Throw out what you know about MLB DFS when playing InGame's new daily fantasy app So, we've had the opportunity to work with a lot of fantastic daily fantasy sports companies since we started this company, and while many have offered newer takes on the daily fantasy sports experience, I can safely say that none is quite as innovative as our new sponsor's new app, InGame. If you haven't heard of them yet, here's the basics on how InGame contests work. A quick note - if you sign up through our affiliate link InGame will give you $5 worth of contest entries for free - so sign up now! Users must validate their location and identity before participating in contests. Just like the DFS you know and love, you'll draft new players for your roster every single night. Unlike traditional DFS, you don't get a certain number of points based on how your players perform. Just like in real baseball, you don't get points if your guy draws a walk. You get points when your players score runs. InGame simulates this experience flawlessly, allowing you to look at a box score in the same way that you would if you had an ESPN box score on your phone while you watched another game on your TV. When you use InGame, you'll be fed a stream of players who were about to take their next plate appearance, and then you make the call: among all the players available, who will step up to the plate for your team? All of this happens in real time, so you'll have perfect information as to whether a guy is injured, what the weather is like in his game, and who exactly is on the mound. There are no salary caps, no cheesy extra points for arbitrary outcomes - just your skill in choosing the right player for the right moment, managing your fantasy team like a real life baseball manager. But I don't suggest just jumping into InGame blind. Unlike other versions of salary-cap daily fantasy sports games, InGame offers new strategic decisions that you probably haven't come across before. Here are 5 things you should prepare yourself for before diving into an InGame contest. 1) There are no salary caps Some of you will read the first point as "there is no skill," but I can assure you, that isn't the case. See, the skill that's most rewarded with InGame's app is patience. You have a whole day of baseball to get your at bats in. This means you don't have to play bad players in bad spots. If you're patient enough, you can put yourself into the position where you're picking...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Strategy for FanDuel and DraftKings - Pitcher Wins Can you believe it? Baseball season is almost here and with it comes months of waiting for that Coors lineup to post, sweating out weather reports, stacking against David Holmberg and everything else that makes the summer great. At DFSR we're going to lead into baseball season with some strategy articles to get your mind spinning on all the nuances that comes with daily fantasy baseball lineups. If you want a lot of these ideas condensed into one place, make sure to download a copy of our free baseball eBook. There's a nice shiny link below. And while you wait for MLB, you can get a jump start on our membership package. Right now we've got projections for NBA and NHL running everyday and FanDuel and DraftKings NBA Optimal Lineups in our DFSR Pro package. Click here to get started. Now let's start looking at the baseball season. Calculating a Pitchers Expected Win The ever-elusive win. Many sites have it weighted in such a way that the simple W can swing your team in and out of the money quickly (I suppose the HR has the same effect). So we need a functional and realistic way to determine pitcher win expectancy. The Vegas money line gives us some indication of how much the nerds in Sin City think a certain team will win the game. And Vegas being smart and all, I think we can trust money lines almost as much as any other predictive measurement. A -200 line for a dude like Clayton Kershaw against say the Giants tells us roughly that the Dodgers are a 66% favorite to win the game. But unfortunately can’t just give the whole win to the blonde beauty Clayton. A team’s win, while likely to go to a starting pitcher, isn’t his to own. The Hardball Times did some research back in 2009 into how often a starting pitcher accounts for a team’s win. With this in mind we went and looked at the trends over the last two years. In that last two seasons we’ve seen (via FanGraphs) that in a given game, a starting pitcher will get the win about 75% of the time. A single starting pitcher, if all things are equal, can expect to get a win about 37.5% of the time. That means in an evenly matched scenario on FanDuel, a pitcher walks into a game with only 4.5 expected win points.  Just getting started with MLB DFS? Click the banner below to get rolling   But seeing as how not all starting pitchers are created equally (I’m looking at you Nick Martinez) and games are...