Jonathan India 2021 Year-in-Review

The Cincinnati Reds and their fans are probably more disappointed than happy with the team's 2021 performance, as the team finished with a winning record of 83-79. However, a very final month left pushed them out of the playoffs. They are left with a solid core of players, which gives the team hopes for a... Read More

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/12/21): NBA DFS Lineups

It's Friday, which means we have a huge slate of NBA games! There are eleven games tipping off tonight, which gives us a plethora of spots to go to for DFS purposes. The prices on the stud players have really been boosted up for these big slates this week, which also works to make things... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 9

Week 9 was a weird one. Very few things played out the way that the odds said they were likely to, leaving a lot of sharp fantasy players not finding much success. In this post, we will finish the part of the week where we are looking backward by summarizing the week in a bunch... Read More

DraftKings NBA DFS Data Insights (11/8/21): Top Values, Best Matchups, Minute Gainers

Happy Monday! I hope everybody had a wildly successful weekend playing fantasy football and basketball. We are now into the season's fourth week, and we have an abundant amount of data to train and run data models with. I have to say as well that even with limited data, the models have been performing quite... Read More

DraftKings NBA DFS Data Insights (11/5/21): Top Values, Best Matchups, Minute Gainers

It's Friday, which means we have a big NBA slate on tap. There are nine games on the board, with no shortage of studs in great spots and there is sure to be no shortage of value plays to help us get to them. Let's dust off the projection models and talk about the best... Read More

Corbin Burnes 2021 Year-in-Review

One of the toughest decisions to make in 2021 drafts was what exactly to do with Corbin Burnes. We hadn't seen much of him at all in the Major Leagues before the 2020 season, and then we had less than 60 innings to go off of for Burnes from that 2020 season. While his performance... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 8

Eight weeks in the books now, and it was another wild week of football. More surprise performances, big-time duds, and one massive injury that will change your fantasy league's landscape for the rest of the year. I appreciate everybody that's been following along with this post series, and I hope you're getting used to using... Read More

DraftKings NBA DFS Data Insights (11/3/21): Top Values, Best Matchups, Minute Gainers

We have a massive 12-game slate on tap on this lovely Wednesday night, which presents quite a challenge for DFS players. There is a lot to wrap your head around on big slates like this, which can be daunting. The good thing about big slates is it provides no shortage of angles to attack. There... Read More

Aaron Nola 2021 Year-in-Review

Phillies right-handed starting pitcher Aaron Nola was one of the most dominant pitchers in the league in the short 2020 campaign. That season along with the upside we had seen from him previously, and his young age made him an SP1 on fantasy rosters coming out of the draft. Nola went in the top two... Read More

DraftKings NBA DFS Data Insights (11/1/21): Top Values, Best Matchups, Minute Gainers

Hello RotoBaller! I'm Jon Anderson and I'm the resident data modeling guy here at RotoBaller. I mainly contribute to this website with fantasy baseball analysis, but I decided to dip my toes in the NBA modeling business this year. Basketball is probably the best sport for data modeling and projections, just because of the inherent... Read More

2021 MLB Strength of Schedule - In Depth Analysis

Strength of schedule analysis is a common thing you'll see in fantasy football analysis. With just 16 (17 now, I guess) games on the schedule every year, the list of teams on your schedule can make a big difference in your final year metrics. If you get to face the league's worst offense twice while... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 7

Seven weeks in the books and we're heading towards the midway point. The season is really flying by. Week seven was the bye week apocalypse, with an outrageous amount of fantasy studs not playing. That plus all of the injuries we've seen going down throughout the year probably forced your hand into starting some sub-optimal... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 6

Injuries continue to be a major factor in the fantasy game this year, and we saw a few big performances from undrafted players in Week 6 because of it. We also saw more of the same stuff with the usual suspects dominating on the field and paying off their big draft day prices. Before we... Read More

Shohei Ohtani - 2021 Year-in-Review

Baseball fans had the pleasure of watching Shohei Ohtani play a full season, doing things we've never seen done on the baseball field all year long. It was an incredible year, to say the least, for the probable American League MVP. This is essentially a double-article since Ohtani functioned as two completely different players (for... Read More

NFL DFS Strategy: 2021 DraftKings Scoring Analysis

We talk a lot about NFL DFS here at RotoBaller. It is a wildly popular game and in fact, it proves to be much more strategic and beatable than season-long fantasy football. By that I mean that the best players will win at a higher rate in DFS than the best players will win in... Read More

NFL's Most Concentrated Offenses

Volume is the most important component of fantasy scoring. We have seen time and time again a freak athlete failing to put up fantasy points because he just can't get the ball in his hands. Picking your fantasy players from teams that are known to depend on a small number of players to move the... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 5

Another week gone and now we are really into the thick of it. We are deep enough into the season now for your team's playoffs hope to be dashed already, but since you're here I'm assuming that doesn't apply to you. We are really seeing the injuries pile up now and the waiver wire is... Read More

MLB DFS Playoff Slate In Depth Analysis for 10/11/21 (Premium Content)

MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 10/11 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.   This will surely be the final four-game slate of the playoffs, which means it's our last chance to get any semblance of an edge on the field. There is just no real edge in a two-game slate... Read More

2021 MLB Reflection and League Trends

Here at RotoBaller, we give you fantasy baseball coverage twelve months a year. The playoffs are still in full swing, which means it's probably not quite time to shift our focus to the 2022 season, but it won't be long before we're there. In the meantime, we want to spend some time reflecting on the 2021... Read More

MLB DFS Playoff Slate In Depth Analysis for 10/8/21 (Premium Content)

MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 10/8 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.   We have one of the few four-game slates we'll see during these playoffs, which makes the game a little bit easier to play. All remaining teams are in action tonight, and there is a lot to like.... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 4

Four weeks in the books! We have a serious amount of data to look at now for the season, and to me, this is where the fun really begins. Week four brought us some really disappointing performances from the early-season breakout names, as well as some very consequential injuries. It's always best to review the... Read More

Year in Review: Jon Anderson's Bold Predictions

After joining the RotoBaller team in late 2020, I was graciously allowed to write a "Bold Predictions" piece for the 2021 MLB season, you can read back on that here. It was a fantastically fun year covering fantasy baseball on this website, but now it's time to get the gavel out begin judging some of... Read More

MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 10/1/21 (Premium Content)

  MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 10/1 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.      Top Tournament Stacks for 10/1/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick... Read More

MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 9/30/21 (Premium Content)

  MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 9/30 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.      Top Tournament Stacks for 9/30/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick... Read More

MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 9/29/21 (Premium Content)

  MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 9/29 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.      Top Tournament Stacks for 9/29/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 3

We are through three clean weeks of NFL action, and boy is it nice to have games running on time with no weird COVID postponements or anything like that. Three weeks is still a pretty small data sample, but the NFL season is short so we have to make do with what we have. All... Read More

MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 9/24/21 (Premium Content)

MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 9/24 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.      Top Tournament Stacks for 9/24/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on... Read More

MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 9/23/21 (Premium Content)

MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 9/23 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.      Top Tournament Stacks for 9/23/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on... Read More

Key Fantasy Football Data from Week 2

Another week in the book and that means the available data we have to look at has doubled! We are still probably three or four weeks away from having a significant data sample, but it's never too early to peer into the numbers to see what's been happening. We started this post series last week,... Read More

MLB DFS Cheat Sheet, Stacks and Avoids for 9/22/21 (Premium Content)

MLB DFS Premium Cheatsheet for 9/22 All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.      Top Tournament Stacks for 9/22/21 This section will highlight the top tournament lineup stacks of the day (depending on the size of the slate) and help you identify the pitchers that are best suited to pick on... Read More