Jeff Edelstein, Author at Props https://props.com/author/jeffedelstein/ Sports Betting News, Sportsbook Reviews & Prop Betting Info Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:12:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://props.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-props-icon-90x90.png Jeff Edelstein, Author at Props https://props.com/author/jeffedelstein/ 32 32 Why People Love Betting Player Props https://props.com/why-people-love-betting-player-props/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:10:00 +0000 https://props.com/?p=214931 BetMGM Promo Code: Thursday Night Football Rams vs Seahawks - 12/18/25

You know what bores me to tears? Traditional sports betting. Moneyline, point spread, total. Just typing those words makes me yawn. I bet sides maybe 10 times a year, and only when I have an absolutely unshakeable conviction. Why? First, these lines are essentially coin flips, hammered into submission by the pros.  Second, I’m no…

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You know what bores me to tears? Traditional sports betting. Moneyline, point spread, total. Just typing those words makes me yawn.

I bet sides maybe 10 times a year, and only when I have an absolutely unshakeable conviction.

Why? First, these lines are essentially coin flips, hammered into submission by the pros. 

Second, I’m no pro — I’m not running proprietary algorithms to spot that the Cowboys should be 4.29-point underdogs instead of 4.5.

And third – which definitely marks me as a square – I’m not even interested in doubling my money. No, I prefer to string together a few player props and watch my money vanish that way, like a true American, chasing that lottery dream.

For me — and I suspect many others — this preference stems from entering modern sports betting through DFS.

Though, to be clear, my betting history goes way back: I was losing football bets to my buddy Matt in earth science class at Parsippany High School in 1986. This memory’s seared into my brain, probably because I lost so consistently. 

By junior year, I briefly became the school bookie, taking action from an expanding web of friends, their brothers, and their friends’ brothers. That venture lasted a few weeks before I shut it down, realizing I was spectacularly unequipped for the job in every conceivable way. (Story for another day.)

So yes, I got my introduction to sports betting early. But I drifted away from it, finding my entertainment elsewhere — in booze, weed, and women. (I batted .667 in those pursuits, you guess which ones.)

By 18, I was largely checked out of sports, keeping up with just enough NFL to manage my fantasy football teams. Then 2014 hits: Matt — yes, same guy — calls me about this new thing called daily fantasy football.

I dismissed it as a scam … for a day or two. Then I threw together a FanDuel lineup that weekend, and haven’t looked back since. DFS rekindled my love for baseball, basketball, and every other sport on the menu. (Well, rekindled my love for gambling.)

So when legal sports betting arrived in New Jersey in 2018, is it any surprise my first bets were all props? DFS had perfectly primed me for prop betting.

After all, when you’ve spent years obsessing over player performance metrics in DFS, prop betting feels like home. You’re already analyzing whether Tyreek Hill is going over/under 89.5 receiving yards, or if Saquon Barkley will score a touchdown. The leap from DFS to props is more like a small step.

And here’s the thing: Prop betting scratches that same itch that made DFS so fun. It’s not just about winning or losing — it’s about being right about how the game will unfold. There’s something deeply satisfying about calling your shot on specific player performances.

Sure, maybe the sharps are laughing at me as they grind out their 2% edges on sides and totals. But I’ll take my crazy prop parlays any day. At least when I lose, I lose doing something I enjoy. 

And heck, sometimes those parlays even hit. Though probably about as often as Matt got a passing grade on his earth science tests.

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NBA DFS Is Not For Everybody https://props.com/nba-dfs-is-not-for-everybody/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:25:18 +0000 https://props.com/?p=218414 Thunder vs Hawks prediction - Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Props Today

Listen — NFL DFS you can build lineups on the toilet, as Adam Levitan of Establish the Run has often noted. This doesn’t mean they’re good lineups, but still: You can build them on the toilet. Injury reports come out days in advance, and there are rarely “game time decisions” you need to worry about.…

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Listen — NFL DFS you can build lineups on the toilet, as Adam Levitan of Establish the Run has often noted. This doesn’t mean they’re good lineups, but still: You can build them on the toilet. Injury reports come out days in advance, and there are rarely “game time decisions” you need to worry about.

MLB DFS? Lineups come out hours before game time, and most of the time, you know what the lineup is going to be anyway. Easy to parse.

But NBA DFS? Playing NBA DFS — well, playing it correctly — is like the old Road Runner cartoons. Basically, the NBA slate is the Road Runner, and you are Wile E. Coyote. You think you’ve got it all figured out, and then BLAMMO, your rocket explodes over a cliff and you’re dead.

Bottom line — and this isn’t breaking news to anyone who plays NBA DFS — but if you’re not glued to your computer/phone from lock up until the last game of the slate is tipping off, you may as well just send your money directly to the min-cash winners.

Thankfully, DraftKings has taken some mercy on our poor souls in recent years, usually lopping the west coast games from the main slate (especially on busy nights). This is welcome for us here on the east coast, as now I just need to ignore my wife and children from 6:45 p.m. until about, at the latest, 9 p.m. (And wow, now I really wish I lived on the west coast, as those times become 3:45 p.m. and 6 p.m., which is much more reasonable).

Of course, my wife is used to this at this point, knowing that at any given moment on a random Tuesday evening I’ll say something like — well, exactly like — “gimme a minute I gotta check my lineups.” As for my kids? Well, I’ve been playing NBA DFS for 11 years, my oldest is 15, so to them, this is just normal — something they will be able to discuss with their therapists when they’re adults.

Now, to be honest, I’m not completely ignoring them anymore, mostly because I’m usually only putting in one or two lineups in the $4 lotteries. This is more for fun and a little sweat than seriously trying to be a full-time DFS’er.

But it wasn’t always like this. Nope, in the beginning of my DFS career, I was putting in… well, significantly more time and money into NBA DFS. I’d rather not put the numbers in print for fear my wife may see it.

And when the kids were younger, it made it all the more difficult, although I became an expert — like, I’m willing to bet I was THE expert — in giving children a one-handed bath while trying to jam Russell Westbrook and DeMarcus Cousins into one lineup. Seriously: I could shampoo, condition, soap, and sing the Barney theme song with my left hand while simultaneously max-entering tournaments. It was a sight to behold.

Of course, NBA DFS was juuuuuuust a little bit easier back then. Today, cracking the NBA DFS code is about as difficult a game to crack as there is in the DFS world (IMHO). Between the projections and the sims — and the sheer number of people using them — you have to, 100%, get off the chalk, which is painful to do and so… well, and so I don’t usually do it. Hence, one or two cheapo lineups a night, playing a lot of chalk, and hoping I catch lightning in a bottle once or twice a season.

I should probably retire from NBA DFS, but that’s no fun and so I won’t.

Instead, I’ll just continue doing the wrong things — ignoring my family AND playing the chalk — while I wait for MLB DFS. Tick-tock.

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Chalkboard Fantasy Adds “Picks” – Expands To More States https://props.com/chalkboard-fantasy-picks-expands-states/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:02:46 +0000 https://props.com/?p=220264 Chalkboard Fantasy has upped its game, adding “Chalkboard Picks” – and some new states – to its growing product offering.

Chalkboard Fantasy has upped its game, adding “Social Sports Picks” – and some new states – to its growing product offering. The new wrinkle features all the same player statistic projections as the DFS offering, but has added a wide range of game lines to the mix. Chalkboard Fantasy Adds “Picks” – Expands To More…

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Chalkboard Fantasy has upped its game, adding “Chalkboard Picks” – and some new states – to its growing product offering.

Chalkboard Fantasy has upped its game, adding “Social Sports Picks” – and some new states – to its growing product offering.

The new wrinkle features all the same player statistic projections as the DFS offering, but has added a wide range of game lines to the mix.

Chalkboard Fantasy Adds “Picks” – Expands To More States

Players can play for free with coins, or win up to $5,000 on a single entry.

Chalkboard Fantasy was already live in a multitude of states, but the introduction of a social sports picks product has led to expansion into Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wyoming.

Users begin by selecting two to eight statistical player projections, comprised of at least two players from multiple teams. They must then predict whether each selected player will gain more or less than various projected performance metrics in the game.

With the addition of “Social Sports Picks”, users can now choose from a number of game lines on the platform as well.

All DFS contests have a predetermined payout multiplier of the entry fee based on the statistical player predictions made. The payout multiplier increases as players add predictions to their contest. and each prediction has a multiplier attached to it. The larger a prediction’s multiplier, the more it will increase the contest payout multiplier. 

Players don’t necessarily have to get every pick right on Chalkboard. In Shield Play, players can miss up to three picks and still receive a payout.

For Max Entry contests, players must get ALL of their statistical player predictions correct in order to win a payout. All payouts for winning contests include the contest entry fee.

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I’m No Tiger When It Comes To PGA DFS https://props.com/im-no-tiger-when-it-comes-to-pga-dfs/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:06:48 +0000 https://props.com/?p=221717 Jeff Edelstein discusses the DraftKings PGA Milly Maker and Masters props, and what it takes to turn $10 into a million dollars.

Sinking an uncomfortable amount of money into DraftKings’ $10 Masters Milly Maker: Now that’s a tradition unlike any other. Here’s the thing: I love DFS, always have, always will. I love the daily puzzle of it all. I honestly — this is not a bit — believe it helps keep my mind sharp as I…

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Jeff Edelstein discusses the DraftKings PGA Milly Maker and Masters props, and what it takes to turn $10 into a million dollars.

Sinking an uncomfortable amount of money into DraftKings’ $10 Masters Milly Maker: Now that’s a tradition unlike any other.

Here’s the thing: I love DFS, always have, always will. I love the daily puzzle of it all. I honestly — this is not a bit — believe it helps keep my mind sharp as I graduate from “middle aged dude” to “still technically a middle aged dude but holy smokes we can see whatever comes after ‘middle age’ on the horizon, and yes, we know it’s called ‘senior citizen’ but shut up, we’re still a good 25 (editor’s note: 12) years away from that.”

My DFS diet is robust: NFL, obviously. MLB, basically every day through NFL kickoff. NBA, basically every day through MLB first pitch. I’m toying with MMA every week, NASCAR when the mood strikes, and if you think I’m not all over the UFL, you’re crazy.

I am, throughout my long and meh-illustrious DFS career, a profitable player. So that’s nice.

I also play golf near-weekly. I am, throughout this segment of my career, quite possibly the worst DFS player in history. I am terrible at it. Almost statistically inconceivable.

To be fair, I don’t know jack diddly about the game. While I rely on my own wits for MLB, NFL, and NBA and use experts, analysts, and the like as backup, I am wholly dependent on experts and analysts for my PGA DFS play. So maybe I’m not a bad PGA DFS player, just a stupid one for blindly following what others think.

Of course, I will not stop doing this, because — I’m told — the best DFS sweat in the world is the golf sweat. I wouldn’t know, as I have never spent a late Sunday afternoon with a few hundred grand on the line, but yep, I’m told it’s a fun way to spend the day.

As such, I will be attempting to win $1 million this weekend, $10 at a time. As I write this on Monday afternoon, I have two entries in. I’ve promised myself I will cap my entries at five, but who are we kidding? I’m good for a dozen, easy, maybe more if I connect on an MLB slate or two leading up to lock.

My plan to win a million bucks? Same as always. Build some lineups based on the best advice — both free and paid — I come across and hope for the best. 

As far as plans go, this one is far from foolproof, but all I want is to hope for a sweat. Get me one lousy lineup with all six players through and I’ll be happy.

And, even better, if I happen to beat out the other 480,000-odd lineups, I get to position myself as a PGA DFS expert. Obviously. 

I’m fading Scottie. LFG!

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The NFL Draft Ain’t What It Used To Be https://props.com/the-nfl-draft-aint-what-it-used-to-be/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:03:00 +0000 https://props.com/?p=219256

Is it too soon to miss the good ‘ol days of sports betting? Well, probably, but when it comes to NFL Draft betting, I think now is a perfect time to miss the good ol’ days. To wit: The NFL Draft is a little less than six weeks away, and the betting options are sparse.…

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Is it too soon to miss the good ‘ol days of sports betting?

Well, probably, but when it comes to NFL Draft betting, I think now is a perfect time to miss the good ol’ days.

To wit: The NFL Draft is a little less than six weeks away, and the betting options are sparse. At BetMGM, there are just five different markets — first pick, first running back drafted, first wide receiver drafted, first tight end drafted, first offensive lineman drafted. FanDuel mirrors these same five markets. ESPN Bet is even more limited with just the first player drafted market. DraftKings offers slightly more variety, including markets on which team will draft Travis Hunter (Patriots are +185 favorites) and which will draft Ashton Jeanty (Bears at +150 leading the pack).

I could elaborate further, but won’t, because the current state of affairs is disappointing.

The truth is, if you rewind just a few years, virtually every sportsbook offered robust NFL Draft markets. Bettors had access to dozens, if not hundreds of potential wagers.

And it was glorious.

Caesars and the now-defunct (at least here in America) PointsBet were the standard-bearers. They simply listed … everything. A vast array of markets, all available practically the day after the Super Bowl.

Today? Caesars only has the first pick market available. And Fanatics, which acquired PointsBet, is doing relatively well with markets for the second, third, and fourth picks. Not exactly impressive, but at least better than most.

So what happened? Why have sportsbooks dramatically scaled back their offerings?

The answer is straightforward: They dislike these information-driven markets.

I know this directly from bookmakers. The NFL Draft typically results in losses for sportsbooks. Essentially, it becomes a race to react to breaking news — and rumors — as they circulate on Twitter.

Beyond that, there were abundant arbitrage opportunities in previous years. Not even the deeply hidden ones.

I clearly recall the market for total offensive linemen drafted in the first round a few years back, with the number set at 5.5. I bet both sides, one at +120 and the other at +140. I continued betting until I reached my limits.

This eventually backfired as I’m now severely restricted at both those unnamed sportsbooks, but whaddya gonna do. I profited.

But I genuinely miss those days. I’d invest hours analyzing markets, identifying guaranteed opportunities.

By draft night, I’d watch with those-guaranteed profits already secured. That feeling is unmatched — pure upside.

Oh, how I miss it.

In any case… good luck with your NFL Draft betting, if you’re so inclined. I believe my days in that arena have concluded.

UFL kicks off in a little over two weeks, though, so there is that.

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Ready For Some Baseball? Opening Day is Here! https://props.com/mlb-opening-day-2025/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:32:01 +0000 https://props.com/?p=220612 Apr 9, 2024; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Opening day ceremonies at Fenway Park before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles.

Thursday is the true opening day for Major League Baseball, and count me in as someone who is very interested. And when I say “interested,” I mean “interested in playing MLB DFS, not particularly interested in watching the sport. In fact, I probably won’t watch a single pitch all year unless the Mets do something…

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Apr 9, 2024; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Opening day ceremonies at Fenway Park before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles.

Thursday is the true opening day for Major League Baseball, and count me in as someone who is very interested.

And when I say “interested,” I mean “interested in playing MLB DFS, not particularly interested in watching the sport. In fact, I probably won’t watch a single pitch all year unless the Mets do something special, and even then I won’t hop on the bandwagon until late August.”

What do you want from me? I like MLB DFS. In fact, I think it might be my favorite form of DFS. And now that I think about it, it definitely is my favorite form of gambling.

Why? Because numbers, man. Numbers.

Baseball is unique among the big sports in that A) advanced statistics are readily available and B) they actually mean something.

This is not to say that advanced stats in other sports aren’t predictive. Lord knows there’s a whole industry built on that. But with baseball… I don’t know. It’s different.

Even at its most basic – lefty/righty splits – there is actual and actionable information.

Again, this is not to say that football or basketball or other sports’ statistics are meaningless, but baseball’s math – at least to me – just feels better suited to success.

And once you start getting into the nitty-gritty – how a batter does against sinkerballs, how a pitcher generally places his sinkerball, how the batter fares against the sinkerball across different parts of the plate, what the weather is, where the game is being played, etc. – well, things start to add up.

There have been enough cases in my baseball and DFS gambling life where the above scenario showed a batter vs. pitcher matchup that jumped off the page, and lo and behold, real life happened and the scenario I envisioned in the numbers came to pass.

Of course, baseball is a cruel and curious game. For instance: Let’s say over a 50 at-bat sample Mike Trout is hitting .675 with a 2.000 OPS against sinkerballs in a high humidity environment in Texas. Doesn’t matter the exact parameters, but let’s just assume it’s clear he lines up perfectly against the opposing pitcher.

Well, Trout can come up to the plate four times, hit the ball harder than any other human being has ever hit a ball four straight times, and all four at-bats can end with the left fielder snagging the line drive.

Alternately, [insert light-hitting shortstop who’s only here for his glovework] can have .000 everything against every pitcher in every ballpark and bloop in a single, steal two bases, and score a run – and he’s in the winning lineup while your Trout teams are scraping the bottom.

And not only can that happen, I can guarantee that will happen, and I can further make a near-promise that will happen to someone, in some form, on opening day.

Yes, a cruel and curious game, but also one that, in the long run, plays closer to the math than any other sport. And for that reason, I am more than ready to – wait for it – play ball.

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COVID and Betting Korean Baseball https://props.com/covid-and-betting-korean-baseball/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:00:30 +0000 https://props.com/?p=220099 Aug 24, 2014; South Williamsport, PA, USA; A fan holds a Korean flag during the game between the Asia-Pacific Region and the Great Lakes Region at Howard J. Lamade Stadium.

Five years later, I still thank the good ol’ KBO. For a certain subset of us, the names are like a call from a long-forgotten universe. Aaron Altherr. Jin Sung Kang. Jose Miguel Fernandez. Hyun Soo Kim. Ji Hwan Oh. I was reminded of those names — and plenty more — as the Los Angeles…

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Aug 24, 2014; South Williamsport, PA, USA; A fan holds a Korean flag during the game between the Asia-Pacific Region and the Great Lakes Region at Howard J. Lamade Stadium.

Five years later, I still thank the good ol’ KBO.

For a certain subset of us, the names are like a call from a long-forgotten universe.

Aaron Altherr. Jin Sung Kang. Jose Miguel Fernandez. Hyun Soo Kim. Ji Hwan Oh.

I was reminded of those names — and plenty more — as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs played the first game of the Major League Baseball season with a 6:35 a.m. ET first pitch Tuesday.

Why? Because back a billion years ago during the height of the COVID lockdown — well, it feels like a billion years but it was technically only five — I would routinely set my alarm for 5:15 a.m. so I could make sure my Korean Baseball Organization DFS lineups were locked and loaded.

Remember? Remember when the only DFS in town was KBO and League of Legends? When every other sport was shut down? When we were stuck in our homes, when everyone was wearing a mask, when hospitals were overrun, when … 

Yeah. You remember. I remember it as well.

And KBO DFS was my lifeline.

To be clear: I was on the far left of the pandemic. I was the guy leaving mail on the front porch for days on end, the guy scrubbing down his groceries, the guy who would cross the street if someone else was headed my way while out on my daily walk.

I was a wee bit crazed in those early days.

A big part — well, the big part — of the craziness (besides the threat of death, naturally) was the fact my day-to-day life was turned upside down. I mean, everyone’s day to day was turned upside down, but I’m just me, not everyone, and so yeah: All my routines got shot to smithereens.

Including playing DFS.

As it turns out, playing DFS was an integral part of my life. Not because it was my job, but because it was (and remains) my main hobby. I love thinking about it, building lineups, all of it.

So when that was taken away … well, not happy.

But in early May of 2020, the KBO decided to brave the pandemic, DraftKings decided to post contests, touts decided to start giving their opinions, and before you could say “play ball!” I had about 20 different tabs open on my browser researching everything I could about KBO.

And then … I’d build lineups. Every day. Except Mondays, which were the off day. 

I became as much of a devotee to KBO DFS as I was to MLB, NFL, or NBA. It scratched the itch. Didn’t hurt that I won a tournament, either.

It’s crazy to look back at the five years and realize, with absolute honesty, that it was KBO DFS that got me through COVID. I’d look forward to it every day, I’d do my research, I’d set that alarm, I’d fix the lineups, I’d go back to sleep, and I’d usually wake up an hour or two later, just in time for a late-inning sweat. It created a structure in those structure-less times.

I hope to never see KBO in the DraftKings lobby again, but I thank both of those businesses for helping me pass the days and have some semblance of normalcy in an otherwise ridiculously abnormal time.

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Underdog PGA Best Ball Progress Tracker https://props.com/underdog-pga-best-ball-progress-tracker/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:03:31 +0000 https://props.com/?p=217051 Jeff Edelstein discusses his recent win in the Underdog PGA Best Ball tournament, and breaks down the path for future success.

I had a dozen entries into Underdog’s “The Scramble,” a 28-event, seven-month PGA Tour best ball tournament. First (of four) rounds ended Sunday, and I got five of my 12 entries through to the next round, easily beating the expected two out of 12 (more on this in a bit). One of the contests I…

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Jeff Edelstein discusses his recent win in the Underdog PGA Best Ball tournament, and breaks down the path for future success.

I had a dozen entries into Underdog’s “The Scramble,” a 28-event, seven-month PGA Tour best ball tournament.

First (of four) rounds ended Sunday, and I got five of my 12 entries through to the next round, easily beating the expected two out of 12 (more on this in a bit).

One of the contests I won, I won by the narrowest of margins.

I scored 5002.10 points to win.

Second place scored … 5001.60.

I won by a half-point. I guess I just wanted it more, who can say.

Obviously – obviously! – luck enters the chat when you win anything, nevermind by less than a point. We see it all the time in regular DFS, where the difference between a million-dollar winner and a $100,000 winner is often as small as the same half-point.

But my goodness – a half-point out of 5000+ points is … maddening. I won by .01%.

Some perspective: If this were a 100-meter sprint, I would’ve won by one centimeter.

If this were a race that took an hour, I won by .36 seconds.

If this were a marathon, I would’ve won by 14 feet.

More comparisons? Yes, because I am enjoying this.

I weigh about 200 pounds. If I lost .02 pounds – roughly the weight of two nickels – that would be the same percentage difference.

If this contest were a gallon of gas, I won by less than a drop.

If this were a normal 2,000 calorie diet, I won by half of an M&M.

But let’s get bigger. In fact, let’s get – literally – galaxy brain on this.

The age of the universe is 13.8 billion years. I won by 1.38 million years, which sounds like a lot, but when you crunch the numbers, I won by one day – assuming the contest took 27 years.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 10,000 miles wide – I won by a mile.

Earth’s orbital velocity is 67,000 miles; I won by how fast a person is going when they are jogging.

As a result of all this, if I win the tournament – it’s $50K to first – I’d like to offer the person I bested, MBruno296 the same .01% in prize money, which comes out to … oh man, it’s only $5. Tell you what, I’ll be a sport about it and throw you $100. Reach out to me if I win.

And, if I win, I probably owe Pat Mayo a few bucks, as I had no intention of drafting any teams in this contest until I saw a Twitter post of his that mentioned how people were drafting for this contest all wrong. Mayo then listed his rankings, which I followed to a T.

As a result, I had my finest best ball first round in history. 

Now all I need to do is win Round 2. And Round 3. And Round 4. There are 9,396 people left in the tournament, which means …

… which means I have a – wait for it – yes, a .01% chance of winning the whole thing.

Math, amirte?

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Watch Sports? Who Has The Time? https://props.com/watch-sports-who-has-the-time/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:02:14 +0000 https://props.com/?p=217670 You know what Jeff Edelstein does precious little of? Watch sports. But that doesn't stop him from enjoying DFS and betting.

You know what I do precious little of? Watch sports. Here’s what I do watch, somewhat regularly: A game 7 in any sport here and there, baseball when the Mets are officially exciting — not just regular exciting — and NFL football when I can, mostly the night games, rarely a full Sunday afternoon. As…

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You know what Jeff Edelstein does precious little of? Watch sports. But that doesn't stop him from enjoying DFS and betting.

You know what I do precious little of? Watch sports.

Here’s what I do watch, somewhat regularly: A game 7 in any sport here and there, baseball when the Mets are officially exciting — not just regular exciting — and NFL football when I can, mostly the night games, rarely a full Sunday afternoon.

As for everything else? Pretty much never.

I don’t believe I’ve watched a single consecutive minute of the NBA since Michael Jordan played. The first time. Which is interesting, because I’ve bet on the NBA pretty much every single day it’s been in action for the last 10 years.

Same with baseball. Same with football.

You know what else I’ve never watched? NASCAR or MMA. Bet on both of those every weekend they’re running.

Golf? I mean, who can watch golf? But sure, I’m betting there as well.

Bottom line? I don’t really like sports. I mean, sure, I loved — loved, loved, loved, loved — sports when I was a kid. Basically, from age 7 to age 14, all I cared about was sports.

I was that kid, and I mean it. I had an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and football, and a … well, somewhat-lesser encyclopedic knowledge of basketball and hockey. I also would have told you who the top 10 middleweight contenders were. I was all-in, all-day, all-the-time sports.

Then I discovered booze, weed, and women, and that was that. (I was wildly successful in two of those three pursuits.)

And that was it. I was pretty much done as a sports fan, outside of the NFL, and that was only because of my hometown fantasy football league. That, I kept up with.

But ask me about anything that happened in sports from about 1987 to 2014, and I’m blanking.

Then I discovered DFS, and I started with the NFL, and then the season was over and … well, look at that! NBA DFS!

I could not have named three players in the NBA in 2015. This is not hyperbole. But I googled around, found some people who were doing projections and articles, joined a site, and before you could say “LaMarcus Aldridge” I was considering myself an expert.

And it continues to this day. Between other people’s projections, my gut instincts, and a little bit of luck, I continue to play DFS in almost every sport. It’s all numbers to me, and it’s about as much fun as I’ve ever had when it comes to sports.

Sure, there are times when I miss my old fandom — I mean, I wish I’d been following the Mets closely over the years, would’ve made their near-miracle run this year that much sweeter — but, well, whatever. I’d sell them out for a min-cash in a $5 single entry tournament.

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The NFL season is over. Now what? After nearly 40 years (oh man, I’m old) of playing fantasy football and betting on football, you’d think I’d have an answer to that question. But I don’t. The truth is, I always feel adrift the week after the Super Bowl. After spending five-plus months neck deep in…

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The NFL Season Is Over. Now What?

The NFL season is over. Now what?

After nearly 40 years (oh man, I’m old) of playing fantasy football and betting on football, you’d think I’d have an answer to that question. But I don’t.

The truth is, I always feel adrift the week after the Super Bowl. After spending five-plus months neck deep in the NFL — just like you have — everything feels off.

Take this Tuesday morning, for instance. During the season, I’d already be deep into building DFS lineups, jumping on those early betting lines, and getting hyped for Thursday Night Football. Didn’t matter who was playing — it was football, and that was enough.

But now that it’s over for another year? I mean, sure, I’ll play some NBA DFS and I’ll tell myself I’m excited for baseball season but … yeah. It’s a little depressing.

Here we are, middle of February, and Sunday is going to roll around and … no football.

Now sure, I could theoretically jump in those Underdog streets and draft best ball teams, but as much as I already miss football, I’m not sure I’m ready to commit brainpower to thinking about next season. 

Truth is, I do need a break, no matter how much I don’t really want it.

So what should I do? What should we do? How do we get through the next seven or so months before the Eagles face off against whoever on Thursday night, September 4?

Well, I’ve got ideas …

Fantasy Squirrel League: Yeah, me and my kids started one. We track the squirrels in our backyard. We keep it simple; it’s just a “eating entire contents of bird feeder” league. Little Kenny Stabler is killing it right now, though we are concerned he’s going to die from obesity before the season is over.

Chore parlays: Anyone can fold laundry and then crack open a Miller Lite, but I roll the dice and stack laundry (-145), dishes (-120) and outdoor maintenance (+300 this time of year). I hit that parlay, I win a six-pack of craft brew. Sometimes I get crazy and throw in a “not yell at children” (+400) into the mix, and then I get the 8.0 ABV if I hit it.

What color shirt is my neighbor wearing props: I see the guy every morning when I get in my car to drive my kid to school. I honestly don’t know the guy’s name — he lives two doors down — but I do know he is always wearing a shirt. I hit a +700 yellow the other day.

Home Depot 40: I pick a random item at Home Depot, and time how long it takes me to find it. (I’ve never found anything without asking for help once in my life.)

Valentine’s Day best ball: Buy a big box of cheap Valentine’s Day candy, hold a draft, and whichever piece of candy is the last one in the box wins. The dark chocolate with the orange goop is an easy 1.01.

OK who the heck am I kidding. I’m going to draft an Underdog Big Board right now. Life is much more difficult to get through without football. Let’s just inject it straight into the ol’ pigskin. 

On that note, there’s always:

Betting on the NFL Draft

The NFL Draft isn’t just for front offices and die-hard fans, it’s also a goldmine for bettors who need their football fix in the offseason. From predicting the first overall pick to wagering on how many quarterbacks will be taken in the first round, sportsbooks offer a ton of NFL Draft prop betting options to keep things interesting. Will a team reach for a raw but talented prospect? Will a surprise trade shake up the draft order? It’s all in play. And for the true degenerates, you can even bet on the color of Roger Goodell’s tie.

Also of note: The UFL is back on March 28. All-in on that for the second year in a row. The St. Louis Battlehawks are an offensive juggernaut. #TheMoreYouKnow.

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