 66th place out of 5,273 entries in the contest. My first entry is still languishing in the middle of the pack at 2,745th place, so it doesn’t really stand much of a chance for much […]

We have a week similar to Week 7, with fewer games and lower totals.You have elite QBs and then a bunch of yucky backups for the most part. You have a cheap, shiny new WR who has gotten targets and hasn’t burned anyone before. A.J. Brown can’t not go for 100+ yards and multiple touchdowns. […]

My best entry in the Circa Millions went 2-3 last week, dropping me to 118th place out of 5273 total entries. It’s still just four correct picks out of first, so there’s no reason to panic at this point, since it’s just the midpoint of the season. I’m just going to continue to focus on […]

We have another potentially very low-scoring week on tap. I don’t think in the 10 years I’ve been playing DFS that I’ve seen so many totals in the mid 30s without weather issues. Often on weeks like this, we get a variety of bad chalk since the public clings to guys they view as safe, […]

We’re almost halfway through the Circa Millions, and my second entry went 5-0 last week and is currently in 37th, which is in the top 1%. My first entry is still in the middle of the pack, tied for 2418th place.    I’ll continue just making my favorite picks with my second entry, whereas I’m […]

The “chalkacalypse” continued last week with Raheem Mostert completely breaking the NFL DFS slate, but scoring was more or less normal outside of that. So perhaps there’s hope out there for a little contrarian troll like me, who is dependent on normal/lowish scoring but still needs the chalk to not be the truth.    Every […]