Tyler Loechner's Articles

Welcome to FTN’s Week 5 fantasy football trade value chart for the 2022 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 […]

Week 4 of the 2022 NFL season has arrived, and it’s time to set our fantasy football lineups.   As always, lineup decisions are the hardest part of your life as a fantasy manager, and you’ll want to consult as many factors as possible to help you make those choices. Since you’re reading this article, […]

Earlier this year, we introduced Fantasy Wins Added and the Fantasy Gradebook — two concepts that I hope revolutionize the way we value players in fantasy football and measure success.   With Week 3 in the books, let’s take a look at the leaders. You can access the full Fantasy Gradebook and Fantasy Wins Added […]

Week 3 of the 2022 NFL season has arrived, and it’s time to set our fantasy football lineups.   As always, lineup decisions are the hardest part of your life as a fantasy manager, and you’ll want to consult as many factors as possible to help you make those choices. Since you’re reading this article, […]

Earlier this year, we introduced Fantasy Wins Added and the Fantasy Gradebook — two concepts that I hope revolutionize the way we value players in fantasy football and measure success.   With Week 2 in the books, let’s take a look at the leaders. You can access the full Fantasy Gradebook and Fantasy Wins Added […]

Earlier this year, we introduced Fantasy Wins Added and the Fantasy Gradebook — two concepts that I hope revolutionize the way we value players in fantasy football and measure success.   With Week 1 in the books, let’s take a look at the leaders. You can access the full Fantasy Gradebook and Fantasy Wins Added […]

Week 2 of the 2022 NFL season has arrived, and it’s time to set our fantasy football lineups.   As always, lineup decisions are the hardest part of your life as a fantasy manager, and you’ll want to consult as many factors as possible to help you make those choices. Since you’re reading this article, […]

Week 1 of the 2022 NFL season has arrived, and it’s time to set our fantasy football lineups.   As always, lineup decisions are the hardest part of your life as a fantasy manager, and you’ll want to consult as many factors as possible to help you make those choices. Since you’re reading this article, […]

Week 1 hasn’t kicked off yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t already be looking to the future.   Let’s get ahead of the game and make some early waiver claims before the season even starts. It should go without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that these are speculative waiver adds. But it’s better […]

There are so many ways to slice and dice the fantasy football cake that it sometimes becomes far too easy to get lost in all the noise. Enter Fantasy Wins Added, a new metric that simplifies fantasy football analysis and answers the only question that matters at the end of the day: “Does this player […]

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 know […]

It’s fantasy football bold predictions week here at FTN Fantasy, so get your oven mitts because we have some hot takes coming out of the oven. (Praying the FTN editors don’t delete this amazing joke.)   Speaking of editors, I’ll be following the style FTN’s EIC Daniel Kelley gave in his bold predictions piece Monday. […]

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 know […]

There’s no better feeling than knowing a fantasy player will bomb and successfully avoiding them on draft day. To help you avoid these mines, we’re going over every team’s Most Overrated Fantasy Player. We did the NFC Thursday, and we’re running through the AFC today.   (Check out the most underrated fantasy football players from […]

There’s no better feeling than knowing a fantasy player will bomb and successfully avoiding them on draft day. To help you avoid these mines, we’re going over every team’s Most Overrated Fantasy Player.   (Check out the most underrated fantasy football players from the AFC and NFC!) Want more draft day prep? Check out our 2022 cheat sheets […]

Every fantasy football player loves finding diamonds in the rough, so let’s keep it simple and go team-by-team with the most underrated fantasy players each one hast to offer.   We covered the AFC’s most underrated fantasy players Tuesday. Today, we’re taking a look at every NFC team. Want more draft day prep? Check out […]

Every fantasy football player loves finding diamonds in the rough, so let’s keep it simple and go team-by-team with the most underrated fantasy players each one hast to offer.   Up first: The AFC. Want more draft day prep? Check out our 2022 cheat sheets for everything you need to know, our our top 100 […]

Fantasy football draft season has arrived, and it’s time to mark your 2022 cheat sheets with your favorite targets in each round — and cross off the names you should avoid at cost.   This article will review the worst picks in each round for your fantasy football draft strategy in 2022. Average draft position […]

Fantasy football draft season has arrived, and it’s time to mark your 2022 cheat sheets with your favorite targets in each round. You’ve come to the right spot. This article will review the best picks in each round for your fantasy football draft strategy in 2022. Average draft position data comes from FTN’s Underdog ADP […]

TE premium is a budding fantasy football league format that’s growing in popularity — and if you’re looking for a draft strategy, you’ve come to the right place.   The primary purpose behind TE premium leagues is to make TEs more relevant in fantasy football by giving them extra points for standard stats like receptions […]

Touchdowns lead to the biggest point swings in both real and fantasy football, but the box scores don’t always tell the full story. TDs are high-variance, which can lead to some players scoring significantly more than expected (see below) or significantly less (see Wednesday’s article).   So which players are expected to see regression (e.g., […]

Touchdowns lead to the biggest point swings in both real and fantasy football, but the box scores don’t always tell the full story. TDs are high-variance, and because they don’t happen that often, a player falling on the wrong side of variance can fall pretty far behind in the TD department through little to no […]

We’re continuing our run through the positions with a look at which players perform best when favored or when playing as the underdog.   Today, we’re taking a look at tight ends. We’ve already seen which RBs performed best when favored and when playing as the underdog, as well as the best WRs when favored and when underdogs. Yesterday, […]

We’re continuing our run through the positions with a look at which players perform best when favored or when playing as the underdog.   This week, we’re taking a look at QBs. We’ve already seen which RBs performed best when favored and when playing as the underdog, as well as the best WRs when favored and when underdogs. The […]

Last week, we took a look at which RBs performed best when favored and when playing as the underdog.   This week, we’re putting WRs under the microscope (check out the best WRs when favored here). Here’s the overall lay of the land: 2021 WRs (min. 3 targets in a game) Fantasy PPG Favored 8.4 […]

Last week, we took a look at which RBs performed best when favored and when playing as the underdog.   This week, we’re putting WRs under the microscope. Here’s the overall lay of the land: 2021 WRs (min. 3 targets in a game) Fantasy PPG Favored 8.4 Underdogs 7.6 As we saw with RBs, wideouts […]

The Scott Fish Bowl 12 — or #SFB12 on Twitter — has arrived. This is the largest, most popular redraft fantasy football contest in the world. Fantasy analysts and fans are grouped up to duke it out over the course of the season. And all proceeds go to charity. Shout out to the legend Scott […]

Wednesday, we took a look at the best RBs in fantasy football when their team is favored. Today, we’re flipping the script and taking a look at the top RBs when playing as the underdog. Some of the names on this list will surprise you.   Here are the key high-level stats before we get […]

Running backs are supposed to do better in fantasy football when favored, right? Well — they are. And they do. I took a look at the last 10 years and found that RBs playing on the favored team score roughly 14% more fantasy points per game — or 1.4 points per game.   RBs: 2012-2021 […]

We’re continuing our series with a look at the most and least consistent players in fantasy football last year. We’ve already reviewed WRs (most consistent here, most volatile here), RBs (most consistent here, most volatile here), and QBs (check that out here). Today, we’re taking a look at the least and most consistent TEs from […]

We’re continuing our series with a look at the most and least consistent players in fantasy football last year. We’ve already reviewed WRs (most consistent here, most volatile here) and RBs (most consistent here, most volatile here). Today, we’re taking a look at the least and most consistent QBs from last year.  Continuing with the […]

Last week, we reviewed the most consistent (and most volatile) WRs in fantasy football. This week, we’re putting the microscope on RBs. Similar to what we found in our WR research, being consistent as an RB does not mean you’re automatically a great fantasy option. In fact, for RBs, the opposite appears to be true […]