Kelly Olynyk (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 32% of leagues ANALYSIS: Danny Ainge fooled everybody this summer. Yes, he traded Rudy Gobert away from a good bunch of youngsters and draft picks. He doubled down on that moving from Donovan Mitchell and adding another handful of players and draft assets to the fold. […]

Bol Bol (C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 56% of leagues ANALYSIS: If this is not the last week/window of opportunity for you to grab some shares of Bol Bol, then I don't even know what has gone wrong with this world. Bol is starting games nightly, has found a role in the Magic rotation […]

Malik Beasley (SG, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: A Sixth Man of the Year candidate (and, let's be honest, most-probable winner judging by what has happened to date) rostered in fewer than half of all ESPN leagues!? Give me all of those shares! With the Utah Jazz still keeping their record […]

NextGen Stats - Week 11: RB Breakdowns and Takeaways

Folks, it's time to put on your battle armor and get ready for war. We've completed 11 weeks and I can see the playoffs on the horizon already. And let me tell you something: nobody is pushing me out of them. If you too have a chance at making the playoffs at this point in […]

Mack Hollins (WR, LV) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: One more week ahead, one more week in the Injured Reserve for TE Darren Waller and WR Hunter Renfrow. Don't get me wrong, Mack Hollins has done enough at different times to at least throw a dart his way, but the absence […]

Demarcus Robinson (WR, BAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We all thought that Devin Duvernay was going to be the Ravens' no. 1 wideout (in both volume and most importantly performance) with Marquise Brown out of town, but things started to go south for the former starting in Week 6 and […]

Joshua Palmer (WR, LAC) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of Leagues ANALYSIS:  Joshua Palmer might be slightly over-rostered for the type of player we write about in these weekly WW columns, but he's well worth checking in most (if not all) fantasy football leagues out there as a priority to add off waivers given the […]

Andy Dalton (QB, NO) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As sour as Jameis Winston might be about his current situation and losing his QB1 job because of injury, the only truth here is that Andy Dalton is the Saints starting quarterback. Barring a catastrophe and with the Saints still having (minimal […]

Marcus Mariota (QB, ATL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 43% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Atlanta moved closer to an even record after defeating Chicago on Sunday, sitting now at 5-6 through Week 11. Marcus Mariota, for the seventh week in a row, entered the QB2 realm and finished inside the top-15 quarterbacks of the week for […]

Logan Thomas (TE, WAS) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While it is true that Logan Thomas was forced out of a few games earlier this season, the truth is that having him featuring in seven already is quite encouraging considering his past and how filled of injuries it's been. Logan Thomas […]

Juwan Johnson (TE, NO) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 30% of Leagues ANALYSIS: For someone who has scored at least one touchdown in four of his last five games, and that happens to be eligible for the TE position, finding Juwan Johnson available in 70% of all Yahoo leagues is quite bemusing. Johnson has scored […]

Darius Slayton (WR, NYG) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Last chance before the window of opportunity to land Darius Slayton in most leagues closes, folks, so you know what to do. There are no teams on a bye week this next week but the pauses come back half a month from […]

Rachaad White (RB, TB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 59% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Just in case you needed one more reason to roster Rachaad White this season, Leonard Fournette just went down injured in Tampa Bay's Week 10 game against Seattle last Sunday. That's actually just one (big) reason because perhaps the most important one was […]

Ryan Tannehill (QB, TEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Tennessee lost no time in throwing Ryan Tannehill back to the gridiron the minute he was ready and fit to play after missing weeks 8 and 9. The comeback was great with Tannehill performing to QB1 levels of play and completing his […]

Randall Cobb (WR, GB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Randall Cobb started the year on a secondary (tertiary, actually) role with the Packers appearing in no more than 25 offensive snaps in four of the first six games of the season (only two times getting a snap share above 40%) before […]

Treylon Burks (WR, TEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It's hard to find a weirder season for a rookie in the history of the league. Everything started on draft day when Burks looked like a stud. Then the summer camp problems arrived. Then Burks was good-not-great to start the year (back-to-back […]

Donovan Peoples-Jones (WR, CLE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 12

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The disrespect Amari Cooper is getting is unreal. The respect Donovan Peoples-Jones hasn't earned is nonsensical. What's with the Browns, folks? Why you so mad at them? Cooper is putting up numbers weekly and DPJ is not quite at his level yet […]

Caleb Martin (SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Miami Heat are coming off the weirdest game ever in the post-COVID era of the NBA: just seven players logged at least one minute against Washington on Friday with eight of them dressing (the minimum allowed) but one not truly available […]

Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: Just a few hours after Shams Charania dropped his latest report with bits of information about who's available in trade talks--one of those players being Immanuel Quickley--the Knicks faced Golden State away from home after having won back-to-back contests against Utah and […]

Larry Nance Jr. (PF, NOP) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues ANALYSIS: Zion Williamson present or not, Larry Nance Jr. will keep waiting from the Pelicans pine no matter what by the recent looks of it. Nance has not started a game this season in New Orleans even when Zion has missed time at […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 15% of leagues ANALYSIS: While every casual NBA fan was confused reading stories about Giannis fighting an A-frame ladder on Friday, the actual news we were caring about for our fantasy endeavors was much more troubling: Tyrese Maxey went off the court injured after just 21 […]

Tyus Jones (PG, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of leagues ANALYSIS: Is it time!? It might very well be, folks! Truth be told, it is sad to have Ja Morant suffering any kind of injury that prevents us from watching him play basketball on a nightly basis. That said, when things like that […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 6: De'Anthony Melton, Tyus Jones, Caleb Martin

The deeper a fantasy basketball league, the harder it is to hit a winner with your last few picks. It is also harder to find decent help from the waiver wire if your late-round picks don't do you justice. If you picked up a few stinkers, don't lose hope just yet. I will try to […]

Mason Plumlee (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: What happened last Friday in the game between the Cavs and the Hornets could very well be labeled a fluke more than a trend in Mason Plumlee's case. That's because exclusively looking at the center's Friday fantasy numbers, that game ended up […]

Aaron Gordon (SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 61% of leagues ANALYSIS: This definitely breaks my self-imposed rule of not writing about players rostered on more leagues than not when it comes to WW posts, but this might also be the last time you have a shot at landing a legitimate starter part of […]

Bones Hyland (PG, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues ANALYSIS: Between COVID and non-COVID maladies multiple Denver Nuggets players have spent time off the court recently opening the doors for others to pop up out of nowhere or, in the case of Bones Hyland, to solidify themselves having massive performances of late. […]

Max Strus (SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: Never before had Max Strus played more than 41 minutes in a single game. Never before, truth be told, had he probably found himself in such a situation as the one the Miami Heat were in last Friday facing the Wizards while […]

Bol Bol (PF/C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues ANALYSIS: When you sort any leaderboard by a column that features a statistic represented by an average, odds are you're going to get some small-sample-size outliers at the top and at the bottom of the resulting outcome. Bol Bol, though, can't be put […]

Royce O'Neale (SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 30% of leagues ANALYSIS: Not only is Royce O'Neale coming off tipping a Kevin Durant miss against Portland for what ended being the game-winning shot, but that game also marked a new season-high for the starting forward of the Nets. After signing up with the BK […]

Al Horford (C, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: Will Big Al ever run out of energy? I doubt it if you ask me. Horford, playing in his age-36 season and 16th as a pro and keeps starting games nightly going 13-for-13 this season after starting all of those in which […]