Nick Mullens (QB, SF) - Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: No news about Jimmy Garoppolo's status yet, as we're just starting the week, but he didn't practice at all during the last seven days and Nick Mullens was the clear starter for the 49ers this past weekend. Jimmy could be back next weekend, but […]

Nick Foles (QB, CHI) - Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I was wrong. I was super wrong. But I don't think I can't be blamed because the Bears, a team with a putrid-at-best situation at the quarterback position, are 3-0 to start the year so what do we even know about how football works? I thought […]

Gabriel Davis (WR, BUF) - Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If there is something you didn't expect to do today, reading about Gabriel Davis as a potential waiver wire pickup must be one of them. With John Brown exiting Sunday's contest early thanks to a calf injury, it was Davis who benefited […]

Cole Beasley (WR, BUF) - Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 9% of Leagues ANALYSIS: For someone as productive as Cole Beasley, it is a little surprising to find the wideout rostered in fewer than a league out of ten out there... The only reason (not a bad one, I have to admit) is that Buffalo already […]

Preston Williams (WR, MIA) - Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 32% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Truth be told, Preston Williams hasn't had the best of starts to this season. The sophomore has been targeted 14 times already but has only been able to catch five of those passes for 74 yards through three games in 2020. The most […]

Derek Carr (QB, LV) - Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As is often the case with Derek Carr, the Raiders quarterback is as good at producing fantasy points as he is as flying under the radar. Carr had his second-best game of the season this past Sunday against a no-joke defense in that of […]

Completed Air Yards Over Expectation - Fantasy Football Risers, Fallers

If you play fantasy football, you know your great deal of statistics and metrics. At the end of the day, we need some way to measure production. While the basic numbers (targets, receptions, yards,...) are often enough to give us a solid idea of what we're dealing with, the truth is that the deeper we […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa (Premium Content)

After a one-week delay, UFC 253 has finally arrived. And we're pumped. Abu Dhabi will get one more even here and quite a neat one with two belts on the line and up for grabs: one if his current owner losses, the other one available "for free" given it's currently vacant. Uh, oh, those high […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - Adesanya vs. Costa (UFC 253)

After a one-week delay, UFC 253 has finally arrived. And we're pumped. Abu Dhabi will get one more even here and quite a neat one with two belts on the line and up for grabs: one if his current owner losses, the other one available "for free" given it's currently vacant. Uh, oh, those high […]

NextGen Stats - Running Back Breakdowns and Takeaways

The season is officially in full swing. Two weeks are gone, and 32 games are already on the books providing some tasty information and data to crunch. To gain the biggest edge in your fantasy football league, it's necessary to understand how to apply the advanced statistics being used in sports nowadays. Back in the […]

Jeff Wilson Jr. (RB, SF) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 16+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: You might be wondering if I should be put in a mental health center. I know about it, you don't have to hide your thoughts. Now, bear with me and let me explain. San Francisco entered Week 2 with two very good and […]

Michael Pittman Jr. (WR, IND) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 15% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The first reactions to Sunday's Parris Campbell injury were all pointing toward a torn ACL. Good for him and the Colts, it looks like those early impressions were mostly wrong and he avoided such a season-ending fate. Even with that, and seeing […]

Russell Gage (WR, ATL) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I have to admit that two things surprised me last week. The first one was that Gage joined the two of Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley in Atlanta's offense in terms of targets (12 each). The second one was to see how many […]

Dalton Schultz (TE, DAL) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Had I told you the name "Dalton" and asked about who do you think had a good game for the Cowboys in Week 2, odds are you responded "Andy". Far from real, though. It was Shultz, TE Dalton Schultz, who thrived with […]

Tre'Quan Smith (WR, NO) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 15% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Nobody was expecting a lot from Tre'Quan Smith came Week 1 and that is precisely what he did, a bunch of nothing. Smith was targeted just once, and although the caught that lone pass he finished with just four yards even though he […]

Devonta Freeman (RB, FA) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This might be the only time I have written a waiver wire post about a still-available free agent. That's correct. Freeman is still out there without a signed contract and could end anywhere... or nowhere. That being said, the latest news related to […]

Mike Davis (RB, CAR) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Looking at Carolina's fantasy numbers through two weeks of play you'll get it quickly: it's Christian McCaffrey, and then (maybe) come the rest. CMC tallies read 28.4 and 24.8 PPR points in back-to-back weeks. He reached the latter mark in a game that he […]

Myles Gaskin (RB, MIA) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 14% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Forget about Jordan Howard. Forget about Matt Breida. Raise your hand to hail Miami Dolphins leading-back Myles Gaskin. Who would have thought... After getting the former two tailbacks this past offseason, Miami is running everything through second-year man Myles Gaskin this season. The […]

Jordan Akins (TE, HOU) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: They called a man crazy for recommending rostering Jordan Akins after his Week 1 performance. Now, they are calling him a visionary. Thank you, thank you, but I had this feeling I was going to be right. Sure, Akins W1 stats were the […]

Jordan Reed (TE, SF) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: When you have a stud at the tight end position such as San Francisco does (George Kittle), you don't really care about the rest of the personnel there. Unless your starting weapon goes down injured, which is exactly what happened this weekend. […]

Logan Thomas (TE, WAS) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 32% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After four years in the league providing little production, it looked like Logan Thomas had finally found his mojo to kick 2020 off. Thomas logged 52 snaps in Week 1, was targeted a nice eight times, and hauled in half of those […]

Mo Alie-Cox (TE, IND) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With Jack Doyle being the TE1 of a team featuring a bunch of more-than-capable rushers and a couple of good receivers at least, it makes sense to find Mo Alie-Cox available in virtually every league. Doyle, though, missed Week 2 injured, and that […]

Andy Isabella (WR, ARI) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 16+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: At least at this point of the season, don't consider adding Isabella unless you can stash him or you happen to play in a super-deep league. It mostly comes down to his usage going forward and seeing how things develop between Arizona's offense […]

Marquez Valdes-Scantling (WR, GB) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 36% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Aaron Rodgers had a fantastic start to the season in Week 1 passing for a monster 364 yards and four touchdowns. Throwing 44 passes, it made sense to find all of Green Bay's wideouts getting at least four targets each and racking up […]

Darnell Mooney (WR, CHI) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 16+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: You won't find Mooney-talk around often. While that is reasonable to a certain extent, it is to another. Let me explain. Mooney has only logged six targets through Week 2, but he's caught all of them for 74 combined yards and a touchdown. […]

Gardner Minshew II (QB, JAX) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I already wrote about Minshew last week, and here I am again introducing you to the Minshewmania once more, just in case you missed it the last time. See, I get the critics dropped on Minshew for his fourth-quarter interception that sealed the […]

Drew Sample (TE, CIN) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This is the ultimate flier of waiver wire pickups. I wouldn't blame you if you hadn't heard Drew Sample's name prior to this week, but here we are. C.J. Uzomah's, the Bengals TE1, fell down to an Achilles injury in the fourth […]

Tee Higgins (WR, CIN) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While Higgins fell one pick short of becoming a first-round draftee this past draft, the Bengals spent the 33rd-overall selection on the Clemson product. You don't waste such a high pick on someone you don't trust, so what we saw on Week 1 […]

Baker Mayfield (QB, CLE) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 48% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Baker Mayfield barely made it to my weekly waiver wire posts, but his under-50% rostered rate was enough for me to consider writing about him. Mayfield is far from an unknown asset, that's right, but it doesn't make much sense to still find him […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC Vegas 11: Covington vs. Woodley (Premium Content)

We should have been watching Adesanya facing Costa this weekend, but the UFC decided to flip UFC 253 and UFC Vegas 11, and thus we're getting the latter prior to the former this Saturday. Back in the APEX in Vegas, NV, and a week before flying to Abu Dhabi again, the UFC will pit Woodley […]