Vlad Sedler's Articles

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 15 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 14 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 13 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 12 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler breaks down the FAAB options on the waiver wire in NFBC Cutline for its midseason run.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 11 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 10 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 9 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 8 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 7 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler breaks down the starting pitcher landscape around fantasy baseball as the month of May gets going.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 6 of the fantasy baseball season.

It’s Episode 11 of the 2024 FTN Fantasy Baseball podcast with Vlad Sedler (@rotogut) and Jason Anthony (@booms62) as the duo discuss a variety of topics from the recent string of oblique injuries, small sample sizes, FAAB woes and players they regret not having more shares of.  Players and Topics Discussed: – New Daily Projections […]

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 5 of the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 4 of the fantasy baseball season.

  TUESDAY 4:10pm ET UPDATE Added a certain AL East outfielder to that table (towards the top) Added a certain NL Central OF who hit 2 HR today (they count!) Removed Aaron Ashby (sent to minors today) —– NFBC’s Best Ball Cutline contest only has three points of manager control – the draft and the […]

SUNDAY UPDATE A brutal week we’d like to forget but its effects will resonate with us for a long time. Nothing to stew on though as doing so takes up unnecessary energy we can be using for our FAAB decisions. There’s no replacing Spencer Strider. STARTING PITCHERS There will be some Main Events where the […]

Sunday Update Let’s get right down to the nitty gritty – y’all want to talk closers. Here are my thoughts: Kevin Ginkel (ARI) Three punchouts in a non-save opp today for Ginkel. Paul Sewald is out for at least three weeks and he might not have a job to come back to. I do think […]

Opening Day of the baseball season is finally here, which means we bid adieu to the best part of the season – draft season! These last four months of researching, creating/maintaining projections and multiple sets of rankings, and of course, drafting, has been quite grueling. Now let the fun begin, and let’s play ball!   […]

Welcome to FTN’s weekly free agent bidding (FAAB) strategy column, Trust the Gut. This article will be published every Saturday of the fantasy baseball season, and I will usually release an update/addendum to Trust the Gut on Sundays, two hours before NFBC’s 10 p.m. ET lock period.   The goal of the article is to […]

FAAB stands for “Free Agent Acquisition Budget (or Bidding).” It is the process of adding new hitters and pitchers to our fantasy baseball rosters in exchange for hitters and pitchers we have chosen to drop. Most fantasy sites, including NFBC, run FAAB once a week, Sundays, and use a blind bidding protocol. Over the last decade, […]

“The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.” – Pliny the Elder No matter what format we play, the name of the fantasy baseball game is profit.  We set ourselves up for league championships by correctly identifying ADP/AAV (market) inefficiencies – targeting the positive and letting our opponents fall for the negative. Our […]

This is the seventh and final part of my preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different from VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP rankings […]

This is the sixth part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]

This is the fifth part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]

This is the fourth part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]

This is the third part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]

This is the second part of my special fantasy baseball preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while […]

This is the first part of my special fantasy baseball preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while […]

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HITTERS

Overall Rank (H Rank), Player, Position Team, VDP$, NFBC PTS, UD PTS, VDP RANK, ADP

Standard Roto Stats/Rates: R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG

Other Stats: PA, AB, H, 1B, 2B, 3B, TB, K, BB, HBP, CS

Other Rates: BB/K, OBP, wOBA, SLG, OPS

PITCHERS

Overall Rank (P Rank), Player, Position Team, VDP$, NFBC PTS, UD PTS, VDP RANK, ADP

Standard Roto Stats/Rates: W, SV, K, ERA, K, WHIP

Other Stats: IP, QS, L, HLD, TBF, ER, H, HR, BB, HBP

Other Rates: K/9, K/BB

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In our Ultimate 2024 Fantasy Baseball Guide, I planned to break down all of my late-round hitters to target in fantasy baseball drafts in 2024. Brevity has never been a strength of mine, though, so after 3,000 words, we made the decision to break it into two parts. Here are the rest of my late-round […]