DFS: Bridgewater Injury Implications
The catastrophe that befell the Minnesota Vikings yesterday in practice when starting quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered what is surely a season-ending knee injury (torn left ACL and dislocated) in...
View ArticleDFS Week 1: Eagles New Train Wreck Candidate
As always, the sands are shifting in the NFL and that means daily fantasy football players have to be nimble. Last week, it looked like the Minnesota Vikings were headed for a train wreck after...
View ArticleDFS: Overlay Watch Week 1
It’s hard telling whether a massive daily fantasy contest will fill up but as of Thursday morning, one of the first major DraftKings guaranteed prize pool contests of the NFL season was tracking toward...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guests Frank B and Anthony Curtis – Football Season!
The guests this week are Frank B of LVA Sports, and Anthony Curtis of the Las Vegas Advisor. It’s football season so we talk football, the new sports book apps available, and the weekly football...
View ArticleDFS: Reviewing NFL Week 1 Overlays
Much of the chatter among serious daily fantasy sports observers after NFL Week 1 was about overlays: How prevalent were they and what did they represent in the bigger picture? Advantage players, as...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guest Jeffrey Compton
Our guest this week is Jeffrey Compton, the publisher of CDC Gaming Reports. We discuss current gambling in the news, including the Palms switch-over to a Stations property on Oct 1, Ted Forrest’s bad...
View ArticleDFS Week 2 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
A key part of assembling winning daily fantasy lineups is coming up with the two or three “value” picks that cost little in salary cap dollars yet are likely to deliver above-expectation fantasy...
View ArticleAnother Uh-Oh Moment for Daily Fantasy?
The daily fantasy industry should brace for some backlash as a result of the Week 2 winner of DraftKings’ marquee contest, the Millionaire. At the outset, let’s make something perfectly clear. There is...
View ArticleDFS Week 3 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
The spate of injuries to NFL running backs last week is driving daily fantasy football lineups in Week 3. The list of RBs definitely out of commission or likely to sit on Sunday is nothing short of...
View ArticleDFS Week 4 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
There are two significant trends, daily fantasy football fans should recognize about the two major DFS website, DraftKings and FanDuel. The first is one we mentioned in a recent blog posts is...
View ArticleDFS Week 5 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
In Fantasy Sports, Real Money, Huntington Press’ comprehensive book on daily fantasy sports, we discuss the mathematical phenomenon of regression to the mean. In simple English, regression to the mean...
View ArticleDFS Week 6 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
In Fantasy Sports, Real Money, we emphasize that the starting point for putting together any daily fantasy lineup is the traditional sports betting lines that are put out by Las Vegas casinos. By...
View ArticleDFS Week 7 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
Part of the process of selecting daily fantasy football lineups is drilling for predictive indicators. However, the rapidly changing landscape of an NFL season — particularly injuries — has a tendency...
View ArticleDFS Week 8 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
This week is a good lesson in staying on top of NFL news if you want to be in contention in daily fantasy football. A storyline broke late in the week regarding the Denver running backs that should at...
View ArticleDFS Week 9 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
Fantasy point escalation came to a screeching halt last week and that’s a good thing, in my opinion. You may recall that in Week 7, you had to be just about perfect to hit the payline in cash games....
View ArticleOn Gambling With an Edge this week
Our guest this week will be longtime pro Captain Jack. We’ll be talking about sports betting, and maybe some online gambling as well. Send us your questions for Captain Jack at...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guest Captain Jack
The guest this week is Captain Jack. Captain Jack started as a card counter in 1999, and sooned moved into playing online casinos, and then ultimately to sports betting which is what we cover today. We...
View ArticleDFS Week 10 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
DraftKings fans will notice something quite different for the NFL’s Week 10, Sunday, Nov. 13. Typically, the so-called millionaire maker contests, which paid $1 million to the first-place finisher and...
View ArticleDraftKings, FanDuel Merge: So What’s Next?
With financial pressures ongoing, the two major daily fantasy sports operators announced on Nov. 18 what had been rumored for months. FanDuel and DraftKings will merge operations sometime in 2017. The...
View ArticleDFS Week 11 Value Picks: Pay Low, Score High
It’s a familiar refrain in daily fantasy football but we’ll say it again. Staying on top of injuries can make all the difference in the world between cashing and not cashing. You need to check the...
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