Brock Purdy (QB, SF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 45% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The San Francisco 49ers barely edged the Las Vegas Raiders on the road but they did enough to earn their 12th W of the season having already clinched their division and now looking at topping the whole conference with another win next... Read More

Russell Wilson (QB, DEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 49% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Denver Broncos didn't envision this type of season when they traded the house for Russell Wilson last March. With just one more game on the schedule, Wilson ranks as the QB17 even though he's played at least one more game than... Read More

Sam Darnold (QB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Last week (W16) might have looked more an outlier than a proper outing by Sam Darnold in the eyes of some fantasy GMs. That should no longer be the case, though, with Darnold coming off his second consecutive top-12 game of the season... Read More

Alec Burks (SG, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of leagues ANALYSIS: Of course, the main reason for streaming Alec Burks this week and perhaps a few more games down the road is the aftermath of the Pistons and Magic brawl a few days ago. It could have been worse but things stayed reasonably... Read More

Daniel Gafford (C, WAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Wizards find themselves in the middle of a very crucial season. Do they attempt to contend (whatever that means for them...) or do they sell the house and start all over again after a few years of building around the Wall-Beal... Read More

T.J. Warren (SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's been just 11 games played since coming back on Dec. 2 and playing basketball for the first time in two years for T.J. Warren. The results? Optimal, to say the least. Warren has lost not a single bit of talent since... Read More

Rui Hachimura (SF, WAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: It took Rui Hachimura a while to return to the court after he last appeared back on November 18, but he did so a little over a week ago, returning in time for the game against Utah on December 22. It's been... Read More

Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: After winning a whole bunch of games (eight straight), the New York Knicks are back to their usual losing ways and navigating the waters of a .500 record. Some injuries have affected the rotation (to the extent coach Thibs allows for that,... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 12: Immanuel Quickley, Rui Hachimura, Alec Burks

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... Read More

Marcus Morris (PF, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: Marcus Morris keeps getting starts nightly for the Clippers and that, simply put, won't change at any point ROS no matter what happens to this ballclub and how the rotation might change in the future. Not only is that good, but Morris... Read More

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: James Harden missed the Sixers' last game of the year on Dec. 31 as he was given a day off by Philly. Tyrese Maxey came back from injury on Dec. 30 but didn't play on the second leg of that back-to-back, either.... Read More

Steven Adams (C, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Memphis Grizzlies don't need any more scorers than those leading the team in points these days. Makes sense when you have the likes of Ja Morant, Dillon Brooks, and Desmond Bane dropping buckets in bunches. That's why Steven Adams has scored... Read More

Thomas Bryant (C, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues ANALYSIS: You know the Los Angeles Lakers have been horrid when there's already talk out there about LeBron James potentially retiring as soon as next summer out of desperation. Seriously. With Anthony Davis injured and still out for a few more days/weeks and... Read More

Jalen Duren (C, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of leagues ANALYSIS: The youngest player in the NBA has already played 35 rookie games and started 11 of them, all of those starts happening from Dec. 9 on and without any benching in between and through New Year's Eve. Duren was thrust into the... Read More

Walker Kessler (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of leagues ANALYSIS: While the Utah Jazz welcomed Kelly Olynyk back and instantly put him in the starting lineup at PF last Wednesday (and once more on Friday) and Jarred Vanderbilt never stopped starting games whether that was at PF or C, the truth is... Read More

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 40% of leagues ANALYSIS: After a whole lot of years of NBA/BAA basketball (it's been around since 1947) and even more debutants (I don't know how many rookies there have been through history, but you bet it's been more than a handful), only 128 of them... Read More

NextGen Stats - Week 16: WR/TE Breakdowns and Takeaways

Folks, it's time to put on your battle armor and get ready for war as we get ready for the all-important championship week. If you are still in the playoffs, that means you have been been able to stay alive and grind through 16 long weeks. Only one thing can beat you to the finish... Read More

Sam Darnold (QB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The only thing keeping Sam Darnold from getting rostered in many more teams and leagues than he currently is at is, obviously, his low-ceiling, no-risks-taken style of play. Darnold has been able to keep interceptions and fumbles (one) at bay for the four... Read More

Brock Purdy (QB, SF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Who would have thought Brock Purdy has this much production inside of him? In the four games he's started, Purdy has not dropped below the 15-FP line and has put up numbers on all fronts barring pass completions. Yes, that hurts the... Read More

Daniel Jones (QB, NYG) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 63% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Call it a contract year or call it what you want, but the truth is that Daniel Jones has finally stepped up his game at the right time for the Giants and is still in a position to carry them to the... Read More

Isaiah Hodgins (WR, NYG) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Had you asked Isaiah Hodgins about his pro career through Week 9 just a couple of months ago, he would have given you a very depressing answer. After playing just four snaps as a rookie for Buffalo last year and 13 in... Read More

Richie James (WR, NYG) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: No pass-catcher on the New York Giants rosters has done more than Richie James in the last six weeks of play. That's reason enough to roster James in all leagues and start him in pretty much every one of them, let... Read More

DJ Chark (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While DJ Chark had a rough outing a couple of weeks ago when he could only put up 2.8 PPR points at the New York Jets, he has now proved that a fluke with another 14+ PPR game this past weekend and... Read More

Kendrick Bourne (WR, NE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It sounds ridiculous, but Kendrick Bourne accrued more than 33% of his total PPR points this season in last Saturday's matchup against the Bengals alone. Of course, this being Bourne, that makes a bit of sense compared to, say, what that would... Read More

Demarcus Robinson (WR, BAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This post might not make sense to you at first sight considering that Demarcus Robinson is coming off a one-target, six-yard game (although he scored on that lone reception) but that is not what you need to be focusing on. That would... Read More

Tyler Allgeier (RB, ATL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 49% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It had been a while since we had seen Tyler Allgeier have such a good game as the one he put up a couple of weeks ago in Week 15 against the Saints. He finished that matchup with a season-high 22.6 PPR... Read More

James Cook (RB, BUF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 52% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Bills played at frozen Chicago on Saturday and simply destroyed the Bears, as expected. Both rushers on Buffalo's side, James Cook and Devin Singletary spent at least 26 snaps on the field each and pretty much split their workloads with the... Read More

Onyeka Okongwu (PF, ATL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: It could be said that it's been a tale of two seasons for the young Onyeka Okongwu split into pre and post-Dec. 1st. From the start of the year to the start of December, the young big was averaging a measly 19... Read More

Naz Reid (C, MIN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of leagues ANALYSIS: It is true that Naz Reid's upside was high for a few games only because Rudy Gobert missed time, but that doesn't mean Reid is exclusively a no-Gobert option for fantasy GMs managing in deeper leagues and formats. Reid is one of... Read More

Thomas Bryant (C, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: Thomas Bryant returned to the court on Nov. 18, slightly over a month ago, but he didn't feature prominently in the Lakers' lineups until last week when Anthony Davis (who has been playing center all year) went down injured. Since then, and... Read More