5x million dollar winner at NFL DFS. 3rd place (out of over 5000) in Circa Millions 2023. Write Daily NFL and sports betting contest strategy for
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Apparently
@ESPNBet
treats a push as a loss for a parlay. This is so outrageously bad for the bettor that I literally will not be your friend if you bet there. What’s next? -150 sides and totals 😂
Some places (I will not name names) have Puka Nacua projected ahead of DeAndre Hopkins, Devonta Smith, Amari Cooper, and Mike Evans this week. This is why fantasy football is beatable my friends.
Jim Irsay: Inherits billions of dollars and does jack shit.
Jonathan Taylor: Works his ass off to become top running back in world but is about to get paid less than a mid-range tight end.
Yeah I don't think anyone is going to be on Irsay's side in this squabble.
Won my third
@DraftKings
FFWC seat last night. All three have been via showdown. To say this has been a weird season so far for me is an understatement.
Draftkings playoff best balls have to be the most theoretical beatable contest they’ve ever run. Deep roster, larger lineup, tight end spot, opponents not used to drafting best ball teams. Most people don’t even draft a lineup that could field a full Super Bowl team.
Well I got killed at DFS this week because my picks were generally…bad. But I managed to win a seat to the
@UnderdogFantasy
introductory Dawg Bowl in Miami!
@JerLevine
With legal sports betting, we can see innovation with sports betting tournaments and lots of good fun skill-based stuff.
Or we can see books just completely fuck over the squares and severely limit anyone with half a brain.
Hopefully it is the former and the good books prevail
Three years ago I didn’t know which QBs were starting for which teams until a week before Week 1.
Now I’m looking at mock drafts so I can stack rookies with likely QB pairings in the pre-draft best ball on
@UnderdogFantasy
.
No major victory laps for best ball for me but I did win the Mastiff. Don’t have a dog currently. Mastiffs seem like good dogs. Maybe I’ll get a few for Two Gun Way. If I named my son after Eric Decker’s 200 yard game, I can get a dog based off of a best ball win.
About as blatant of fraud as it can get. Always been my concern with Best Ball tournaments. Underdog said they would post all boards of teams that win. Think that's the most basic thing we need or f best ball going forward if some players end up with 10 top two round picks.
Instead of relying on sites to cancel bogus drafts, another idea is for sites to implement anti-tanking controls in the software. For example, round 1 you can't draft a player more than 12 spots ahead of ADP. This gets relaxed more as the draft progresses.
When drafting in the best ball playoffs on
@UnderdogFantasy
, I feel 4/5 of people tend to draft a team capable of winning in the final round. There’s always that one player that drafts unoptimally but you know he’ll probably win the pod and then just lose later.
Investing in FTN has really helped my own personal DFS play. Case in point our ownership rankings. I use our SE ones for the high stakes games I play since they are more similar.
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r^2 when predicting ownership in the Giant $50 SE
@FTNDailySE
The reason people are posting their best ball finals teams isn’t to flex to other people in the fantasy football community. It’s to give us all cover from our wives to spend all spring and summer on our phones drafting teams.
Currently tied for 13th out of over 5000 entries in the
@CircaSports
Millions contest. See the sides I like the most each week fore free on Fridays on
@FTNBets
!
Here are my updated, unofficial standings of the
@CircaSports
#CircaMillions
sports betting contest with one game left for people that were in the top 10 prior to this week. I'm pretty much locked into third for $400k (LCPA-1 may tie me, which would drop me to $375k)
Eliminator on
@UnderdogFantasy
filled in...under 24 hours? Goes to show the demand for a good, new offering.
Let's take a moment and see all the things UD is doing that FanDuel could have done when they bought Draft. Management is sometimes everything especially with innovation.
Puka Nacua is trending towards the top-24 PPR WR mark in my rankings after digging into the matchup a bit more.
Just moved him ahead of Garrett Wilson.
This is the range he currently falls in for me:
Hard to not get pissed as a running back if Cole Kmet is making more than Saquan Barkley and Josh Jacobs. Pretty sure Barkley and Jacobs are worth more points per game EV wise to their teams than Kmet (even if it’s still far less than say Mahomes to KC or even Herbert to KC etc)
Another deal: Bears and TE Cole Kmet reached agreement on a four-year, $50 million extension, including $32.8 million guaranteed and $20 million in new first-year cash, per me and
@FieldYates
.
You have to root for the Broncos at this point, if for no other reason than dumb coaching decisions need to have consequences.
Running Latavius Murray to the ground and benching James Cook while you’re behind is a fireable offense.
I think the court of public (Twitter) opinion will ultimately keep best ball honest on UD/DK. Everyone gonna want to see the winners draft board. If anyone gets beat by a super team in playoffs a stink will be raised. A lot of $$$ invested into this year by both players and UD/DK
My wife has been with me during my entire DFS career of 10 years. She’s never drafted a full lineup. Here’s her lineup for tonight chosen almost entirely by hair style and smiles.
Obviously have
@ASchatzNFL
ebook as well, but looking forward to rocking this hard copy at the pool in San Diego this weekend for the
@DraftKings
$50k best ball event. And to think people think us fantasy sports guys are nerds.
No matter what you think of Portnoy, he’s the goat in this deal. Basically rents out his company’s name for a few years to receive a few hundred million. Then gets his entire company back but still keeps the 9fig of penn stock. 🐐
The fact that we get a Mega Millionaire (and that it will likely fill!) on a two game slate during the conference championship is a testament to how strong higher stakes NFL DFS is currently.
Congrats to
@DraftKings
for filling their $555 entry Milly maker over a week early. This type of entry often had overlay in the past with a much smaller prize pool. Best ball really grown this year.
My four year old daughter told me she's scared and asked me to hold her hand while I put her to sleep.
I told her she should be scared since I'm heavily underweight the Jags passing game in Best Ball and Hanukkah may not be a thing this year if Lawrence has a breakout season.
Anyone who knows me knows I have an extremely contrarian play style. I expect to lose, in large part because I am consistently trying to fade the public, and the public generally has a good reason for why they roster the players that they do. Every narrative, every bandwagon
To say the Texans can hold their heads up high after this loss is the understatement of the season. This is a team that has managed to go from near dead last in the league to a likely Super Bowl contender in a few years.
I think 2023 may be a big leap with Best Ball in the industry. Generally the earlier you start doing the research and doing drafts the better. Personally aiming to get serious about it around June or so instead of late August like past years.
It’s a lot easier to upgrade your subscription ala carte style since we moved everything to . But you can also simply just get everything we have to offer for $300 a year which has to make us one of the most affordable sites in the industry.
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Josh Dobbs was better than Deshaun anyways.
CJ Stroud instead of Deshaun Watson makes me think the Texans are suddenly sharp or (more likely) mega luckboxes.
Better to be lucky than sharp tho.
With my entry in 10th place, I went with:
Steelers -4
Cardinals +2.5
Jets +1.5
Cowboys -13.5
Panthers +4.5
Intentionally went with likely unpopular picks and ones that others take the other side of so I can maybe slide into the top 5.
Just think..in about 7 hours, someone somewhere out there on Twitter is gonna post their first victory lap screenshot of the NFL season and use it to tout their service.
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Lol Zach Moss 85% in the mega millionaire. Credit to
@AlexBlickle1
for calling it the most mega chalk we've seen in years. May god have mercy on my 25% or so rostership of him.
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Some good calls by me included Ken Walker, Marquise Brown, Saquan Barkley, Keenan Allen, and fading Josh Kelly.
Bad calls by me included DeAndre Hopkins and fading Puka Nacua 🤦♂️
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