Daily Fantasy Football Cash Game Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Wildcard Round - Sunday Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NFL optimizer for FanDuel and DraftKings, our NBA 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.   nbsp;   Los Angeles Chargers (2.5) vs. Baltimore Ravens (-2.5) Sunday's slate starts off with a rematch of a week 16 game that both teams likely viewed as a must-win. The Ravens got it done, containing the Chargers' high-flying offense to just 10 points. They managed to relegate Melvin Gordon to just 53 total yards on 15 touches. Yikes. The Ravens didn't fare a whole lot better from a fantasy perspective, scoring just 22 points. Lamar Jackson was not awful, and "Mark Andrews" had 83 yards and a touchdown on 2 targets, but there isn't a whole lot to look at here. Still, it's very tough to ignore a game altogether on a two game slate. Let's do our best, shall we? Melvin Gordon FD 8400 DK 7700 Opponent BAL Proj Points FD - 11.84 DK - 12.93 It's telling that Gordon is showing up in our optimal lineups even on such generally terrible projections. The reason is pretty simple: the other teams on the slate are Philly, Chicago, and Baltimore. None of those teams really boasts a fantasy relevant running back on a normal slate, and as bad as Gordon was in his previous meeting with Baltimore, he's many cuts above the other guys on this slate. There are obviously plenty of scenarios where Gordon just goes off here, too, as I believe we see the Chargers go all in on him here. In the middle of the season Gordon was touching the ball 24-26 times per game, and the combination of his ankle and the Chargers being pretty well situated in the playoff picture saw those touches decline toward the end of the season. Now that every game has the potential be the last one of the season, we'll see Gordon from beginning to end in this one. Keenan Allen FD 7700 DK 6900 Opponent BAL Proj Points FD - 12.99 DK - 15.95 Throwing to Keenan Allen was basically the only profitable play the Chargers could run against the Ravens in week 16, if only barely. He turned 8 targets into 5 catches and 58 yards, and while that's nothing to write home about, the Chargers clearly thought he was their best option...

Daily Fantasy Football Cash Game Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Wildcard Round Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NFL optimizer for FanDuel and DraftKings, our NBA 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. Indianapolis Colts (2) vs. Houston Texans (-2)   Key DFS plays Deshaun Watson FD 8400 DK 6700 Opponent IND Proj Points FD - 20.73 DK - 21.15 Watson is the most expensive quarterback on the slate and for good reason. He finished the season as the fourth-highest fantasy scoring quarterback and the Texans come in with the most projected points (25) of the four-game slate. Watson was a competent passer this season (69% completion percentage) with over 4,000 yards despite playing much of the season with a WR group decimated by injuries (outside of Hopkins). His ability to run gives him the ideal cash game floor and he had the third-most quarterback rushing yards on the season (551). The debate will probably about which quarterback is *worth* paying up for on this slate between Watson and Luck. I'll take Watson for the aforementioned running threat and slight edge in team points. DeAndre Hopkins FD 8800 DK 8700 Opponent IND Proj Points FD - 20.78 DK - 23.93 Hopkins is the clear big-money wide receiver to target on this slate and I suspect he’ll have overwhelming cash ownership. He’s had five-straight double-digit target games, capped by a 16 target Week 17 in which he finished with 12 catches for 147 yards against Jalen Ramsey and the Jaguars. He has 115 (2nd in the league) catches on the season without a single drop. He also finished with the second-most receiving yards (1572). No other receiver on this slate is even close to Hopkins in terms of fantasy floor. You have to pay top dollar on both sites, but it’s worth the salary cap hit. Lamar Miller FD 6400 DK 4900 Opponent IND Proj Points FD - 12.61 DK - 13.38 After sitting out Week 16 with an injury, Miller was back to carrying the workload for the Texans in the final game of the season. He ran the ball 17 times for 56 yards against the Jaguars and saw a couple of targets in the passing game. He finished the season 15th in running back usage (17.5 touches per game) and finished with his best yards per attempt (4.6) since 2014 when he was with the Dolphins. The Colts were good...

DFS NFL Podcast! Week 17 Game-by-game Breakdown for FanDuel and DraftKings 12/29 DFSR crew is back with an NFL mega-podcast for Week 17. There is just so much to break down with the playoff implications of different teams weighing heavily on projections. The guys go game-by-game and look at the opportunity, playoff seedings, DFS upside and much more. They spend time talking about the Chiefs, Rams, Texans and Chargers but also try to make sense of the Saints, Cowboys, and Giants among others. It’s a pack NFL podcast for Week 17. Subscribe to this podcast on...

Daily Fantasy Football Top Stacks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 17 - 12/30/18 The final week of the regular season is here and that means once more chance to take down a GPP on a big slate. As always, Week 17 has no Thursday or Monday night games giving us a big 15-game slate on Sunday and many different directions to go. The tricky part about Week 17 is figuring out the narratives for each team to see who will be playing, who will be resting, and who is going to take us to GPP glory. In this article, I am going to provide a couple of my top stacking options using my DFS NFL cheatsheet and the DFSR Player Lab. Let's get started. Want to see the rest of this article? Go grab a free three day trial of DFSR Pro or DFSR Basic! Your subscription will include access to premium content, our lineup optimizer, our members only chatroom, and more! START YOUR FREE TRIAL - AND READ THE REST! Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback - Ben Roethlisberger Primary Target - JuJu Smith-Schuster The led with a Steelers stack in last weeks article and as projected, the Saints/Steelers was a shootout leading to Big Ben throwing it 50 times and while he completed just 33 of them(66%) he ended up with 380 yards and three touchdowns. Unfortunately for the Steelers, they ended up on the losing end putting them in a tough spot this week as they not only need a win to get in the playoffs but need help as well with a Ravens loss to clinch the AFC North or a Colts/Titans tie to grab a wildcard spot. This almost guarantees we get a full game from the Steelers starters making them my top stack of the week. This is not the only reason they sit atop my list this week as they get an elite matchup against the Bengals who have given up the third-most passing yards per game(275.7) and the second-most fantasy points per game(23.4) to quarterbacks. Like I mentioned last week, Big Ben is a volume monster as he leads all QB's in pass attempts(630) and yards(4,842) and is fourth overall in touchdown passes(33). After missing three straight games, James Conner is once again questionable to play so I fully expect that volume to continue. At wide receiver, I will be switching things up and stacking Big Ben with JuJu Smith-Schuster as Antonio Brown is dealing with a knee injury that has sidelined him from practice all week. He is having an elite season sitting fourth in the league in targets(156), 5th in receptions(106), fourth in receiving yards(1,389), and has the 9th best catch rate(67.9%) among wideouts with 100 or more...

Daily Fantasy Football Cash Game Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 17 Well, it's the craziest week of the DFS season, ladies and gentlemen! Every single team in the NFL is playing on the main slate, and roughly 15 teams playing meaningful football this week, it's going to be tough to make heads or tails of exactly where we want to land. Week 17 is a unique beast in the world of daily fantasy sports. We can get unexpected value at the last minute, lose a full half of football from a star for seemingly no reason, and general randomness that can drive a sane man crazy. But this is why we play DFS, right? While those season long only cowards have nothing at stake, we'll be out here in the trenches getting paid for doing the work. Let's get on it. 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 Patrick Mahomes FD 9500 DK 7100 Opponent OAK Proj Points FD - 26.98 DK - 28.42 It's always bittersweet writing up Mahomes, mostly because I went out of my way to go on a 6 minute diatribe about how he was very likely just another young quarterback with a good couple of games. Welp, it hasn't played out like that, exactly. Going into the final game of the season Mahomes has outscored the second highest scoring fantasy QB in the league by 72 points, or nearly five fantasy points per game. Good lord. The DFS sites often have a hard time figuring out how to price these outlier guys, and I get it. Any pricing/projection algorithm is going to want to look at a guy like Mahomes and say: "Outlier! No one can maintain this pace!" Except Mahomes has. And now he'll bring the league's best passing attack against arguably the league's worst passing defense, and inarguably one of the league's 5 worst passing defenses. Mahomes dumpstered them for 33 fantasy points in their last meeting, and now the Chiefs are in a game of the very highest stakes. While they are locked into the playoffs, everything from home field advantage throughout the playoffs to eking out a wildcard birth is in play here. They control their own destiny here, and it's very hard to imagine them taking the foot off the passing game gas, particularly given how...