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Conference Championship Round: DFS Showdown Strategy for Bengals/Chiefs
This article is going to cover my DFS showdown rules and rankings for DraftKings and FanDuel for Sunday’s AFC Championship Game. I tend to go with a correlated build that tells a story. I find that wins more than it loses. My “general rules” article will remain accurate for most games, but depending on player […]
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David Jones
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Tenacious Targets: NFL DFS GPP picks for the Conference Championships
This NFL DFS article will give my personal plays for DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo and SuperDraft. I will walk you through my process of selecting each player. I have gone through each game and each position, and these are my favorite plays that I have landed on.  With quarterbacks I want someone capable of running so […]
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David Jones
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NFL Optimizer – Sunday Strategy for the Conference Championship Round
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 […]
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Connor Cocke
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SNF Showdown Breakdown Conference Championship Round – Rams vs. 49ers
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 the showdown slate that night.  What Does Vegas Think? […]
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Matt Jones
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MagicSportsGuide Conference Championship DFS breakdown: Sunday Morning Update
Welcome to the MagicSportsGuy Sunday (Sat) Morning Update. Here you’ll find my NFL DFS picks and plays for Sunday’s Conference Championship games. I’ve provided my core plays for DraftKings, FanDuel and Yahoo, along with my stack ranks and larger player exposures by position for this week’s slate. Make sure you check out our projections and […]
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Kevin Adams
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Conference Championship GPP Stacks & Correlated Leverage Opportunities
GPP’s are a game of probability. We can think of the chance of our lineup “hitting” as the chance of all of our individual plays hitting. This is why we stack – by adding correlation, we increase the probability of a group of players hitting at the same time.   A great analogy is to […]
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Alex Blickle
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TwoGun’s Core NFL DFS Picks for the Conference Championships
We’re in the final week of non-showdown NFL DFS. There’s some good prize pools out there, so DFS should be fun this week.    Given it’s just two games, there’s only so much strategy and contrarian angles you can go for with your lineups. There’s a monumental difference in the amount of roster constructions between […]
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Michael Cohen
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SuperDraft DFS picks and predictions for the Conference Championships
SuperDraft is one of the hottest platforms in the market for DFS players. SuperDraft offers a unique twist on your traditional DFS experience with game modes like “Multiplier” and “Super 15.” By eliminating the traditional salary cap structure and providing a points multiplier for every player on the slate, there is almost limitless flexibility when […]
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Joe Metz
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Top 5 DFS plays under 10% for the Conference Championships
Finding ways to diversify without sacrificing expectation or ceiling is a key to GPP success. We can do this through the use of roster construction, but most of the time, we do it by finding diamonds in the rough. For these playoff slates, it becomes even more difficult to do because fewer games means inflated […]
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Alex Blickle
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Conference Championship Game-by-Game DFS Breakdown
Welcome to the conference championship edition of the game-by-game DFS breakdown. In this write-up, I’ll walk you through the players, stacks, one-offs, etc., that I’ll be targeting weekly in DFS. My aim here is that you can apply this encyclopedia of stats and my word vomit to a variety of sites and contests with everything […]
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Derek Brown
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Splits tool update for the Conference Championships – DFS options to watch
As the NFL season progresses, we’ll go through and use our FTN Splits Tool to look for team- and player-level trends to help us through our fantasy season. As we head into this week, we can look at our splits tool to identify a few things to watch for this weekend.    Patrick Mahomes is Still […]
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Matt Jones
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Advanced DFS Matchup Plays for the Conference Championships
Eliot Crist qualifies his staple article as a pursuit to find “players in the best position to succeed… based on an individual matchup, how teams perform, pace of play, injury-related boost, or a game environment that’s juicy.” The playoffs present a unique challenge for this piece — any mismatch we are able to identify is […]
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Alex Blickle
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DFS Wins of the Week (1/28)
This quick article is going to highlight some huge DFS wins from DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo and SuperDraft that our FTN family hit this week. It doesn’t matter if its NFL, MLB, NBA, PGA or even eSports, if someone made a huge return on their money, we want to celebrate it. Take a look at some […]
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David Jones
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Conference Championships single-entry DFS roster percentages preview
NFL DFS rostership projections evolve throughout the week in a specific way. They begin as a reflection of how people view plays in a vacuum, slowly but surely progressing into a combination of how people view players and how certain player combinations fit into various lineup constructions.    The goal of this article is to: […]
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Alex Blickle
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WR vs. CB Matchups NFL DFS Breakdown – Conference Championship
Every week in this article, I’ll be highlighting my favorite WR/CB matchups in DFS with the help of our WR/CB matchup tool at FTN Daily. I’ll be looking at the best plays on the slate while also digging into some receivers with massive upside who could go overlooked.    Top Matchups – WR/CB for Week 21 […]
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Derek Brown
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Top 5 NFL DFS slate-breakers for the Conference Championships
The phrase “break the slate” is tossed around often in the DFS world, and for good reason. First, it just sounds cool. And second, because it’s actually true.  Think of all fantasy points scored each week as a gravitational pull. When fantasy points are bell-curve distributed like they are most weeks, the DFS solar system […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Divisional Round: DFS Showdown Strategy
This article is going to cover my Showdown rules and rankings for DraftKings and FanDuel. I tend to go with a correlated build that “tells a story.” I find that wins more than it loses. The “General Rules” article will remain accurate for most games, but depending on player salary and team scheme, they can […]
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David Jones
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SNF Showdown Breakdown Divisional Round – Chiefs vs. Bills
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 tonight’s slate position-by-position to break down everything you need to know.  What Does Vegas Think? Notable Injuries It appears […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL DFS
Divisional Round: DFS Showdown Strategy
This article is going to cover my Showdown rules and rankings for DraftKings and FanDuel. I tend to go with a correlated build that “tells a story.” I find that wins more than it loses. The “General Rules” article will remain accurate for most games, but depending on player salary and team scheme, they can […]
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David Jones
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NFL DFS
Divisional Round: DFS Showdown Strategy
This article is going to cover my Showdown rules and rankings for DraftKings and FanDuel. I tend to go with a correlated build that “tells a story.” I find that wins more than it loses. The “General Rules” article will remain accurate for most games, but depending on player salary and team scheme, they can […]
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David Jones
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Saturday NFL picks for JockMKT
What is JockMKT? JockMKT is a fantastic new fantasy football platform that combines the financial market and sports. Bidding on a player as an IPO and getting paid out where they finish on the day. Example: “If fifth place overall is worth $20, and Tom Brady finishes with the fifth-most points, then every user holding […]
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Eliot Crist
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SuperDraft DFS picks and predictions for the Divisional Round
SuperDraft is one of the hottest platforms in the market for DFS players. SuperDraft offers a unique twist on your traditional DFS experience with game modes like “Multiplier” and “Super 15.” By eliminating the traditional salary cap structure and providing a points multiplier for every player on the slate, there is almost limitless flexibility when […]
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Joe Metz
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Tenacious Targets: NFL DFS GPP picks for the Divisional Round
This NFL DFS article will give my personal plays for DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo and SuperDraft. I will walk you through my process of selecting each player. I have gone through each game and each position, and these are my favorite plays that I have landed on.  With quarterbacks I want someone capable of running so […]
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David Jones
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NFL Optimizer – Sunday Strategy for the Divisional Round
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 […]
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Connor Cocke
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Divisional Round GPP Stacks & Correlated Leverage Opportunities
GPPs are a game of probability. We can think of the chance of our lineup “hitting” as the chance of all of our individual plays hitting. This is why we stack — by adding correlation, we increase the probability of a group of players hitting at the same time. A great analogy is to think […]
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Alex Blickle
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NFL DFS
Top 5 DFS plays under 10% for the Divisional Round
Finding ways to diversify without sacrificing expectation or ceiling is a key to GPP success. We can do this through the use of roster construction, but most of the time, we do it by finding diamonds in the rough. For these playoff slates, it becomes even more difficult to do because fewer games mean inflated […]
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Alex Blickle
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MagicSportsGuide Divisional Round DFS breakdown
Welcome to the MagicSportsGuy Sunday (Sat) Morning Update for the Division Playoffs. Here you’ll find my NFL DFS picks and plays for Week 18 of the season. I’ve provided my core plays for DraftKings, FanDuel, and Yahoo, along with my stack ranks and larger player exposures by position for this week’s slate. Make sure you […]
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Kevin Adams
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NFL DFS
Divisional Round Game-by-Game DFS Breakdown
Welcome to the Divisional Round edition of the game-by-game DFS breakdown. In this writeup, I’ll walk you through the players, stacks, one-offs, etc., that I’ll be targeting weekly in DFS. My aim here is that you can apply this encyclopedia of stats and my word vomit to a variety of sites and contests with everything […]
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Derek Brown
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TwoGun’s Core NFL DFS Picks for the Divisional Round
This is the last real DFS week of the season, so I wish everyone the best of luck. DraftKings is doing four games for their main slate, so I am going to focus on them for this article. There is just so much more strategy and contrarian plays possible when you’re working with four games […]
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Michael Cohen
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Divisional Round single-entry DFS roster percentages preview
NFL DFS rostership projections evolve throughout the week in a specific way. They begin as a reflection of how people view plays in a vacuum, slowly but surely progressing into a combination of how people view players and how certain player combinations fit into various lineup constructions.  The goal of this article is to: Take […]
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Alex Blickle
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Advanced DFS Matchup Plays for the Divisional Round
Eliot Crist qualifies his staple article as a pursuit to find “players in the best position to succeed… based on an individual matchup, how teams perform, pace of play, injury-related boost, or a game environment that’s juicy.” The playoffs present a unique challenge for this piece — any mismatch we are able to identify is […]
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Alex Blickle
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WR vs. CB Matchups NFL DFS Breakdown – Divisional Round
Every week in this article, I’ll be highlighting my favorite WR/CB matchups in DFS with the help of our WR/CB matchup tool at FTN Daily. I’ll be looking at the best plays on the slate while also digging into some receivers with massive upside who could go overlooked.    Top Matchups – WR/CB for Week 20 […]
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Derek Brown