Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 9

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 40% of leagues ANALYSIS: It might take them more, or it might take them less, but at some point virtually, every top-three draft pick is going to explode and see the light of day. Jabari Smith Jr. was starting to get canceled by some smarties (as […]

Mason Plumlee (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 9

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 21% of leagues ANALYSIS: The last survivor of the Plumlee Family keeps doing his thing and with the Hornets not really knowing whether they should attempt a play-in run or just straight tank, nothing should change for Mason Plumlee at least for the next few weeks […]

Mitchell Robinson (C, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 9

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of leagues ANALYSIS: The most recent news coming from Broadway (other than Trae Young sucking in MSG, just in case) are the ones concerning young Knicks forward Obi Toppin, who will miss the next two-to-three weeks before making a comeback. While that injury won't impact […]

Killian Hayes (PG, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 9

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 26% of leagues ANALYSIS: The rostership is starting to rise as fantasy GMs have finally realized Killian Hayes is worth the dough. About time, folks. Cade Cunningham isn't even close to returning (even if he decides to do so at all, which would make little to […]

James Cook (RB, BUF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 23% of Leagues ANALYSIS:  After a poor start to the season in which he was basically an afterthought, James Cook has heated up right in time for the fantasy playoffs. Cook never played more than 18 snaps (or 26% of all offensive plays by the Bills) […]

DJ Chark (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This has been a forgettable season for DJ Chark when looking at it from a wider angle. He played three games (including a very exciting Week 1 explosion for 15.2 PPR points) to start the year but he then missed every single […]

Zonovan Knight (RB, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 47% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The New York Jets won't ever stop generating headlines, will they? They started the season with Joe Flacco at quarterback and the uber-veteran put up gaudy numbers. Then Zach Wilson came back and even while getting putrid fantasy outcomes he was good […]

Greg Dulcich (TE, DEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Greg Dulcich had to wait until Week 6 to finally play in an NFL game, but he hit the ground running by catching a couple of passes and scoring a touchdown in his debut with the Denver Broncos. Dulcich kept things going […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev

Last numbered UFC event of the year and the second-to-last before we flip the calendar page and welcome 2023, so enjoy it while it lasts! Dana is putting a vacated title on the line for this one with two very different contenders vying for lifting the belt: one already got it barely one year ago […]

NextGen Stats - Week 13: WR/TE Breakdowns and Takeaways

You won't believe it, but you weren't dreaming: the fantasy football regular season is almost over (in most leagues and for our purposes at least; some of y'all will still keep on going, you sickos), and it's time to gear up for the last regular-season week of play before turning our attention to the playoffs. […]

Evan Engram (TE, JAX) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 43% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Trevor Lawrence endured a massive 14-40 defeat last Sunday at Detroit but he threw 31 passes, completing 17 of them. Of those 31 attempts, 7 went Evan Engram's way for a team-leading amount of targets. With every single Jaguars soul struggling, at […]

Mike White (QB, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The New York Jets won't ever stop generating headlines, will they? They started the season with Joe Flacco at quarterback and the uber-veteran put up gaudy numbers. Then Zach Wilson came back and even while getting putrid fantasy outcomes he was good enough […]

Jared Goff (QB, DET) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Lions absolutely destroyed Jacksonville this past Sunday with a 40-14 victory that nobody truly believed while watching it all unfold right in front of their eyes. That bulky victory was possible (at least in part) thanks to Jared Goff's smoothly efficient […]

Donovan Peoples-Jones (WR, CLE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Quarterback Deshaun Watson finally made his anticipated comeback on Sunday leading the Cleveland Browns to a 27-14 win away from home at Houston. That's cool, but he was hella rusty and everybody paid for that: just 22 attempts and 12 completions is […]

Nico Collins (WR, HOU) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There is something funny happening in Houston this season. Actually, there has been something funny happening in Houston for years now, considering the team has basically sucked for a long period of time so no fantasy GM has ever trusted any of […]

Michael Gallup (WR, DAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 53% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It's been two weeks playing at WR40 level although saying that doesn't really make much justice to what Michael Gallup has been doing on the gridiron lately. Gallup, remember, missed the first three games of the season entirely while recovering from injury […]

Killian Hayes (PG, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: Shouts out to the haters! Killian Hayes might not be Kylian Mbappe but one thing is real and it is that the breakout is finally happening for the French youngster. That has been aided by the absence of Cade Cunningham, but the […]

Jalen McDaniels (PF, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's been four starts in a row for Jalen McDaniels through Saturday's second leg of Charlotte's back-to-back against Washington and Milwaukee. The young forward and Kelly Oubre have been used as a downsized solution to make up for the absence of oft-injured […]

Malik Monk (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of leagues ANALYSIS: Kevin Huerter is stealing most headlines but Malik Monk has kept working on his game, producing results, and giving the Kings all they asked for when they signed Monk this summer before trading for the Red Velvet. In fact, the main difference […]

Joe Harris (SG, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues ANALYSIS: It was all good vibes in the Nets' Friday game against the Raptors with Brooklyn getting to a ridiculously large lead at some point... but most of all because of the return to the basketball court of long-time absentee T.J. Warren (out […]

Kenyon Martin Jr. (SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: While not quite there, Kenyon Martin Jr. can't be closer to his pops career averages with the numbers he's putting up this season. KJ Martin is averaging a 11-5-1 line to his pops' 12-7-2. Again, still not there but slowly but surely […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 8: Malik Monk, Killian Hayes, Joe Harris

The deeper a fantasy basketball league, the harder it is to hit a winner with your last few picks. It is also harder to find decent help from the waiver wire if your late-round picks don't do you justice. If you picked up a few stinkers, don't lose hope just yet. I will try to […]

Royce O'Neale (SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 42% of leagues ANALYSIS: Gotta be happy about T.J. Warren making it back to a basketball court after virtually two years out of the pro circuit recovering from injuries. I mean, the last time this man graced a basketball court we were watching Bubble Hoops. This […]

Bennedict Mathurin (SF, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of leagues ANALYSIS: I have a very serious idea I'd like to pitch to NBA commish Adam Silver. Considering most years there is a clear-cut Rookie of the Year winner, what about creating a Runner-up Silver Rookie award (no pun intended)? I haven't checked past seasons, […]

Derrick White (PG, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 49% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Celtics, as stupid as this sounds, are currently playing the best offensive basketball in the history of the Association. Seriously. It's only been 23 games through Saturday for the Celtics in the 2022-23 campaign but they're putting up a 121.3 ORtg, […]

Steven Adams (C, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: See, this is very simple: 21 games played, 21 games started, 27 MPG on average. That is a reason good enough to have Adams rostered in any and every ESPN league out there, but for some reason, fantasy GMs have yet to […]

Caris LeVert (SG, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: Two players are averaging at least 11.5 PPG, 4.5 RPG, and 4.5 APG while turning the ball over fewer than two times per game. Those are, of course, Jimmy Butler and Caris LeVert. The Cavaliers are using LeVert in all possible ways […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 30% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Sixers keep riding the Milton & Melton wave while waiting for James Harden and Tyrese Maxey to return from injury. That should still be a few days away from happening, so it makes sense to keep adding and starting the former […]

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues ANALYSIS: Not even one month into the season there were already passionate folks out there trying to set Houston on fire and bury the career of Jabari Smith Jr... Again, not even a month into the season, and all of that related to […]

Al Horford (C, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of leagues ANALYSIS: Shout out Big Al for his contract extension! Al Horford entered the league as a third-overall draftee all the way back in the 2007 draft. 15 seasons and still running for the man hailing from the Dominican Republic. Not bad, if you […]