Who Should I Draft? Use this tool to assist you with some common 2026 fantasy football draft decisions regarding players like Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren, Brock Bowers, Tucker Kraft, Kyle Pitts Sr., Harold Fannin Jr., Sam LaPorta, Isaiah Likely, and Terrance Ferguson. We are here to help make these calls and build winning teams in […]

Gather around for another edition of our Starting Pitcher Starts and Sits column for the week ahead - Monday August 24 through Sunday August 30. As you know by now, this article will cover who is pitching, their opponent, and a confidence/startability score based on our tools. This provides you with a useful start/sit decision-making […]

Hello RotoBallers! It's time to set those lineups, and we're here to guide you with our fantasy baseball hitter start/sit recommendations chart for the week ahead (August 24 - August 30). Today, we'll look at some lineup decisions for players like Joshua Baez, Zac Veen, Royce Lewis, and more -- and how their matchups project […]

Baller Move: Start in 12-team leagues Positional Value: High-end RB3 Analysis: The Seattle Seahawks elected to let Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Walker III leave in free agency this offseason. It was a curious decision, given that his running mate, Zach Charbonnet, tore his ACL during the team’s playoff run and was expected to […]

Can you feel the electricity of fantasy football draft season in the air? You could cut it with a knife. Awesome, right? Months of preparation boil down to the small handful of drafts you really care about, and it's my job to get your running back plan in perfect working order. Especially in some of […]

August will be over soon, Week 1 is around the corner, and we are in the thick of the fantasy football draft season. We have recently published late-round running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends. Today we wrap up the late-round series with our late-round quarterback fantasy football draft values and sleepers for the 2026 […]

Who doesn't love a confident "this is my dude" kind of statement? Every year, there are a handful of players everyone just happens to fall in love with, and what's beautiful about this made-up game is how many different opinions are out there. This article is all about puffing your chest out, digging your heels […]

Welcome to Saturday, RotoBallers! We've got an absolutely loaded slate today with multiple doubleheaders on the board. I traditionally try to avoid betting doubleheaders, mostly because they've never treated me well, but that's all the more opportunity for you to try and find some solid home run props. As for my picks, I'm focused on... […]

Breakouts win leagues. Fantasy football differs from other sports in the sense that a few players really can make-or-break your week and season. It is not like baseball, where you want to build a deep team to compete over a very long season. In football, the lineup is smaller, and the scoring is more big-play […]

It's time to have another fun week in DFS! Well, fun and/or frustrating. We're back at Daytona International Speedway for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 on Saturday night. As is always the case at Daytona, the strategy is more important than the drivers when building lineups. More on that later. We're focusing on Place Differential... […]

The UFC makes its yearly trip to China this week for a Fight Night at Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. This event will mark the promotion's third visit to Shanghai and the first since Johnny Walker fought Zhang Mingyang back in August 2025. The 13-fight card is headlined by China’s own Song Yadong, who takes on... […]

The NASCAR Cup Series has reached the end of the regular season, as race number 26 is set to take place from Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night. After this, the Chase field will be set, and we'll have ten races left to determine this year's Champion. Daytona International Speedway needs no introduction. This race... […]

On Friday evening, the NASCAR Cup Series held the qualifying session for this weekend's race at Daytona International Speedway, the Coke Zero Sugar 400. NASCAR went with the two-round format for this qualifying session, as all drivers went out to complete a lap, and then the 10 fastest went out in round two to set […]

It's usually pretty easy to find players that you like for the upcoming season and provide all the reasons why fantasy managers should draft those players. But writing about which players to fade can be a bit more challenging. Don't get me wrong, there are certainly some things to like about the players that I'm […]

The best time of the fantasy sports season is about to begin. In a few days, the 2026 NFL season will kick off and mark the beginning of the regular season. However, before kickoff, managers must meet with their leaguemates and draft their teams. While some may use a simple random generator, there are many […]

We are now days away from the fantasy football season kicking off. The NFL Combine, draft, and Hall of Fame Game are now things of the past. With draft season in full force, it’s time to identify players that offer the best return on your investment. Fantasy Championships aren’t won by players selected in the […]

You have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them. Some rookie receivers hit right away, and some fantasy managers must learn how to be patient as new opportunities become available as the league calendar flips from one month to another. It’s easy to go on a limb and say Carnell […]

Fantasy Football players naturally obsess over who to take with their first-round pick, and many take their positive and negative ruminations past the first round. Fantasy leaguers will stay up late at night and wake up early, thinking about how to flesh out their first two or three rounds. The flow of every single fantasy […]

Drafting a player at a high cost who ends up disappointing can be detrimental to your chances of claiming a fantasy football championship. In this piece, we will take a look at some of the early-round players that members of the RotoBaller fantasy football staff will be fading in this year's drafts. Read ahead as […]

This premium article is part of our 2026 Fantasy Football Draft Kit and a free sample of the expert analysis loaded up in RotoBaller's Draft Kit. Enjoy this premium article for free for a limited time. All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Modern articles must start with finding common ground […]

Every week, DraftKings Daily Fantasy has MMA contests featuring the full schedule of UFC fights. The DFS slate for UFC Fight Night: Nurmagomedov vs. Song locks Saturday at 3 a.m. EST on Paramount+. Saturday's main event is a bantamweight title eliminator between unstoppable Russian wrestler Umar Nurmagomedov -- the cousin of Khabib. He's taking on […]

It's always good to have a list of players to target in the middle rounds when walking into your fantasy football draft. At RotoBaller HQ, we continue with our middle-round fantasy football values series with our middle-round fantasy tight ends (TE) sleepers and draft values for the 2026 season. We take a look at some […]

It's wonderful to smash your early fantasy football picks, but little else compares to finding a league-winner in the rubble of those final rounds. The following 25 players tend to be available later on, with more included to cater to both shallow and deeper formats alike. While reliable depth and a steady floor can come […]

Whether you have already completed your fantasy football draft or are about to take part in one, getting an early look at the Week 1 pecking order is never a bad idea. That's where we come in, with our updated Week 1 fantasy football rankings for all positions - running back, wide receiver, tight end, quarterback, defense, […]

The worldwide leader in mixed martial arts returns to the Middle Kingdom for the second time in 2026. This time, it's a stop in Shanghai. Years ago, I set out to develop a predictive stats model for the UFC. Handicapping a cage fight with numbers seems impossible, but then I realized that, like Mortal Kombat, […]

No preseason is complete without going on the record with your favorite players for the upcoming season. Last year I had a few nice hits with Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Tyler Warren having big seasons, but I also whiffed on Bucky Irving and Jalen Hurts. I'm getting sucked back in on Bucky this year, but he's […]

We've waited months for this! College football is finally back! It has been a crazy eight months of free agency, court rulings, players breaching NIL contracts, players trying to breach NIL contracts, and even 2026-altering injuries in camp. We can finally put all of that behind us. College football dropped the "Week 0" bit, but […]

Who Should I Draft? Use this tool to assist you with some common 2026 fantasy football draft decisions regarding players like Trevor Lawrence, Jalen Hurts, Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye, Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, Jaxson Dart, Kyler Murray, Brock Purdy, and Jordan Love. We are here to help make these calls and build winning teams in […]

Who Should I Draft? Use this tool to assist you with some common 2026 fantasy football draft decisions regarding players like Javonte Williams, Luther Burden III, Bucky Irving, Cam Skattebo, Josh Downs, KC Concepcion, David Montgomery, Stefon Diggs, and Jaylen Waddle. We are here to help make these calls and build winning teams in 2026. […]