DFS

2017

• Week 1 DFS Targets

  Sep 7, 2017

  Week 1 DFS Targets By: @SMich_5 and @DFS_mathlete The wait is almost over, and another off season of moves, trades, cuts, and questionable draft choices (your own and your favorite team’s GMs) is nearly complete. With Week 1 starting it’s time to shift focus from season long fantasy decisions and...
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• Week 1 Recap

  Sep 11, 2017

  With Week 1 in the books, we can all be thankful that daily fantasy sports have come back into our lives. If you’re one of the many David Johnson owners who just watched your first round pick go down for an extended amount of time, you’re stuck looking at a...
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• Week 2 DFS Targets

  Sep 14, 2017

  It was a tough Week 1 as several big names underperformed, got hurt, or both (Tom Brady, David Johnson, and LeVeon Bell just to name a few). But that was then, and this is now (or soon to be now?) and Week 2 has arrived. Here are the players we...
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• Week 2 Recap

  Sep 19, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 It’s time to panic now as we have a whopping 12.5% of the season is in the books (it’s true, I did the math and everything). We can go ahead and give the MVP to Kareem Hunt and wonder how Trevor Siemian could have ever been backing up...
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• Week 3 DFS Targets

  Sep 21, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 One of the more interesting things to watch recently has been the backlash to data analysis in the sporting world. It started with the mainstream success of sabermetrics in baseball, moved to the odd experiments in roster building in basketball, and has become accepted and embraced in most...
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• Week 3 Recap

  Sep 25, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 Well, that was interesting. Week 3 of the season was by far the craziest, most entertaining, and competitive week of the young season. It started with a bang on Thursday night, got some additional heat added via some pointed political statements, and went full blown supernova by the...
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• Week 4 DFS Targets

  Sep 28, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 and @DFS_mathlete We’ll be hitting the quarter mark of the season for most teams this week and there are still a lot of questions. We’re getting close to the part of the season where we can see value a little clearer and a big name won’t be enough...
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• Week 4 Recap

  Oct 3, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 There’s always a tomorrow thanks to DFS, and hope springs eternal because of it. Week 4 was another tough one for the Mathletes, as we had another hit or miss week after two great weeks to start the season, followed by a mixed bag last week. #QB Trevor Siemian...
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• Week 5 DFS Targets

  Oct 5, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 We are about to enter arguably the best time of year for sports fans, as we will soon have all four major sports going at once. Between the baseball playoffs, hockey just starting, the NFL season a quarter of the way in, and NBA games starting sooner than usual...
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• Week 5 Recap

  Oct 9, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 It was a tough week for home teams in Week 5, and road teams with serious playoff aspirations really showed up in Pittsburgh, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Dallas. The boring showing from the league in the first two weeks of the season is a thing of the past...
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• Week 6 DFS Targets

  Oct 12, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 Week 6 is upon us and we are beyond the point where a team’s performance is going to be explained away as early season issues. General trends are beginning to become clearer and the pricing for DFS games is getting more locked in, so any shift in a player’s...
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• Week 6 Recap

  Oct 17, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 Well, that was weird. The Steelers, who looked awful last week after a horrific day from franchise QB Ben Roethlisberger came back this week to hand the Kansas City Chiefs their first taste of defeat this season. The team that had embarrassed the Steelers the week before, the...
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• Week 7 DFS Targets

  Oct 20, 2017

  By:SMich_5 With every week that passes, we get a clearer idea of who teams are. This year has been tough with the season long trend of underdog success throwing some predictions off, but over time we can begin to understand teams’ strengths and weaknesses. This also leads to prices rising...
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• Week 7 Recap

  Oct 25, 2017

  By:SMich_5 The NFL has produced an abundance of weird results this year, including in Week 7, when there were 7 teams unable to score a TD on offense, and two of those teams still managed to win. Chicago figured a throwback style of football resembling something last seen when players...
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• Week 8 DFS Targets

  Oct 28, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 Halfway there and we’ve hit the first big group of bye weeks with 5 teams out and some big names in fantasy. The main slate on DraftKings is down to 9 games with the Thursday night game, an early game in London, the Sunday night game, and Monday night...
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• Week 8 Recap

  Nov 3, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 Another week gone by and we have a new leader in the clubhouse for game of the year. The Texans/Seahawks game was an instant classic and a great showcase for the next generation of QBs in the NFL. Russell Wilson and DeShaun Watson’s back and forth elevated a non-conference...
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• Week 9 DFS Targets

  Nov 3, 2017

  By:SMich_5 One more big week of BYEs to get through, as the Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Los Angeles Chargers all take the week off. Aside from the big offensive names included on those teams, the bad defenses taken out of the player...
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• Week 9 Recap

  Nov 9, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 Another week has passed and now every team has played at least 8 games. We’re more than halfway through the season now and there are only two more weeks of byes to work around. There were some great calls in the targets for week 9 and I hope...
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• Week 10 DFS Targets

  Nov 12, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 We’re through the big bye weeks and there are only 4 teams off this week. The main slate has a couple more games added on and hopefully we can get through this week without another rash of season ending injuries. Aside from the epidemic of injuries to some of...
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• Week 10 Recap

  Nov 17, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 Slowly but surely, the better teams in the league are asserting themselves. The crazy parity that repeatedly showed itself in the early part of the season has begun the inevitable march back to the norm. This past week there were really only two surprising outcomes; the games between the...
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• Week 11 DFS Targets

  Nov 19, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 The stretch run has begun, and the next few weeks will see a crush of division games start to hit. This week there are only two division games and they’ll start and finish the day on Sunday. Even with all of the advanced scouting that goes into a team’s...
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• Week 12 DFS Targets

  Nov 26, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 So I want to be upfront with anyone reading (there are literally dozens of you), but this week’s article format is going to be a little different. Normally, I’ll do research into a couple of guys at each position and discuss some potential targets with @DFS_mathlete before settling on...
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• Week 14 DFS Targets

  Dec 7, 2017

  By: @SMich_5 It’s getting late in the football season, which means that, not only do a lot of season long leagues have their playoffs start this week, but we have several teams that are eliminated from playoff contention in real life as well. This can be a tough situation for...
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• Week 15 Saturday Target

  Dec 16, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 This will be the busiest week of the year in terms of football coverage during the week, as we have four days of games with the Thursday nighter in the books, a double header on Saturday, and the usual slate of games on Sunday and Monday. With such a...
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• Week 15 DFS Targets

  Dec 17, 2017

  By:@SMich_5 If you only played a Sunday slate, it’ll seem like the bye weeks have returned, as there are only 12 games on the schedule. Despite the loss of a couple of extra games’ worth of players, there is still a lot of value to be found. There are plenty...
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