DFS: Week 17, 2020

by Tony | Jan 3, 2021 | 2020 season, Daily Fantasy, Fantasy Football

With our top four players (Mahomes, Henry, McKissic & Kupp) all in both of our lineups, not a terrible surprise that Week 16 was close–but Andy pulled it out, mostly thanks to a solid Logan Thomas performance.

This week Fanball can’t screw up the slate, since all games are on Sunday. Of course, a new thing that I’m not sure I like about their platform is that my LeagueSafe winnings are mixed in with my DFS winnings balance…I suppose it makes it easier to extract, but it sure did muddy up my tracking of just how poorly I was doing.

Andy: Week 17 is always a challenge. Throw in the pandemic and a lot of teams either alive for the playoffs or still jockeying to see what their seeding might be and this is an even more tricky final week than most. For example, with the Saints still having an outside shot at the NFC’s bye but Alvin Kamara ruled out early on the COVID-19 list, I initially had Latavius Murray as a play this week. But such is the 2020 season – and hopefully this won’t be an issue when 2021 rolls around.

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DFS: Week 16, 2020

by Tony | Dec 26, 2020 | 2020 season, Daily Fantasy, Fantasy Football

Don’t call it a comeback…because its4’s not there yet, but Week 15 marked the first back to back wins by Tony this season, driven by contributions from Darrell Mooney & Greg Ward in the Flex & WR/TE spots–not to mention Calvin Ridley’s big day. If he can finish the season with two more wins…he won’t get back to even, but will at least make it respectable.

This week … Sunday games … because Fanball doesn’t think it’s important to have a full week slate of games to pick from as an option. Which is why next year, if we do this again, we’ll find another site to do it on.

Andy: Last week I liked my lineup. A lot of good that did me. This week … well, a couple of the guys I wanted to pick weren’t available because Fanball didn’t have the slate of games we were hoping to use. And, with the holidays, I kind of just slapped this together. So, who knows.

QB – Patrick Mahomes vs ATL – $8,600 – I get the most prolific QB in the game at home against one of the worst pass defenses in the league. I suppose the Chiefs could get up early and then run clock, but if they get a lead early, Mahomes is probably a bit part of why.

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DFS: Week 15, 2020

by Tony & Andy | Dec 17, 2020 | 2020 season, Daily Fantasy, Fantasy Football

A third solid week in a row for Tony, and second victory in three weeks–probably too little, too late, but at least he’ll likely have a balance heading into the offseason.

Andy: I really like this lineup, which is probably bad. Every time I think I really like a lineup, it sucks.

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DFS: Week 14, 2020

by Tony | Dec 10, 2020 | 2020 season, Daily Fantasy, Fantasy Football

In what is the final week of “real” fantasy football, Tony put together a lineup that scored over 20 points over his season average…and still lost. By over 30. Never hurts when you have a Derek Carr/Darren Waller stack on a 13-200-2 day for Waller.

Andy: It was a little harder this week to find the combo I really liked. Not sure I did, truth be told. I don’t have a ton of confidence in this slate.

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DFS: Week 13, 2020

by Tony & Andy | Dec 5, 2020 | 2020 season, Daily Fantasy, Fantasy Football

So of course as soon as Tony starts looking forward to figuring out how to make sure his balance is $0 at the end of the season, he goes out and picks up another win … and a big one at that, with nearly a 100 point gap, thanks to Tyreek Hill … who overcame a combined 4.8 points from Darius Slayton & Michael Pittman.

Another week this week of Sunday only games, I believe–because Fanball knows no one wants to play DFS with ALL of the games on the slate.

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DFS: Week 12, 2020

by Tony | Nov 29, 2020 | 2020 season, Daily Fantasy, Fantasy Football

Another week, another loss for Tony, who once again forgot to take someone who was ruled out of his lineup out, and at this point is just hoping to not end the season with a balance on Fanball, because he’d like to never use them again.  Not because of his performance this year, which has been dismal, but because of weeks like this where they refused to offer a slate of lineups that used all 16 games–while featuring slates like Thursday night (now Tuesday) only lineups, and Monday Night/Tuesday night lineups.

So we skipped the Thanksgiving games–which ended up with a couple of solid games from guys who have been in our lineups a few times, like Antonio Gibson, and here we are.

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