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The hot streak continues! 4-1 last week! Overall the Big Five Picks are 32-17-1. That would rank 27th out of 1950 entries in the SuperContest hosted by Westgate Casino, arguably the most well-known

My apologies for not giving the best NFL DFS advice lately for the main slate. The single game lineups continue to do well and I will keep sharing those lineups but we need

We are now midway through the NFL with 9 weeks down and 9 weeks to go. Prior to this season, it was hard to tell when the midpoint of the season occurred when

Happy daylights savings everyone! I must say that it will be nice to finally see some sunlight around 6 AM instead of 7 AM. It's also nice that I can share some of

When you're hot, you're hot! I am not sure who came up with that phrase but it pretty much sums up how the Big Five Picks have gone for us lately. 4-0-1 for

First off, Happy Halloween! If you are 15 - 20 years younger than me and don't have kids, I am sure you are sleeping off your hangover right now or dealing with it!

Overall last week was not a great one (6-7) but the Big Five Picks performed well again (3-2). For the season the Big Five Picks are 21-14 or 60% while the overall record

Here we are near the midpoint of the NFL season. The fall weather is taking hold and injuries are piling up. We also know which teams are contenders and pretenders. Now is the

The hot streak continues! Another 4-1 week! The third time we have done that in the last 5 weeks! The record for the Big Five Picks for the 2021 season is 18-12. 60%

Sorry for the late publication of this article. I am guessing if you are reading this with about 1 hour before kickoff of the early games, you already have your mind made up.

Well, Week 5 went well! 11-5 overall and 4-1 for the Big Five Picks! For the season, I am 43-37 against the spread and the Big Five Picks are 14-11. That is considered

With 4 weeks into the new season, it's time to run the QB and DST regression models I developed a few years ago. The DST model is quite simple. I compare the DVOA

For the record, I am 10-10 with the Big Five Picks for the 2021 season and overall 32-32 against the spread. Week 1 was awful given that I went 4-12 so overall we

In this article, I will approach the main slate a bit differently than I have in the past 3 weeks. I will provide more structure by going through each position and discussing which

Week 3 was not our best week. 2-3 with the Big Five Picks and 7-9 overall. Not a train wreck but we never want to lose money. Week 2 was great so we

It's almost midnight here on the West Coast and it has been a busy day with the kids so this article is coming out late. But better late than never! Let's keep this

What great success we had with Week 2! 4-1 for the Big Five Picks! 11-5 overall against the spread! I am glad I finally decided to dust off the old linear regression model

Like we had during Week 1, the main slate for Week 2 features 13 games so there are several directions we can take. One such direction that can be very profitable is to

Now we have Week 1 of the NFL season under our belt, what did we learn? We learned that the NFL is an awfully hard sport to predict so early in the season

Just like last year, I plan on sharing my top daily fantasy sports (DFS) lineups before each NFL main slate and do so freely. Much of my analysis uses the tools found on

At long last ... the new NFL regular season is here! The pandemic is still an issue but at least we don't have the same level of uncertainty of games, or even the season,

First off, Happy Easter! I hope you will find time to be with family even though I am sure you will be frequently checking scores on your phone later today if you are

Just one more game and we say goodbye to the 2020 season. This time it will be the Showdown format on DraftKings (DK), FanDuel (FD), and SuperDraft (SD) (a new site I have

At long last, we have reached the end of the road with the 2020 NFL season, arguably one of the strangest seasons in recent memory. Before I delve into the oddities of the

Well here we are! The Final Four version for the NFL! If you don't have a Pro Bowl level QB, you don't belong at this level! Josh Allen is the newcomer to this