Lugentz Dort (SG, OKC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: The official linebacker of the NBA happens to play in Oklahoma City--and he's far from bad at doing this thing they call Thunder Basketball. Dort has started all 16 games he's played, is averaging 31 MPG on the court, and barring a […]

Chris Boucher (PF, TOR) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's going to be impossible for Chris Boucher to sustain his most recent week-and-change of games. If he can produce at just a remotely close level then we might be witnessing greatness from a player still available in more than half of […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC Vegas 65: Lewis vs. Spivak (Premium Content)

We're coming off the most shocking event in the recent history of the UFC folks, so nothing that happens next weekend will make you think you just witnessed greatness in the UFC Apex. I mean, it's not that you can watch Israel Adesanya drop a belt every week, so you know what I'm saying. But […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - UFC Vegas 65: Lewis vs. Spivak

We're coming off the most shocking event in the recent history of the UFC folks, so nothing that happens next weekend will make you think you just witnessed greatness in the UFC Apex. I mean, it's not that you can watch Israel Adesanya drop a belt every week, so you know what I'm saying. But […]

NextGen Stats: Fantasy Football WR/TE Breakdowns and Takeaways

We've consumed our first "double-digit week" set of games. That means we've entered the final part of the season and, in fact, the fantasy football playoffs are closer than you may realize. There are just three more weeks to go until we hit Week 14 and celebrate our presence in the run for the chip, […]

Darius Slayton (WR, NYG) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There is always the fear of a bye week breaking a good streak of results. Not in Darius Slayton's case, judging by his most recent outing coming off the Giants' bye back on Week 9. In fact, the resting time might have […]

Christian Watson (WR, GB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Yes, this is a reactionary take. I mean, Christian Watson is coming off a three-touchdown weekend, what did you expect!? You have to roster this man out of that alone, and then some. Watson, of course, did more in Week 10 than […]

Rachaad White (RB, TB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% 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 […]

Isiah Pacheco (RB, KC) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team  Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Chiefs played us a couple of weeks ago when they said they would be starting Isiah Pacheco instead of Clyde Edwards-Helaire... only for the former to start the game, yes, but to also end playing basically the same amount of snaps […]

Donovan Peoples-Jones (WR, CLE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

–BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 35% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you ask me to define a season-long waiver wire target, perhaps talking about Cleveland Browns' WR Donovan Peoples-Jones is the best answer I could come up with. Good? Yes. Great? Not quite. Steady producer? Sure. Volatile player? Not at all. […]

Cole Kmet (TE, CHI) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 59% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While Cole Kmet has been far from a convincing play on a weekly basis this season, that doesn't mean he's (seemingly) fixed his game of late: five touchdowns in three games, just by themselves, are more than enough to at least give him […]

Foster Moreau (TE, LV) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Las Vegas Raiders announced on Thursday that they had put both TE Darren Waller and WR2 Hunter Renfrow on the Injured Reserve. That means that both players will be forced to remain out of the gameday roster for at least four […]

Laviska Shenault Jr. (WR, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS:  It's truly been a rough season for Laviska Shenault Jr. and the Carolina Panthers by extension. The wideout, who played with the Panthers for the first time in Week 3, has turned into the walking definition of a boom/bust play this season. […]

Jarvis Landry (WR, NO) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After playing football for the last time in Week 4, Jarvis Landry returned to the field this past Sunday with the New Orleans Saints. Call it rust, or call it what you want, but the performance wasn't nearly otherworldly from the veteran […]

Marcus Mariota (QB, ATL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS:  The only thing taking Marcus Mariota off shallower-league radars is the fact that he is at an arm's length of putting up a random stinker any given week. Over a full season, though, concerns should be lowered a lot with the veteran […]

Kenny Pickett (QB, PIT) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While it's been a truly up-and-down, peaks-and-valleys season for the rookie Steelers QB, Kenny Pickett has shown his talent here and there and coming off his best game of the year to date. There are still three more weeks with teams going on […]

Ryan Tannehill (QB, TEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After featuring in spot plays all the way back in Week 2, rookie QB Malik Willis took the field as a starter for the Titans in the W8-W9 span due to veteran Ryan Tannehill being out injured. The results weren't any good […]

Isaiah Hartenstein (C, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Knicks are your favorite mediocre team, which probably isn't that bad considering the franchise's recent past during the last decade. Everything is pretty much average, but that doesn't mean we can't still find some gems buried in MSG. For example, the freshest-inked […]

Cameron Payne (PG, PHO) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: The injury suffered by Chris Paul on Nov. 7 definitely has to do with Cameron Payne's appeal and recent surge, but it's not that he wasn't useful before Paul went down in the game against Philly. Paul, mind you, was getting 30+ […]

Aleksej Pokusevski (PF/C, OKC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: When it comes to lowly-rostered players, Aleksej Pokusevski is one of the most efficient and better performers of the bunch. Just looking at guys rostered in fewer than 10% of all ESPN leagues, Poku is one of only four men with 229+ […]

Kenyon Martin Jr. (SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: After getting so close to leaving the Houston Rockets franchise this past summer, Kenyon Martin Jr. and the Rockets decided to keep it going for a while and the truth is that the decision seems to be truly paying off for both […]

Jalen McDaniels (PF, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: The NBA keeps going, the Charlotte Hornets keep playing games, and Jalen McDaniels seems to be going nowhere. The absence of Gordon Hayward might be helping his playing time a bit, yes, but even then the forward is doing enough to merit […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 5

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 […]

Bones Hyland (PG, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Nuggets have Jamal Murray back, and that's great no matter how you look at it or how much of a fantasy-head you are. It is what it is, and it benefits the league. Of course, having your starting PG back, available, […]

Bol Bol (PF/C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues ANALYSIS: I remember when Denver drafted Bol Bol with a late second-round pick. Actually, Miami did but instantly traded him to the Rockies so it's the Nuggets who actually bet on Bol. It looked like an absolute steal considering the giant had been […]

Dennis Smith Jr. (PG, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Dennis Smith Jr. Lightspeed Train might have left the fantasy station now that LaMelo Ball and Terry Rozier are both back, fit, available, and playing nightly. That said, even with Smith missing last Saturday's game and expected to hit the second […]

Bennedict Mathurin (SF, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: It is normal to find rookies a little bit over-rostered early in the season because of what we know as the Novelty Bias: a 19-year-old fresh off averaging a double-double in college!? Give me two! Who wants a 34-year-old veteran when you […]

Kevin Huerter (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: Singing Malik Monk at a reasonable price has definitely turned into a great deal for Sacramento. Acquiring Kevin Huerter in a trade with Atlanta in exchange for only a lottery-protected first-round pick, though, can now be considered an outright steal pulled off […]

Steven Adams (C, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: There are 14 pure centers (only C-eligible) currently rostered in more leagues than Steven Adams is. Some of those players: Mitchell Robinson, Alperen Sengun, and Jufuf Nurkic just to name a few. Adams, though, has produced fantasy points at a top-20 pace […]

Isaiah Stewart (C, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 30% of leagues ANALYSIS: Another week, another post about Beef Stew. I'm starting to lose all hope and die suffering a terrible depression knowing 70% of all ESPN leagues out there still have Isaiah Stewart sitting on their shelves... Stewart, as I'm writing this, is coming off […]