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7 under $7,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational
Every week, a crucial part of success in PGA DFS GPPs will be hitting on lower-owned/lower-salary golfers. Golf is a unique DFS sport in that all the golfers have the same opportunity to score. There are no starters, bench players, role players, third-down backs, etc. The golfer who is $6,000 is guaranteed to play at […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS volatility report: 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational
We have a bit of a stronger field for this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational on the PGA Tour compared to last week’s Honda Classic despite the Bryson DeChambeau withdrawal. The schedule change has taken out some of the star power from this event, but overall it’s one of the more exciting fields to watch in […]
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Matt Jones
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Fantasy Golf: Stop Using Percentage of Fairways Hit
The benefits of evaluating driving in golf with strokes gained: off the tee are obvious — it’s the most stable metric in all of golf, making it one of the most predictive, as well. However, it’s intuitive that some courses benefit bombers while others benefit precision and accuracy. The problem is, until now, we haven’t […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational
Golf is the only sport in which the “arena” in which the game is played changes dramatically from one event to another. Consequently, each tournament, like this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 PGA Honda Classic Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We’re heading into the final round of the Honda Classic. For tonight’s piece, I’m going to go through and identify a rotating core that I’ll be playing in my 20-lineup build.  Core Plays I’m taking a slightly different approach tonight in regards to my core. I typically play a few different combinations and sprinkle them […]
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Matt Jones
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2022 PGA Honda Classic Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We’re heading into the third round of the Honda Classic on Saturday. There are very few people who made it through the week unscathed. There’s a good chance your full-week lineups are completely torpedoed. But, once again, that’s the beauty of showdown! For tonight’s piece, I’m going to go through the optimizer, set some rules, […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS
2022 PGA Honda Classic Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
If you believe you have an edge in DFS golf in general, then you should be trying to take advantage of showdown slates like Friday’s second round at the Honda Classic. The more slates you impose your edge on the field, the more return you should realize. Like full slates, game theory plays an important […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS Hot Takes for the Honda Classic
The Honda Classic is always one of my favorite events because of PGA National and the unique test it presents. Regardless of the event, PGA DFS is all about weighing the risks and rewards of players in relation to their ownership projections. Often, you have to feel like you’re on an island when it comes […]
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Alex Blickle
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7 under $7,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Honda Classic
Every week a crucial part of success in PGA DFS GPPs, like this week’s Honda Classic, will be hitting on lower-rostered/lower-salary golfers. Golf is a unique DFS sport in that all the golfers have the same opportunity to score. There are no starters, bench players, role players, third-down backs, etc. The golfer who is $6,000 […]
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Kyle Murray
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2022 PGA Honda Classic Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 1 DFS showdown for a PGA Tour event, like this week’s Honda Classic, may not have the same edges that we can find in Rounds 2-4 when the field is overreacting to what the saw the previous day, but there are still edges to be found.  Overall, if you believe you have an edge […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS volatility report: 2022 Honda Classic
It’s very fitting that we’re talking about PGA DFS volatility as we head into Honda Classic week. This is a top-tier event if you’re interested in carnage. The weak field coupled with a tough course means that we can rely on this event being unreliable. As we work our way through the beginning of the […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: 2022 Honda Classic
Golf is the only sport in which the “arena” in which the game is played changes dramatically from one event to another. Consequently, each tournament, like this week’s Honda Classic, provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with the strokes […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 PGA Genesis Invitational Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We’re heading into the final round of the Genesis Invitational, and Joaquin Niemann is lapping the field. The nature of Riviera Country Club, usually, is that scoring is going to be down a bit. When scoring is down, that means that the finish position bonuses are even more important because they make up a greater […]
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Matt Jones
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2022 PGA Genesis Invitational Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We’re heading into the third round of the PGA Tour’s Genesis Invitational. Joaquin Niemann and Cameron Young seem to be separating themselves from the field as we head into the weekend. One more solid round from Neimann and the final round will be merely a formality. That gap between those two and the rest of […]
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Matt Jones
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2022 PGA Genesis Invitational Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
If you believe you have an edge in DFS golf in general, then you should be trying to take advantage of showdown slates like Friday’s second round at the Genesis Invitational. The more slates you impose your edge on the field, the more return you should realize. Like full slates, game theory plays an important […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS Hot Takes for the Genesis Invitational
This week’s action takes place at historic Riviera Country Club for the Genesis Invitational. Regardless of the event, PGA DFS is all about weighing the risks and rewards of players in relation to their ownership projections. Often, you have to feel like you’re on an island when it comes to your viewpoint of a play […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 PGA Genesis Invitational Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 1 DFS showdown for a PGA Tour event, like this week’s Genesis Invitational, may not have the same edges that we can find in Rounds 2-4 when the field is overreacting to what the saw the previous day, but there are still edges to be found.  Overall, if you believe you have an edge […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
7 under $7,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Genesis Invitational
Every week a crucial part of success in PGA DFS GPPs will be hitting on lower-rostered/lower-salary golfers. Golf is a unique DFS sport in that all the golfers have the same opportunity to score. There are no starters, bench players, role players, third-down backs, etc. The golfer who is $6,000 is guaranteed to play at […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS volatility report: 2022 Genesis Invitational
This week, the PGA Tour heads to Riviera Country Club to play the Genesis Invitational. As we work our way through the beginning of the season, this piece will change but it will always highlight the volatility of the golfers in a given field for that week. The reason for that is that we are […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: 2022 Genesis Invitational
Golf is the only sport in which the “arena” in which the game is played changes dramatically from one event to another. Consequently, each tournament, like this week’s Genesis Invitational, provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with the strokes […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 PGA Waste Management Phoenix Open Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
If you believe you have an edge in DFS Golf in general, then you should be trying to take advantage of showdown slates, like the final rounds of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.  The more slates in which you impose your edge on the field, the more return you’ll get.  Like full slates, game theory […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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2022 PGA Waste Management Phoenix Open Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We’re heading into the third round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open Saturday with Sahith Theegala in the lead. I’m using our optimizer to dial in my exposures within my 20-lineup build.   For those that missed it, our very own Javier Prellezo took down the $555 using the FTN Daily content Friday: My trio of […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS Hot Takes for the Waste Management Phoenix Open
This week’s action takes place at TPC Scottsdale for the ever-exciting, rowdy Waste Management Phoenix Open! Regardless of the event, PGA DFS is all about weighing the risks and rewards of players in relation to their ownership projections. Often, you have to feel like you’re on an island when it comes to your viewpoint of […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 PGA Waste Management Phoenix Open Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 1 DFS showdown for a PGA Tour event, like this week’s Waste Management Phoenix Open, may not have the same edges that we can find in Rounds 2-4 when the field is overreacting to what the saw the previous day, but there are still edges to be found.  Overall, if you believe you have […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
7 under $7,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Waste Management Phoenix Open
Every week a crucial part of success in PGA DFS GPPs will be hitting on lower-rostered/lower-salary golfers, and this week’s Waste Management Phoenix Open is no different. Golf is a unique DFS sport in that all the golfers have the same opportunity to score. There are no starters, bench players, role players, 3rd down backs, […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS volatility report: 2022 Waste Management Phoenix Open
As we work our way through the beginning of the PGA season, this piece will change but it will always highlight the volatility of the golfers in a given field for that week. The reason for that is that we are targeting outsized returns. We don’t want steady, consistent golfers in all of our roster […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: 2022 Waste Management Phoenix Open
Golf is the only sport in which the “arena” in which the game is played changes dramatically from one event to another. Consequently, each tournament provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with the strokes gained statistics if you haven’t […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 PGA AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
For the first time this week, the entire PGA field will make its way around the same course. Pebble Beach will play host to the final round and will feature a closer race than we thought we’d see just 24 hours ago. Seamus Power looked like he’d run away with this tournament, holding a 5-stroke […]
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Matt Jones
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2022 PGA AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
These course-rotation events on the PGA Tour, like this weekend’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am, are — perhaps mercifully — coming to an end soon. But they present some interesting opportunities from a game-theory perspective. Without adjusting for player skill, Spyglass Hill played about -0.1 strokes to par while both Monterrey Peninsula and Pebble Beach played more […]
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Matt Jones
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2022 PGA AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
If you believe you have an edge in DFS golf in general, then you should be trying to take advantage of showdown slates like Friday’s second round at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The more slates you impose your edge on the field, the more return you should realize. Like full slates, game theory plays […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS Hot Takes for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
We’re fully in the swing of things with PGA! Regardless of the event, PGA DFS is all about weighing the risks and rewards of players in relation to their ownership projections. Often, you have to feel like you’re on an island when it comes to your viewpoint of a play in order to be in […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 PGA AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 1 DFS showdown for a PGA Tour event, like this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, may not have the same edges that we can find in Rounds 2-4 when the field is overreacting to what the saw the previous day, but there are still edges to be found. In fact, this week, there could […]
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Bryan DeCorte