Arizona Fall League Preview: 2016 Mesa Solar Sox

The Mesa Solar Sox are currently ranked as the second strongest team in the Arizona Fall League. The AFL is loaded with talent as teams typically want an extra look at future major leaguers. Mesa has twelve players I am currently touting, five of which are in my top fifty overall. The disadvantage is that all of them are […]

Week 25 Buy and Sell for Fantasy Baseball

As so eloquently put by the foremost philosophers of the ‘90s, we’ve come to the end of the road. This will be the last regular installment of Buy and Sell for 2016. Stay tuned for a postmortem, in which we will analyze (read: laugh at) the results of my recommendations this year.  Thanks for reading […]

Week 3 Standard Rankings (Top 300)

What's up RotoBallers. Below you will find our overall Week 3 standard rankings for fantasy football. Three of our lead fantasy football columnists, Nick Mariano, Bill Dubiel and Ben Ruppert, have analyzed the NFL matchups and game slates for Week 3. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, […]

Week 3 PPR Rankings (Top 300)

What's up RotoBallers. Below you will find our overall Week 3 PPR rankings for fantasy football. Three of our lead fantasy football columnists, Nick Mariano, Bill Dubiel and Ben Ruppert, have analyzed the NFL matchups and game slates for Week 3. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, […]

Week 3 Half PPR Rankings (Top 300)

What's up RotoBallers. Below you will find our overall Week 3 Half-PPR rankings for fantasy football. Three of our lead fantasy football columnists, Nick Mariano, Bill Dubiel and Ben Ruppert, have analyzed the NFL matchups and game slates for Week 3. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, […]

Sammie Coates (WR, PIT) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 18% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Ben Roethlisberger has been slinging to start the season, and it looks like second-year receiver Sammie Coates has caught the quarterback's fancy. In 2015, Coates played in seven games and was targeted twice for one reception and eleven yards. In Week 1 against the Redskins […]

Clive Walford (TE, OAK) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 19% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: It turns out that a slightly disappointing Week 1 performance isn't a death sentence, and Clive Walford embodied this lesson with a huge bounce-back game in Week 2. Walford caught just three passes on an encouraging five targets against the Saints to start […]

Marqise Lee (WR, JAC) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14- and 16-Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 0% of Fleaflicker Leagues ANALYSIS: It will always be a gamble, but with Marqise Lee's athleticism and agility, the dunk-down passes can net some serious results. In 23 games played prior to 2016, Lee had just 52 catches on 101 targets, 613 yards and two touchdowns. In […]

FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (9/22/16): MLB DFS Advice

Ten games - all at night - on a Thursday in September? What's not to love? Relative to a normal get-away-day, 10 games is healthy number and as a DFS guy that likes to have his fair share of player options, every game being played at night is dreamy. As for Vegas lines, there isn't […]

Phillip Dorsett (WR, IND) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- an 14-Team Leagues, All PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 47% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Phillip Dorsett has been targeted plenty over the first two weeks, and considering how great Andrew Luck's start to the season has been, those targets mean a whole lot. In 11 games last year, he averaged just 3.6 targets, 1.6 receptions and […]

Davante Adams (WR, GB) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 10% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: The Week 1 excitement surrounding Davante Adams has cooled and expectations have been trimmed, but that doesn't mean the hype didn't have a lot to back it up. Aaron Rodgers is very accurate, so target volume from him means a great deal. In […]

The Cut List (Week 3): Players To Consider Cutting Bait On

What's up RotoBallers. Welcome to the fantasy football Cut List column for Week 3. Each week, Tony Peters (that's me) and Ben Hamren - both from the All Stats A Salad fantasy football podcast - will break down a list of players to target as potentially droppable, replaceable assets. We'll be spicing up the usual stat-first column […]

Week 3 Thursday Night NFL Matchups Analysis: Start/Sit for Fantasy Football

It's time for the Week 3 installment of Thursday night matchups with my start/sit recommendations. This week, the Houston Texans face off against the New England Patriots. Both teams are off to a 2-0 start and hope to continue on the way to winning their respective divisions again this season. Something's gotta give... Each week of the […]

Week 3 Rankings Analysis: Nick Mariano vs. Industry Consensus

Week 2 was pretty painful, not going to lie. We saw a lot of injuries rack up, and the game with the biggest projected point total (NO/NYG) fell flat on its face. Naturally I leaned heavily on that last week, I should’ve known better than to rely on the Giants (my childhood team) to make […]

Week 25 Waiver Wire: Catchers

Whew. Another fantasy baseball season is almost in the books. 2016 was definitely a weird one for catchers, since many of the big names either struggled to hit like they had in the past or started off red-hot and then fell off a cliff (Francisco Cervelli, I'm looking at YOU). All through this season, we […]

Deeper Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 25 (National League)

This is the end... my only friend, the end... For some fantasy baseball owners, the season was a brutal mix of frustration and disappointment. If you're reading this, however, you're still grinding and looking for a chance to pull out a late-season victory. Good luck the rest of the way! This list represents players who […]

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (9/22/16): MLB DFS Advice

Get ready for the upcoming 10-game slate tonight on DraftKings. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball MLB lineup picks for DraftKings on 9/22/16. The DFS lineup picks will range from high-priced to low-priced options and identify options who will out-perform their expectations, including sleepers and value plays on […]

Players Sending Out Warning Signals Heading Into NFL Week 3

With the way this season is going, soon there won't even be enough healthy players to analyze on a weekly basis for Warning Signals. As I mentioned last week, the purpose of this piece is to hone in on players that are making fantasy owners nervous as the year progresses. We'll revisit the folks who appeared on […]

Fantasy Football Buy Low & Sell High Candidates for Week 3

The waiver wire isn't the only place to change the course of your team. The right trade can make or break your season. The key is to buy low on cold players and sell overachieving players whose values have skyrocketed. While this is a well-known method, some owners still tend to overreact to a small sample size, so […]

Byron Buxton (OF, MIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 47% of Fleaflicker Leagues EXPERT ANALYSIS: Top prospect Byron Buxton's final 2016 numbers will tell the story of a disappointing rookie season filled with high expectations that weren't met. A .218/.271/.402 slash line with seven HR, 31 RBI and nine steals are a far cry from the talks of […]

Luke Weaver (SP, STL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 26% of Fleaflicker Leagues EXPERT ANALYSIS: Luke Weaver is missing bats at an increasingly impressive rate as his rookie year comes to a close. In seven big league starts, Weaver has struck out 43 batters in 33.2 IP. In the past month, his 12.4 K/9 places him behind just […]

Tyler Anderson (SP, COL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 22% of Fleaflicker Leagues EXPERT ANALYSIS: It's hard to believe Tyler Anderson never approached even a 50% ownership level this season, considering the year he's had. Despite the stigma of pitching in Colorado, Anderson never saw his ERA rise above 4.00. That includes 18 starts since early June, 12 […]

Dansby Swanson (SS, ATL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 13% of Fleaflicker Leagues EXPERT ANALYSIS: Last year's top pick has held down the shortstop spot nicely since his surprise call-up. Dansby Swanson will be a hot commodity entering drafts in 2017, but he is still paying dividends for those who took a chance this year. He is hitting .305/.358/.421 with […]

Dexter McCluster (RB, SD) - Waiver Wire Analysis

Baller Move: Add in Deep PPR Leagues Owned In: 5% of Fleaflicker Leagues Analysis: If he was looking for another offense that likes to target running backs in the passing game, it can safely be concluded that Dexter McCluster found an ideal home in San Diego. He might have to claw his way up the […]

Cameron Artis-Payne (RB, CAR) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues and Deeper OWNED IN: 16% of Fleaflicker Leagues ANALYSIS: Cameron Artis-Payne has not appeared in a contest so far in the 2016 season as he was deemed a healthy scratch for the first two games of the year. Carolina Panthers starting running back, Jonathan Stewart injured his hamstring and is […]

Ronnie Hillman (RB, MIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- Team Leagues and Deeper OWNED IN: 11% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Ronnie Hillman began the 2016 season as a free agent after his surprising release from the Denver Broncos on final cut-down day. Hillman remained on the open market until the Minnesota Vikings suffered yet another long-term setback to their team when […]

Kenneth Dixon (RB, BAL) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 11% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Over the first two weeks of the season, Justin Forsett (24 carries, 78 yards, no touchdowns) and Terrance West (23 carries, 74 yards, no touchdowns) have handled the bulk of the backfield duties for the Ravens. Baltimore ranks 29th in yards per […]

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (9/21/16): MLB DFS Advice

It's a full slate of MLB games on DraftKings for Wednesday's contests, as three games take place in the early afternoon and the remaining 12 contests take place in the evening. Because there are so few day games I'm going to focus on the evening games so that you can apply this advice to all of the evening and late […]

Kenyan Drake (RB, MIA) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 4% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: In a complete reversal from Week 1 and all of training camp, Kenyan Drake saw the field before Damien Williams after Foster was ruled out. Drake scored his first NFL touchdown on a seven-yard scamper, although he only carried the ball twice […]