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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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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?