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Randy’s Command Center: From Projections to War Games

How Randy turns player roles, game environments and matchup data into a complete NFL DFS battle plan. Featuring Randy | Breaking Boards. There’s a big difference between having DFS information and knowing what to do with it. A projection can tell you how many points a player may score. A matchup can tell you where an opponent has been vulnerable. A game total can tell you where the market expects scoring. But none of those things, by themselves, tell you how to build your

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Meet The Professor: 3 Edges to Exploit & Attack Plan Wk 1 Examples

How Michael uses Three Edges to Exploit and the Attack Plan to turn slate information into actionable lineup decisions. Featuring Michael | “The Professor”. DFS gives us an enormous amount of information every week. Game totals. Spreads. Projected volume. Matchups. Player roles. Salaries. Ceiling projections. Ownership. The challenge isn’t simply collecting more data. It’s determining which pieces of information actually belong together — and what they mean for yo

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Start With the Slate: 4 Corners & Contributors Top Plays Examples Wk #1

Before you pick the players, understand the games. By Breaking Boards | Featuring Ben. One of the easiest ways to make DFS harder than it needs to be is to start with the player pool. Open DraftKings. Sort by salary. Find a few names you like. Start building. Then try to figure out afterward why those players belong together. Ben approaches the slate from the opposite direction. His Breaking Boards process begins by understanding which games are most likely to sh

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Meet the Red Badger: Main Slate Break Down & Value Board Preview for Wk #1

Leverage. Volatility. Ceiling. And a willingness to take the road the field may be ignoring. By Breaking Boards | Featuring Adam “Red Badger” NFL DFS tournaments aren’t won simply by finding good football players. Especially in large-field GPPs, thousands of lineups can identify the same obvious plays. The challenge is figuring out where your lineup can be different without simply being different for the sake of it. That’s where Adam — better known around Breaking Boa

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