Tyler Loechner's Articles

The 2023 fantasy football season recently came to an end, which means it’s time to celebrate the winners (and highlight some losers) with the fantasy awards for the 2023 season. As always, I’ll be your host. Let’s get to it.   2023 Fantasy Football Awards 2023 Fantasy MVP: Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers Christian McCaffrey […]

What we thought might be the AFC Conference Championship ended up just being a wild-card matchup. The Dolphins started 5-1 but have since gone 6-5. The Chiefs started 5-1 and …. have since gone 6-5.  So we enter this exciting wild-card matchup wondering how exciting it will be. A 21-14 international Chiefs win between these […]

The Fantasy Football Players Championship Playoff Challenge is back for the 2023-2024 NFL season. The main event is a $200 entry fee with a top prize of $500,000 and $1.4 million in total prize money. There’s also a $35 entry fee contest with $100,00 to first!   You can take a look at the official […]

Welcome to the Week 17 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 16 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 15 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 14 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

It’s the last race you want to win when the contest begins in September. But by the time December rolls around, you’re kind of rooting for it. The first overall pick. The first place prize for the last place team. So who is it going to be this year? Current Odds of Getting the First […]

Welcome to the Week 13 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 12 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 11 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 10 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 9 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to FTN’s Week 9 fantasy football trade value chart for the 2023 NFL season. Each week, we’ll update the chart to provide you with values for every relevant fantasy player to help you make smarter trades.   The trade value chart is based on a 12-team league that starts 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 […]

Welcome to the Week 8 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 7 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

The world champion Kansas City Chiefs are 5-1. If the season ended today, they would be the No. 1 seed in the AFC. So why does it feel like they are … kinda meh this year? Most of the high-level data points don’t support that feeling. As we said above, they are sitting pretty in […]

Welcome to the Week 6 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week. Get The Best Fantasy Football Newsletter – FREE This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all […]

Welcome to FTN’s Week 6 fantasy football trade value chart for the 2023 NFL season. Each week, we’ll update the chart to provide you with values for every relevant fantasy player to help you make smarter trades. The trade value chart is based on a 12-team league that starts 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 […]

Welcome to the Week 5 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

I was tasked with writing something DVOA-related for FTN here, so I thought I’d start off with something, well, simple. What’s the relationship between DVOA and fantasy football value? Using the revolutionary Fantasy Wins Added metric — combined with the even more revolutionary DVOA metric — we can finally answer that question in the best […]

Welcome to the Week 4 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 3 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to FTN’s Week 3 fantasy football trade value chart for the 2023 NFL season. Each week, we’ll update the chart to provide you with values for every relevant fantasy player to help you make smarter trades.   The trade value chart is based on a 12-team league that starts 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, […]

Welcome to the Week 2 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week.   This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re […]

Welcome to the Week 1 edition of Golden Games, where we highlight the best fantasy football matchups of the week. This process is going to be simple. We’re looking for a few things each week: Game Environment: Good offenses? Bad defenses? Good weather? Which matchups have all (or most) of the firework ingredients we’re looking […]

Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season hasn’t kicked off yet, but wise fantasy football managers may already be looking to the waiver wire to get a head start on the competition.   As we do every year, this article will get ahead of the game by helping you make some early waiver claims before […]

Last year, we broke new ground with the introduction of Fantasy Wins Added. Then we doubled up on new stats to play with by introducing Fantasy Grades. Think PFF grades — but for fantasy football. This piece explains  FTN’s Fantasy Grades, gives a review of last year’s takeaways, and lets you know how to use […]

It can be hard to prep for fantasy football during training camp and the preseason. Things happen every day that might be a huge deal for fantasy … or might be no deal at all.    Sometimes we can figure it out, but sometimes it’s just a matter of paying attention to what happens to […]

Who are the most overrated fantasy football players for 2023? Each year, we run through each NFL team’s most overrated and underrated players from a fantasy football perspective — and it’s time to release the 2023 edition.   You’re going to see some big names on these lists, and that’s because we’re in the business […]

Who are the most underrated fantasy football players for 2023? Each year, we run through each NFL team’s most overrated and underrated players from a fantasy football perspective — and it’s time to release the 2023 edition.   You’re going to see some big names on these lists — potentially even first-rounders on the “overrated” […]