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2 weeks ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
Most best ball tournaments such as Underdog Fantasy’s Best Ball Mania and DraftKings’ Milly Maker are extremely top-heavy when it comes to their payout structure. Simply advancing to the playoffs out of your 12-team league won’t result in a big payday. After the top two teams advance, the field is chopped down two more times in Week 15 and Week 16 until a final GPP-style tournament is held in Week 17.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
The Summer of Best Ball is here! I hopped in DraftKings’ $15M Flagship best ball tournament with the help of our Best Ball channel inside Discord. For this draft, I put up a poll with 3-4 player selections every time I was on the clock in this slow draft (8 hour timer), and the winner of each vote was the pick. These draft recap articles can often be helpful to understand the “why” behind every selection.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
The summer is here, the UDK is out, and everyone’s in the best shape of their lives or ahead of schedule while recovering from a major surgery. What a time to be alive in the fantasy football space. With OTAs officially underway, the NFL news cycle is starting to heat up. At this time of the calendar, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds with every “news” blurb that’s being reported. What’s real? What’s fake? What matters? What doesn’t?
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3 weeks ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
2024 was a unique year for running backs in fantasy football. The vast majority of them stayed healthy, and we had some serious hits early in the draft ADP, including all-time great seasons from guys like Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry and even some of the ‘boring’ veteran picks like Alvin Kamara and James Conner were awesome picks for where they were going. In fact, we had 17 (!!) RBs with an ADP inside the top-90 last year, that produced an advance rate above expectation.
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1 month ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
Betting on the NFL is becoming increasingly more difficult as the years go by and as the markets adjust. However, one market that remains beatable is player props, specifically season long player props. Over the last two years, we’ve gone 23-15 in this market, focusing primarily on taking unders. There’s no doubt that across a multiple year sample, unders are going to hit at a much higher rate than overs when trying to project what might happen over the course of a full season. Why is that?
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1 month ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
Fantasy football drafters are quite reactionary, aren’t we? After all, we just had 17 weeks plus the playoffs to watch the season unfold. We now have data. We now have new tape, and now we have an idea of what will happen again in 2025, right? Not so fast! Every year, we see best ball drafters select players based on previous season data.
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1 month ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
The NFL Draft is now officially in the rearview mirror, and the calendar has turned to May. That can only mean one thing: Best Ball Summer is so freakin’ back, baby! As we exit the pre-draft process and NFL Draft, we now have some clarity on what depth charts will look like for these NFL clubs…sort of. Right now, we’re still months away from training camp opening up, and that means there’s plenty of time for chaos to ensue. Right now, these depth charts right now should be put in pencil, not pen.
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2 months ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
The 2025 NFL Draft is just a couple of days away! The first round kicks off on Thursday, April 24, and things are starting to crystalize in terms of what Round 1 might look like after the first 32 names are called. Because betting on the NFL Draft is an information-based market, it can be extremely valuable to source Big Boards and mock drafts from the top NFL Draft scouts and companies around the industry.
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2 months ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
The 2025 NFL Draft is just a couple of weeks away! The first round kicks off on Thursday, April 24, and there’s still a lot to unfold in regards to how the first round might look. Because betting on the NFL Draft is an information based market, it can be extremely valuable to source Big Boards and mock drafts of the top NFL Draft scouts and companies around the industry. While that’s one piece of the equation, the betting market can also be an indicator of the top 32 picks each year.
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2 months ago | 
thefantasyfootballers.com | Matthew Betz
While Ashton Jeanty is considered the Belle of the Ball in the 2025 rookie class, UNC’s Omarion Hampton is a very, very strong prospect who would be the consensus RB1 in most other classes that don’t include Jeanty. An early declare with an insane production profile and projected Round 1 NFL Draft capital, dynasty players holding the 1.02 in single QB rookie drafts should not be disappointed for getting the “consolation prize” when it comes to the RB position.
