Week One was a truncated one with only three or four games for most of your fantasy players. I'm going to pretend like we have enough data to know who will have a big year after only one series, but we've seen enough to anticipate the lineup trends and matchups for each team this coming […]

This is it! If you made it this far, then you're probably playing in your league's championship matchup this week (or maybe in a third-place consolation game?) And if your league goes next week, too, then you really need to have some offseason discussions about moving the playoffs earlier. Adam Silver says he's going to […]

Let's just take a few minutes to soak in how wonderful it is to have baseball back in our lives again, shall we? Opening Day was loaded with good games, and if you happened to read my strikeout prop article yesterday, I started 5-0 on those wagers for the season with a clean sweep! My […]

Welcome to our daily MLB strikeout prop bets guide for Thursday, March 26, 2026. Tonight, we have one standalone game with the Yankees and Giants opening the schedule, but Thursday's slate features a plethora of ace pitchers who are ready to take the ball for their respective teams. We don't have any regular-season data to […]

Spring training is winding down, and the first game that actually counts is tomorrow as the Giants and Yankees open up the regular season! How much do we read into spring training results? The old joke is that if a player that you're high on has a good spring, then the results matter. If they […]

When examining the potential opening day rotations for all 30 teams, it's pretty clear that the quality of rotations varies greatly. The Dodgers have pitchers competing for their fifth spot in the rotation who could slot into one of the top two or three slots on most other teams, while the Colorado Rockies have a […]

The fantasy playoffs are heating up, and with each new week, managers are presented with more challenges as star players continue to drop like flies with injuries (my condolences to those who lost Tyrese Maxey, Cade Cunningham, and Anthony Edwards in recent weeks). I'm expanding the list to 20% and under this week to be […]

Wait, aren't you the pitching guy? Yes, most of my content here at RotoBaller has focused on starting pitchers, but I have some thoughts on which hitters to target (or, in this case, fade), too! If you're a fan of any of these players, don't take it personally! It's not like I don't like them […]

This article should be the capstone in my preseason coverage of starting pitching, as we draw closer to Opening Day and the last big draft weekend of the spring. By now, I've spent a lot of time researching just about every relevant starting pitcher in major league baseball, and it's time to pull all that […]

Welcome to the third and final installment of my "Build-A-Breakout" series that focuses on trying to find the next crop of talented young starting pitchers for the 2026 season by leaning into advanced metrics. If you're looking for part one, you can find it here, and part two (which focused on fastball quality) here. In […]

'Tis the season for bold predictions! I don't love making them, but every year it seems like you all like reading them a bit more than the year before! I've had some tell me my predictions aren't often "bold enough," but I really like trying to make mine a bit more realistic. I'm not sure […]

Prop betting in the NBA is getting a bit more challenging in the waning months of the season, with most slates lately having a majority of games with double-digit spreads. We have to worry about blowouts on a nightly basis, funky rotations from tanking teams, and injury situations changing mid-day. But there are a few […]

Getting to the big leagues is no easy task, even for the most talented prospects. And once players get the call to the majors, they struggle to stick more often than not. But we love hyping up young, talented players regardless. We often place unrealistic expectations on highly touted young players, and when they fail […]

Every year, we see another crop of highly-rated pitching prospects attempt to break into the big leagues. Most of them don't make the initial roster out of spring training, but that doesn't prevent them from having an impact on fantasy baseball teams when they finally do crack the rotation. You won't find pitchers such as […]

It's officially crunch time, folks! A lot of leagues have already started their playoffs, but just about everyone else should be starting this week. The current state of the NBA has made playing fantasy basketball a challenge this season, especially in the last month or so. Advancing this week is going to take some savvy […]

If you're tired of reading article after article that just touts individual players for the upcoming season, then why not take some time to dig into some advanced metrics with me in the second part of my research-based series on starting pitcher statistics? If you're looking for part one, you can find it here. I […]

You can call it beginner's luck, but I'll maintain that hitting two of my first four first basket wagers had more to do with the right process than just getting lucky! Since we had such success on these wagers on Tuesday (thanks to Bam Adebayo and Jalen Green), I decided to run it back for […]

How many times this season have you tracked a player prop for the entire game, only for the player you bet on to come up one point, assist, or rebound shy of going over or under their prop? It happened to me twice on Sunday, and again yesterday (thanks, Karl-Anthony Towns), and I bet it's […]

It's crunch time! Not only are NBA teams preparing for the stretch run to the playoffs, but fantasy basketball teams are doing the same! If you're reading this, it means your team(s) are still alive and kicking - and you probably need some help from the wire this week, right? Some of you will be […]

We continue to get some stellar matchups and full slates on Sundays, so why not place some wagers and enjoy a full day of NBA basketball? The Cavs, with Donovan Mitchell back in the lineup, take on the Celtics, who just added Jayson Tatum back to the mix in the early national TV game. Then […]

My series of starting pitching articles rolls along, with some bargain-bin discounts that are all available much later in drafts! I typically like to wait longer to draft starting pitchers than others, as I think it's easier to find value at the position than at hitter. There are quite a few candidates for your rotation […]

Gone are the Thursdays with only a few primetime NBA matchups! We have a stellar nine-game slate on tap tonight and no shortage of wagering opportunities! I'm leaning into the game outcome markets a bit more lately and slowly away from player props as minutes are getting tougher to project on many teams, but I'll […]

10 games on a Tuesday night in early March? After a sleepy Monday in the Association, we have a pretty loaded NBA slate tonight, including a national NBC broadcast of the San Antonio Spurs and the Philadelphia 76ers. The Eastern Conference features a marquee matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the potential #1 seed Detroit […]

One thing that has become more apparent to me this year than in any previous year of covering fantasy basketball is that there are so many readers who are playing in leagues that are using standard settings. I am very comfortable in 12-team, 9-CAT H2H leagues, but I realize that many of you are playing […]

The term "breakout" gets thrown around a lot, I know. And it's always important to put it in context. For the sake of this article, it's going to refer to pitchers with relatively little MLB experience who could be ready to make a big impact for fantasy teams in 2026. These pitchers check as many […]

It's that time again - time to dig into the advanced stats and see what we can find that will help us make the right decisions in our upcoming fantasy baseball drafts. Every year, I like to analyze the SIERA of starter pitchers to identify those who likely overperformed in terms of their ERA. SIERA […]

It's been two weeks in a row now where we have seen the NBA schedule get overloaded on Thursday night, moving away from the traditional pattern of smaller slates on Thursdays -- and I am here for it! Sure, the NBA has been pretty wacky lately with rampant tanking and tons of superstars sitting out, […]

We rarely get such a loaded Sunday slate of NBA action, but now that the NFL is no longer in the mix, the league will look to feature some of its best matchups on Sunday for national TV broadcasts. We have 11 games today and two really good games featured as the red-hot Cleveland Cavaliers […]

We turn the calendar over to March by the end of Week 18, and the fantasy playoffs start in some leagues. There's a pretty good case for moving the playoff weeks up next year with how bad the tanking situation has gotten this year, but that's probably a conversation for another day! For other managers […]

Last night, we saw 20 NBA teams return to action, and we have another nine games tonight. Multiple teams will be playing the second half of a back-to-back (Cleveland, Charlotte, Washington, Indiana, Denver, Brooklyn, Atlanta, and L.A. Clippers), and we may try to take advantage of several of those situations. If you're reading this, then […]