Every week I publish the DFS NFL Rankings late on Thursday night. The DFS NFL Playbook is posted late on Friday night each week as well. Then, the DFS NFL Optimal Lineups are posted late night Saturday night. Earlier this season I received a few complaints about why the DFS NFL information was coming out so late. Well, I think that after all of the controversy this past week with other DFS companies posting their NFL articles on Wednesday and then not updating them ever again, it makes perfect sense. You see, most DFS analysts do not play the players that the recommend throughout the week. Well, ok, maybe that isn't fair. They do play them but mixed throughout hundreds of their lineups and combined with many, many other players that they never even mention.
I bring this up not to disparage any of our competitors, rather to illustrate why we do things the way that we do them here at Fantasy Alarm. I post the DFS NFL rankings, playbook and lineups later in the week because I wait until I am done with all of the research that I need to do in order to provide my analysis. I also publish the lineups that I play each week because I believe that as a subscriber of ours, you are entitled to know exactly what me (and my staff in other sports) are up to. There are no games, no tricks, no disclaimer notices for you to read at the bottom of the page. This is the way that we do business and in my opinion, what makes us different than many of our competitors.
This week we have another six teams off but at least we pick up one extra game as there is finally no London game this week. The two games that will be most heavily invested in are the Saints/49ers and the Colts/Packers. Both of these games feature plenty of big name players who can be pillars of a great lineup this week. But I prefer to find the value plays in these kind of games an payup for obvious plays in games that will receive less attention. A couple of those include the Broncos running game against the Raiders, the Dolphins big play WR's against a weak Jets secondary and Kyle Rudolph against the Lions defense who cannot stop tight ends.
FanDuel is once again messing with our minds this week. In what is being called a technical error, Raiders WR Johnny Horton has a salary of $0 this week. Meaning he is a free square that if used would allow us to build an all top shelf lineup with the other eight positions. There are some people who swear that using Horton and his zero salary is the way to go. I am not one of those people. Horton would have to score a miracle touchdown or somehow find a way to get 5-8 points in order to make this worth it. Considering he has only played in 17% of the Raiders offensive snaps in any one game (week 8), he doesn't have a shot in hell to provide anything other than a free square this week.
Here is the DFS NFL Playbook for Week 9:
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