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(It’s fantasy baseball draft season! The FTN Fantasy baseball team and a host of prominent guest anlaysts present our Ultimate 2024 Fantasy Baseball Guide. Check it out and prepare for the 2024 MLB season!) Pitchers and catchers have not yet reported, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to unveil our 2024 fantasy baseball rankings. […]

(It’s fantasy baseball draft season! The FTN Fantasy team and a host of helpful guests present our Ultimate 2024 Fantasy Baseball Guide. Check it out and prepare for the 2024 MLB season!) In 2023, we were blessed with a plethora of profitable fantasy baseball hitters who had an average draft position between 250 and 450 […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

SUNDAY UPDATE Replacing A.T. Perry and Gerald Everett for: Jahan Dotson and Taysom Hill — The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

Sunday Update   Taking out of my top-10 (Tanner Hudson, Alvin Kamara, Greg Dortsch) Entering into my top-10 (Khalil Shakir, Saquon Barkley, Jerome Ford) – big on Ford this week. — The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to […]

WEDNESDAY UPDATE:  Running Backs Removed James Robinson, added Patrick Taylor. Taylor was promoted from Green Bay’s practice squad and should serve as A.J. Dillon’s change-of-pace back with Aaron Jones / Emanuel Wilson trending towards inactive. Increased range on Royce Freeman since Darrell Henderson was waived. With Salvon Ahmed now on IR, Jeff Wilson (91% in […]

SUNDAY UPDATE Removing Jalen Guyton (Out/Groin) Brian Robinson (WAS) has become projected chalk since this article published Adding the following sub 10% Matthew Stafford, QB, Rams (with Kupp and one of Metcalf / JSN) Austin Ekeler, RB, Chargers (in Jordan Love stacks) Raheem Mostert, RB, Dolphins (leaning more him than Achane now) Deebo Samuel, WR, […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

25Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

What a wild ride.   We pour our hearts and souls into preseason research, draft strategy, roster construction, ADP, projections, setting lineups and 27 grueling weeks of FAAB. And just like that, it’s over. There are going to be a couple of days of emptiness. Like when you instinctively click an app on your phone […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid- and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC, and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship (OC). It’s the perfect framework for our […]

SUNDAY UPDATE How sad, my last FAAB update of the season. I’m sure you are stressing over priority bid orders like me right now. First thing I’d recommend is to take Alec Marsh and Martín Pérez out of your bid groups. It looked like they might pitch twice next week but both pitched today. Perez […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

Welcome to my weekly free agent bidding strategy column – Trust the Gut. The by-position list only includes hitters and pitchers available (roster%) in at least 10% of 12-team and 15-team leagues. I use the 12-team NFBC Online Championship and the 15-team NFBC Main Event as the roster% guidelines. Most of the players covered should […]

SUNDAY UPDATE   PITCHERS First things first: Spencer Strider is sick and his start is pushed back until Wednesday now. A gut punch for me needing 2 starts from Strider this week as I battle for the overall in NFBC Cutline. Okay, enough about my teams. Charlie Morton was skipped last week and is now […]

The path to winning DFS GPP tournaments is typically aided by diamonds in the rough. These are the players often overlooked and considered to be contrarian, looming under 10% rostered. Building chalky lineups filled with popular plays over 20% can work in cash games where we’re looking to finish in the 51st percentile of a […]

Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]

SUNDAY UPDATE Many of us are working with less than $20 in our FAAB budget and need to be mindful on how to deploy it tonight with consideration to the final three weeks of FAAB. You damn well know that no matter how much fun spending it on 4 weeks of Jasssson or Ronny sounds, […]

Our last couple of picks in fantasy football drafts outside of DSTs and kickers can be utilized in a variety of ways, but the best path to do so is to chase upside. These are offensive players with undefined roles who can become impactful parts of their respective offenses and might command a high percentage […]

SUNDAY UPDATE Let’s jump right into some notes: Freddy Fermin (C/KC) has been losing his consistent playing time and is a drop in 15-teamers if playing him there. Teammate Drew Waters (OF) has moved up to middle of the lineup. Matt Beaty has started the last four games but isn’t worth an add. Akil Baddoo […]