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About JB Branson - RotoBaller
From the woods of GA. Bachelors in Finance from prestigious Kennesaw State University. Field Artillery Officer, US Army. Keeper Player Valuation Formula and Bullpen Method are my babes. MLB, NFL, all the DFS. @RowdyRotoJB
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JB Branson - RotoBaller has written 207 articles so far, you can find them below.
Willians Astudillo - 2019 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
Sleepers. The most coveted search term during any sport's fantasy draft prep season. Which players are flying under the radar, presenting an opportunity for you to swoop in on draft day and pluck them from the player pool abyss, making you look like a genius at the end of the season when you post your... Read More
2019 First Basemen - Early Fantasy Baseball Tiered Rankings
We continue our fantasy baseball tiered rankings analysis with the first base position. Even though it is only January, RotoBaller writers Nick Mariano, Pierre Camus, Chris Zolli, and I have come up with our initial pre-draft rankings to give you a sense of player values as early as possible. As the offseason progresses, these rankings... Read More
RotoBaller Early Mock Draft Analysis (Rounds 3-10)
A group of 10 RotoBaller fantasy baseball experts recently came together to conduct a slow mock draft for the 2019 season. Was it way too early? That all depends on who is asking. But with it complete, we can start to look at where players ended up on the board. This is the first staff... Read More
2018 Pitching Leaders: Hard Hit Rate
What's up all you fellow sad Fantasy Baseball fans? Now that the 2018 MLB season is behind us, and we were blessed to witness the greatest baseball team to ever play on a diamond (yes I am a Sox, fight me), we are left to reflect on an incredible season with some incredible players. For... Read More
How To Use The DFS Lineup Optimizer - Featured Tool Overview
Daily Fantasy Sports is becoming more and more competitive every day with the big sharks heavily diluting the pools and elbowing out the casual players with thousands and thousands of entries featuring the same algorithm, computer-generated lineups. You may be a pen and paper kind of lineup generator like myself - but how many days... Read More
FanDuel MLB DFS Lineup Picks (4/1/18): Daily Fantasy Baseball Advice
Happy Easter, RotoBallers and welcome to the first Sunday DFS slate of 2018. I am JB, and I will be your guide today. If you look out your window you will see a 12 game day, broken up on FanDuel into a Main (seven games) and an All Day slate. We are lacking a bonafide... Read More
JB's 10 Bold Predictions for 2018
Opening Day is rapidly approaching and our experienced writers will be offering their most daring predictions for the 2018 fantasy baseball season. Nick Mariano, Rick Lucks, Pierre Camus, and Kyle Bishop all have given it their best shot at being bold so far. But it's all been child's play up to this point. Many people don't... Read More
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2017 Breakouts Due for Regression - Relief Pitchers
2017 was a great season for those who follow the "Don't Pay for Saves" strategy. Actually, it's more than a strategy, it's a lifestyle. Corey Knebel blossomed into an elite closer, Fernando Rodney almost matched his age in saves, Brandon Kintzler/Sean Doolittle/Brandon Maurer/Felipe Rivero/Brad Hand all had over 20 saves, and even Bud Norris was... Read More
Reviewing JB's 2017 Bold Predictions
What’s even more fun than making bold predictions? Looking back at the end of the season to see how good (or so, so hilariously bad) they were. As Michael Scott once said, "It takes a big man to admit his mistakes, and I am that big man." Featured Promo: Want a free RotoBaller Premium Pass? Check... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (10/1/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
I'm not crying, you're crying! Welcome to the last day of the 2017 MLB regular season. I have thoroughly enjoyed giving you sub-par DFS advice all season, and want more than anyone for you to hit the big money today in the season's finale. Today will be one of the strangest days of the entire... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (9/24/17): MLB Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome back to one of the last installments of Sunday Funday MLB DFS Advice with JB. It has been quite a journey we have endured together. Today may be a NFL Sunday, but it also has extreme importance in the fantasy baseball world with most leagues' championship match-ups concluding today. Since you are going to... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (9/10/17): MLB Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome to the toughest day of MLB DFS in the entire season, the first Sunday of NFL season. To all four of you troopers that are still rocking the MLB life, I salute you. I know it is going to be hard to focus on setting your MLB lineups while also prepping for kickoff, which... Read More
Five Wide Receiver Sleepers - 2017 Fantasy Football ADP Values
Legend has it that only true love's kiss can wake a sleeping beauty. I present to you five wide receivers that are in a deep comatose state buried on your draft board. Whether it was because of injuries, lack-luster offenses, or incapable quarterbacks, these five players are presenting you with the opportunity to be the hero... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (9/3/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome back to another edition of Sunday morning DFS picks and advice. I am your host, JB, and today we have a weather concern-free Sunday main slate that consists of a weak nine games on FanDuel and 11 games on DraftKings. DK knows we all prefer bigger slates, while FanDuel just doesn't seem to care what... Read More
Two-Start Pitcher Streamers (Week 21): Head to Head Leagues
We are just weeks away from fantasy baseball playoffs and you are fighting tooth and nail for a playoff spot. You look at your head-to-head match-up for next week, and you see you are going to be in a tough spot for pitching categories, because for some reason our opponents are never stricken by the injury bug... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (8/20/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome back to another edition of Sunday morning DFS picks and advice. I am your host, JB, and today we have a weather concern-free Sunday main slate that consists of 10 games on FanDuel and 12 games on DraftKings. DK knows we all prefer bigger slates, while FanDuel just doesn't seem to care what anyone... Read More
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Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (8/13/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome to another edition of Sunday MLB DFS Picks and Advice. I am your host, JB. Today we have yet another full plate of day baseball as we tie up our weekend. FanDuel features a nine game main slate, while DraftKings adds in a bonus HOU-TEX 2:05 ET game to make an even 10 on... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (8/6/17): MLB Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome back to another edition of Sunday DFS picks and advice. Today we have a gorgeous 11 game main slate on both sites, which is a rare occurrence these days. We have a number of upper-end pitchers to choose from today, as well as plenty of low-low-end guys to stack against, which means you better... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (7/30/17): MLB Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome back to another Sunday Funday edition of MLB DFS picks and advice, RotoBallers. Today we have a 10 game Sunday day slate on FanDuel, and a bonus 11 game slate on DraftKings, who graciously added BAL at TEX into our selections. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (7/23/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome back to another Sunday edition of MLB DFS picks and advice from your friendly neighborhood RotoBaller. We have ourselves a beautiful 10 game main slate in typical Sunday morning fashion today, and it is quite an ugly sight on the pitching side. Corey Kluber is facing the Blue Jays today and will be everyone's... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (7/16/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
MLB Sundays aren't quite NFL Sundays, but man are they still hard to beat. Brunch, early beer, and juicy-fat slates that start at 1 PM. Today is no exception, RotoBallers, as we have a 12 game main slate on both sites ripe for the picking. In this article, I will be providing you with my... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (7/9/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome to another baseball-filled Sunday, RotoBallers. There is nothing better than a beautiful 10 game day slate to cap off your weekend. Today's pitching match-ups are star-studded with the likes of Clayton Kershaw, Corey Kluber, Yu Darvish, Chris Archer, David Price, Masahiro Tanaka, and Jon Lester. The weather looks absolutely perfect across the board. It truly is... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (7/1/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome to the weekend, RotoBallers. Running a bit late here today thanks to the usual massive Oklahoma storm knocking out my power all night. We have 17 games of America's pastime to enjoy as we kick off our 4th of July weekend, as both CLE-DET and KC-MIN play doubleheaders. After all the storms last night,... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (6/24/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome to the weekend, RotoBallers, and another Saturday full of baseball. Also Happy Kershaw day, although with the way the ace in Cleveland has been pitching I am inclined to instead declare this Corey Kluber day... Due to the starting times being spread all over the clock per usual, the slates are always funky on... Read More
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (6/17/17): MLB DFS Advice for FanDuel and DraftKings
Welcome to the weekend, RotoBallers, and happy Father's Day to all you fellow padres out there! We are starting a new trend here at RotoBaller, combing all of our beautiful MLB DFS info for both FanDuel and DraftKings into one centralized article. There is no need for us to be divided! We are all the... Read More
DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (6/10/17): MLB DFS Advice
Welcome yet again to the weekend, RotoBallers. Today we have a fan-freakin-tastic 17 game slate of baseball. That's right, we have double headers between OAK-TB and NYM-ATL. Unfortunately we only get to play the first of each on DraftKings, thus missing out on the return of Steven Matz. But what we do get to play... Read More
FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (6/10/17): MLB DFS Advice
Welcome yet again to the weekend, RotoBallers. Today we have a fan-freakin-tastic 17 game slate of baseball. That's right, we have double headers between OAK-TB and NYM-ATL. Unfortunately we only get to play the first of each on FanDuel, thus missing out on the return of Steven Matz. But what we do get to play... Read More
DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (06/03/17): MLB DFS Advice
Welcome to the weekend, RotoBallers. Today we have our usual Saturday with a day game-heavy 15 game slate. Draftkings has it split into a nine game early slate, and a five game main slate. However, the only way you can utilize the NYY-TOR game is by playing All-Day contests. For these reasons, I will be focusing... Read More
FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (06/03/17): MLB DFS Advice
Welcome to the weekend, RotoBallers. Today we have our usual Saturday with a day game-heavy 15 game slate. FanDuel has it split into a nine game early slate, and a five game main slate. However, the only way you can utilize the NYY-TOR game is by playing All-Day contests. For these reasons, I will be... Read More
DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers- Memorial Day Edition (5/29/17): MLB DFS Advice
Welcome back, RotoBallers. Usually I only get the chance to give you sub-par DFS advice on Saturdays, but today I am honored to be able to bring you sub-par DFS advice on this Memorial Day. As you enjoy your day off consisting of grilling, swimming, relaxing, and watching a full slate of beautiful baseball, please... Read More
