Daily Fantasy Football Cash Game Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 5 - 10/3/18 Can you believe the regular season is 25% over for most of the teams? It seems like it's gone by in a flash of touchdowns and high-scoring games. Let's take a look at what we can expect for cash games in Week 5. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NFL optimizer for FanDuel and DraftKings, our MLB Optimizer, and our NFL Player Lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NFL? Be sure to read our free MLB and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Quarterback Cam Newton FD 8400 DK 6400 Opponent NYG Proj Points FD - 22.64 DK - 23.28 After an early Week 3 bye, the Panthers return in Week 4 with a cupcake-ish match-up against a 1-3 Giants team with a -22 point differential. Cam comes into this games as the third-best points-per-game fantasy quarterback on the season thanks in large part to what he’s done on the ground. He’s second overall in quarterback rushing yards (despite playing one less game than basically anyone else). He’s averaging a 9/45/1 rushing line per game and has been the primary option in the red zone. He’s also improved on his overall passing efficiency, completing 67% of his passes with five touchdowns through the air through three games. The air stats won’t overwhelm you, but he’s such a consistent fantasy option because of the running attack. We’ll get to McCaffrey shortly, but pairing them in this matchup should provide a high cash floor. The only thing that hurts the Panthers here is the Giants’ slower pace; they allow the third fewest opponent plays per game this season. But Carolina comes in as a home favorite with a 25.5 implied total and an offense heavily concentrated around the QB/RB pairing. Andy Dalton FD 7500 DK 5900 Opponent MIA Proj Points FD - 22.42 DK - 22.37 Don’t look now, but the 3-1 Bengals have scored the fourth-most points in the NFL this season and a big part of the reason is Dalton. He’s tied for second in the league with 11 touchdown passes and, for the first time in quite a while, is working with a fully healthy and competent receiving corps. The combination of AJ Green and Tyler Boyd have a combined 69 targets for 46/646/7. Gone are the days where teams could sit on Green while essentially ignoring the other WRs (and the running game). The Bengals also have impressive wins against the Ravens and Falcons (on...

DFS NFL Podcast Week 4 Recap and Week 5 Preview for FanDuel and DraftKings DFSR’s Doug Norrie and James Davis take to the podcast recapping Week 4 NFL action and looking ahead to Week 5. They start out discussing some of the layers coming back from suspension this coming week like Julian Edelman and Mark Ingram and how those guys could affect some other fantasy opportunities. They also glance at some injuries to Leonard Fournette and TY Hilton. Then there is discussion of how to handle the new world order of NFL scoring and what metrics to use to best correlate with the new pace of the game. And finally, they look back at some of the top performances for Week 4 and how much we can trust them going forward. Subscribe to this podcast on...

Daily Fantasy Football Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 5 - 10/8/17 Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NFL optimizer for FanDuel and DraftKings, our MLB Optimizer, and our new Player Lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NFL? Be sure to read our free MLB and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Quarterback Tom Brady FD 9300 DK 8000 Opponent TB Proj Points FD - 25.21 DK - 25.8 (Thursday slate) A certain pattern is emerging for the Patriots this season. Tom Brady is lighting opposing defenses up like his usual self while the Patriots’ D is getting lit up in its own right. The effect is the New England offense needs to keep its foot on the gas the entire game because the defense keeps the opponent in every affair. It’s nuts, highlighted by early season losses to the Chiefs in week one and then an inexplicable buzzer beater field goal loss to the Panthers last week. But Brady gonna Brady and he had another strong game in Week 4 with 307 yards and 2 TDs through the air. This week they get the Bucs with the highest implied total of the day (30.5) and Brady should come out firing following the loss. He’s expensive for sure, but I think you can roster the salary. We don’t tend to cover the Thursday night games as part of our cash game articles, but this is a good chance to play him in a plus matchup even with the ownership likely trending high because of the timing of the game. Russell Wilson FD 8000 DK 7100 Opponent LAR Proj Points FD - 21.12 DK - 21.86 The Seattle offensive line has struggled this season and they are without any real semblance of a consistent running game) but that has effected Wilson all that much to start the season. He's the third highest scoring fantasy quarterback through four weeks thanks in large part to his ability to extend plays with his legs and also get the ball downfield. He ranks second among quarterbacks in rushing yards (138, Watson is well ahead and is working with 1/2 less of a game) and has a WR1 in Baldwin. There are a number of very low implied total games this week but Seattle-LA rates out as a possible "shootout" with a thin spread and 47 O/U. Wilson is coming significantly less than the guys listed above and below him in this article. I love targeting QBs with the ability to scramble for my cash games because...

DFS NFL Talk - The NoHalftime Takeover Podcast for Week 1 This is the NoHalftime Podcast takeover with the DFSR crew of James Davis and Doug Norrie breaking down NFL’s Week 1 through the lens of NoHalftime’s App. They take a look at an overview of the app and basic NoHalftime strategies. Then it’s all about the heads-up matchups. They throw out challenges and discuss how to best target players week-to-week in the NFL. Topics include players switching teams, rookie running backs, opportunity vs. name recognition and wide receiver consistency. It’s all there and more on DFSR’s NoHalftime podcast takeover. Subscribe to this podcast on...

DraftKings Billion Dollar Contest - Looking back at 2016's Perfect NFL Lineups The first daily fantasy sports billionaire? Could it happen Week 1 of the NFL season? It’s unlikely to happen(like crazy, lottery ticket style unlikely) but DraftKings is giving someone the shot with it’s NFL Week 1 Billionaire Maker Free Roll. If you draft the perfect lineup, they best possible combination of players then you’re on your way to rarified rich air. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer, our NFL Optimizer, and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NFL? Be sure to read our free MLB and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. DraftKings is heavily insured (4 different companies taking a piece of that action, and likely the big winners in this whole thing). But to quote Lloyd Christmas, “So you’re telling me there’s a chance”. In order to prep for the Billy-Maker, I went back and looked at 15 weeks of perfect lineups from DraftKings’ main slates last season. Why fifteen weeks? Well week 16 was the weird Christmas weekend and I kind of ran out of steam after that. Let’s take a look at 15 weeks of truly optimal DraftKings’ NFL lineups and see some of the takeaways. WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11 WEEK 12 WEEK 13 WEEK 14 WEEK 15 The things that immediately jumped out to me (and would love to know the things I missed, leave a comment): - Every week but one included a QB/ WR or QB/ TE stack. Week 2 saw the rare QB/WR/TE stack with Newton, Benjamin/ Olsen. Colin Kaepernick was the only "naked" QB in Week 12. - 10 of the 15 weeks had less than $1500 leftover in salary. This strikes me as lineups with the maximum points will often (but not always) trend toward full utilization of the salary cap. - Week 9 left major money on the table with topping out at $41,800. That's $8,200 leftover. If you had the balls to make that lineup, then kudos. - T.Y. Hilton and Golden Tate appeared the most of any WR at 3 times each. - David Johnson and Ezekiel Elliott were the most of any RB at 3 times each. DJ's came a crazy three weeks in a row. - Trevor Siemian made it twice! - The Flex position was pretty much split between RBs (7 times) and Pass catchers (8 times). What other things...