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Fantasy Sports: Strategy versus Luck

Found November 06, 2012 on Shatter The Backboard:
PLAYERS: Doug Martin
TEAMS: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Doug Martin… (Silence and crickets.) Well that’s pretty much all I can say on this Tuesday after a monumental fantasy performance. Every daily fantasy player (and season long player) wishes they had Doug Martin on their fantasy team.  Dougy Fresh had a whopping 51 fantasy points, this rivals my Michael Vick performance of 57 a couple years back. The daily fantasy dream is to get a guy that produces numbers like Martin every week. I did have a similar performance with my pick of James Harden, during a NBA match up last week.… Read more
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