DFS NBA Podcast – FanDuel and DraftKings Plays for Wednesday 11/13/19
DFS NBA Podcast - FanDuel and DraftKings Plays for Wednesday 11/13/19 It's a big Wednesday of NBA hoops and the DFSR crew is back for their DFS NBA Podcast breaking down FanDuel and DraftKings plays. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA, NFL and NHL optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! They go game-by-game through the slate discussing the various DFS options and looking how some injury news could effect the overall value of the slate. It looks like some huge names are going to be on the pine for Wednesday's games. Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis could both sit the second half of back-to-backs while we always need to monitor Kawhi Leonard's status when it's a back-to-back. And that's only some of it. We also have the Raptors starters playing insane minutes without Kyle Lowry and O.G. Anunoby and the Celtics without Gordon...
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks – Wednesday, 11/13/19
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Wednesday, 11/13/19 Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL Optimizer and NHL Projections as well. Plus our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or NFL? Be sure to read our free NBA and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Point Guard Russell Westbrook FD - $9900 DK - $8900Opponent - LACProj Pts FD - 51.11 DK - 52.39 No Eric Gordon and no Danuel House and the already kind of thin Rockets are looking even thinner. If he can avoid foul trouble, which has been no easy thing and if the game can stay out of blowout (also not easy for Rockets) then we could see Russ drift towards 36-37 minutes in this game against the Clippers. The rebounding has dropped off some of late for him which could be a shift in philosophy for the Rockets or could merely be a blip on the radar. It’s a little tough to tell though he has played fewer minutes of late because of weird game script stuff. He’s still racking up steals in a big way and I do think the floor is very high in this game for Westbrook because of the Houston injuries. Terry Rozier FD - $7000 DK - $5600Opponent - MEMProj Pts FD - 34.73 DK - 35.58 It’s been an up and down season for the disaster contract the Hornets signed Rozier to in the offseason. He’s basically paid like a max player who is priced more like mid-tier role guy. And that’s fine because his contract is of no concern to us. We only really sweat the performance relative to price. And on that front, there is stuff to like about Rozier on Wednesday. For starters, he’ll face a Memphis team playing the 23rd ranked defensive efficiency on the season. Couple that with some peak and valley games out of Rozier because of the minutes and I do think you are getting him at something of a value. Per 33 minutes he’s averaging 15/4.6/3.8 and is actually running bad from the field of late, hitting only 27% of his threes over the last five games. This is a fine price, especially on DraftKings. Other Thoughts If Joel Embiid sits, Ben Simmons (FD 8400 DK 6800) would make a very nice DraftKings play at that price. Shooting Guard Fred Vanvleet FD - $7500 DK - $7100Opponent - PORProj Pts FD - 40.07 DK - 41.18 No...
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks – Tuesday, 11/12/19
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Tuesday, 11/12/19 An eight-game NBA slate has bunch of fantasy intrigue, some injury situations to monitor and a couple of buy-low spots on DraftKings and FanDuel. Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL Optimizer and NHL Projections as well. Plus our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or NFL? Be sure to read our free NBA and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Point Guard Malcolm Brogdon FD - $8700 DK - $7600Opponent - OKCProj Pts FD - 45.48 DK - 48 The Pacers have been brutalized by injuries this season but it’s only meant fantasy upticks across the board for Brogdon who’s looking very much like a player the Bucks wouldn’t mind having back. Even struggling from the field in two of his last three games, Brogdon is putting up about 21 points per game along with nine assists and five rebounds. Getting Sabonis back in the lineup helps the two-man game and his minutes floor is as high as any point guard in the game (not named Lillard). Point guard is full of question marks leading into Tuesday’s action so we’ll need to wade through some of the news leading into lock. But Brogdon looks very much like a DraftKings play at sub-$8K even in a less-than-ideal matchup against the Thunder. Cory Joseph FD - $3700 DK - $3700Opponent - PORProj Pts FD - 29.49 DK - 29.35 It was announced on Monday that De'Aaron Fox would miss significant time due to injury and that means we’ll likely get a ton of (very chalky) minutes out of Cory Joseph here on Tuesday. He’s never been a dynamic fantasy guy dating back to even his time in Indiana, but this is too good an opportunity to pass up. I’m assuming he draws the start over Yogi Ferrell of course, but either way I think CoJo is the play here on Monday. He did come in and run more with the starters when Fox went down last game and put up nine points and four assists. As a near-minimum play here he’ll see heavy ownership against the Blazers who are allowing opposing backcourts to score at will this season. Raul Neto FD - $5700 DK - $4800Opponent - CLEProj Pts FD - 29.21 DK - 29.81 The price corrected on FanDuel so I don’t think he’s a play there, but the DraftKings salary is looking ok for cash games. He’s...
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks – Monday, 11/11/19
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Monday, 11/11/19 It's a six-game Monday slate of hoops action FanDuel and DraftKings. Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL Optimizer and NHL Projections as well. Plus our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or NFL? Be sure to read our free NBA and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Point Guard Russell Westbrook FD - $9900 DK - $8800Opponent - NOProj Pts FD - 56.65 DK - 59.15 Getting traded to the Rockets didn’t do anything to help Westbrook’s efficiency (or lack thereof). The guy is actually moving in the wrong direction when it comes to his shooting, now down to 20% from three on more than four attempts per game. It remains to be seen how long the Houston brass allows that to continue, but for now even sharing a court (to some degree) with Harden has only moderately cut into Russ’s usage. He’s still getting up 17 shots per game and while not averaging a triple-double per game anymore, isn’t too far off. The 21 points, nine rebounds and 7.6 assists do more than get the job done at these prices and he’s a pretty straightforward DraftKings play at minimum. The Pelicans are an awesome matchup for DFS purposes and stacking Westbrook and Harden together here is likely the move. Dejounte Murray FD - $6700 DK - $6000Opponent - MEMProj Pts FD - 35.61 DK - 34.46 Just when we thought we might see the minutes restriction finally tick up (or go away completely) for Murray after seeing 26 against the Thunder on Friday, he was right back to 24 on Saturday. But few other dudes do more with less run than Dejounte and he’s almost in a per-minute class or his own when it comes to guards. He rebounds the position about the best in the game at eight boards per in only 23 minutes. And he can get to the rim to score and finish. The lack of overall opportunity (court-time wise) is the only thing keeping the price in check and he can hit DraftKings value on that number in his usual run. This is a volume-up game against a Grizzlies team running a top-6 pace and playing the 27th ranked defensive efficiency. Other Thoughts I don’t mind the price on Mike Conley (FD 6800 DK 6200) against a bad and tanking Golden State team but I’m a bit worried about the blowout there....
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks – Sunday, 11/10/19
FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Sunday, 11/10/19 Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL Optimizer and NHL Projections as well. Plus our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or NFL? Be sure to read our free NBA and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Point Guard Kyrie Irving FD - $9800 DK - $9700 Opponent - PHO Proj Pts FD - 48.65 DK - 49.98 What can you say about what Irving has done so far this season? He's put up career highs in every DFS category except for steals, and has only sacrificed a few percentage points of his field goal percentage in order to do so. It hasn't translated to a ton of real life basketball success just yet, but that's just not my concern as a DFS player. This Phoenix match-up isn't as good as it has been historically, but the Suns are still playing a top 11 PACE, and I think Kyrie will handle Rubio just fine. Damian Lillard FD - $10200 DK - $10100 Opponent - ATL Proj Pts FD - 56.72 DK - 58.54 It's an interesting challenge play between Irving and Lillard. These two have been eerily similar this year. Let's have a look. Lillard: 33.3 points, 5.0 rebounds, 6.9 assists, 2.6 turnovers, 1.3 steals, .4 blocks. Irving: 31.9 points, 5.8 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 2.6 turnovers, 1.3 steals, .6 blocks. Lillard has been more efficient, but Irving has chipped in more counting stats. They're equals in every way, so where do we go for a tie-breaker? I'll go with the slight blowout risk in Portland, but honestly I'd be thrilled to play both. Raul Neto FD - $3700 DK - $4500 Opponent - CHA Proj Pts FD - 26.38 DK - 26.85 Neto was a chalk option after he drew the start for Simmons against the Nuggets, and mostly delivered, scoring 13 points on 5-6 from the field and chipping in 6 assists as well. The price has crept up a little bit, but it's an all-world match-up with this hapless Hornets team, and I expect cash game players to roll it back with him once against. Keep an eye on how the Trail Blazers handle Rodney Hood's absence. Anfernee Simons played 35 minutes after Hood went down, and he could be one of the better punts on the day as a result. Shooting Guard RJ Barrett FD - $7200 DK - $6300 Opponent -...