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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Kansas City Chiefs
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: Late-Round Wide Receivers
If you’ve been drafting for best ball on Underdog Fantasy, you’re more than familiar with the “wide receiver avalanche,” with the position drying up in the early rounds. Even on a half-PPR platform, receivers continue getting pushed up the board, making it difficult to accumulate enough depth for a strong starting lineup. Although you are […]
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NFL Fantasy
2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: Las Vegas Raiders
It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free-agent signings, coaching changes and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s critical to have a full […]
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Splits Tool: The Kyler-Less Cardinals
With most of the significant offseason movements in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to look forward to the upcoming league year and start preparing for our 2023 fantasy football drafts. In this series, I’ll be using the FTN Fantasy Splits Tool to look at how changes in environment and situations have impacted teams and players in the past. The […]
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NFL Fantasy
Second-Year Scouting Report: Greg Dulcich
June is underway, and we’re getting closer and closer to the 2023 regular season. Best ball leagues have been drafting for months now, and they are getting more popular now that we understand landing spots for veteran free agents and rookies.    Every year, rookie fever emerges, and the previous class gets pushed aside by the shiny new NFL toys. This […]
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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Buffalo Bills
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: Better for Weekly Winner
Underdog Fantasy introduced a new way to play best ball in their “Weekly Winners” contest, focusing on trying to build the perfect team for a single week. For those of you unfamiliar with the structure, our Tyler Loechner broke it down a few weeks ago. In short: $205k in prizes will be distributed to the […]
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Training Camp Battles: Wide Receiver
The NFL season is getting closer and closer, as we begin to approach the start of training camp. This is a critical point in the offseason with new information continuing to cycle throughout the next couple weeks. It’s important to differentiate news from noise during this period while paying attention to what teams are telling […]
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Training Camp Battles: Tight End
The NFL season is getting closer and closer, as we begin to approach the start of training camp. This is a critical point in the offseason with new information continuing to cycle throughout the next couple weeks. It’s important to differentiate news from noise during this period while paying attention to what teams are telling […]
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Training Camp Battles: Running Back
The NFL season is getting closer and closer, as we begin to approach the start of training camp. This is a critical point in the offseason with new information continuing to cycle throughout the next couple weeks. It’s important to differentiate news from noise during this period while paying attention to what teams are telling us based […]
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Fantasy Football Training Camp Battles: Quarterback
The NFL season is getting closer as we begin to approach the start of training camp. This is a critical point in the offseason with new information continuing to cycle throughout the next couple weeks. It’s important to differentiate news from noise during this period while paying attention to what teams are telling us based […]
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NFL Splits Tool: The Post-Russ Seahawks
With most of the significant offseason movements in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to look forward to the upcoming league year and start preparing for our 2023 fantasy football drafts. In this series, I’ll be using the FTN Fantasy Splits Tool to look at how changes in environment and situations have impacted teams and players in the past. The […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: Denver Broncos
It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free-agent signings, coaching changes, and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s critical to have a full […]
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NFL Fantasy
2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: Los Angeles Chargers
It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free-agent signings, coaching changes and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s critical to have a full […]
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2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: Kansas City Chiefs
It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free-agent signings, coaching changes and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s critical to have a full […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: QB Pick’em Values
Last week, Underdog Fantasy finally released their NFL “Pick’em” lines with their initial full-season projections. This excludes the playoffs and is voided if a player plays fewer than five games. Although these numbers are just an approximation and cannot account for the parity of the league, they can serve as a guideline for players’ outlooks. In […]
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NFL Fantasy
Second-Year Scouting Report: Garrett Wilson
June is underway, and we’re getting closer and closer to the 2023 regular season. Best ball leagues have been drafting for months now, and they are getting more popular now that we understand landing spots for veteran free agents and rookies.    Every year, rookie fever emerges, and the previous class gets pushed aside by the shiny new NFL toys. This […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: Optimizing for the Regular Season
There has been a lot of content surrounding Best Ball Mania III, specifically focusing on the best way to construct teams that can advance into the championship round and score the most points in Week 17. However, let’s not forget that there is a regular-season tournament this season with $5 million in prizes distributed to the 10,000 highest-scoring teams […]
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NFL Splits Tool: The Up-and Down Jets
With most of the significant offseason movements in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to look forward to the upcoming league year and start preparing for our 2023 fantasy football drafts. In this series, I’ll be using the FTN Fantasy Splits Tool to look at how changes in environment and situations have impacted teams and players in […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: ADPs That Ought to Rise
In the FTN Best Ball Guide, I explained the importance of drafting in windows to help create a diverse portfolio with different values and combinations of players. This month is a critical point in the NFL offseason, where players will move up and down the board immediately after the June 1 cuts.   The goal in early drafts should be to take […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: The Poodle
Best ball fever is in the air with tournaments opening and closing within a matter of days. Underdog Fantasy has been working around the clock by releasing new contests with cheaper buy-ins and fewer entries.    “The Poodle” made its debut last week, featuring $150k in total prizes and $30k to first. It limited users […]
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Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Denver Broncos
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Splits Tool: How Did the WRs Who Changed Teams Last Year Fare?
With most of the significant offseason movements in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to look forward to the upcoming league year and start preparing for our 2023 fantasy football drafts. In this series, I’ll be using the FTN Fantasy Splits Tool to look at how changes in environment and situations have impacted teams and players in […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: Week 17 Game Stack Targets
Throughout the offseason, we have gone in-depth on the importance of stacking in best ball and its necessity for hitting a ceiling outcome. For a deeper dive, check out the “Stacks” section in the FTN Best Ball Guide, now included in all FTN Daily packages. To take down a large-field tournament such as Best Ball Mania IV, with 677,376 entrants, it is nearly impossible to find success […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: The Importance of the Fantasy Playoffs
It’s been less than two weeks since Underdog Fantasy launched Best Ball Mania IV, the largest season-long fantasy football tournament ever, and the contest is already 6% full, with over 40,000 entries. Although early drafters may have benefited from the initial ADP, yet to account for the impact of the NFL draft, they did not have the luxury of knowing […]
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NFL DFS
Underdog Fantasy Best Ball Mania IV is LIVE
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NFL DFS
XFL DFS Plays for Week 10
The NFL season may be over, but football continues through the XFL, set to kick off Saturday. After being shut down midseason in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the XFL has returned for a third time under new management. From one WWE legend to another, Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson and his ex-wife/business partner Dany […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: Rookies with the Widest Range of Outcomes
The NFL season may be over, but the draft season has just begun, with pre-draft best ball tournaments already in full swing. Underdog Fantasy has already three different pre-draft contests with seven days remaining till the actual NFL Draft. Unless you’re still taking part in slow drafts (like me), the next thing to do is start preparing for […]
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NFL DFS
XFL DFS Plays for Week 9
The NFL season may be over, but football continues through the XFL, set to kick off Saturday. After being shut down midseason in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the XFL has returned for a third time under new management. From one WWE legend to another, Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson and his ex-wife/business partner Dany […]
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NFL DFS
Best Ball Breakdown: Quarterback Dart Throws
The NFL season may be over, but the draft season has just begun, with pre-draft best ball tournaments already in full swing. After filling “The Big Board” contest, Underdog Fantasy has launched “The Big Board But Superflex,” featuring $500k in total prizes and $100k to first. The contest requires a $10 entry fee (150 max) […]
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Sam Choudhury
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XFL DFS Plays for Week 8
The NFL season may be over, but football continues through the XFL, set to kick off Saturday. After being shut down midseason in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the XFL has returned for a third time under new management. From one WWE legend to another, Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson and his ex-wife/business partner Dany […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
Best Ball Breakdown: Undervalued Rookies
The NFL season may be over, but the draft season has just begun, with pre-draft best ball tournaments already in full swing. After filling “The Big Board” contest, Underdog Fantasy has launched “The Big Board But Superflex,” featuring $500k in total prizes and $100k to first. The contest requires a $10 entry fee (150 max) […]
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Sam Choudhury