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(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road […]

Heading into the weekend, this is shaping up as a two-horse race. Patrick Cantlay and Jon Rahm are separated by a stroke, but they have a five-stroke gap to their next closest competitors in the field.  The trio of Cantlay, Bryson DeChambeau and Tony Finau are the most likely to have their best putting day […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road […]

Patrick Cantlay is still atop the leaderboard after his starting score bonus put him ahead of the field. Jon Rahm is two strokes behind, ahead of Harris English and Bryson DeChambeau who are another three strokes behind.  Patrick Cantlay opened with a 67 today and lost nearly 1.5 strokes on the greens. You’d have to […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road […]

Whenever we have access to “high-stakes” fantasy football data, it’s an interesting exercise to go through and see how drafts are going. Underdog has its ADP split by Big Dog contests (which is their $250 buy-in tourney) and “regular” contests (which is every other 12-team league on the site). It’s a dangerous thing to say […]

Whenever we have access to “high-stakes” fantasy football data, it’s an interesting exercise to go through and see how drafts are going. Underdog has its ADP split by Big Dog contests (which is their $250 buy-in tourney) and “regular” contests (which is every other 12-team league on the site). It’s a dangerous thing to say […]

 

Whenever we have access to “high-stakes” fantasy football data, it’s an interesting exercise to go through and see how drafts are going. Underdog has its ADP split by Big Dog contests (which is their $250 buy-in tourney) and “regular” contests (which is every other 12-team league on the site). It’s a dangerous thing to say […]

It’s the final event of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, and we have just 30 golfers to choose from this week. The Tour Championship, as always, is being held at East Lake Golf Club. It’s a par-70 track that plays right around 7,300 yards. There are four holes with water in play and the […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road […]

Whenever we have access to “high-stakes” fantasy football data, it’s an interesting exercise to go through and see how drafts are going. Underdog has its ADP split by Big Dog contests (which is their $250 buy-in tourney) and “regular” contests (which is every other 12-team league on the site). It’s a dangerous thing to say […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

As we head into the final round, we have a tie atop the leaderboard. Both Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Cantlay are at 21-under and are three strokes clear of the field. We have a few options in this $8,500+ range. Viktor Hovland ($8,700) has struck the ball well so far this week but has been […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

We have a three-way tie atop the leaderboard at the BMW Championship. Sam Burns, Jon Rahm, and Rory McIlroy came out firing on Thursday, opening up the festivities with 64s. We should have some low scores again tomorrow considering 55 golfers shot under par in the opening round. With the field guaranteed to play all […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

I’m a visual learner. I like things laid out in spreadsheets … color-coded is a huge plus. So, when I head into my fantasy football best ball drafts on Underdog, I always pull in the most recent ADP and take a look at a round-by-round positional breakdown of how drafts are going. This allows me […]

Stacking has always been a point of contention during fantasy football draft seasons. It has become a particularly hot topic this season. At the end of the day, we’re working with a pretty small sample of best ball tournaments. Many are pointing to last year as if that’s how these things always shake out. The […]

 

We’ve whittled down the field to just under 70 golfers in the chase for the FedEx Cup. The BMW Championship will be held at the Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland. The course is a Par 72 that plays just over 7,540 yards. There’s water in play on five holes.  Top of the […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

We’re prepping for a rare Monday finish on the PGA Tour, as Hurricane Henri pelts the Northeast with rain and wind. The assumption, at the time of this writing, is that play will resume Monday morning once the course is ready. Jon Rahm and Cameron Smith are tied for the lead, a stroke ahead of […]

*Ominous organ music* Welcome…to the Running Back Dead Zone. A lot of work has been done about the running back dead zone over the years. Ben Gretch wrote about it at CBS in 2019 and it’s exploded in popularity ever since. The concept is all wrapped up in ZeroRB and Modified/Hero/Anchor (whatever you want to […]

We’re wrapping up the When to Draft with tight ends. Typically, people view tight ends as “pick the elite guys or punt.” There’s plenty of evidence to support going after elite tight ends. It’s a “onesie” position in most formats, but we shouldn’t confuse that with the position being less important.  See more in the […]

After a Friday 67, Jon Rahm sits atop the leaderboard heading into the weekend. Tony Finau is sandwiched between Rahm and a three-way tie for third place.  This is what the $8,500+ range looks like with Mr. McIlroy included. No offense to Rory, but let’s exclude him from the viz for clarity purposes.  Daniel Berger […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]

After 18 holes of play, the cream is already starting to rise to the top. Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas came out firing in the first round, opening with 63s and taking a 3-stroke lead into Friday.  The quartet of Daniel Berger, Paul Casey, Webb Simpson, and Bryson DeChambeau are very enticing to plug in […]

(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]