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MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 8/16/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 8/16 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 8/16/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on if... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 21
We are drawing dangerously close to playoff time in fantasy baseball. The fact that you're still here reading this and not focused on fantasy football tells me that you're still in the hunt - so congratulations! If you need some pitching help on the waiver wire, I will say that the ship has largely sailed.... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 8/13/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 8/13 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 8/13/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on if... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/12/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/12 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. We have a split slate here, with the two major DFS sites handling them very differently. The main slate on DraftKings is the eight-game early slate starting at 12:10, along with a very short four-game night... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/10/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/10 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 8/9/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 8/9 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 8/9/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on if... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 20
The starting pitching pool is wavering (some pun intended!) a bit this week, as a lot of the names we've been talking about for weeks have finally been picked up in over 50% of leagues. There haven't been too many recent surges to take advantage of either, but it's not like there's nobody out there... Read More
Hitter Analysis by Batted Ball Data
With all of the data that is captured for every event in MLB games, there are a lot of fun ways to dive in and see how hitters are truly performing. There is also an opportunity to find what statistical outputs we should generally expect with certain inputs. For this post, I'd like to revisit... Read More
Hitter & Pitcher Splits Worth Exploring
We talk a lot in fantasy baseball about splits data, and for good reason. Some hitters are completely different players when facing a left-handed pitcher as compared to when they're facing a right-hander. Some of the differences you see in the data are huge. This is also true with pitchers, as some guys can be... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 8/6/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 8/6 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 8/6/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on if... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/5/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/5 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/3/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 8/3 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 8/2/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 8/2 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 8/2/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on if... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 19
Happy Independence Day, everybody! We are coming up on the All-Star break, but that doesn't mean it's a time to take a break from the waiver wire! There are still a ton of capable starting pitchers out for the taking, and you can never have too much good pitching. Lots of top prospects are being... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 7/30/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/30 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 7/30/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 7/29/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/29 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 7/29/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/29/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/29 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/28/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/28 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB Trade Deadline: Lineup Spot & Team Opportunity Impact
The trade deadline unofficially was kicked off on Sunday, when the Rays acquired Nelson Cruz and the Padres nabbed Adam Frazier. Fantasy managers will always be quick to scrutinize trades through the lens of fantasy - and that's good, we should be looking for any edge we can find. However, it's possible that we sometimes... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/27/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/27 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 7/26/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/26 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 7/26/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/22/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/22 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/20/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/20 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 7/19/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/19 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 7/19/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on... Read More
Barrel Rate and Contact Rate, Who Can Do Both?
Hitting is, at the same time, completely simple and enormously complex. Hitting in the Major Leagues is arguably the most challenging thing to do in all of sports. I don't think I need to explain myself for saying that hitting is complex. I can't do it, probably neither can you. The reason I say it's... Read More
Improving Hitters to Watch in the Second Half
We have more than three months of baseball in the books. It has been a glorious spring and summer with the return of the 162 game schedule. While it was nice for MLB to sneak in 60 games and some expanded playoffs in 2020 after we feared a full season cancellation, it really just didn't... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 7/16/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/16 Last week of action before the all-star break, let's make the most of it. All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 7/16/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Second Half
We have reached the All-Star break, and we have four cold days of no regular season baseball ahead of us. That makes it a good time to review our pitching staffs and check the waiver wire to see who we can add to it for the second half. If you read this article weekly, you... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 7/9/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/9 Last week of action before the all-star break, let's make the most of it. All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 7/9/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/8/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/8 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy these guys as your cash game plays on FanDuel and as your SP1 on DraftKings... Read More
