DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/4/18): NBA DFS Lineups

There are seven total games today with only six on DraftKings' main slate, but enough with un-intriguing intro sentences. There are plenty of quality games being played tonight and the Trail Blazers - Timberwolves and Lakers - Raptors will be the games to watch and stack. LeBron needs to be played in most lineups and... Read More

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/3/18): NBA DFS Lineups

There are seven games tonight and none of them are all that appealing right off the bat, although the Lakers-Trail Blazers game has my early attention along with Hornets-Cavaliers. Both will be high-scoring affairs, but only the Lakers and Trail Blazers offer serious, consistent value. The Celtics-Pacers game is enticing, but it's hard to trust... Read More

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/2/18): NBA DFS Lineups

The third Friday of the NBA season is now upon us. Half of the league's teams are in action tonight with eight games on the docket. Perhaps the most intriguing game of the night is Minnesota at Golden State. Both teams are ranked in the top-eight of the league in scoring and three-point shooting. The... Read More

Week 2 Saturday Night Chat - Live NFL DFS Q&A

It's Saturday Night Week 2... Time to prep your lineups!  Each Saturday night of the NFL season, RotoBaller's Mark Wemken will be moderating the industry's leading live chat room and answering a bunch of your fantasy football questions, from around 8 PM ET to 9 PM ET. Come join in on the fun, and get... Read More

RotoBaller Premium Tools - Hitter Matchups

Baseball is a beautiful game, and as lovely as it is to witness a great pitching performance, there's nothing like seeing a great piece of hitting. Of course, even the best hitters will likely fail at the dish around 65-70% of the time over the course of the season. While this lovely sport is truly... Read More

RotoBaller Premium Tools - Starting Pitcher Matchups

The baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint. It would be nice to draft an All-Star fantasy squad and think that you can just set it and forget it and come out on top by season's end. You probably wish you had a league filled with owners who thought that way, because you'd be... Read More

How To Use The DFS Lineup Optimizer - Featured Tool Overview

Daily Fantasy Sports is becoming more and more competitive every day with the big sharks heavily diluting the pools and elbowing out the casual players with thousands and thousands of entries featuring the same algorithm, computer-generated lineups. You may be a pen and paper kind of lineup generator like myself - but how many days... Read More

Five Strategies to Help You Win in Fantasy Playoff Leagues

If you won a fantasy football title in the regular season and are looking for more hardware, of if you want redemption after a bad season, the fantasy football season isn't over just yet. As if the NFL playoffs weren't exciting enough, you can assemble a team of your own in the postseason and root... Read More

Live And Learn - Reflecting on my DraftKings NFL Cash Game Lineups From Weeks 1-3

Hey RotoBallers! I hope you're all surviving yet another Tuesday-Wednesday without football to consume. I also hope your NFL DFS ventures have been more successful than mine so far. I've been playing NFL DFS on DraftKings once again this season, and through the first three weeks I feel as though I'm going backwards. So, I... Read More

MLB Lineup Optimizer: Using Advanced Stats To Generate Lineups (Part 3)

As many people know, the days of looking at a baseball players batting average or a pitchers ERA as indicators of their performance are out the window. The stats of old have been replaced by several new advanced stats that show a true picture of how the player is actually performing. For batters these stats... Read More

MLB Lineup Optimizer: Usaging Exposure and Projection Models (Part 2)

Last week, we introduced RotoBaller's MLB Lineup Optimizer with some tips on how to best use this great tool.   Today, we're going to continue showing you how to use our industry-leading MLB DFS Lineup Optimizer and Generator tool, which is part of RotoBaller's MLB Premium Subscription. With lots of advanced features, this powerful tool... Read More

MLB Lineup Optimizer: How To Generate Winning Lineups (Part 1)

As part of RotoBaller’s MLB Premium package, we would like to show you how to best use our industry-leading MLB DFS Lineup Optimizer and Generator tool. With lots of advanced features, this powerful tool offers DFS players various options for building winning FanDuel, DraftKings and Yahoo lineups. Over the coming days and weeks we will roll... Read More

Bankroll Management Theories for DFS Play (Premium Content)

Picking a Daily Fantasy lineup is a lot like everyday living. You can get away with spending a few too many dollars on adult beverages on a Saturday night with only the risk of having to go easy the following week. If you overspend any given night in DFS, due to extremely high variance and... Read More

Using Weather Reports and Vegas Odds to Analyze DFS Slates (Premium Content)

The absolute first place you must look any day you are setting an MLB DFS lineup is at the weather forecast and Las Vegas projected run totals for the slate of games. After combing through that information first, you can start looking at specific player analysis, but you will surely be relying on this data... Read More

Analyzing The Impact Of The “Late Swap” Option On DraftKings

RotoBallers, welcome to the second series of MLB DFS Premium Articles. Today I will be sharing an analysis of an extremely beneficial DFS tool in terms that even the least experienced DFS user will be able to decipher in order to successfully utilize the tool to his/her advantage. This specific perk acts as a great opportunity to enhance your chances of... Read More

How to Identify Undervalued Pitching on FanDuel

Don't forget to check out all of RotoBaller's new and improved Premium In-Season Services to give you that edge all season long. Let's win some leagues in 2016! Perhaps no one position in all of DFS is as important to find as a starting pitcher on FanDuel.  A team of stacked hitters can quickly be derailed by... Read More

DraftKings Rule Changes For 2016 And Their Impact On DFS Strategy

This past offseason, DraftKings announced four different changes to their rules for Daily Fantasy Baseball. Although nothing too drastic, like getting rid of the second pitcher or adding relievers, each rule change stands on its own and needs a bit of scrutiny as we set our daily DFS lineups. The 10 positions that are filled... Read More

RotoBaller Radio Presents: Fantasy Baseball Strategy For Season Long & DFS Formats

RotoBaller is very excited about the start of the second year of RotoBaller Radio. You can find our new shows as always on BlogTalkRadio live or on demand, YouTube, and on iTunes under podcasts. Every Tuesday week RotoBaller co-founder Real Talk Raph and esteemed co-host's Josh Hayes will be discussing fantasy baseball strategy for season long leagues and both DFS... Read More

Starting Pitcher Strategies For FanDuel (1 Pitcher Format)

Welcome back, RotoBallers. For all you beginners out there working your way into MLB DFS: Welcome! Same to those of you who just needed a refresher. You've wandered into an article will specifically analyze how to go about choosing a starting pitcher for your MLB FanDuel teams (or sites with one SP spot). There may... Read More

MLB DFS: Cash Game And 50/50 Strategies For Draftkings And FanDuel

This is a free article from our MLB premium DFS strategy series. See the rest of our premium DFS strategy articles here. Hey RotoBallers! Hopefully by this point you're loving your investment in our premium content, and why wouldn't you be?! This is some of the best DFS advice on the web. However, all of this research... Read More

DraftKings: DFS Starting Pitcher Selection Strategy

This is a free article from our MLB premium DFS strategy series. See the rest of our premium DFS strategy articles here. For 2016, we here at Rotoballer our launching our own 12 step program. Except it’s actually 10 steps. And by steps, we actually mean articles to help you win daily fantasy baseball with a focus... Read More

FanDuel: DFS Rules Changes For 2016 & Their Impact

This is a free article from our MLB premium DFS strategy series. See the rest of our premium DFS strategy articles here. We are getting the 2016 MLB DFS season started off right with this short beginner's series detailing everything you need to know in order to get acclimated to MLB DFS. This article will examine the... Read More

MLB DFS Strategy: DraftKings Rules and Basic Do's and Don'ts

This is a free article from our MLB premium DFS strategy series. See the rest of our premium DFS strategy articles here. Daily Fantasy for baseball may be one of the most intricate of the four main sports, specifically because of all the ways a lineup can accumulate points. Football is up there as well, but... Read More

MLB DFS Strategy: FanDuel Rules and Basic Do's and Don'ts

This is a free article from our MLB premium DFS strategy series. See the rest of our premium DFS strategy articles here. Welcome back to another season of daily fantasy baseball. Spring training is over and teams are back to their respective cities and ballparks for the start of the season. Major League Baseball modified Opening Day this year to... Read More

RotoBaller's MLB DFS Strategy Series Introduction

Happy opening day RotoBallers! Things are about to heat up for the 2016 MLB season and we're going to be crushing Daily Fantasy Baseball for the entire regular season and playoffs! Let's kick things off right for the 2016 fantasy baseball season by announcing that New York state residents have been banned from playing games for money on DraftKings... Read More

Two NBA Cash-Game Rules Every Beginner Should Know

It's currently around 12:30 AM, and I have nothing to do, so why not write a quick beginner's guide to constructing cash-game lineups on FanDuel. I'm going to share a couple of the basic strategies I use when I build such lineups. I'll be contributing NBA DFS strategy articles to RotoBaller, ranging from beginner to advanced tactics,... Read More

NBA Daily Fantasy Common Misconceptions

But isn't he going to sit early in the fourth against the Phoenix Suns?  This is a type of question I'm asked often. The problem with answering questions like that is that there is no right or wrong answer until we hear the final buzzer at the end of regulation. There lies the sticky situation Daily... Read More

Finding Daily Fantasy Basketball Value Picks and NBA DFS Lineup Sleepers

We often hear that baseball is a game of numbers. Well, all sports are. Basketball, like the others, is filled with statistics that are the building blocks used when forming trends. This is all very, very relevant to Daily Fantasy. Any given player can break out on any given night, however, in attempting to string... Read More

The Top Five Stats for NBA DFS - DraftKings and FanDuel

The NBA scoring for DraftKings and FanDuel is nearly similar, with the exception of some slight differences in a couple of categories. Regardless, the importance of each statistic can be judged together. DFS players are initially inclined to select players that put the ball in the basket most frequently. I'm often guilty of getting distracted by... Read More