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I’ll be breaking down the top wide receiver/cornerback matchups every week throughout the 2018 NFL season. Here’s a data-driven analysis of Week 3’s best passing-game matchup, four potential shadow matchups and five potential non-shadow matchups. Then we’ll round it out with a quick look at plus and minus matchups. Visit the FantasyLabs NFL page for more weekly…

Welcome to Week 3 of your NFL survivor pool. If you are reading this, you have likely dodged, dipped, ducked, dived and dodged all the NFL upsets so far. Last week, I took the Rams and had no problems breezing past the Cardinals. While my personal picks might not be available to me, I’ll continue…

A couple weeks ago, I introduced a new football league you can play with your friends that includes four main factors: Season-long fantasy football DFS Betting Survivor pool I teased that we’d be announcing an industry-wide league with 16 of the sharpest football minds competing in the event, and here it is! The Contestants Here…

Fantasy owners who have started the year 0-2 are undoubtedly beginning to enter panic mode. It’s time to take advantage of your vulnerable friends and make a league-winning trade. The NFL’s ridiculous non-guaranteed contracts and salary cap have made player-for-player trades fairly rare over the years, but it’s a market that can be exploited in…

Week 3 in the NFL is a great time to be contrarian. Teams that got off to a slow start, such as the New Orleans Saints, offer buy-low opportunities while the red-hot Kansas City Chiefs could be overvalued. There are three situational trends I’m eyeing for Week 3 : Buying low on teams that failed…

Which tight ends have the most favorable fantasy matchups? Who is the best streaming option? And who has a poor matchup? Here’s a breakdown of five of the top fantasy football tight ends, as ranked by Sean Koerner, Chris Raybon and Matthew Freedman in their Week 3 fantasy football rankings. Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets for…

Which wide receivers have the most favorable fantasy matchups? Whom should you consider sitting? Here’s a breakdown of five notable wide receivers featured in Sean Koerner, Chris Raybon and Matthew Freedman’s Week 3 fantasy football rankings. The No. 1 WR Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh Steelers Brown tops the ranks in PPR, half-PPR and standard ranks for Week 3.…

The Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest is the most well-known football pool in the world. Run by the Westgate SuperBook, contestants pick five games each week against the spread based on lines the Westgate releases on Wednesday night. Every NFL season, the SuperContest grows in size — and so does the grand prize. Last year, the…

While we’re only two weeks into the 2018 NFL season, it seems like a lifetime. If you hold a Deshaun Watson MVP ticket, you feel like your life is over. Conversely, if you hold a Patrick Mahomes MVP ticket, you want the season to end today. Nevertheless, that isn’t how this works. These odds can…

The Kansas City Chiefs are averaging 40 points per game. Their starting quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, has 10 touchdown passes, and they are averaging 7.4 yards per play. It’s safe to say the Arrowhead faithful are believers in KC and their offense through two weeks. Bookmakers have set the 49ers-Chiefs over/under at 56.5, after it opened…

The Cleveland Browns are 3-point favorites against the New York Jets on Thursday Night Football. It is the first time in the Hue Jackson era that the Browns are favored to win a football game. Since it is the end of an era, there is no better time than now to give some context to…

There is a new Super Bowl favorite. After two weeks, the Los Angeles Rams have vaulted to the top of the odds list. The oddsmakers at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas list the Rams as +450 favorites to win the championship. Sean McVay, Jared Goff and Todd Gurley have LA’s offense humming, and the…

A sports bettor in Nevada picked all 15 NFL winners in Week 2 to turn a simple $5 wager into a cool $84,565 payday. According to William Hill US, the big winner won the sportsbook operator’s Nevada Pro Football Progressive Jackpot via a weekly Progressive Card. Congrats to the one winner of our Nevada Pro…

We have movement atop the odds list! There’s a new Super Bowl favorite in the house and it is the squad formerly known as the Greatest Show on Turf. Real or Fake: Grading Every 2-0 NFL TeamRead now Here are the updated odds from the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas. You can track any Super…

Click the links below to navigate to our experts’ Week 3 fantasy football rankings for PPR, Standard and Half-Point PPR formats. Week 3 Fantasy Football Rankings: PPR Flex Quarterback Running Back Wide Receiver Tight End Defense/Special Team Kicker Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets for Week 3Read now Week 3 Fantasy Football Rankings: Standard Flex Quarterback Running…

Two weeks in and there’s a new No. 1 team in The Action Network’s NFL Power Rankings. The Los Angeles Rams have moved from fifth with a 3.6 rating — meaning they would be favored by 3.6 points against an average team on a neutral field — to first with a 6.3 rating. Week 3…

LAS VEGAS — Losses by the Texans, Patriots and Giants keyed a big Sunday for the sportsbooks in Las Vegas in Week 2. “Overall it was a good Sunday for us” said Nick Bogdanovich, director of trading at William Hill. “It wasn’t as good a Monday with everyone being on the Bears, but it didn’t…

Player props are the bridge between sports betting and fantasy sports. I love them. We have a lot of Tools at FantasyLabs, but my favorite is undoubtedly the Player Props Tool, which sorts through player props available at various online sportsbooks, compares them to our own set of internal projections, rates the quality of each…

In the immortal words of Ron Burgundy: “Boy, that escalated quickly.” Week 2 of the NFL season was wildly entertaining. Patrick Mahomes has taken the league by storm, throwing for 10 touchdowns in only two games. Vontae Davis retired in the middle of the Bills’ loss to the Chargers. Ryan Fitzpatrick did his best Conor McGregor impression. And oh…

The below Fantasy Football Market Share Report presents team-specific usage splits in easy-to-analyze visual form. For more information, see the first piece in the series. There were some notable injuries in Week 1, which led to a lot of DFS and waiver-wire value last week. Tevin Coleman manned the ship for the Atlanta Falcons with 59.3% of the…

Opportunity is more important than talent when it comes to fantasy football. Luckily for fantasy investors, it’s easier to predict future workloads than it is to gauge a player’s talent level. Not every No. 1 wide receiver is created equally. The heightened presence of running backs, tight ends, as well as role-specific receivers has muddled…

As you’ve heard by now, the Patriots acquired WR Josh Gordon from the Browns on Monday, sending Cleveland a conditional fifth-round pick in return. Trade now agreed to: Patriots are sending Cleveland a 5th-round pick and if Gordon isn’t active for 10 games, Patriots get back a late-round pick from Browns, sources tell ESPN. As…

Which running backs have the most favorable fantasy matchups? Who should you consider sitting? Here’s a breakdown of five notable running backs featured in Sean Koerner, Chris Raybon and Matthew Freedman’s Week 3 fantasy football rankings. The No. 1 RB Alvin Kamara, New Orleans Saints Kamara is ranked as the No. 1 RB across standard, PPR and half-PPR formats with…

It’s been a roller-coaster start to the young NFL season for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have had a year’s worth of drama through just two weeks: Le’Veon Bell still hasn’t showed up They tied the Browns in Week 1 They lost to the Chiefs at home in Week 2 Now Antonio Brown is tweeting about…

Which quarterbacks have the most favorable fantasy matchups? Who is the best streaming option? And who has a poor matchup? Here’s a breakdown of five of the top fantasy football quarterbacks, as ranked by Sean Koerner, Chris Raybon and Matthew Freedman in their Week 3 fantasy football rankings. Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets for Week 3Read…

I’ll be leveraging my experience as a fantasy analyst with a statistics background and a high school football coach to identify aspects of one matchup every week that you can take advantage of while setting your fantasy football lineups and/or placing bets on the upcoming slate. This week, we’re focusing on the NFC South showdown in…

Each week of the NFL season I will highlight risers and fallers in dynasty leagues — one player to trade for, one to trade away, one to add and one to drop. Risers Trade For: Deshaun Watson, QB, Houston Texans Since his breakout rookie season a year ago, Watson has been a highly-coveted dynasty asset. In…

ESPN’s Adam Schefter confirmed on Monday that the Cleveland Browns have traded Josh Gordon to the New England Patriots. The move comes after Gordon reportedly showed up late to a meeting on Saturday with a new hamstring injury that he suffered at a promotional shoot a day earlier — the latest example of the highs and…

The FantasyLabs Injury Dashboard tracks injuries and suspensions from all starters and fantasy-relevant players across the league. The dashboard is constantly updated and displays daily practice participation to gain a clear view of how healthy a player truly is. The team’s official injury designation will go in the “Team” status column once available, but the FantasyLabs Status (which…

Sound the alarm! Carson Wentz is back! Wentz has been given the green light, and the Eagles are wasting no time in getting him back on the field. Nick Foles has obviously done an admirable job in the interim, you know, winning a Super Bowl and all, but Wentz is their franchise guy. Foles isn’t…

Let this story serve as a word to the wise in fantasy football. In golf parlance, it’s my own personal “What a stupid I am” moment, a nod to when Robert De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard to lose the 1968 Masters. I’m in a 16-team fantasy league with the boys at West Orange Country Club,…

The Buffalo Bills are bad — so bad that they opened as a whopping 16.5-point underdog for Sunday’s Week 3 game against the Vikings in Minnesota. According to Bet Labs’ historical NFL betting data, which dates back to 2003, only the 2013 Jacksonville Jaguars closed as larger than 16.5-point underdogs in September. Biggest NFL Week…

It’s been a rough ride for the Cleveland Browns and their fans. In typical Browns fashion, the team found a new and interesting way to lose on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. They dropped to 1-32-1 since hiring Hue Jackson as head coach. Cleveland has not won a game since beating the Chargers, 20-17,…