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Doug Shain - RotoBaller

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Doug Shain is a fantasy sports analyst at RotoBaller, a multi-award-winning fantasy sports media company. He has been covering NHL and NFL DFS for nearly a decade and brings more than 35 years of fantasy sports experience to his analysis. Doug began playing fantasy sports at just 11 years old in his father’s home league and has been hooked ever since. A lifelong NFL fan for over 40 years, he has developed a strong reputation for his ability to break down NHL matchup data and deliver tournament-winning DFS advice. An accomplished member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association (FSWA), Doug won the 2017 FSWA NHL Writer of the Year award and has received multiple nominations, including twice for DFS Writer of the Year and most recently in 2025. Doug is highly engaged with the fantasy community and is especially active in RotoBaller’s Discord, where he works closely with readers to build optimal DFS lineups. Follow Doug on X (formerly known as Twitter) @bankster17.

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Sidney Crosby - NHL Power Rankings, Hockey Evergreen MSN Gallery

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/24

To Edmonton or not Edmonton will be the biggest question you ask yourself about this slate. The Oilers are playing insanely good offensive hockey, but that upside comes at a price you may not want to pay. If you choose not to use them, who do you want to go with? We will dive into […]


NHL Heat Map - 10/24/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Jahmyr Gibbs - Fantasy Football, Rankings, DFS, Running Back

Week 7 DraftKings Lineup Picks

It would be great if every week were like this one, with some very obvious tournament stacks, like Green Bay, Houston, and both sides of the 49ers-Falcons game. That’s not to say that building a lineup is easy, but it’s nice to know that there are a few places we can start for full stacks... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/22/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Jason Robertson -Fantasy Hockey Rankings - NHL DFS Picks - DFS Hockey

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/20

San Jose, Toronto, Colorado, and Edmonton are on tonight’s slate, yet you won’t see any of those teams in tonight’s article. I look at matchups and trends, and none of these teams look like they’ll be worth the click at their price points. If the data is correct, that’s a huge advantage to us, as […]


NHL Heat Map - 10/20/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/19/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/17/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Cole Caufield - Fantasy Hockey Rankings NHL DFS Picks, DFS Hockey - icon rotoballer

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/17

I don’t remember ever seeing a 10-game Saturday slate this dry. We aren’t looking at teams like Colorado, Toronto, Edmonton, or Tampa Bay for primary players, so many other teams will have to step up. With well-known players like Nathan MacKinnon and Connor McDavid off our radar, we shouldn't have to worry much about ownership […]


Brock Bowers - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL DFS Lineup Picks

Week 6 DraftKings Lineup Picks

Although Joe Burrow, Jared Goff, Justin Jefferson, Jahmyr Gibbs, and Ja’Marr Chase are all on a bye, we can rejoice that Bryce Young is back in our player pool. How did we ever survive a week without the chosen one? My son is a massive Panthers fan, so I may have written this paragraph just... […]

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Connor Bedard - NHL DFS Picks, Daily Fantasy Hockey

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/15

After a wild Tuesday night that saw every team in action, we settle back down tonight with “only” 11 games on the slate. You’ll notice that many of the names and lines I’m writing up will be familiar from that article, and from articles even earlier than that. Remember, I’m not trying to make each […]


NHL Heat Map - 10/15/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Connor McDavid - NHL DFS lineup picks daily fantasy hockey

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/13

Happy Tuesday, RotoBallers. We have reached that point in the season where the NHL gets cute and starts every game 15 minutes after the last, with the first puck drop at 6:00 pm EST and the last at 11:00 pm EST. DraftKings is running two slates: a four-game slate for the earliest starts and a […]


NHL Heat Map - 10/13/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/11/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Jonathan Taylor - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Week 5 DraftKings Lineup Picks

Welcome to Week 5, when we have to ask a very important question: what do we do when one game is far more fantasy-friendly than every other? That’s the conundrum we face with Detroit and Arizona, which carries a game total 8.5 points higher than any other game. The simple answer, of course, is to... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/10/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Cale Makar - NHL DFS Picks, Daily Fantasy Hockey, NHL News

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/10

Happy Saturday, RotoBallers! The NHL team is on fire right now, producing nightly wins from the Heat Map, this article, our Discord, and our betting content. This hot start has a lot to do with the matchups we target and how we use them to build strong DFS lineups. Tonight’s slate will give us several […]


Nathan MacKinnon NHL DFS lineup picks daily fantasy hockey

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/8

Tonight’s slate is unusual. Despite many strong teams on the docket, few have matchups we can exploit. That leaves the Heat Map, and thus this article, loaded with second- and third-line recommendations. That makes for a fun slate, especially as we fade popular players like Auston Matthews, Tage Thompson, and Jack Eichel in favor of […]


NHL Heat Map - 10/8/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Auston Matthews NHL DFS lineup picks daily fantasy hockey

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/6

On to week two of the NHL season! It may not seem like a huge milestone, but at this point in the year, many teams have played as many games as they did in the preseason. Patterns start to emerge, data begins to matter, and we can start to see how the early part of […]


NHL Heat Map - 10/6/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/5/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Tage Thompson - NHL DFS Picks, Daily Fantasy Hockey

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/3

Oh goodness, here we go! Not only is there a monstrous 13-game slate tonight, but almost every high-end offense is on the docket. San Jose, Edmonton, Colorado, Tampa Bay, and Toronto are all in great spots, and our job is to discern which of those big boys will lead us to glory.  Thankfully, we’ve got […]


NHL Heat Map - 10/3/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/2/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Christian McCaffrey - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Week 4 DraftKings Lineup Picks

Week 4 is upon us, and normally we would have to do some work with teams like Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, and New Orleans off the slate. Thankfully, even with those teams playing island games, five games still have a betting total of 47.5 points or more. That’s a lot of firepower for us to choose... […]

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NHL Heat Map - 10/1/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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Macklin Celebrini - Fantasy Hockey Rankings, NHL DFS Picks, DFS Hockey

DraftKings NHL DFS Lineup Picks for 10/1

After a strong first article of the season, thanks to both the Vegas and Vancouver third lines, we look to come back strong once again for the second big slate of the year. Edmonton is the late-game hammer again, but this time we won’t ask Connor McDavid’s line to bring us home.  Elsewhere on the […]


NHL Heat Map - 9/30/26

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

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