NHL Eastern Conference Playoff Primer
You can find the Western Conference Playoff Primer here. After a long, exciting NHL season, we have finally reached the pinnacle of the hockey season, playoff time, where every game matters, intensity increases tenfold, and margin for error ceases to exist. Conventional wisdom might tell you that “defense wins championships” or “the refs swallow their whistles” […]
NHL Western Conference Playoff Primer
You can find the Eastern Conference Playoff Primer here. After a long, exciting NHL season, we have finally reached the pinnacle of the hockey season, playoff time, where every game matters, intensity increases tenfold, and margin for error ceases to exist. Conventional wisdom might tell you that “defense wins championships” or “the refs swallow their whistles” […]
Daily Fantasy Basketball: Cheap Advice 4/12/16
Only two more days of regular season DFS in the NBA and even though I’m quite sad, I’m actually a bit relieved as well. These last 2 weeks have been brutal with all the news of players resting out of nowhere and random injuries forcing late scratches. Trust me when I tell you, the playoffs […]
MLB DFS Plays for 4/12/16
Tuesday brings a heavy slate of games in the evening, highlighted by the must-watch matchup between Jose Fernandez and Noah Syndergaard. Unfortunately for fantasy purposes, two of the three highest strikeout pitchers will be featured in the same game, but there are a number of options elsewhere. They just won’t come at a discount. Currently, […]
Daily Fantasy Basketball: Cheap Advice
Point Guard Ramon Sessions (DK $4600, FD $4200, 24.3 USG w/ Wall out) The Wizards have been eliminated from playoff contention, meaning we’ve likely seen the last of John Wall for the remainder of the season. Remember, there’s going to be lots of this going on over the next 3 days so if you don’t […]
MLB DFS Plays for 4/11/16
Another set of rainouts wreaked havoc on Sunday’s slate – most notably the final game of the week between the Yankees and Tigers – but we finally have a foundation of statistics to use for each team. With a slightly smaller slate on Monday and a new set of matchups, we begin the second week […]
MLB DFS Game Theory for 4/11/16
In this article I’m going to look at the slate as a whole from a game theory perspective, rather than try to figure out which hitters have exactly the best matchup. Both are important, but there are a lot of resources out there that analyze matchups, but few that approach DFS from the perspective of […]
MLB DFS Plays for 4/10/16
Two rainouts from Saturday will push a few pitchers into Sunday starts. As it turns out, there were targets from these games in Saturday’s article, so be sure to check the write-ups of players like Bryce Harper and Justin Bour. Currently, we are using xFIP and wOBA simply to compare one pitcher’s performance against another – […]