2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft Values: 5 RP Sleepers

Non-closing relievers, with some exceptions, have limited value in most fantasy formats. As a result, they are often overlooked by many owners. However, a quality set-up man can help your ratios, boost your strikeout totals, and even vulture a few wins or saves. If your league counts holds, all the better. That's without acknowledging the […]

Five Deep Relief Pitcher Sleepers For 2016

Let's go digging for some relievers who don't have the ninth inning to themselves, but still have various degrees of intrigue to them heading into 2016. Carter Capps is wide awake at this point, no sleep to his stock. Will Smith and Jeremy Jeffress have been named as the candidates to get the closing opportunities […]

Daily Fantasy Hockey Lineup Picks: FanDuel & DraftKings NHL DFS Advice for 3/1/16

Welcome to the Daily Fantasy Hockey (NHL DFS) lineup picks article for March 1st of the 2015/2016 NHL season. Each day we'll be providing you with a handful of forward, defensemen, and goaltender picks for DraftKings and FanDuel GPP and cash games. We have nine games on the NHL schedule tonight with three teams (CGY, PIT, […]

Josh Reddick (OF, OAK) - 2016 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers

BALLER MOVE: Target ~140 CURRENT ADP: 207 ANALYSIS: Over the last four seasons, Josh Reddick is 24th among all outfielders in home runs-- ahead of Matt Holliday, Shin-Soo Choo and Alex Gordon. Back in 2012, he hit 32 homers, stole 11 bases, and totaled 170 R+RBI. Last season, he went 20/10 with 144 R+RBI. Of course, […]

Steven Souza (OF, TB) - 2016 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers

BALLER MOVE: Target ~175 CURRENT ADP: 218 ANALYSIS: Had he not missed 50 games with finger and wrist injuries, Steven Souza had a decent chance at a 20/20 season last year. Of course, that category juice also came saddled with a .225 average. Souza is a textbook three-true-outcomes hitter-- he walked, struck out or homered […]

Delino DeShields (OF, TEX) - 2016 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers

BALLER MOVE: Target ~210 CURRENT ADP: 235 ANALYSIS: Delino DeShields isn't quite on Billy Hamilton's level, but like Hamilton, he has a 100-SB season on his minor league resume. Hwever, unlike Hamilton, DeShields can actually hit. As a rookie, he posted a .261/.344/.374 line with 83 runs in 121 games, maintaining the double-digit walk rate […]

Aaron Hicks (OF, NYY) - 2016 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers

BALLER MOVE: Target ~270 CURRENT ADP: 289 ANALYSIS: Aaron Hicks, dealt from the Twins to the Yankees in November, was a first-round pick and a well-regarded prospect, but is 26 years old and hasn't amounted to much in the majors yet. He'll also start the year as New York's fourth outfielder. Still, he managed to […]

RotoBaller NBA Radio - Daily Fantasy Basketball Lineup Picks for 2/29 - 3/2/16

RotoBaller is verrrrrrry excited about the launch of our Daily Fantasy Basketball radio show on our Blog Talk Radio station. You can find all of our new shows on BlogTalkRadio live or on demand, and on iTunes under podcasts. Every Monday and Thursday, long time RotoBaller lead writer Sam Nedimyer and podcast host Josh Hayes will be discussing […]

Week 22 NHL DFS Buys and Don’t Buys: Ladd, Scheifele, Purcell and Reimer

Teams did not wait for the NHL trading deadline to pull off their blockbusters. And players did not wait until the deadline to suffer season-ending injuries, either. Injuries and trade deadline deals have had drastic effects on fantasy’s finest hockey players. A change in uniform or a change in role when a teammate suffers an […]

FanDuel CBB DFS Lineup Picks (02/29/16): Daily Fantasy College Basketball Advice

With teams now fighting for seedings in their respective conference tournaments, the college basketball season is starting to heat up.  The casual college basketball fan is starting to tune in to do some research for march madness.  There’s no better way to stay engaged than with some DFS. Without further delay, below are our favorite […]

Five 2015 Breakouts Poised to Regress in 2016

Every year, every fantasy owner tries to predict who will breakout and outperform their draft day cost by a significant margin. The players that manage to do so may be viewed skeptically the next year, as the fantasy world wonders if the performance is repeatable. Sometimes, younger players are given a pass on that skepticism because […]

Gary Harris (SG, DEN) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED: 22% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Leagues Gary Harris has been one of the better stories in the NBA so far. He is has greatly improved as a player and is one of the bright spots on a young Nuggets team ticketed for the lottery once again. Despite being […]

Rashean Mathis Calls it a Career

Amid all the big names that have decided to retire after the 2015 season, Rashean Mathis' name was lost in the shuffle. Mathis was drafted in 2003 by the Jacksonville Jaguars, where he found a lot of success. He was one of the top corners in the league from 2004-2006 and received his only Pro-Bowl invite […]

2016 Breakout Candidates: NL Starting Pitchers

The wait is finally over – pitchers and catchers have reported to spring training this week. Of course, here at RotoBaller we’ve been cranking out tons of preseason content for some time now. We might be a little obsessed with baseball ‘round these parts. But that’s okay, because so are you! And what better way […]

2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft Values: Four RBI Sleepers

RBI total is often overlooked in fantasy baseball. We assume that because we are drafting the big names in the first few rounds, we think the star power will carry our lineups throughout the season. This is not always the case and we may find it hard to compete with other teams that are slugging […]

2016 Fantasy Baseball Tiered Rankings: Relief Pitchers (February)

Relief pitcher is possibly the toughest position to evaluate for your fantasy draft. There are only a handful who maintain a closer role for more than a couple of years, and the rest of the league is a carousel of mediocrity. Additionally, saves are such arbitrary statistics, since a closer has no control over whether […]

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Advice - NBA DFS Lineup Picks for 2/29/16

Well into the second half of the season, it's still difficult not to pick on the Sacramento Kings, the Houston Rockets, and the Philadelphia 76ers. My favorite game to stack tonight is the Oklahoma City Thunder versus the Sacramento Kings. Monday's lineup features some of the best players in the league and plenty of affordable options […]

Daily Fantasy Hockey Lineup Picks: FanDuel & DraftKings NHL DFS Advice for 2/29/16

Welcome to the Daily Fantasy Hockey (NHL DFS) lineup picks article for Monday, February 29th of the 2015/2016 NHL season. Each day we'll be providing you with a handful of forward, defensemen, and goaltender picks for DraftKings and FanDuel GPP and cash games. Six games are on the card tonight as we hope to end February […]

FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball (2/29/16): Lineup Picks and NBA DFS Advice

What's up RotoBallers. Welcome to another episode of Jason Bales's daily fantasy basketball advice for FanDuel. For those of you playing DFS, I'm here to help and give your some tips. In this column, I will be providing you with my daily NBA lineup picks for FanDuel on 2/29/16. The DFS lineup picks will range […]

Markel Brown (SG, BKN) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues OWNED IN: 3% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Markel Brown has spent the last year and a half largely in a reserve role for the Brooklyn Nets. Even though he has started 33 of the 86 games in which he has played, he has averaged just 14.6 minutes per contest. […]

E'Twaun Moore (PG/SG, CHI) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Most Leagues OWNED IN: 12% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: E'Twaun Moore was a late second-round pick back in 2011, but never really found much success with any of his three NBA teams until this season. Bulls star swingman Jimmy Butler has battled injuries all season, most notably a knee injury that […]

FanDuel CBB DFS Lineup Picks (02/28/16): Daily Fantasy College Basketball Advice

Welcome to my first article for RotoBaller discussing CBB and FanDuel DFS. My name is John Apricena, and I go by uncl3dunkl3 on all DFS sites. I'll be writing a few daily fantasy college basketball articles a week for you guys, and I hope you find all of this info informative. This is the first time that I can […]

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Lineup Picks (2/28/16): NBA DFS Advice

Any time an intriguing matchup jumps out at you and suddenly spells cash out, it would be wise to listen to your own intuition. Stacking has always been a huge part of placing in the money, and placing consistently, as long as you pick the right game and players to stack with. Tonight's lineup features […]

NHL DFS Lineup Picks (2/28/16): FanDuel Daily Fantasy Hockey Advice

Welcome to the Daily Fantasy Hockey (NHL DFS) lineup picks article for February 28th of the 2015/2016 NHL season. Each day we'll be providing you with a handful of forward, defensemen, and goaltender picks for DraftKings and FanDuel GPP and cash games. Seven games are on tap for today, staring just after noon on the East […]

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Hockey Lineup Picks (2/28/16): NHL DFS Advice

Welcome to the Daily Fantasy Hockey (NHL DFS) lineup picks article for February 28th of the 2015/2016 NHL season. Each day we'll be providing you with a handful of forward, defensemen, and goaltender picks for DraftKings and FanDuel GPP and cash games. It is a busier than usual Sunday in the NHL with seven games on […]

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 […]

Five Pitchers to Target in QS Leagues

As in previous posts of this nature, I’m not here to advocate one scoring format or another. I won’t tell you to switch to a quality starts league because they are a better representation of a pitcher’s skills than are wins. (Though you should, because they are.) My mission here simply is to arm those […]

Top 100 Fantasy Baseball Keeper Values for 2016

Keeper Value Rankings are intended for Keeper Leagues in which a fantasy owner must forfeit a designated draft round in order to keep a player into the up-coming season. These rankings are based on Keeper "Values". In the marketing world, Value can be defined as: the extent to which a good or service (player) is […]

2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft Values: Four Strikeouts Sleepers

Strikeouts are more prevalent in today's game than they've ever been. Real baseball teams are catching on to what fantasy owners have known for some time - a pitcher who can rack up the whiffs is almost always more valuable than one who can't. Well, they probably knew that before, but as baseball has evolved […]

2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft Values: Danny Valencia

Few players have been around the block to the extent that Danny Valencia has by the age of 31 years old. In 2006, the Minnesota Twins took Valencia in the 19th round of the MLB Draft. Things were good for the Twins back then. Joe Mauer was coming into his own, and a veteran outfield […]