Isaiah Stewart (C, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: I understand that it is still early to judge, but here's a little nugget I found while digging through my spreadsheets: 16 players have averaged a double-double in the early season through Saturday. Only 15 of them are not named Isaiah Stewart. Another […]

Isaiah Hartenstein (C, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 10% of leagues ANALYSIS: Contrasting games for Isaiah Hartenstein to kick his Knickerbocker tenure off. Nobody bit for the 40 minutes Thibs awarded him in G1 because that was enterirly related to Mitchell Robinson getting in deep foul trouble. He went back to a more reasonable 21 […]

Steven Adams (C, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: We're about to wrap up the 2022 Year of our Lord yet here we still are, looking at Steven Adams rostered in fewer than half of ESPN leagues out there. Seriously, folks, you can do better than this. Adams, just in case, is […]

Santi Aldama (SF/PF, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of leagues ANALYSIS: There is this thing about basketball that is very different from, say, football: rookies and youngsters take much more time to develop and yield sizable results, but when they do, they do. Enter Santi Aldama, he of the Mighty Memphis Grizzlies. The Bear already […]

Bennedict Mathurin (SF, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: Three games for the Pacers rookie so far this season, three increasingly better performances by the day for Bennedict Mathurin who seems to have hit the ground running in Indy. Mathurin has been hella steady through the first week of play and his […]

Ayo Dosunmu (PG/SG, CHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS: There is nothing surprising in seeing Ayo Dosunmu starting games for the Bulls at this point, but there is something very worrying about finding him available in more than 70% of ESPN leagues. If you're one of those GMs straight fading the second-year […]

Chuba Hubbard (RB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 25% of Leagues ANALYSIS: In case you have missed the breaking news: the Carolina Panthers just traded their no. 1 rusher (and fourth-best fantasy RB in PPR leagues) Christian McCaffrey to the San Francisco 49ers for a handful of draft picks. The hole created by this trade […]

D'Onta Foreman (RB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 42% of Leagues ANALYSIS: In case you have missed the breaking news: the Carolina Panthers just traded their no. 1 rusher (and fourth-best fantasy RB in PPR leagues) Christian McCaffrey to the San Francisco 49ers for a handful of draft picks. The hole created by this trade […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev

Third-last numbered event of the 2022 calendar year in the UFC promotion, this one! After more than a month since we watched the last one (one in which, adding wood to the fire, there was not a single title up for grabs) Dana is blessing us with a two-belt night this Saturday in which both […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev (Premium Content)

Third-last numbered event of the 2022 calendar year in the UFC promotion, this one! After more than a month since we watched the last one (one in which, adding wood to the fire, there was not a single title up for grabs) Dana is blessing us with a two-belt night this Saturday in which both […]

NextGen Stats - Week 6: QB Breakdowns and Takeaways

It's been a month since the last time we took a look at our beloved quarterbacks. Numbers are numbers, and numbers don't lie. You can twist them, but looking at them objectively, numbers say that no matter what, rushing the ball is almost always a worse option than passing it in today's game. That's why […]

Hunter Henry (TE, NE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Jonnu Smith, who had missed two games in the two weeks before the last one, returned in Week 6 ahead of the clash against Cleveland. That didn't mean that he was fully available, though, so Hunter Henry stayed on the field for […]

Robert Tonyan (TE, GB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Only a very particular situation made it possible for Robert Tonyan to have one of the best performances by a tight end this season last Sunday. It was all related to 1) a positive game script for him with Green Bay losing […]

Alec Pierce (WR, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS:  Did QB Matt Ryan have anything to do with Alec Pierce's top-24 wideout performance this past Sunday? Probably, but what's a wide receiver without a quarterback? Nothing, that's what. And even then, it is not that Pierce finished Week 6 with double-digit […]

Darnell Mooney (WR, CHI) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS:  Considering Darnell Mooney has had to endure a quarterback that is just coming off his second game with 14+ completions and 22+ passing attempts, well, it's not that you can ask Mooney to do much more than he's done to date. Mooney […]

Deon Jackson (RB, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 43% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This is a savage and ballsy move in equal parts. Deon Jackson entered the fantasy talk just a couple of weeks ago ahead of Week 5 when it was confirmed that Indianapolis' RB1 Jonathan Taylor would miss that game. That, along with Nyheim […]

Zay Jones (WR, JAX) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of Leagues ANALYSIS: You have to dig a bit deeper to find Zay Jones' value but only once you look at the finer details will you realize how valuable he is for someone available in four of every five Yahoo leagues. Jones' case as […]

Chase Claypool (WR, PIT) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 41% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Finding Chase Claypool in any waiver pool would have been ridiculous just a year ago considering his top-24 2020 season. Claypool, of course, regressed a bit last year and came down to earth finishing as a borderline WR3 in 2021. The trend […]

Matt Ryan (QB, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Find me a more exciting quarterback than Matt Ryan, I challenge you! Alright, alright, that's not hard, but looking at Ryan's Week 6 stat line you'd think otherwise, wouldn't you? Ryan is coming off a matchup in which he put up the […]

Mike Boone (RB, DEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Mike Boone is not a candidate to ascend into lead back responsibilities, and the 27-year-old back will be functioning within a backfield rotation for the Broncos. Making moves, @_lococinco📺: @NFLonPrime pic.twitter.com/yUP2GkFLS7— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) October 7, 2022 However, that will not preclude Boone […]

Jimmy Garoppolo (QB, SF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Some things never change. For example, the NFL always comes back at the end of every summer, the San Francisco 49ers play football, and Jimmy Garoppolo turns into an under-the-radar QB1/QB2 without mistake. That's right, folks. For all of the Trey Lance […]

Justin Fields (QB, CHI) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It can't be argued that Justin Fields has had a rough start to his sophomore season. It took Fields three games to complete 23 passes... in total. Fields only hit double-digit completions in Week 4 when facing the Giants away from home. The good […]

Josh Reynolds (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Are we sure Josh Reynolds is not a legitimate (at least) fantasy player now? I mean, I know I am, but I'm just asking you all GMs managing out there. Reynolds and QB Jared Goff already shared the field on the Rams, […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC Vegas 62: Grasso vs. Araujo (Premium Content)

The UFC is back at the Apex in Las Vegas, NV this Saturday to complete a three-event run before moving places--for good this time. With the next numbered event (UFC 280) taking place on Oct. 22 next week in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dana decided to give one last use to the complex before flying abroad. […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - UFC Vegas 62: Grasso vs. Araujo

The UFC is back at the Apex in Las Vegas, NV this Saturday to complete a three-event run before moving places--for good this time. With the next numbered event (UFC 280) taking place on Oct. 22 next week in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dana decided to give one last use to the complex before flying abroad. […]

NextGen Stats - Week 5: RB Breakdowns and Takeaways

With five weeks of play in the books and things starting to settle a bit, it's time to get back to studying some of the rushers around the league and see how they have performed through (almost) the first third of the season. To gain the biggest edge in your fantasy football league, it's necessary […]

Geno Smith (QB, SEA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There should not be any doubt about Geno Smith's position in the QB tiers of the NFL at this point into the season. Yes, the start was a bit random with his W1 game reaching 16.2 FP and his second start topping […]

Alec Pierce (WR, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Alec Pierce is, simply put, going nowhere. It's only been five weeks (and four actual games for Pierce, who didn't play in Week 2) but the wideout has already commanded the second-most targets from QB Matt Ryan while appearing on 50% of […]

Hayden Hurst (TE, CIN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you decided to punt on the tight end position – which these days means not drafting either Mark Andrews or Travis Kelce– then you have no reason not to pick up Hayden Hurst from your league's waiver in a hurry. Hurst […]

Kenneth Walker III (RB, SEA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Man down! First of all, here's hoping for a quick and healthy recovery for Rashaad Penny, Seattle's no. 1 back. It finally looked like Penny's SZN had arrived and now he'll be out for a while with a broken leg. It sucks for […]