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Dan Palyo

2,427 articles

Dan Palyo is a fantasy sports analyst and editor at RotoBaller, a multi-award-winning fantasy sports media company. He has been playing fantasy sports for more than 25 years and has been writing about fantasy sports for the past eight years. Dan covers DFS, season-long fantasy, and sports betting content across MLB, NFL, and NBA. He has been with RotoBaller for over five years and has served in several roles, including co-editor of the MLB and NFL teams and head editor of NBA content. He also oversees the site’s DFS and betting coverage. An award-winning member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association (FSWA), Dan won the 2021 FSWA Basketball Writer of the Year Award. He was also nominated in 2024 for Best DFS Writer and Best Baseball Writer of the Year, and in 2025 for Best Research Article. Dan enjoys diving deep into analytics across multiple sports. In baseball, he specializes in breaking down starting pitcher arsenals and betting strikeout props. During the NFL season, he develops his own offensive matchup ratings and projected game outcomes. In basketball season, he focuses on waiver wire analysis and NBA player prop content. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) @ThunderDanDFS.

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Seth McGowan - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Rankings

Juicy Running Back Matchups to Target

Welcome back to another deep dive into running back matchups for Week 9! This article has taken on a life of its own, leading me to uncover more info each week in an attempt to find the absolute best spots for backs every week. Last week was largely successful in that we established that Jaylen […]


Caleb Douglas - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

RotoBaller Staff Picks: Week 9 Starts/Sits

We're hitting a crucial part of the fantasy football season, where wins become more important than ever, with teams jockeying for playoff positions. Every start-sit call becomes that much more important down the stretch! We do this every week! The goal is to give you the confidence you need to make tough calls, moving a […]


Week 9 NFL DFS Cheat Sheet

Week 9 NFL DFS Cheat Sheet: Expert Picks and Lineups   All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to Week 9 of the NFL Season! Each week, I'll be bringing you our famous NFL DFS Cheat Sheet with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a... […]

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Harold Fannin Jr. - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

NFL Betting and Prop Picks for Novig: Week 9

It's my favorite time of the week. We're finally getting a pretty good picture of who's in and who's out this week with the late-week practice reports, and the books are releasing more props for us to sift through. You'll find some star players in here this week, but most of my focus is on […]


George Kittle - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, Draft Targets

NFL Betting Picks for Novig: Week 9

It's honestly one of the toughest slates of the season. My projections line up pretty closely with a lot of the totals and spreads this week. That's a good thing in terms of confidence, and it likely means I'm using similar inputs and calculations as the professional line-makers. But it also leaves very little wiggle […]


Bucky Irving - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Thunder Dan's Week 9 Win Probabilities

All other Premium Tools and Content can be accessed on the premium dashboard.   Week 9 Win Probabilities The Bengals and Patriots put a little scare into us, but when the dust settled last Sunday our top six favorites all won their games, including my Pittsburgh Steelers who I guess I need to keep doubting,... […]

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Scottie Barnes - Fantasy Basketball Rankings, NBA Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Risers and Fallers: Fantasy Basketball

How early is too early to compare NBA players' performances to the baselines they set last season? It might be a tad early, but here we are only two weeks into the season, and I'm ready to start analyzing some early-season trends. I mean, what else was I supposed to do on a day with […]


Franz Wagner - NBA DFS Picks, Daily Fantasy Basketball Rankings, Injury News

NBA Bets and Props for Novig - 11/2

With the NBA taking tomorrow off for Election Day, we get an absolutely packed slate of action tonight with all 30 NBA teams in action. You know I can't resist these big slates! We don't even have to target some of the wider spreads, as we have many juicy games that should stay close and […]


Scoot Henderson - NBA DFS Lineup Picks, Daily Fantasy Basketball

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: Week 3

We're heading into the third week of the fantasy basketball season, and I know your IR slots are filling up while you're running low on patience with some early-season underperformers. I shared a screenshot of one of my teams with Jalen Williams, Kawhi Leonard, and Tyrese Haliburton in the IR to show I'm right there […]


Bhayshul Tuten - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Juicy Running Back Matchups to Target

It's not hyperbole when I say that this is my favorite article to write every week during the NFL season. You might think I would say that just to suck you into an analysis laden with charts and graphs and a bunch of stats, but it's the truth. It's high praise for the article content […]


Jonah Coleman - Fantasy Football Rankings, Waiver Wire Rankings

RotoBaller Staff Picks: Week 8 Starts/Sits

Are you dealing with more Bye-Week Blues? Or has your roster been decimated by injuries? No need to fear; we've got your back with some sneaky start options in fantasy football leagues this week. And our top NFL writers have some highly-rostered players that they're worried about, too. We do this every week! The goal […]


Week 8 NFL DFS Cheat Sheet

Week 8 NFL DFS Cheat Sheet: Expert Picks and Lineups   All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to Week 8 of the NFL Season! Each week, I'll be bringing you our famous NFL DFS Cheat Sheet with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a... […]

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Jaylen Warren - Fantasy Football Rankings, Waiver Wire Pickups, Draft Sleepers

NFL Betting and Prop Picks for Novig: Week 8

Week 7 is behind us, and that's probably a good thing! We had upsets and some fluky, weird games that wreaked a lot of havoc with my betting card. We still had some hits with props, but it wasn't the runaway success that we've had in other weeks. I like the matchups we have this […]


Justin Jefferson - Fantasy Football rankings, NFL DFS, Injury News

NFL Betting Picks for Novig: Week 8

I'd like to take a chance to start this article by saying that Week 7 was one that I'd rather forget happened from a betting perspective. I completely whiffed with the picks I provided here, going 0-4. It was brutal, and if it weren't for a decent day on props and DFS, it would have […]


Draymond Green - Fantasy Basketball Rankings, DFS Picks, NBA Injury News

Fantasy Basketball: Drop or Hold

The first week of the NBA season has been a whirlwind. We've already seen several injuries to early-round picks that are going to force managers to dig deep into their bag of tricks to keep their fantasy teams afloat. While it's going to be tempting to cut underperforming players to make room for some of […]


Trevor Lawrence - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Thunder Dan's Week 8 Win Probabilities

All other Premium Tools and Content can be accessed on the premium dashboard.   Week 8 Win Probabilities The Survivor pools are shrinking by the day! We had a bloodbath last week with a bunch of favorites (San Francisco, Houston, and even the Jets) all losing despite favorable projections. It's hard to know who to... […]

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Anthony Black - Fantasy Basketball Rankings, DFS Picks, NBA Injury News

NBA Bets and Props for Novig - 10/28

Injuries are stacking up already after only one week of NBA games, with Anthony Edwards being the latest casualty. But NBA teams have deep rosters, and it has to be the "next man up" mentality for these teams as there is a lot of basketball left to play this season. We'll be targeting some of […]


Bucky Irving - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Juicy Running Back Matchups to Target

Welcome back to another edition of my RB matchups and another very interesting DFS main slate. We don't have my top matchup on the slate (Pittsburgh) because they are in France playing the early Sunday morning game, while both Rhamondre Stevenson and D'Andre Swift both already played on Thursday night (and had good games, too). […]


Alex Caruso - Fantasy Basketball Rankings, DFS and Betting Picks, NBA Injury News

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: Week 2

The first week of the season is nearly in the books, and we've seen some significant injuries (pour one out for Paolo) open up opportunities for other players. I will say (before I tell you all the good players to pick up for the week) that I do think you should use some discretion as […]


Woody Marks - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

RotoBaller Staff Picks: Week 7 Starts/Sits

Fantasy football is a war of attrition. You just have to still be standing there when the dust settles in December. Our RotoBaller analysts are here every week with potential sleepers and busts ahead of the remaining Week 7 games. We do this every week! The goal is to give you the confidence you need […]


Week 7 NFL DFS Cheat Sheet

Week 7 NFL DFS Cheat Sheet: Expert Picks and Lineups   All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to Week 7 of the NFL Season! Each week, I'll be bringing you our famous NFL DFS Cheat Sheet with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a... […]

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Tyrese Haliburton - Fantasy Basketball Rankings, NBA DFS Lineup Picks

NBA Bets and Props for Novig - 10/23

We head into tonight's 11-game slate with every NBA team now having at least one game under their belt. It would be easy to chase some of the biggest performances from players in their first game, but probably not wise. In a perfect world, I'd love to wait for a solid 5-game sample size before […]


Tucker Kraft - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

NFL Betting and Prop Picks for Novig: Week 7

Props, props, props - that's what I hear when the iconic 2009 song "Shots" by Lil Jon comes on. Because I can't get enough props (and at my age now, I can surely get far too many shots). If you love prop bets and have even the slightest bit of nostalgia for early 2000s popular […]


Xavier Worthy - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

NFL Betting Picks for Novig: Week 7

Week 7 is creeping up on us in a hurry, and somehow we're already entering the middle of every team's schedule. Normally, I like to think we know who these teams really are by now, but with so many teams dealing with major injuries, especially to the quarterback position, it's kind of a tough week […]


Houston Texans DST Defense - Danielle Hunter, Will Anderson Jr., IDP, D/ST Rankings

Thunder Dan's Week 7 Win Probabilities

All other Premium Tools and Content can be accessed on the premium dashboard.   Week 7 Win Probabilities Wow, another brutal week for some big favorites. The Rams and Colts both lost outright, while the Niners nearly gave it away late on Monday night. The only good news for Survivor contestants is that the number... […]

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Bilal Coulibaly - Fantasy Basketball Rankings, NBA DFS Lineup Picks

Today's NBA DFS Picks for DraftKings, FanDuel

We had only a few games on opening night, and it was just enough for us to dip our toes back into the NBA DFS pool. KAT played only six minutes in the first half due to foul trouble, and I had only one share of his backup, Andre Drummond, in my lineups. But I... […]

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Dylan Harper - Fantasy Basketball Rankings, DFS and Betting PIcks, NBA Injury News

Today's NBA DFS Picks for DraftKings, FanDuel

I'm literally like a kid on Christmas morning. I couldn't sleep last night. I woke up early. And I will be on the edge of my seat all day while we wait for the first NBA games of the season. Luckily, we don't have to wait long because we get a special matinee game between... […]

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James Cook - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Juicy Running Back Matchups to Target

It's going to be yet another wild main slate of NFL DFS this week. We have a consolidated slate with 10 games, as there is another London game as well as multiple teams on bye this week. I did things a bit differently this week and addressed the three running backs who are projected to […]


MarShawn Lloyd - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

RotoBaller Staff Picks: Week 6 Starts/Sits

Don't let injuries and underperforming players bring you down! Every week is a new challenge in fantasy football, and our RotoBaller analysts are back to break down potential sleepers and busts ahead of the remaining Week 6 games. We do this every week! The goal is to give you the confidence you need to make […]


Jalen Smith - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Rankings, NBA DFS Lineup Picks

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: Week 1

The season is nearly upon us! I wrapped up my last few drafts last night, and I am now switching over into Week 1 mode, focusing on starting strong out of the gate in my league matchups. Welcome to the first edition of my weekly waiver wire content, where we figure out how to maximize […]


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