Week 2 NFL DFS Podcast with Renee Miller

Episode 026: The Fantasy Coach Podcast

Fantasy Football: Week 2 NFL DFS Podcast (DraftKings and Fanduel Help)

Featuring: Renee Miller (@ReneeMiller01)

About My Guest:

Renee Miller, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester. She is an avid fantasy player, participating in multiple season long NFL, NBA, and MLB leagues. Her first love is Daily Fantasy Sports, which she writes about at RotoWorld, Pro Football Focus Fantasy, Fantasy Insiders, RotoWire, and The Fake Football. She occasionally contributes articles for season long fantasy football to RotoViz. Her book, Cognitive Bias in Fantasy Sports: Is your brain sabotaging your team? combines her knowledge of neuroscience with her love of fantasy sports. It will give you new insight into how you approach fantasy decisions and help you to make the most logical and rationale choices.

Episode Summary: Renee and I talk about the DFS slate for week two of the NFL season across DraftKings and Fanduel. We specifically talk about Andy Dalton, Drew Brees, Nick Foles, Ryan Tannehill, Giovani Bernard, Arian Foster, Montee Ball, Terrance West, Mark Ingram, Bobby Rainey, Shonn Greene, Demaryius Thomas, Dez Bryant, A.J. Green, Michael Floyd, T.Y. Hilton, Jeremy Maclin, Andrew Hawkins, Jimmy Graham, Rob Gronkowski, and Zach Ertz.

Scope out @reneemiller01's Week 2 DFS advice at The Fake Football. Always good stuff: http://t.co/RJ47mMhmHk

— Jeff Brubach (@Jeff_Brubach) September 12, 2014

You can Download this episode as well as the previous three on Itunes and Stitcher Radio.

Rene’s Latest Articles: Rotoworld.com’s Fanduel Bargain Bin DFS

rotoViz.com’s Jamaal Charles, Doug Martin and the Case Against Primacy Bias

Thank Yous For Episode 026: I want to thank Renee for coming on the podcast and sharing her DFS insights for week two of the NFL season. Renee will be coming on the podcast every Wednesday night to prepare everyone for NFL DFS. Make sure you check back in the next few days as I will have a bunch of links to her latest articles. I would also like to thank C-Quel for providing the intro music as well as the outro beat. You can Find all of C-Quel’s current music available here.

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Fantasy Football: Fanduel Thursday

Usually I like to leave the Thursday night game alone in daily fantasy football unless the match up is just too juicy and this week that match up is like a rare steak to a starved lion. The New Orleans Saints had a rough and tumble game against the 49ers last week and get to play a division rival in a short week as a prize. The schedule makers looked cruel in the preseason as this could have been a huge game with division title implications, but that is not the case. Luckily that division rival is currently in shambles as the Atlanta Falcons have imploded on both sides of the ball due to injuries.

With the Falcons defense looking like Swiss cheese you need to try and get at least one Saint in your lineup this week.

Let’s take a look at Drew Brees and see if he will play at or above his value this Thursday.

Drew Brees- 309.41 yards and 2.94 TDs-(numberFire Projection)- 24.14 Fantasy Points -$11000 Salary

So Brees’s cost per point is $455.67. That’s with me not including the potential for turnovers. That’s a very doable number for me. With little to no running yards expected by Brees he will have to put up a very nice game without any turnovers to make him a good play.

For Comparison

Case Keenum-242.97 yards and 1.49 TDs-(numberFire)- 15.68 Fantasy Points -$6100 Salary

Keenum will scare off a lot of owners because of his benching last week, but there is no need to put him on your DO NOT TOUCH list. He is facing the Jaguars who couldn’t contain Carson Palmer last week and supposedly has the full confidence of coach Kubiak. His $389 cost per point is a very nice way to stack your team with high priced studs. Remember I didn’t factor in any negative points for turnovers.

If you are going based on pure Cost Per Point then Brees would have to throw for over 310 with 4 passing TDs tonight to come close to a very low end projection of Keenum.

I suggest you build a team with both and see which lineup will score more points based on your most trusted fantasy projection site. I prefer Brees for all 50/50s and Keenum for all bigger tournaments and expert (55K) heads up FanDuels.