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Week 8 Daily Fantasy Picks

Daily fantasy week 8 QB Matt Ryan - It should be the highest scoring game of the week in Atlanta so make sure to get your Packers and Falcons in your daily lineups.

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 8

OK, the Big Five Bets have been in a bit of a tailspin the last two weeks after notching 4-1 weeks in Weeks 3 and 5. Sadly we went 3-7 the past two

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NFL

NFL Power Rankings - Week 8

I will let my audience draw their own conclusion. We know for the sure the 49ers stink! Click here for the rankings based on the GE model which uses points, yards, and turnovers

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Week

Straight Up Football Picks - Week 7

Click here for straight up picks with confidence factor included.

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Week

Week 7 Daily Fantasy Picks

Week 7 Daily Fantasy Picks QB Tom Brady - If you go with the low priced RBs you should be able to pay up for Brady. The man is on a war path

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DFS

How to make thousands of dollars in fantasy football

OK. You might be thinking I am some sort of quack with the title of this article. Yes, you do need a good degree of luck to succeed in a game like DraftKings

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NFL

NFL Power Rankings - Week 7

So why is Prince the image I decided to go with for my NFL Power Rankings this week? Well first of all, Prince is an amazing artist! I regret not watching his last

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NFL

Potential DraftKings Lineup

Russell Wilson Le'Veon Bell DeMarco Murray TY Hilton Tyler Lockett Brandon LaFell Coby Fleener LeSean McCoy Baltimore DST Good luck!

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NFL

Survivor Pool

Now we publish 5 teams we like to win straight up today. They are in order of confident so first team listed is most confident and so on. Arizona Buffalo Pittsburgh New England

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NFL

Straight Up Football Picks - Week 6

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Daily

Week 6 Daily Fantasy Picks

QB Tom Brady - if you want to put up for QB you can't go wrong with Brady. Russel Wilson - Wilson faces an Atlanta defense that has given up a ton of

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American

NFL Power Rankings - Week 6

Some of you are probably wondering how the heck are the Eagles still the #1 team according the GE model Power Rankings. They are 3-1 and lost last week to Detroit. Minnesota is

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Fanasty

Potential Lineups for DraftKings

Eli Manning, Terrance West, DeAndre Washington, Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham Jr., Emmanuel Sanders, Hunter Henry, Robert Woods, Minnesota DST Ben Roethlisberger, Jordan Howard, Theo Riddick, Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall, Steve Smith Sr., Zach

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Daily

Week 5 Daily Fantasy Picks

Daily fantasy week 5 QB Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger - Paying up for Quarterbacks will get you a lot of points this week. Derek Carr - has a great matchup this

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NFL

NFL Power Rankings - Week 5

As brutal as this past week was for NFL prognosticators like me, I have to admit that I am always in awe of how fickle the NFL regular season can be. As the

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NFL

Straight Up Football Picks - Week 4

One of the funniest characters I have seen in a gambling movie: Teddy "KGB" in Rounders played by John Malkovich! He beat me STRAIGHT UP! Pay him! Pay that man his

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DraftKings

Week 4 Daily Fantasy Picks

Let's hope for another good fantasy day. Week 4 Daily Fantasy Picks QB Matt Stafford - Most consistent QB this season gets a favorable matchup. Get him in your lineups. Kirk Cousins -

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NFL

NFL Power Rankings - Week 4

Still a lot of movement as we are still early in the season. The Eagles haven't been getting too much respect but they are clearly playing like contenders. Here are the NFL Power

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San

Still a 49ers Faithful?

So the 49ers start off the season well by beating the LA Rams 28 - 0 on Monday Night Football only to get smoked on the road the last two weeks. Oddly, the

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NFL

NFL Picks Straight Up!

We will be using the GE model (explained in one of the first posts) to determine which teams to select to win straight up. You can use point spreads but that is public

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NFL

Percentages of NFL teams winning today

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (52.43% PIT) Tennessee at Detroit (67.07% DET) Baltimore at Cleveland (BAL 61.97%) Dallas at Washington (DAL 50.91%) New Orleans at New York Giants (NYG 62.76%

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Daily

Week 2 Daily Fantasy Picks

QB Stafford - Looked good in game 1 and will continue that trend Sunday. Eli Manning - puts up huge numbers at home and has a great matchup. Saints will be one of

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DraftKings

Who To Play in DraftKings/FanDuel Today

If you read some of my earlier posts, the GE number was explained. It essentially provides a good measure of how effective a team's offense and defense is. The stats used right now

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Carolina

Prediction for Thursday Night Football

Expect tonight's game to be low scoring. Both Carolina and Denver sport solid defenses and the game is being played in the thin air at Mile High. My linear regression model has Carolina

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NFL

Pre-Week 1 NFL Rankings (total team performance)

The rankings shown in this post display the total GE number for each team. The GE number is calculated by looking at each team's offense and defense separately. For offense three key football

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