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Pitcher Risers and Fallers Since Sticky Substance Enforcement
On June 21st, MLB decided to really crack down on foreign substances used by pitchers. "Random" inspections of pitcher gloves and clothing were instituted to make sure pitchers were not using an illegal sticky substance to get a better grip on the ball. This created quite the buzz in the fantasy baseball community. We've had more... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/7/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/7 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 7/6/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/6 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 7/6/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/6/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/6 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It's a short slate, with a lot of weather issues in the forecast, so this will be a tough one. Keep an eye on the weather before finalizing your lineups, we'll be mostly ignoring those risks in... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 7/5/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/5 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 7/5/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 15
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 7/2/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 7/2 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Finally a day this week with no huge weather issues. This should be a fun slate of games, let's break it down! Top Tournament Stacks for 7/2/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks... Read More
Three Up, Three Down: Home Run Outliers to Buy or Sell
A huge key to having success at the game of fantasy baseball is being able to spot outliers. The game of baseball, more than most other sports, is largely dictated by randomness, at least over the short term. Even with the pretty large three-month data sample we have, randomness can still rule the day. My... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/1/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 7/1 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It's a short slate, with a lot of weather issues in the forecast, so this will be a tough one. Keep an eye on the weather before finalizing your lineups, we'll be mostly ignoring those risks in this... Read More
Anatomy of a Hot Streak - Kyle Schwarber
It was the morning of June 13th, and Kyle Schwarber had played 53 games and seen 221 plate appearances with his new team, the Washington Nationals. He had signed with the team in the offseason after a long career with the Chicago Cubs where Schwarber had proved himself to be a more than useful Major... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/29/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/29 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Huge, massive, 15-game slate on this fine Tuesday with pitcher options aplenty! Welcome to the pitching primer! High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to deploy... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 6/28/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 6/28 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Top Tournament Stacks for 6/28/21 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... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 14
Welcome to Week 14! We have cleared the halfway mark of the regular season, and time is flying! I'm excited for the handful of names I'm going to write up in this piece. Various pitchers from all kinds of different backgrounds have burst onto the scene lately and I think we can really find some... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 6/25/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 6/25 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Big 13 game Friday slate. There don't seem to be any real weather issues. It's a weird slate. All of the top offenses are also facing really bad pitchers, which has sent the price tags through the... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/24/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/22 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Huge Tuesday slate with tons of aces on the board. Let's parse through them all, here we go! High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to... Read More
Three Up, Three Down: Pitchers to Buy & Sell
The pitching league leaders are about to cross the 100-inning mark of the year, which means we have accrued quite a bit of data to analyze. We can now have a significant amount of confidence in our data analysis given that we've seen guys on the mound for nearly three full months. A huge key... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/22/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/22 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Huge Tuesday slate with tons of aces on the board. Let's parse through them all, here we go! High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up for on this slate. It makes sense to... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 13
The topic of the week is spin rate, with the crackdown on foreign substances sending shockwaves throughout the pitching landscape of baseball. Right now, it's not clear how this will affect the game over the long haul, but it seems like we might see fewer strikeouts than usual moving forward. We don't really have enough... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 6/21/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 6/21 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. We have a beautiful Monday slate here, which is not often the case. All the action is after 7:00 eastern, which means no games are left behind. Let's dive into this awesome slate. Top... Read More
Spin Rate Kings Who May Be Toppled
The talk of the town is spin rate. If you spend any time following MLB discussion, you have certainly heard all about the league's crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances to help their grip and spin on the baseball. Like most other topics, there are lots of people on both sides of the argument. No... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 6/18/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 6/18 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. We have a beautiful Monday slate here, which is not often the case. All the action is after 7:00 eastern, which means no games are left behind. Let's dive into this awesome slate. Top... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/17/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/17 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Pretty short six-game slate on this fine Thursday night, but we are not without some great pitching options on the board. Let's get into it. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/15/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/15 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Pretty short six-game slate on this fine Thursday night, but we are not without some great pitching options on the board. Let's get into it. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 6/14/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 6/14 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. We have a beautiful Monday slate here, which is not often the case. All the action is after 7:00 eastern, which means no games are left behind. Let's dive into this awesome slate. Top... Read More
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 12
The league's bats are waking up a bit as we enter the hot months of summer, and that is making the SP waiver wire a bit less fun to swim in. Today, we will highlight a diverse group of pitchers that come from all different situations. We have a few guys here that started the... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 6/11/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 6/11 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Slightly smaller slate tonight for a Friday, but it's still chalk full of great plays. The weather appears to be cooperating as well, so this should be jam-packed night of MLB action. Top Tournament... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/10/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/10 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Pretty short six-game slate on this fine Thursday night, but we are not without some great pitching options on the board. Let's get into it. High-Priced Aces These are your studs who are worth paying up... Read More
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/8/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Pitching Primer for 6/8 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
Starting Pitcher Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 11
Welcome back to our SP waiver wire recommendations post series. If you've been following this every week, you've probably noticed that I've been beating the same drum quite a bit - and that is not going to change much today. Streaming starting pitchers has been hugely profitable this year, as it seems there are strong... Read More
MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 6/4/21 (Premium Content)
MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 6/4/21 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Slightly smaller slate tonight for a Friday, but it's still chalk full of great plays. The weather appears to be cooperating as well, so this should be jam-packed night of MLB action. Top Tournament... Read More
