Daily Fantasy Football Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 17 - 12/31/17 If Christmas Eve NFL wasn't enough to put you on shaky ground with the significant other, how about a little New Year's Eve action? Week 17 is always the most fluid of DFS NFL weeks. It's very hard to know who is going to play their starters, who is going to rest with some phantom injury, and which teams are going to battle for higher seeding while others rest on their laurels. That being said, there is still plenty of value to pass around this week, so let's get to it! 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 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. A quick rule of thumb for week 17 Week 17 is crazy in the NFL because we simply don't know what teams are planning to do with their DFS relevant players. This can lead to outsized opportunity for backups, or it can lead to heartbreak when we play a guy who we think is a stud and he only winds up playing the first half. Thus, there are 5 tiers of opportunity for week 17 I want you to take into account: Tier 1: Teams with a ton on the line I'm talking playoff births and a first round bye. Both of these are so important that any team would go all out to try and secure it. For week 17, the following teams have this level of skin in the game: Tennesee, Buffalo, the LA Chargers, Baltimore, Atlanta, Seattle, Minnesota, and Carolina. Tier 2: Teams playing for playoff seeding and/or divisional titles, but who are locked into the playoffs: New England, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, the LA Rams. Tier 3: Teams with nothing to play for, but who haven't had anything to play for in ages: Cleveland, Indianapolis, Houston, NYJ, Denver, Cincinnati, Miami, Oakland, NYG, Tampa Bay, Chicago, San Francisco. Tier 4: Teams playing for moral victories (like a .500 record). Detroit, Dallas, Arizona, Washington, Green Bay. Tier 5: Teams that were recently eliminated or totally locked into their spot: Jacksonville (locked into the 3 seed), Philly (locked into home field advantage), Kansas City (locked into the 4 seed). If I can help it, I'm only playing players in the top 3 tiers unless I get explicit news that a Tier 4 team is really earnestly going for...

DFSR's Daily Fantasy NFL Podcast - Week 17 Game-by-Game Breakdwon for FanDuel and DraftKings 12/30/16 The DFSR guys break down the NFL Week 17 DFS slate for FanDuel and DraftKings in a monster pod. There are just so many things to consider this week with some teams fighting for their playoff lives, some totally out of it and others falling somewhat in between. The big games to target seem to be the Falcons/ Saints and the Packers/ Lions. But there are plenty of other considerations with the Seahawks, Falcons and Chiefs all with something to play for. They discuss a glut of possible running back value as well and why it might make sense to pay up for receivers this week. Subscribe to this podcast on...

DFSR's Daily Fantasy NFL Podcast - Week 17 Value Plays for FanDuel and DraftKings 12/29/16 The DFSR guys talk some Week 17 value plays for FanDuel and DraftKings. Week 17 is always a little tricky as we figure out which teams actually have something to play for and which ones are resting starters and key players. At quarterback, it’s time to spend up with guys like Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan. Running back is very tricky with only really David Johnson standing out in the upper tier. Then we can look cheaper with Mark Ingram, Bilal Powell and maybe Chris Ivory. And finally, spending up at wide receiver could also be the way to go and the guys talk about Jordy Nelson, Julio Jones and Doug Baldwin. Subscribe to this podcast on...

Daily Fantasy Football Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - Week 17 1/1/17 Week 17 is here! You know what that means - lots of back-up quarterbacks, teams with nothing to play for, and wide spreads that seemingly make no sense. You ready for a little Landry Jones vs. RG III this week? Me too! Never fear, there's still value and some sanity in play here. Let's dive in. In case you didn’t notice, we just released our brand new NFL DFS suite of tools including full projections, optimal NFL lineups and our Player Lab, which includes filters to help you create NFL lineups for FanDuel and DraftKings for any format. It’s a set of tools well beyond anything we’ve ever had, and something we feel will help our users *ahem* tackle the NFL season. If you want to see the numbers behind our projections, create lineups, or research as deeply as your heart desires, click the button below to test out yourself. START YOUR FREE TRIAL! QUARTERBACKS Drew Brees FD 8200 DK 7400 Opponent ATL Proj Points FD - 22.3 DK - 23.07 Brees was a chalk play in week 16, and was mostly a disappointment, putting up 16 fantasy points against one of the worst pass defenses in Tampa Bay. But I mean, was he really that bad? He threw for 299 yards and had no interceptions, and if he gets either of those vultured TDs from Mark Ingram back we're looking at pretty much a fine week. And, yes, those are sort of excuses on some level. The signs are all there for this to be a huge week for him, though. Vegas has this game pegged as having the highest over by an absurd eight points, which is the highest so far this season. And we're getting Brees at a discount to what we've had to pay for him in previous weeks. Throw in the fact that a lot of the biggest names will be operating in a more limited capacity this week, and Brees looks like a cash game lock for the DFSR family this week. Russell Wilson FD 7600 DK 6300 Opponent SF Proj Points FD - 21.17 DK - 22.08 We talked about this on the podcast, but there are only a handful of teams with something to play for this week, and Seattle is one of them. Wilson followed up a tough first half against Arizona with a monster second half, putting up his best overall fantasy performance of the season just in the nick of time. And this week, he'll have an historically great match-up against the Niners. They've been the worst defense in the league by every observable metric this...