Tyler Loechner's Articles

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) You’re never really out of it in a fantasy football contest. Well, that’s not true. Sometimes you really are done for. But if your players still have […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Yesterday, we took a look at the WRs with the longest average TD length in 2020. Today’s Stat of the Day piece will take a look at […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Not all TDs are created equal. Davante Adams was able to rack up the fantasy points with his plethora of 1- and 2-yard scores in 2020, but […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) This week, we’ve taken a look at QB performance when traveling out of the pocket. We’ve reviewed which QBs travel out of the pocket on drop backs […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) A few days ago, we took a look at which QBs travel out of the pocket on drop backs most often. The list featured a mix of […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Tuesday’s bombshell news was that Cam Akers will miss the 2021 NFL season — and put the rest of his career in jeopardy as well, damned Achilles […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) One of the best things about the NFL is that there are so many flavors of play at the QB position, which is undoubtedly the most important […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) A few weeks ago, we look at the target dominators across the NFL. Aside from the top TEs in the league, all the top receivers in the […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Thursday, we took a look at the top 20 WRs based on air yards from the 2020 NFL season. Air yards are the number of yards the […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Air yards become one of the hottest terms in the fantasy football industry a few years ago, and for good reason. Sorting players by air yards does […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Our last few Stat of the Day articles have taken a look at QB ratings for WRs. We’ve looked at the WRs with the highest QB rating […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Our last few Stat of the Day articles have taken a look at QB ratings for WRs. We’ve looked at the WRs with the highest […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Our most recent Stat of the Day article looked at which WRs helped their QBs the most in terms of passer rating. Davante Adams topped […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) This week’s Stat of the Day pieces have been exploring “boom” plays for pass-catchers with a look at WRs that scored the most deep TDs and the […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) In Wednesday’s Stat of the Day article, we examined the WRs who had the most big plays (40-yard TDs) in 2020. This helped surface some WR options […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) A “boom or bust” WR is one of the most popular things to aim for when settings weekly lineups. You can’t have a team filled with boom-or-bust […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) FTN’s Eliot Crist recently wrote a must-read piece on the fantasy dominance of rushing QBs —also known as Konami Code QBs. The gist of it is that […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Breaking tackles is important for any skill position in football, but it’s arguably most important for RBs, who often face pressure from the defense as soon as […]

The Scott Fish Bowl, known as the SFB, is the most well-known season-long fantasy competition in the fantasy football world. The massive Pro-Am is done for charity, but that doesn’t mean the competition isn’t fierce. To mix things up each year, the league commissioner, Scott Fish, adds a twist to scoring or drafting. This year, […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) In this week’s Stat of the Day pieces, we’ve looked at the RBs and WRs that are able to elude the most tackles per touch. Some big […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) In Wednesday’s Stat of the Day article, we wrote about the RBs who were able to elude the most tackles per touch. (Not surprisingly, advanced stat king […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) We wrote Tuesday about how not every rushing attempt is an equal opportunity for RBs to rack up the yards because certain running backs face “stacked boxes” […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Not all running backs are created equal — and not every rushing attempt is an equal opportunity for RBs to rack up the yards. If the defense […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Play action passing is discussed as a Holy Grail of sorts in the NFL world. All of the data supports the notion that play action passes are […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) People love to talk about what makes an “alpha” WR — but there’s one stat that really captures the meaning better than any other: Team target market […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Vultures are the worst. And I’m not talking about the birds that eat dead animals. You think that sounds bad? How about backup RBs that steal touchdowns […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Many players in the upcoming Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) will take a TE much earlier than usual thanks to the unique scoring rules the major tournament features. […]

Not everything that someone digs up in their fantasy football research needs 2,000 words devoted to it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of attention. And so FTN’s own Tyler Loechner is spending the summer offering up his Fantasy Stat of the Day, a daily (almost) look at something interesting he’s found in his […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) The Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) has several unique scoring rules, one of which is that RBs, WRs and TEs get an extra 0.5 points per first down. […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) The Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) is coming up, and it’s the biggest tournament in the season-long fantasy football industry. There are also several unique scoring rules in […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Only a few QBs truly excel in deep passing — and Julio Jones might be in for a bit of a surprise in Tennessee if he thinks […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Coaching decisions obviously vary from team to team, but generally speaking, most NFL coaches play things similarly when in similar situations. One area where that “generally speaking” […]