 It is a fun night for baseball which translates well to a fun night for MLB DFS. We're gonna break things down, take your questions live on air and get you set for what should be a delight of a night on the diamond. Welcome on in to the Fandall Live Q&A. That's right here on the Fandall YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter channels. My name is Jim Sotis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com here to take your questions live on air for the next 30 minutes to get you set for tonight's slate of MLB DFS. As always now, Aaron Dolan will join us later on at 430 to break down game six between the Suns and the Clippers and also talk a little bit about the Bucks and the Hawks given the Yana situation. So we'll talk to Aaron later on 430. So if you got some betting questions, get those ready for Aaron at 430. But for right now, let's talk about some DFS. No matter where you're watching for today, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, make sure you hit that subscribe button, but also get those questions in. You can get questions in. No matter where you're watching, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, put them in and we'll answer them live here on air to get you set for today's slate of MLB DFS, which to me is a slate where we want to try to get creative to jam in some big time studs. And that's both with our stacks and with our pitchers. For today, the stud pitchers I wanna use are the top two guys in the salary pool, Aaron Nola and Luis Garcia. Both these guys to me grayed out tremendously from a DFS perspective. Aaron Nola facing the Marlins, high upside matchup for a pitcher with a 25% strikeout rate, 91 WRC plus versus righties. Nola is a guy who I do wind up using more at home than on the road. And there are a lot of pitchers where I have like massive, massive qualms about using them on the road. Nola is one of those guys. He's at home today, facing the Marlins. He had 12 strikeouts and 22 batters faced last week and that was on the road. Now back at home, good spot. I think that Nola is worth the highest salary for today. The complicating factor is one that Michael brings up over on YouTube. Miles straws batting eighth for Houston. There is no Abraham Toro for them for today. And I was kind of hoping we get both those guys at good spots in the lineup to make it easier to get to Nola's. Let's refresh this lineup page over here and check out what the Astros lineup looks like. We have a Robo Garcia batting seventh as opposed to Abraham Toro for today. The rest of the lineup is pretty much in line with what we expected. I talked this morning about Miles straw and why I am okay with him. That still stands. Straw to me is a good play. I think $2,600 is the salary for him. Let's go over here to the Astros, pull up their salaries and we see straw, $2,600. That's fine. Let's dig in here to Robo Garcia to see what we should expect out of him. Well, the Astros numbers are varieties for Garcia. That will not be a very large sample because he has not been with the big league team for all that long. We can at least look in to his numbers, see what he's done and admittedly a pretty small sample and see if there is a reason for optimism here with him. If my internet ever cooperates, which it may not. There we go. Okay, so let's go over here, pull up the numbers versus varieties. DJ on Facebook says that Garcia is a good hitter. So DJ on board with Robo Garcia for today, he's up to 50 plate appearances versus varieties. 111 iso versus them a 37% fly ball. All right, let's check out the minor league numbers for Garcia before we got called up to see what those look like. And if they're looking okay, not a lot of sample in AAA. Last year with the Cubs, he had a 42% hard hit rates, his fly ball rate 51%. That's not too bad. His expected Wobus so far in the big leagues is low, but I suspect a lot of that is because the strikeout number is too high. So if I were, I guess that for me, what I'm looking for is trying to identify players who have a path to upside. Robo Garcia it appears has some power. I'm not saying like a lot of power, but some power, enough power we can conceivably see a situation where he actually puts up a good number. So I think that Garcia is worth looking at for tonight because he does get you a lot of salary savings, makes it a lot easier to stack the rest of the Astros. You can skip over Miles Straw as being like a value play here. If we go with just Garcia, no straw, that's 3129 left. Plug in Kyle Thuckers to 36, that's annoying. But so we probably won't need straw in there as well. But if you're not going with NOLA, it's a lot easier to get to. So I do think that Robo Garcia, I bumped them above straw for today for sure among the value plays in the Astros and definitely someone I think is worth looking into against Matt Harvey for today. Let's talk to Kyle confidence in using Otani tonight. Bump him up since judge is out of the lineup. Let's check out the Yankees lineup here for today. There is no Aaron Judge as alluded to. Ruben at O'Dore comes in for today and Doohar, Frazier, Gardner. It's kind of a weak lineup, no Gio Urchella. Gio Urchella is kind of a low strikeout guy. I'd actually is kind of impactful as well. I know it's not as big as Aaron Judge, but I would say the way you phrased it, Kyle is correct. Bump him up as a result of that. The reason I would still opt for Luis Garcia and Aaron Nola over Otani is this, 92 degree temperatures for today, winds blowing at a 10 miles per hour. That's a little bit scary for me when it comes to a pitcher. And I think that the way I'd phrase it is, you bump him up and if you were planning on using like 20% Otani with like 30-ish percent Garcia, 40% Nola, 10%, who are you talking about for? Don't cease. If you're thinking about that, I would say bump it up maybe 20 to 25. So increase like your exposure to Otani, five to 10 percentage points somewhere in there. I do think it is actually worth bumping him up. So I am on board with that. I think that is a good way to phrase it. And Otani to me, definitely the number three pitcher for tonight, despite the fact it is still a tough matchup. So Kyle, I think that a confidence level in Otani goes up. I would say, let's say confidence factor of 7.5, whereas confidence factor for Nola is like a nine and confidence factor for Garcia is about an eight. So that's where I'm at if we're gonna put numbers on it for today. Let's talk to Jerry. Jerry, good call on Kyle Schwerber last night. I know Schwerber's on a heater, but hey, it still takes some guts to go lefty on lefty. Good job, Jerry. Jerry, give us your calls of which lefty will hit a dinger off lefty for today. So we're looking at some Blue Jays, Mariners, Red Sox, Royals, find me a lefty on lefty matchup because you're on a heater there. So I'm looking for a Jerry. What's the update on the Sinsea weather in Boston? So there's no update as of yet, but this is what Kevin Roth and Rhoda Brinders said this morning. The Boston game, he thinks there's a chance of a late start and that they eventually play. The Cincinnati game, he was not as pessimistic about that game as I was. He says slow moving downpours should improve later in the evening. So he thinks they get the game in. It sounds like he is more wary of the Boston game than the Cincinnati game. Let's go over here, check out Dark Sky Weather because that does update throughout the day. We see Boston rain during the game. That gives me some serious pause and makes me a little bit wary about that game. Cincinnati, it seems like the intense stuff picks up later on. So Jerry, as of right now, I would say both these are legitimate question marks. Would I be shocked if they both play? No. Would I be shocked if they both get postponed a little bit? Yeah, I think so. But what I would do is, I think it was DJ, put the link to the Rhoda Brinders weather page in the Facebook chat. Jerry, click on that. Kevin Roth generally updates the weather forecast around like 545 Eastern or so. Check that out then, see what he says. He has a much better read on this than I do. Would recommend that. But as of right now, I don't think that you should cross those games off as a way I'd phrase it. Robert, why does Manfred hate baseball? Why doesn't he do more to grow the sport versus making it a train wreck? I don't know, Robert. Your puppy's very cute. Well, we'll focus on the puppy, as opposed to raw Manfred. Kudos to you on that. I got nothing, man. That's my full answer there. Let's talk to Conrad. Conrad Klausovak. Any love for the Chicago White Sox for today? No. Conrad, come on. They're facing the Twins. Gotta go all with the Twins here. I think that Dylan Cease, if I can use that as a way to talk about the White Sox, I think that Cease is a good value play for today. I am willing to use him. Pretty good numbers for him so far. This is over his past five starts with less movement, 3.53 skill interactive ERA, 27% strikeout rate, 5% walk rate. That's all very good. The reason I'm probably not gonna be stacking the White Sox is that Bailey Ober actually has decent numbers. This is the wrong link. Jake Faria, that's not right. Okay, let's try this again. That's still Jake Faria. That's not the right link. Okay, we're just gonna go straight to Bailey Ober's link. Jake Faria started yesterday. So we're gonna go over here and check out Bailey Ober's numbers on fan graphs. His peripheral numbers are actually like not bad. He's getting some strikeouts, pitching pretty well. 4.64 ERA, 4.22 expected ERA, 3.69 skill interactive ERA, good numbers in AAA. That's why I probably won't get to the White Sox from a stacking perspective, but I think that Dylan Cease is in place. If you want to take advantage and bully my twins, Conrad, I think that you do so via Dylan Cease as opposed to stacking the White Sox. Although Lucas Gialeto with his trash talk last night was very good. So I'm pro Lucas Gialeto despite my Byron Buxton jersey I'm wearing right now. Let's talk to Jerry Philadelphia, Toronto and the Sox are my stacks for today with Hermann as the pitcher. What are your thoughts? I am not into Domingo Hermann for today, doesn't get enough strikeouts, low strikeout guy, this is over his past four starts since these sticky stuff discussion began. I will note that Hermann hasn't actually seen a massive change in his movement, but given history with Hermann, I still want to look at what he's done since that happened and his strikeout rate is pretty low at 17%. So I'm not using Domingo Hermann for today. If you want to value play, I would say Cease is your guy there. Philadelphia, good stack, I like them. I'm sure we'll talk about them later. Toronto, I am on board the Sox. If it's the Red Sox, I know they're implied total super high. I will likely be underweight on them as a result of the way this, the way I would expect the roster rate to go. So Philadelphia and Toronto very much on board with not super into Domingo Hermann and I mean like the Red Sox are not a bad stack, but my guess is I will be underweight on them for today. Let's talk to Jackie over on Twitch. Good afternoon, everyone. Walsh didn't do the home run. I know it's stunk. I used him last night. It was not great, but got the money back with the other home runs for the Dinger Tuesday is what Jackie is referring to. So we'll talk more Dingers next Tuesday. Should be a lot of fun. Let's talk to Jason Houston, Houston, Houston stack today. Yes, yes, yes. Jason and I am on board with that for sure. Facing Matt Harvey, shocker. Matt Harvey has not improved since the sticky stuff discussion began. 4.92 skill interactive ERA. This is actually over his past eight stars with the more curve balls. He actually hasn't seen a massive deviation since the sticky stuff situation occurred. So no massive deviation for him there. 4.92 skill interactive ERA, 17% strikeout rate, 44% art hit rate. Houston is very good. So Jason, I am fully on board with Houston who has mentioned Robel Garcia. Good way to say some salary when stacking Houston. I am still on board with straw, but he would be below Garcia among the Astros for me for today. Let's talk to DJ. I'm looking at using Bassett as my pitcher with either a Yankees or a Houston stack. Can you help me out? I would avoid Bassett personally. Bassett is one of the pitchers who has seen some movement alterations recently. No accusations, obviously, but he's had movement changes since there have been changes in the way things were enforced in baseball. Just saying that the way it is. In the three stars with Bassett's movement being down, he has a 4.83 skill interactive ERA with a 20% strikeout rate, 10% walk rate. Those are not the kind of numbers that we want. He isn't a great situation for pitching with a good matchup, but that's not enough for me. He is 98, I think, $100? Is that correct? Yeah, 98. I'd rather choose Otani. If you want to go down there, I would just go Otani over Bassett for today. I prefer Otani over Bassett straight up, despite the fact Otani is in a rougher situation for pitching. I just like the strikeout upset he possesses much more than what Bassett has right now. Let's talk to Nick on Facebook. Dylan Cease or Martin Perez for Boston? Give me Dylan Cease there. Talk about him a bit before, but the strikeouts, very good for him. Twins are a tough, little feisty offense when they do hit some home runs, but they're not like a team we necessarily need to avoid, especially when it is a little bit cooler in Chicago than the East Coast for today. So I will go with Dylan Cease there. Okay, Jerry is going with Matt Olson and Corey Seger for his home run calls. Matt Olson, always good. Not great weather out there, but it's Matt Olson, so who cares? I like that one. I'll take that one over Seger. Matt is coming off the COVID IL. He threw, I think it was like a 50 pitch bullpen stint, maybe 50 to 60, I think it was for Matt. So not going to be in there for the full game. The blue jays bullpen has had its issues. So yeah, you know, I think those are reasonable options for today. Conrad, thanks as always. A bit of a different question. Do you know if there is a correlation between pitchers and or batters when a team is getting positive slash negative reverse line movement? I think that action labs slash fantasy labs may have done a study on this at one point. Maybe I'm making that up. I think that it's possible they did at one point. So I would actually Google that. I know that's a cop out, but I think they might have done that using their trends tool at one point. So it's just like Google fantasy labs, reverse line movement, MLB, stuff like that. I think that that might get it for you. I think that it's probably a situation where it's not going to make a massive, massive difference for baseball, but when you see situation where money is going a certain direction, which is what leads to reverse line movement, isn't like big money going a certain way. It probably signals that smart people, people who have a lot of money or are on something. That could be a signal. It's not something that I care about personally all that much because I try to downplay Vegas data because it influences roster rates more than anything else. And I don't wanna just follow where everyone else is going, but it's worth looking into for sure. And it's a good question. Let's talk to Matteo. Do you like Joe Musgrove tonight? I like Joe Musgrove every night. I am very nervous about him for tonight. He is facing the Reds in Cincinnati, always a good situation for dingers. Obviously the weather is a situation there to monitor as well. Musgrove over his past four starts, 3.98 skill interactive ERA, 25% strikeout rates. Reds are not a super high strikeout team. So I am always on Joe Musgrove. I think I'll take a break from that just for tonight and avoid. Let's talk to Brad. Okay, so top three stacks for today. I think that the Astros are definitely one. I would say the Blue Jays are up there. I would say the Royals that that game plays. If the Royals do not play, then the Phillies are a really good stack for today to get some value against Jordan Holloway. This in general, that team is pretty low salaried. Other options you could turn to for today. I think the Padres work too, if that game is able to go. So looking at stacks from me, I think that the Blue Jays and Astros are best among the high salary teams. If you're looking for value, check out the Royals and check out the Phillies as being an option there. Nice graphic, Cal. Wow, very nimble with the fingers on the graphic. Well done. Let's see here. Let's talk to Brad. What games are weather concerns? Okay, so let's go back over here to the Weather Report via Kevin Roth. The big ones seem to be the Royals and Red Sox and then the Padres and the Reds. Those seem to be the two to keep your eye on for today. Everyone else on the main slate seems to be pretty good to go. So again, I'm guessing that these games are more likely to play than not, but they do make me a little bit nervous with regards to whether or not they'll play. So I'll check back on that with the weather update around 5.45 or so. Michael, would you, or how would you prioritize the stud bats in Houston? Good question, Michael. Let's do that right now. Okay, so they're facing Harvey. Harvey is a guy who traditionally has had better numbers versus righties and lefties. So to me, what that does is it's not gonna push Michael Brantley above Carlos Correa or Jose Altuve, but what it will do is push Jordan Alvarez above those two guys. So if I'm ranking up the studs for today, I will go Jordan Alvarez number one as the top guy to prioritize within this Astro stack. Number two would be, it's between Correa and Altuve. I have a really hard time deciding always. Ideally, you can get both, probably not if you're trying to go with Nola for today. So let's check out the salaries here on those two guys specifically to see if we can use that as a tiebreaker. Altuve is 42. Correa is 41. That doesn't help at all. So I guess I'd go Altuve, but it's really, really cool. Actually, let's go, yeah, we'll go Altuve. Altuve one is two behind Alvarez. Correa three, I would go Brantley four and then Yuli-Guriel five. I just like, I can't really get to myself to use Guriel versus a righty. So it's tough, but I would put him last on that list. Actually, sorry, I forgot Kyle Tucker. Wow, idiot. Wow, my goodness, I'm so stupid. Kyle Tucker is a stud. How dare I forget Kyle Tucker? I would probably like salary considered at $3,600. Is this stupid to put Kyle Tucker second? I might do it. I've done a lot of stupid stuff before. Let's do it. You're done Alvarez one, Kyle Tucker two, Hosell two, they three, Carlos Correa four, Michael Brantley five, Yuli-Guriel six, definitive rankings, let's go. Let's talk to Jason. Okay, Jason's got some home run calls. He has Freddie Freeman and Carlos Correa. I just, I probably made Jason correct by putting Carlos Correa lower. So congratulations, Jason on the win there. Freddie Freeman, let's see what we got for that for today facing David Peterson. Oh, so lefty on lefty. Jason has taken some of the Jerry sauce and going lefty on lefty here. I like it, okay. So that's where he is at. David Peterson does get some ground balls. So I won't be on Freddie Freeman myself, but I like the boldness there. Diffuse, not really any questions for me today, but still popping in to say, go Astros, take down everything tonight. Okay, we're gonna apply the good karma to everyone here. Gonna manifest, good nights for everyone. Thank you Diffuse and go Astros as well. I agree. Kyle, favorite value stacks for today. I would say the top two are the Royals and the Phillies. And then depending on how you classify the Padres, I think they would be in there as well. Let's check out the Phillies line up here. Let's see if it was loaded in the last time I refreshed and see what we can work with here. Oh my goodness. Why do I always have a terrible time identifying where these games are? Okay, so we have Odebel Herrera, not someone I wanna cheer for in general for obvious reasons. I would rather not, but he's $2,500. He's batting lead off. Let's see here the numbers versus righties this year, 171 ISO. I mean, like if we're just talking about this from a DFS perspective, I would put him in there. Low salary guy. JT Romuto's salary has gone down. I believe he's $2,900, 174 ISO versus righties. Hoskins 187. Let's check out the salaries for those two guys. No race today. We have Romuto at $2,900. Sweet, that's awesome. We have Brad Miller at $2,200. That's kind of interesting. Check out his numbers versus righties this year. 149 ISO, not a lot of fly balls, but that's high enough to consider. So you know what? I'll put Miller in there too. He's first base eligible. That kind of stinks, but you know, work with what we got. So that gets us to 3280 left. We'll need a 431 if we're going NOLA, but I think that works. Cutch 153, Harper 256. So we'll spend up for Harper here and make that the stack. Gets you a lot of salary savings. I think that works out pretty well. Let's check out Segura just to be sure I'm not totally glossing over someone. Boom, I can't use versus righties personally. Segura also don't want to get there. This, to me, is the optimal four player stack here. I would also say McCutchen works, but I think I'll take the salary savings on these guys instead. So the Philly's a good stack for today and the Royals of that game is good to go. Jerry, Atlanta should be a good stack. What do you think? I forgot, Freddie. Freddie's the other home run. So Freddie and Jason on the same team here with Freddie Freeman for home runs. I like it. Okay. Yeah, I think I tend to be lower on teams facing Peterson because of his abilities to suppress fly balls. 31% or fly ball right allowed for him. This is over his past five starts with decreased moving on to sourcing fastball has been letting apart contact. I know the results this year have not been great. So I think that Atlanta works. They're not a priority for me, but they work. I wouldn't talk you out of them. Let's see here. Let's talk to Jeremiah. I know Atlanta bats. Yeah, so it's not like a situation where I am crossing them off and I don't think they're a bad option. They're just not my favorite option on the same. I think there are some pretty good options for today. So I'm higher on Peterson the most. That's probably a mistake. But you know, I think that that's, if it makes me wrong, it makes me wrong. It's a one slate thing. But I do think that I'm okay with it just because the fly ball rate lower and Atlanta better versus varieties and lefties in general. Jerry thinks that Atlanta will be low roster. That's probably true. Let's check out the implied totals here. See if we can get our gauge on which teams will be popular. I think Boston will probably be pretty popular for today just because their implied total is so high. Bassett might be more popular than he should be based on that implied total too. Toronto should be popular. Yeah, you're probably right. Atlanta will be a little less popular than expected. So yeah, I think that if you want to be different, that's fine. I would prefer some other teams, but you know, the process is not totally off there in getting to Atlanta. Robert, what factors do you consider in which order to place these stacked players? So this could mean two things. It could mean regarding batting order. So I'll answer about that first. I don't really care too much about where they're at in the order because let's say we stacked the Royals for tonight. Hard hit Whit Merrifield gets a base hit. Everyone in the order benefits, even Edward Olivares batting down the seven hole because Whit Merrifield did not get now. So even if I use Whit Merrifield batting lead off and there's no chance Olivares drives him in, Olivares does still benefit if Whit Merrifield gets on base. So I don't care too much about whether they're by each other in the order. I just want to use guys on the same team. So to me, spot in the batting order relative to each other doesn't matter too much. If that was the question, there's your answer there. Other things to consider if we're trying to like rank them out in terms of like, oh, this is how I ranked the answers the way I did. It comes down to upside. I want guys who get me extra base hits and stolen bases. That's basically what it is. Because in my process from a stacking perspective, I'm already minimizing strikeouts trying to target guys like Martin Perez who don't get a lot of strikeouts like Holloway doesn't get a lot of strikeouts. I'm minimizing strikeouts already. So I can focus on the two sources of upside which are extra base hits and stolen bases. So to me, I want to find the guys who are going to give me the most access to potential in those two categories. And that's the way I ranked them there. That was why I was lower on Gourriel, lower on Brantley as well. Hopefully that makes sense. It's really just about upside. The isolated slugging and other stuff. Okay, DJ is on Nick Matone. Let's see here, he is batting eighth. Okay, I won't get there personally but I respect the boldness there. And you love Ty France for tonight. Okay, facing Steven Matz. I like it. I won't get there. Steven Matz, pretty good pitcher again. He won't be super deep in this game because he's coming off the COVID IL but and he also does do a pretty good job of suppressing our contact. So I won't be on France, but DJ, you're bold. I like it. Jerry Atlanta, one, two, three and six batters seems the way to go. Okay, so let's pull up the Atlanta lineup here for today versus Peterson. I have no idea when these games start. This is very confusing to me. Okay, there we go. One, two, three and six. Heredia, we were using against the righty yesterday. So if we're gonna get him against the lefty, sweet. Yeah, I think that that works. I actually don't mind any of the top six batters on this team for today. So whatever word you wanna do then Jerry, I'm on board with it. I think that all these guys are definitely options for today. Clinton says that Ozzy versus lefty is a lock. I think Ozzy versus a righty is also a lock. Ozzy obviously is just a really good player. Like I think he is massively, massively underappreciated. Whether it's a righty or a lefty, I don't care. I think he's tremendous. So I think that whether it's a righty or a lefty, he will be in my rotation for sure. DeFuse asking about Atlanta for value. I think that does work. We talked a lot about Atlanta. I do wanna look at the Royals here briefly just in case we get the all clear on the weather. Edward Olivares is batting, I believe it's sixth for them today. Or is it seventh? I think it's seventh actually. I think I lied. Yeah, batting seventh. Okay, so let's check out this for Olivares. I'm still in the Phillies. Let's get out of that. And let's go to Olivares. He is minimum salary. If I recall correctly, I'm pretty sure he was a guy who had a decent amount of upside in the minors. In AAA, eight home runs, 231 ISO 11 steals. That's awesome. So we talked about Brad Miller. We talked about Robo Garcia. I would also say that Edward Olivares is an option for value for tonight. So I think when you're looking at this late as a whole, you've got options for value in a lot of different places whether it be the Phillies or Olivares here with the Royals we get the all clear on that game which we might not. I think that that should be pretty solid. Olivares to me, if we're looking for someone who's going to be like on maybe 1% of radars or rosters, I think that Olivares is someone who does work out pretty well. Jonathan asked, should I stack the Astros? Yes, do it. Love it. Very much on board for today. We talked through Garcia before Robo Garcia I think is someone who can be a value saver or a salary saver, miles straw. Yes, but to a lesser extent, if we're ranking out like all the value guys, I would say probably Robo Garcia one, probably Brad Miller two, probably Edward Olivares three and then miles straw four in part because he's not quite as low salary as those guys. Let's check out Heredia's salary because I do want to see where he's at. Guillermo Heredia, $2400. I'd probably put him above all those guys just from like a strict value perspective. So maybe I'm talking myself into some braves. I'm not like, again, super stoked about them but I think that Heredia specifically, given how well he's in the ball so far this year, he could work as a value option for today. Final question comes from Jerry. Should we target Domingo Ehrman? I will not be getting there personally. Let's go get the numbers here again. This is over his past four starts since the sticky stuff discussion, 4.97 skill interactive ERA, 17% strikeout rate, letting up a lot of fly balls. I will not be going there personally. Just think there are enough red flags for me not to go there. And also the angels, not a huge strikeout team either. So personally not in on Ehrman for today. DJ, who do we take with the angels with the top guys on the injured list? So if you're looking to stack them, I probably wouldn't because Ehrman's not that bad, I don't think, and I also don't think I can get there but so I wouldn't look to stack them personally. And then Aaron is asking about Bailey Ober. So I talked before about how I'm not stacking the white socks because of him, but I also would not use him as a pitcher because of pitch counts. He's had four starts since he rejoined the rotation. He is at 51, 73, 63, and 78 pitches in that time. So not enough for me, need more length there but not gonna stack against him either for today. That is all that we have for the MLB side of things for today, but hey, as always, we are not yet done with the FanDuel Live Q&A for today because we have some more basketball coming up tonight. We have got the Suns and the Clippers game number six here to break that down is Aaron Dolan. You've seen her here the past week or so breaking down all of your NBA questions, talking some betting and Aaron, last night pretty rough. So I feel like things can only go up here from tonight given the Yana situation. I think that we just need some good vibes in basketball right now. Yeah, we need some good vibes. We need players to stop getting technically injured, but I do have an injury update on Yana's which I'll definitely get to at some point in this show but how's everything going for you, Jim? I'm nervous now because I haven't seen the Yana's update because I was talking. What is it? It's not bad. It is, there is no structural damage. Time table to return is unclear though. Probably not gonna be back for this series though it seems like, right? Yeah, they need to wrap it up but I don't think, I don't know if the box can get it done. Okay. I'll trade you on the last night. They still were not able to beat the Hawks. Honestly, like long-term thing, I'm just happy there's no structural damage. That's good. So we're, again, we are manifesting good vibes out to Boston for weather for tonight, manifesting more good vibes to Yana's. We actually got to manifest stuff. I've been trying to do that lately. I like it. See, it's actually been working. So I'm gonna keep on doing it. We need to manifest a couple of dingers for Edward Olivares tonight. So I'm gonna work on that. What do you got for Sun's Clippers tonight? I'm going with the Sun's tonight. I think they finally just get it done, finish out this entire series, make the NBA finals. Okay, perfect. So I don't leave you to talk about that. We've already got a question about a Deandre Aitin prop. So I'm gonna leave you to that, Aaron. Good luck tonight. Enjoy the basketball. Talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, see you tomorrow. All right guys, happy Wednesday. Just had to think about what day it was and see if I feel like the days are getting jumbled up here. Predominantly in this show, we're gonna talk Sun's Clippers game six, of course, but I wanted to start off kind of talking about yesterday's game, just because obviously during yesterday's show, I was very adamant that the Bucks were gonna just get it done, but that the Hawks could potentially cover. As you know, the Hawks won. Yannis went down that third quarter, no Trey Young in that game, but the Atlanta Hawks won 110 to 88. This is disastrous. This is terrible for the Milwaukee Bucks. The fact that they could not get it done in this game, even without Yannis drew all the day. Chris Reynolds in, I don't know what went wrong here. Holiday 19 points, Chris Reynolds in 16, after obviously he had that great game previously. I mean, the Bucks just continued to disappoint me. They disappointed me in the regular season. I was shocked. Like I said yesterday, when they beat the Nets, I was convinced they would close out the series a lot faster than they did. I know that the Hawks had gotten a couple of games off them that were pretty surprising, but still, this 110 to 88 disastrous, terrible. But why I'm bringing this up is because Woj did just sweep this out at 412. There's no structural damage. Yannis on Teju Kupo's left knee after his offward landing last night. Atlanta ligaments are sound. Time to go to return is unclear. So of course, we're going to factor in what's going on with that series when we talk about the NBA finals prices that are available in the Fandalsports book. We might as well start off with that before we get into today's games and some of the questions. So I know Marty being asked questions about some of these props, but we will get to that. I promise we will get to that. So stay with us. All right. So that's where the team future is. You have the Suns minus 145, the Bucks plus 350. They of course moved back from being the favorites. The Hawks down to plus 550. They were 32 to one two days ago when I was talking about them here on the show as well as the Clippers. The Clippers got moved to plus 700. So looking at these odds for the NBA finals. So the one thing that I do sometimes is I go into certain markets and I look at how they could potentially be correlated. So for me today, looking at this market, you know that the Suns and the Clippers are playing and right now this line keeps going crazy. Okay, Suns are minus one and a half again. It opened Clippers minus one this morning. It was actually minus one after switching to Suns minus one and a half. It's now back to Suns minus one and a half. So it's been all over the map. But for me, you can look at that game and say, okay, the Suns are only favored by a point and a half. The Suns are now minus one 45. To me, this screams, the Suns are going to be able to close out this game or odds makers are expecting that considering minus one 45. They're also factoring in that the Clippers are going to have to win two games straight and also obviously they just won last or the previous game. So that's something to take into account as well. But for me, I feel like the Suns get it done tonight and looking at the NBA finals, it seems like the odds makers are expecting them as well. But the Bucks and Lana Hawks are coming very close together. It's a little scary there. And then as for series prices, there's not even any other markets available right now. But Bucks minus one 32 at Lana Hawks plus one 12, great value to take the Hawks right now. Also, if you do think that for some reason that the Lana Hawks are going to win, which is very possible, make it to the finals, this is also a great price at plus five 50 because it keeps moving down. I mean, it was 30 due to one two days ago. So if you got it at that, kudos to you. Great, obviously I'm not sure if you were manifesting, predicting that Yanis was going to be injured. And again, his timetable is unclear. I'm sure they'll put them in as soon as possible. But again, hyperextended knee is not something you're obviously going to want to mess with. But these are the NBA finals odds that are available right now. I just wanted to kind of touch on yesterday's game because as I said, I was very, very adamant that the Bucks were gonna cover that first half spread win the game easy. I wasn't sure if they were gonna be able to cover the nine points that was, that's what it shifted to as soon as the Trey Young News came out, had people wasn't playing in that game. But still some of these players and their props, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. And then obviously from three point range, look at that 20.5, come on guys, Milwaukee Bucks, figure it out 73%, 14 and 19 from the free throw line, shooting not even 40% from the field, terrible. But we will ignore this game for now and we'll get into tonight's game because I have a lot of notes on that. We'll just look at the series prices quickly this sun's minus 500 to win it, Clippers plus three 85. So sun's still heavy favorites to win it all. As for this game, of course, game six, the suns could be able to go to the first NBA final since 1993. As for the Clippers, this will be another series in which they were down 0-2 and had to come back. An interesting stat that I read on NBA.com today is LA owns a 0-6 record in games one and two this postseason and a mark of 10 and two in all other contests. So they are able to come back. I know who know Kawhi Leonard and obviously a lot of this rides on Paul George. And as I said, I guess it was two days ago when this game five was happening was that a lot of the conversation was around Paul George and how tired he is, because obviously he's playing so many minutes but he had 41 points I believe last game. So he absolutely crushed it. So I'm not sure if we're really having that much of a conversation around how tired Paul George is, it seems like they just wanna get it done and win. So we'll get into some of his player props shortly. I kind of feel like I need to just address the RD champion him saying eight and props finding my notes on him quickly. It is at I believe eight and props. Are you looking at points, rebounds, assists? Is that obviously is going to dictate some of this? Okay, so it's at 16 and a half. So he's averaging right now 18 points. He had in terms of rebounds he did 22 in the previous two games. Let's see. I think I would take eight and rebounds out of anything. Obviously I could just mention he is averaging 18 points. You could take the over there, 16 and a half minus one 14, not bad value. But I feel like a lot of people always playing him in terms of his rebounds. So I think since he is, I believe let me go to rebounds prop real quick. All right, it's at 11 and a half. So plus 100, obviously good value there. You could also probably take him in the 10 plus rebounds. And no, not minus, you don't want to take that. He's minus one or two to get 12 plus rebounds. As I mentioned, he had 22 rebounds in the one game. So I feel like his averages are kind of inflated from that number. But anytime that I've taken eight in these series, it's actually worked out for me, which is great. So I feel like taking anything for even is going to work out in your favor. Alrighty, let's get into some other things that I have for this game. So in terms of a number of fire, if you go to that, you're going to be able to see where the money and the bets are coming in right now. That's constantly changes. So right now, Phoenix, obviously, as you can tell, a lot of people backing them in terms of bets and money to cover. And then for the money line, also 71% of the money, 65% of the bets on them to just win the game outright. And then as for the total, 55% of the bets are on the over 51% of the money is on the under. Now, as for this total, open 215.5. Move down to 215. I've seen it, it's now, I believe, at 214.5. So it keeps coming down. And that's why it's kind of hard. This money split right here on the total. For me, when they played the last two games in LA, I mean, it was low, low, low scoring. I mean, let me find this one number really quickly for you. I said it in the Fandall hurry up today. 164 total points in game four. That's when it was 84, 80 in the sun and it up getting that win. But it was obviously terrible basketball. Nobody was making anything in that game. So I don't think we're going to see any type of numbers like game four, at least I hope not because you want to see team score and score. But in terms of the under, it's 2-0, like I mentioned, the first two meetings in LA. And then on top of that, the under has just been hitting pretty consistently in this series, it feels like. So this is also some trends that might fur you off just a little bit in terms of the total. So only two games have hit over 215.5 the series. Again, that's the opening line. The over is five and one in the Clippers last six overall playing on one day's rest. The under is four and on the sun's last four after and against the spread loss and after obviously a straight up loss. And then the over for them is five and one in the sun's last six road games versus a team with a home winning percentage greater than 60%. So in terms of some of these against the spread trends, I'm not sure that you can completely follow them for me in this series. What I've been doing is kind of just looking at the series as a whole, not going back to previous series and just seeing how these teams obviously match up because I feel like every game is just another test for these teams to figure out what they can do to stop certain players, certain things from happening in terms of obviously the schemes of other teams. So it kind of gets more defensive as you go along just naturally. So I feel like taking the under in this one would be the play for that. Let's see. Yes, very low scoring. Both those games that were in LA were not fun games to watch. So let's go back to the last game. So obviously we know that Phoenix had the chance to go to the NBA finals and they blew it. The Clippers won 116-202. Paul George was the hero of that game. He had 30 second half points, 41 points overall, 15 or 20 shooting, but the real issue I think in this game was the Clippers getting out to a 20 and five lead right there in that first quarter. I don't think that helped them whatsoever. Obviously they have an inch and crawl back. They weren't able to do that. And then obviously the Clippers were able to extend the lead in that second half. And it was probably tough for the Phoenix Suns just given that it was on their home floor. Now they got to go to LA and try to close out this game before forcing a game seven in Phoenix. But the Clippers are not new to this. They know how to handle this clearly. Obviously they had quite Leonard in the previous series to kind of help them out there. But it seems like Paul George has been able to figure it out along with some of their players around him. So it's definitely something to keep in mind. Also last time I was talking about this, I was talking about the Zubac props as well. He ended up missing game five and he is questionable for this game as well. So we might as well go through some of the props that we have available on the Fandalsports book right now. We'll go to the most popular ones. As I mentioned all these lines. First basket always a really fun one to play. Right off the bat you have action but it's also I feel like one of the hardest things to hit and there's really no rhyme or reason for who's going to score the first basket. So I feel like that's always available right there. If you want to get into some action right off the bat. First half spread I'm staying away from this because honestly at this point it's basically a pick-up. I just wouldn't even play this. And I also feel the same way about the money line at this point. Like I'm not going to play a team minus one and a half personally. I'm just going to probably bet them on the money line at that point. But let's see. So I've been talking sometimes about the player points match-bed. This one I actually like Reggie Jackson versus Chris Paul. Reggie Jackson is averaging more points than Chris Paul right now in this series. And I feel like he'll have to really step up since Qwile Leonard as you know is out and he has been stepping up. He's averaging 22 points in this series. And meanwhile Chris Paul as you saw was a little bit rusty and able to help out more so in the assist category. So I do like this minus 146 not great juice but earlier today it was actually a lot. He was like minus 120 something. So that's moved up. I'm sure people are betting on that market because throughout the day, obviously some of these lines are going to continue to change as more people bet on them. Top point score. This is actually another interesting one. Devin Booker or Paul George. Now Paul George is averaging the highest points in this series so that doesn't surprise me but if the Suns are able to figure out a way to shut down Paul George, my next person here would be Devin Booker plus 170. I don't think that that is bad value if you think he's going to have a great night. In terms of to record a triple double, I'm not going to be betting anything in this. Obviously your best chance would be Paul George in my eyes just considering that the entire reverse team basically rides on how he's going to play. Alrighty, also another interesting market. Away team total points and home team total points. This is something I've been actually playing a lot lately and I think if you really just hone in on a certain team it's easier to play these types of markets. It's one of seven and a half for each and as you know, you can see the total to 14 and a half which is why you see these split like this. As we know, the Phoenix Suns have not been able to hit over this number whatsoever when they played in LA in the Staple Center. So you might want to take the under for that minus 104, not bad there. And also if you do think that this game is going to go under, for example, you might want to play both these to the under or if you think this game is going to go over you could also play one of these to the over as well. I would say that the Clippers have the best chance as a home team to go over 107 and a half. But again, I think the Suns are going to win. So then they'd be hitting the over so kind of gets a little confusing there. All right, as for player points, we always talk about these 15, 20, 25, 30, et cetera. These are all fun markets to bet in. Obviously the top guys are going to be crazy value that you're not going to want to bet. Let's see the score 35 plus points. Devin Booker plus 380, Paul George plus 210, 30 points. And as you know, Paul George is averaging over that. That's why you see it minus 134 which is pretty crazy. Let's actually look at his, all right, 30 and a half for his points prop for tonight. And as I mentioned, he's averaging 30.6 assists. Also 11 rebounds. So maybe you want to switch for Paul George. And I'm obviously just talking about one of the stars going to rebounds and let's see what he is to record. 10 plus rebounds, minus 154. You can take him to record 12 plus but that's pushing it. As I mentioned, he's averaging 11 plus 154. Not sure, I don't feel too confident in that but I would take that over taking to record a letter to record 10 plus, but let's actually see what. All right, well his rebounds over 10 and a half. I would take Paul George for sure over 10 and a half plus 112. I think that's a great value. I would take that over actually going into this 12. And please excuse us on the side, these are not all bets that are going to be used. All right, some other player props. We can go to another star, obviously Devin Booker. He needs to have a impressive, impressive night in terms of them. I feel like when he got his nose smashed in a little bit when he broke it, I feel like that's kind of affected him a little bit. I think that mask affected him. Charles Barkley actually backed him up saying that it's really hard to see on the sides as much as you think. So hopefully that doesn't continue to affect him in any way. But for his points prop tonight, we have 27 and a half. He's right now averaging 26, five assists and six rebounds. So if you think he's gonna have a great night, I would take over that. As you can see, it's minus 122. So odds makers are thinking he's most likely going to go over that number tonight. And while we're talking about him, I will talk about Chris Paul. So his is 19 and a half. He's averaging 18 points so far in this series. As you know, he didn't play those first two games. He was in the health and safety protocols. So just something to remind you of when doing your research, because for example, I was on stat news. And obviously all these players have just played five games in the series already. And I put in Chris Paul in the last five games and I was like, oh wait, he actually only played in three of those games. So you have to kind of change what you're looking up sometimes to make sure because his over would have hit in the last five games as compared to the last three when he's only averaging 18 points. But hopefully he has a much better game and these teams are able to score and put the points. Also a fun market that I feel like people are always talking about is player combos. You can do rebounds plus assists, for example. One that I saw when I was reading an article today was Paul George. Oh wait, no, no, no, not him. Excuse me, Reggie Jackson. I had 24 and a half points plus assists. So this actually came down a point. It was at 25 and a half earlier today. I was thinking about taking it and putting it into the fan to hurry up. Like I said, he's averaging 22 points. He's also averaging three assists. So if you combine those, obviously he would hit that over minus 125. I didn't like it earlier because it was at 25 and a half. So I'm not sure if people were betting that under. And then obviously, as you can see, all of these markets for these player combos and something really fun to bet on. If you think, if you're not sure of a certain player, being able to hit one particular prop, let's say just a points prop and you play it along with rebounds and assists or just rebounds or something like that, could be a really fun market to take advantage of. All right, let's see if we can get some more questions going in the comments, guys. Please drop some so that I'm able to answer some of them for you guys. And while we're doing that, why don't we look on the Vandalsport's book at some of the fun, the same game parlays that we're hitting. Actually, this might just be a regular parlay. Nope, same game parlay. Look at these, $20, one 1600, another $20, one 1700. Obviously these were great. The winning margin bands, I feel like these are really popular, especially in the same game parlays. This is crazy to hit a first basket. Like I said, it's one of the hardest things to hit, so awesome for this better and also having the win margin as well is pretty crazy. And yeah, just more of these, five plus made breeze. That is insane. And some of these odds, like I mentioned before, when I'm doing this, I obviously mentioned the same game parlay, unique to Fandal, pretty awesome to be able to hit some of these. I believe there was even, there was another one posted. This is Wild, one of the most impressive same game parlays. We've seen $5 into 3000. Look at all of these. And when you see the odds up here, like that is so crazy. And all of these, despite how bad these teams were last night and especially how bad this Bucks team was for this to hit, basically this better, considering all these unders had no faith in the Milwaukee Bucks last night, all unders, knowing that they were gonna have a really terrible, terrible game. Clearly this person was a fortune teller because that's pretty crazy to take an under on everything, knowing that that could potentially not hit but great win for that person as well. And like I mentioned, guys, available the same game parlay. All you have to do is hit here and you'll see the little SGP on the sides and then you can kind of build your own for this. Alrighty, let's go through some other things. And again, guys, please comment anything below so that I can pull it up and have our producer, Cal, bring it up and kind of get into some of that. Let me see if there's any other important notes that I wanted to mention to you guys. Oh, the one thing that I wanted to mention in terms of the show, turnover. So Phoenix lost two of the three contests, giving up an average of 18 points to LA, off an average of 13 turnovers. So the Suns definitely need to work on that. And if they are able to limit those turnovers, that's another reason why I think they will be able to win tonight. I think truthfully, for the Clippers to go on win tonight. And then when the next game in Phoenix, I just see it very unlikely. So I feel like now is the perfect time, like I mentioned, to be betting into the NBA markets in terms of the team futures. I mean, it's minus 145 at this point. I wouldn't take it, but I'm saying if you do like the Bucks, the Hops, the Clippers, like this is the time to take it because pretty soon, these numbers are gonna continue to keep moving down, moving down. Also something I should mention for tonight, we have boosts available. Let's see. Bill Simmons, Bird, Bet, Boost, Reggie Jackson, plus three and a half to buy him points, plus rebound, plus assist, versus Chris Paul. That's a plus 120. Then we have World Wide Wob, Super Boost, Paul George to score 30 plus points in the LA Clippers to win game six. That is at plus 300. So if you're a Clippers fan, that's actually awesome, awesome odds. So these boosts available. And like I've mentioned throughout the week, here at the Promotions tab, new customers, 30 to one odds, NBA Playoff Enhanced Odds. Again, this is for new customers, but if you put $5 on it, you're gonna get $150 to play with. So that's good. Also, NBA risk-free, same-game parlay. You can always take advantage of this. Plays a three plus, three plus like same-game parlay on any NBA Playoff game and you can get $10 back if you lose. All right, let's get to one other question. What is your favorite parlay to build? I'm not sure if you're talking about in general, my favorite parlays of all time are always gonna be NFL season, first-time touchdowns, I think they're the most fun ones. My favorite parlay to build in general, obviously the same-game parlay tab, I guess you could hit this. Let's say I wanna take the Suns. I think we're going under. I also think, let's see. Reggie Jackson assists. Let me go with not that. Let's go with Paul George rebounds, over 10 and a half, add that in. Who else did I mention today? So right now, as you can see on the side, as you're building it, you can see the odds, obviously improving those plus six, 15. I just think for same-game parlays, you wanna try to find the most crazy odds that you possibly can to hit one of these big ones. You could add in, for example, let's say, what's the same, where's the first basket score? First basket, and you think Paul George is gonna have the first basket. That obviously, you can see how those odds completely shifted, got pretty high there. So put 10 on there, you can see how much you are going to win. It'll show you that, and then you just hit, obviously you're gonna log in and place your bets, but that's kind of my favorite way to build a parlay. Going through some of the things that I absolutely like, and then combining those, obviously straight bets are not as fun as parlays, but I think the point of having a parlay is to get the best odds you possibly can. So you wanna try to make it as big of a parlay as you can, because trust me, I've done a few parlays when I first started out in betting. They were all favorites, heavy favorites, not, I'm not talking like crazy, crazy, like minus 500 favorites, but for example, like Suns minus 118, this is minus 108, hitting some of those minus, you know, 100 to let's say minus 150 range. And I went one time, I went five on five favorites, and then I realized from now on what I'm doing the same game parlay or parlays in general, I'm just gonna try to get the best value that I possibly can get. But guys, for today, game six, again, Suns Clippers, this will be happening inside the Staples Center. Exciting stuff happening tonight. The Suns can move on to the NBA finals if they win tonight. If not, the Clippers will force a game seven. This spread keeps bouncing around. It's now Suns minus one and a half. It keeps flipping, it flips like I mentioned this morning. It was Clippers minus one, as with the total keep swimming down to currently two 14 and a half was at 1.215 and a half. And then if you go to numbers far, you'll see where some of the money in the bets are coming in. And I will see you guys on Friday. I won't be here on tomorrow because I'll be on the TNT group chat show. So try to tune into that on the VR betting Twitter and also be streaming on Fandals as well. They'll be retweeting some of the links. So I will see you guys on Friday, 4.30 PM Eastern.