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Brett TalleyFantasy Hockey

View image | gettyimages.com Below I’ve got a discussion of the best matchups and potential stacks of the day followed by cash game rankings for tonight’s DraftKings contests starting at 7:00 P.M. ET. At the bottom of the post I’ve embedded my research chart for the day. Here is just a snippet

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Brett TalleyFantasy Hockey

View image | gettyimages.com When trying to identify the best matchups as we build daily fantasy hockey lineups, we generally focus on the best team matchups. We tend to pick on teams like Buffalo, Edmonton or Toronto because a large majority of the players on those teams are below average

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2015 Fantasy Baseball2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com I love FIP. Or at least I did until xFIP came along and improved the predictive power of defense-independent pitching statistics (DIPS). Because home run rates generally fluctuate from year to year, xFIP applies a league average home run rate to all pitchers, which makes xFIP

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2015 Fantasy Baseball2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

Above you can see what has become my favorite piece of content to produce each year — my flow chart for use in fantasy baseball snake drafts. The idea is for you to be able to use this during your draft along with a list of names (included below) and have

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2015 Fantasy Baseball2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com Last week I took a look at the players that are ranked higher than their ADP by three projection systems, Steamer, ZiPS and Mike Podhorzer’s projections. As I said last week, I like looking at projections because they’re smarter than we are. Admittedly, projection systems aren’t the

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Brett TalleyFantasy Hockey

View image | gettyimages.com This post covers the nine game slate of NHL contests on DraftKings starting at 7:00 P.M. EST. Below I’ve got a discussion of the best matchups and potential stacks of the day followed by cash game rankings for tonight’s DraftKings contests. At the bottom of the post I’ve

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2015 Fantasy Baseball2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com I really love projection systems. They do all the work for you, and they’re way smarter than we are. There’s no better place to start your fantasy baseball research than with systems like ZiPS, Steamer and Mike Podhorzer’s projections ($). The knock on projection systems is

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Brett TalleyFantasy Hockey

Below I’ve got a discussion of the best matchups and potential stacks of the day followed by cash game rankings for tonight’s DraftKings contests. At the bottom of the post I’ve embedded my research chart for the day. Here is just a snippet of the chart I’ll use to explain what you’re

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Brett TalleyFantasy Hockey

This post covers the eight game slate of NHL contests on DraftKings starting at 6:00 P.M. EST. Normally I start these posts off with an explanation of the player value sheet I create every day, and then I include the research chart in the post. But today I’m going to

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Brett TalleyFantasy Basketball

If you follow our DFS content, you know that I don’t do basketball content. I do all our daily hockey content, and I do a lot of football and baseball content when those sports are in season. I can’t bring myself to play DraftKings’ last remaining NFL contest that includes

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