Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for Playoffs FanDuel and DraftKings 10/9/15 This one feels like an actual real slate of baseball. And while it's tougher sledding because the pitchers are actually all decent (as are the teams), there is at least enough of a player pool to work with. Also, on a slate this short, writing any picks at all is basically giving you access to our projection system. That won't be the case for all of the nights of the playoffs, but it's true tonight. We do offer access to our NFL and NBA projection systems as well, though, so you should go get a trial for those as well! Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial Note: You're going to see a lot of hitters who we are recommending against the same pitchers. Obviously, if you're trying to win a big tournament, you probably shouldn't play hitters against the same pitchers. You might need to take less orthodox guys in those cases. Still, though, these are the best value plays that we can come up with for tonight. Pitchers Clayton Kershaw - FD 12700 DK 15000 Opponent - NYM (deGrom) R Park- @Lad Ever heard of him? Look, I'm not telling you anything new with throwing out a rec on Clayton. He's amazing and I don't need to go off quoting some highfalutin (or lowfalutin) stats to prove the point. His numbers are sick and that's not in question. All you're trying to figure out here is whether it's worth it to pay for him. And on this slate I think you can. The Mets, for all of their Miracle-ness, still struck out 23% of the time against lefties this season even for a team in the middle of the pack against lefties. At this point in the season you aren't targeting bottom-feeding squads. Take it where you can get it, and Kershaw is in a great spot. He's a much better deal on FD where you can fit him. On DK you need to pair him with a cheap guy, which I don't hate on this slate. Marcus Stroman - FD 8300 DK 8600 Opponent- Tex (Hamels) L Park- @Tor Choosing a second arm on this slate isn't the easiest. While Kershaw is the clear favorite, after him it gets a little less clear. You can take the highest ML favorite on the slate in Stroman while still getting him at a much cheaper number. The Rangers aren't pushovers by any means, and the ballpark is terrible, but he's coming so cheap with nice peripherals...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for Playoffs FanDuel and DraftKings 10/7 -10/8 With these writeups through the playoffs, you will probably see a lot of repeated content from the previous article. That's often the rub with these overlapping, two-day slates. I'll highlight those instances just for clarity. Also, on a slate this short, writing any picks at all is basically giving you access to our projection system. That won't be the case for all of the nights of the playoffs, but it's true tonight. We do offer access to our NFL and NBA projection systems as well, though, so you should go get a trial for those as well! Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial Note: You're going to see a lot of hitters who we are recommending against the same pitchers. Obviously, if you're trying to win a big tournament, you probably shouldn't play hitters against the same pitchers. You might need to take less orthodox guys in those cases. Still, though, these are the best value plays that we can come up with for tonight. Pitchers FanDuel (From Tuesday) Gerrit Cole - FD 10000 DK 10600 StarsDraft Opponent- CHC (Arrieta) R Park- @Pit He's projected for the (second) highest raw total in our system today, and he's the second cheapestthe third most expensive guy. Cole struck out 17 batters in 13 innings in his last two starts against the Cubs, and it was no accident - the Cubs struck out at the highest rate in the majors against right handed pitching this season. Their 24% rate is historically bad, and this is a match-up you won't often get come playoff time. The Cubs obviously hvae a ton of upside here as well, but every team has offensive upside in the playoffs. Arrieta is obviously a beast on the mound for the Cubs, but these teams are equal enough that I don't think you can weigh Arrieta against Cole's chances any more than you can any other pitcher going tonight. On a night where financial flexibility will make a huge difference, I love Cole in any format on FanDuel. David Price - FD 12300 DK 11700 Opponent- Tex (Gallardo) R Park- @Tor Price is highest expected pitcher today with the best money line win percentage. The problem with Price, as I see it is, for starters *ahem* price. He's much more expensive than Cole on both sites and has a few more things working to his disadvantage. He is going in a great power park which could cause issues considering the Rangers have been in the...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft - The Wild Card Round The shortest of short slates, and all great pitchers. Gulp. Here's the thing - on a slate this short, writing any picks at all is basically giving you access to our projection system. That won't be the case for all of the nights of the playoffs, but it's true tonight. We do offer access to our NFL and NBA projection systems as well, though, so you should go get a trial for those as well! Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial Note: You're going to see a lot of hitters who we are recommending against the same pitchers. Obviously, if you're trying to win a big tournament, you probably shouldn't play hitters against the same pitchers. You might need to take less orthodox guys in those cases. Still, though, these are the best value plays that we can come up with for tonight. Pitchers FanDuel Gerrit Cole - FD 10000 DK 10600 StarsDraft Opponent- CHC (Arrieta) R Park- @Pit He's projected for the highest raw total in our system today, and he's the second cheapest guy. Cole struck out 17 batters in 13 innings in his last two starts against the Cubs, and it was no accident - the Cubs struck out at the highest rate in the majors against right handed pitching this season. Their 24% rate is historically bad, and this is a match-up you won't often get come playoff time. The Cubs obviously hvae a ton of upside here as well, but every team has offensive upside in the playoffs. Arrieta is obviously a beast on the mound for the Cubs, but these teams are equal enough that I don't think you can weigh Arrieta against Cole's chances any more than you can any other pitcher going tonight. On a night where financial flexibility will make a huge difference, I love Cole in any format on FanDuel. DraftKings Masahiro Tanaka - FD 9600 DK 9000 StarsDraft Opponent- Hou (Keuchel) L Park- @Hou You could make an argument for Tanaka on FanDuel as well, but I love just hedging him across the two sites. Cole on FD, Tanaka on DK. He hasn't been fantastic in the immediate past, but the guy has a 2.96 xFIP and nearly a 5:1 K:BB in his 290 major league innings. He's a monster. The Astros, for their part, are just behind the Cubs in terms of strike-out percentage against righties. They've whiffed at a 23.6% clip, making Tanaka a play with plenty of...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft 10/4/15 Well, it's finally here. The last day of the regular season. The last time you'll get to pick hitters playing against pitchers this bad. The last time you'll see David Buchanan in a box score, or Tommy Milone, or Christian Bergman. Excuse me - I'm tearing up a little bit. Let's just get into it. Go ahead and get access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks. Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial A quick note: Listen - managers are doing all sorts of bizarre stuff on the final day of the season. The Padres are starting someone from their bullpen, for instance, and we don't know who yet. Our projection system isn't going to be able to account for this. But, you can probably just start every single Dodger against all the bums they are going to throw out there. I'll do my best to parse all of this, but let's start with the understanding that this day is going to be an absolute mess, and if you're playing today, you're probably doing so for fun as much as profit. Actually, screw it. This article is just going to have a different format than usual. It almost has to - there's no sense in me writing up a bunch of guys that may or may not play. Instead, I'll break down the best match-ups that you can get by who I think will pitch in tomorrow night's games. The Teams With Something to Play For Far and away, this is the day to take good players from the very few teams with something remaining to play for. At least in your double-ups and 50/50s. The Houston Astros My favorite "team with something to play for" stack, and I don't think it's very close. The Astros will be up against by far the worst pitcher that a team with something to play for will be facing - Robbie Ray. Ray actually has a lot to be proud of this season. He went from being generally terrible in 2014 to simply below average in 2015. His 4.13 xFIP is largely a result of his total lack of command (as evidenced by his 3.50 BB/9), and he's some good HR/FB luck away from having an ERA to match his general lack of skills. Here are the prime guys to target: Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer, Evan Gattis, and Chris Carter (as an upside only play) are all fantastic plays today. The Texas Rangers In...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft 10/3/15 In case you didn't know this by now, it's basically impossible to know who will play, and for how much at this time during the season. But if you're crazy (or addicted) enough to keep playing - read on. You're among family, here. And while you're here, go ahead and get a free trial of access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks for the NFL, MLB, and NBA! Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial Pitchers Early Slate Rainout fun! I recommended Gio before last night's rain out, and he makes a good play in the first half of this double-header as well. Here you go! Gio Gonzalez - FD 9300 DK 8200 StarsDraft Opponent- NYM (Syndergaard) r Park- @NYM If the Mets are going to continue to trot out the B team, Gio makes for a pretty interesting play here. With 20+ FanDuel fantasy points in his last 5 starts, and you're not going to find a lot of upside like this on these relatively low prices this late in the season for a couple of reasons. First of all, a lot of the best pitchers are on good teams, and they aren't going to pitch deep into games right now unless they are still fighting for a playoff spot. Gio's still nearly a strikeout per inning guy with a better than league average xFIP, and that should be enough to get it done against the Mets' back-ups. If they start the actual good hitters maybe I'll reconsider, but this is a good tournament play from where I'm sitting. Late Slate Max Scherzer One never knows how many innings one is going to get out of a big name starter with nothing to play for at the end of the year, but that was true in Scherzer's last start as well, and he pitched 8 nearly no-hit, 10 strike-out innings against a good-hitting Red Sox team. Today he'll get the Mets, who have literally nothing to play for, and with Scherzer making a fringe Cy-Young case, he may very well get left out there for a decent amount of time. If you think the Mets are going to play their starters in the 2nd half of a double-header with the play-offs around the corner, I got a bridge to sell you. Scherz should be shooting fish in a barrel. Shelby Miller - FD 6800 DK 7700 StarsDraft Opponent- STL (Lackey) R Park- @Atl Shelby Miller has 17 losses this year, leading the...