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The Fantasy Options Most Helped by Their Division in 2021
The NFL schedule changes every season. But the constant is a team’s intradivisional games. If you’re the Colts, you might face the Chiefs one season and the Jets the next, but you know you’re playing two games each against the Jaguars, Titans and Texans. It’s a small piece of knowledge, but it’s one we can […]
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The Fantasy Options Most Hurt by Their Division in 2021
The NFL schedule changes every season. But the constant is a team’s intradivisional games. If you’re the Colts, you might face the Chiefs one season and the Jets the next, but you know you’re playing two games each against the Jaguars, Titans and Texans. It’s a small piece of knowledge, but it’s one we can […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most PPR Points, Non-QBs, Last 6 Years
With Davante Adams on the move Thursday in a blockbuster trade, it got us wondering: Where does Adams rank among PPR points among non-quarterbacks over the last six years? Spoiler: He’s No. 1 (you’re welcome for one answer). There are 34 skill players with at least 1,000 PPR points since 2016. Today’s quiz wonders how […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best First Season of a Career
Wednesday’s Fantasy Quiz of the Day asked how many of the top 20 “last season of a career” fantasy performances you can recall. Today, we’re going the other way with it: Who has had the best fantasy rookie seasons since the merger? There are some big current names on this list, some Hall of Famers, […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Fantasy Points in First Year with New Team
NFL free agency is set to kick off Monday. With that in mind, it’s worth a quick look back. What active players have fared the best in their first season with a new team? Whether by trade, free agency or anything else, let’s take a look back on the players with the most PPR points […]
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Fantasy Survivor – Episode 1
We got two hours of Survivor 42 Wednesday. We got two eliminations (one voted, one removed). We got a visit from medical, multiple advantages and the biggest smile ever from a contestant who wears her emotions on her sleeves more than anyone in the world ever has. Welcome to the new season. Each week, I’ll […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best Last Season of a Career
If Tom Brady had stayed retired, his 374.7 fantasy points in 2021 would have obliterated the record for most fantasy points in the final season of a player’s career. But since Brady is back, let’s take a look at the top final-season performers now. Today’s fantasy quiz of the day wonders how many of the […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most TD Passes for a QB/Pass Catcher Duo (Active Players Only)
Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison have the all-time record for most touchdowns between a quarterback and a single pass-catcher in NFL history, at 112. That’s going to be a tough one to catch, especially considering only four duos of active players have even reached 50 together, and of those, two sets aren’t teammates anymore. There […]
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Fantasy Survivor – Previewing the Season
Within a few episodes of a season of Survivor, you can generally get a feel at least for the contestants who will at the least make it far, and maybe for the real contenders. Before the season starts? It’s all conjecture and guesswork, y’all. But let’s do it.   The 42nd season of the show […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The 40-Point Fantasy Days of 2021
Putting up 20 fantasy points in a game is a good week. Putting up 30 probably wins your fantasy team the game. Putting up 40? There are only a handful of those a year, and when they happen, we remember them … don’t we? Can you name every player who put up a 40-burger in […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The 200-Point Fantasy Seasons, Last 10 Years
Thursday, the quiz of the day focused on players with the most seasons of at least 100 PPR points over the last 10 years. 22 players have done it at least nine times. Today’s quiz ups the threshold: Who has had the most seasons of at least 200 PPR points over the last decade? 200 […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Rushing TD Leaders, Last 10 Years
Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD runs in the last 10 years we can remember. We don’t have anyone with hundreds of scores like Monday’s passing […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: 19 Years, 19 RB1s
As crazy as it sounds, there hasn’t been a repeat No. 1 overall finisher at running back since 2002-2003. In the 19 years since, 19 different running backs have led the league in PPR scoring. Can you remember the whole list? Take our quiz and see how well you do! (Want to play every Fantasy […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Passing TD Leaders, Last 10 Years
Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD passes in the last 10 years we can remember. Sometimes we have a guy with 317 touchdowns! Sometimes we have […]
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5 Teams Set to Improve in Fantasy in 2022
The 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl by being (a) one of the best teams in the league, but also (b) one of the healthiest teams in the league. The team famously re-signed basically everyone, and in 2021, they repeated (a), but by the end (b) had fallen apart like … well, one […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The 100-Point Fantasy Seasons, Last 10 Years
Scoring 100 PPR points in a season isn’t a huge feat. In a 16-game season, that’s only 6.3 points per game. So would you be surprised to learn that only 22 players at any position have scored that in at least nine of the last 10 seasons? Getting there once is (relatively) easy. Getting there […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Receiving TD Leaders, Last 10 Years
Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD receptions in the last 10 years we can remember. We wrap up this miniseries of TD scorers with the receiving […]
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Game of 250+ Rushing Yards
In Week 17 of the 2020 NFL season, someone ran for 250 yards … and somehow didn’t even lead the league in rushing that week. (I’m not going to tell you who, that’d be a spoiler.) That little fact has always blown my mind. Imagine running for the 13th-most yards in a game ever, and […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Fantasy PPG in a Season, Last 10 Years
Ten years is a long time. Do you think you can name all of the top 25 single-season fantasy PPG leaders in that time? With no games played minimum (that might be a clue to one of them!), who put up the most PPR points per game in a year since 2012? Take our quiz […]
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5 Teams Set to Decline in Fantasy in 2022
The 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl by being (a) one of the best teams in the league, but also (b) one of the healthiest teams in the league. The team famously re-signed basically everyone, and in 2021, they repeated (a), but by the end (b) had fallen apart like … well, one […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Fantasy Points Since 2000
We’ve been looking at 2021 for most of these Fantasy Football Quiz of the Day tests, but today let’s broaden our horizons – how well can you remember the top fantasy performers dating back to the Year 2000?  Take our quiz and see how well you do! (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz of […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Top-12 PPR Finishers at Each Position
There were 48 top-12 finishers in PPR scoring in 2021 – 12 quarterbacks, 12 running backs, 12 wide receivers, 12 tight ends. How many of them can you name? Take our quiz and see how well you do! (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz of the Day? Click here!)      
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Weekly TE1 Finishes in 2021
How well do you remember the fantasy football season that just finished? Can you name every tight end who finished a week as the TE1 in PPR fantasy scoring? Can you prove it? Take our quiz and see how many of the 18 weeks you can fill out. (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Weekly WR1 Finishes in 2021
How well do you remember the fantasy football season that just finished? Can you name every wide receiver who finished a week as the WR1 in PPR fantasy scoring? Can you prove it? Take our quiz and see how many of the 18 weeks you can fill out. (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Weekly RB1 Finishes in 2021
How well do you remember the fantasy football season that just finished? Can you name every running back who finished as week as the RB1 in PPR fantasy scoring? Can you prove it? Take our quiz and see how many of the 18 weeks you can fill out. (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz […]
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Weekly QB1 Finishes in 2021
How well do you remember the fantasy football season that just finished? Can you name every quarterback who finished as week as the QB1 in fantasy scoring? Can you prove it? Take our quiz and see how many of the 18 weeks you can fill out. (Want to play every Fantasy Football Quiz of the […]
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Fantasy Football Offseason Wish List: NFC
If you thought the end of the Super Bowl would mean a break in our fantasy football content … well, that was a silly thing to think. Because the teams are already looking ahead to the 2022 season, we’re doing so as well. (If the “you” in the above paragraph is my wife … my […]
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Fantasy Football Offseason Wish List: AFC
If you thought the end of the Super Bowl would mean a break in our fantasy football content … well, that was a silly thing to think. Because the teams are already looking ahead to the 2022 season, we’re doing so as well. (If the “you” in the above paragraph is my wife … my […]
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What if? A 2021 fantasy football alternate history
It would be easy for you to sit there and see this topic and think we at FTN are trying to capitalize on the SEO boost of naming a fantasy football article after a Marvel TV series. What you might not know, though, is that I’ve been doing this article for years (including here, last […]
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100 Questions: NFC West
(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The NFC West.) Four divisions have a team with a wins over/under of at least 11 on DraftKings Sportsbook. The NFC West […]
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100 Questions: NFC South
(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The NFC South.) The NFC South was born in 2002. Famously, from that point until 2012, the division never had a repeat […]
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100 Questions: NFC North
(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The NFC North.) I’m writing this Tuesday, which means I’m writing this after Aaron Rodgers reported to training camp, which means I’m […]
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