Archive for December, 2011

• Assembling Team “25K Trip to the Strip”

  Dec 29, 11 • 5 Views • DraftDay, Kay Adams, NFL, Strategy • runitup • No Comments

  Share You might have heard that there’s a bit of dough up for grabs at DraftDay this weekend. The winner of the $5 buy-in, unlimited entries Trip to the Strip contest gets a cool five Gs. There are a few suggestions I can think of to help your chances of...

• Early NBA Season Surprises

  Dec 28, 11 • 3 Views • DraftDay, NBA, Recap, Strategy • 4for4_John • No Comments

  Share It’s sometimes tough to tell whether or not a big performance early in the season is the sign of great things to come or just a blip on the fantasy radar. In an attempt to cut through the noise, here are a few players who put up surprisingly big...

• runitup Challenge Update

  Dec 27, 11 • 8 Views • DraftDay, NFL • runitup • No Comments

  Share Week one of the two-week runitup Challenge is in the books. Thanks to my pitiful fantasy effort from last weekend, 14 savvy fantasy souls are still in the running for the $100 freeroll. Here are the results from last weekend’s $10 buy-in, 20-player...

• NFL Week 16 Guarantees Recap

  Dec 27, 11 • 4 Views • DraftDay, NFL, Recap • Alex • No Comments

  Share History was made in the NFL and on DraftDay as well. One player nearly swept the entire slate of early guaranteed games, as beermakersfn was victorious in the Jersey Score, The Quarter, and The Benjamin. If it wasn’t for Drew Brees’s pursuit of Dan...

• Introduction to Daily Fantasy Basketball

  Dec 25, 11 • 27 Views • How-To, NBA • Alex • No Comments

  Share Daily fantasy basketball is a variant of the traditional model of fantasy basketball. In the traditional model, team owners draft players for the duration of a season, which means dealing with injuries, trades, and constant roster management. Daily...

• NFL End of Season Salary Report

  Dec 22, 11 • 3 Views • DraftDay, News, NFL, Predictions • runitup • No Comments

  Share Thanks to the $25k Trip to the Strip promotion, we now know the NFL salary values for Week 17. Comparing these numbers to each player’s Week 1 salary value, let’s take a look at the biggest climbers and fallers of the 2011 NFL season. Quarterbacks:...

• NBA Late Season Bloomers

  Dec 22, 11 • 6 Views • DraftDay, NBA, News, Predictions, Strategy • 4for4_John • No Comments

  Share One way to identify sleepers is to look at production from late in the previous season. Oftentimes young or emerging players will provide a glimpse of the future by performing well down the stretch. Since their stats are averaged for the entire season,...

• Stream Team – Week 1

  Dec 22, 11 • 5 Views • DraftDay, NBA, News, Predictions, Strategy • MrMoves • No Comments

  Share Each week, I will try to provide you with a list of players who are unowned in most standard leagues, but make for decent stream-plays in leagues that allow daily lineup changes due to their schedule for the upcoming week. Owning a guy that provides...

• The runitup Challenge

  Dec 21, 11 • 1 Views • DraftDay, NFL • runitup • No Comments

  Share I had a pretty good week last week on DraftDay and in the spirit of the holiday season have decided to give some of you fine daily fantasy sports enthusiasts a chance to get your hands on some of that loot! Anyone who scores a higher total than me in 2...

• NFL Week 15 Guarantees Recap

  Dec 20, 11 • 3 Views • DraftDay, NFL, Recap • Alex • No Comments

  Share It was a strange day in NFL Week 15 – the Colts found the winner’s circle and the Packers looked average at Arrowhead. Here at DraftDay, we had overlays in all of our early Guarantees and several daily fantasy football players had big days. The week...