Scott Spratt's Articles

Our fantasy football rankers are some of the best in the business, but that doesn’t mean they always agree. Each Thursday, one of our rankers will highlight some names he’s furthest from the staff consensus on and explain why you should either be targeting those players or steering clear in your 2023 drafts. The FTN staff […]

My annotated fantasy rankings series concludes today with tight ends, where small-sample efficiencies and touchdown shortfalls uncover a bunch of TE2 upside plays. You can find my complete rankings and those of every FTN fantasy ranker here. The listed ADPs are from Yahoo!, which uses half PPR default scoring. Check out the full series: QB […]

My annotated fantasy rankings series continues today with wide receivers, where my projected target share increases elevate sophomore receivers like Christian Watson and Drake London over historically productive veterans like Mike Evans and Keenan Allen and where expected touchdown regression runs counter to the preseason narratives for Mike Williams, DJ Moore, and Diontae Johnson. You […]

My annotated fantasy rankings series continues today with quarterbacks, where the Joe Burrow versus Justin Herbert debate remains close thanks to expected touchdown regression. You can find my complete rankings and those of every FTN fantasy ranker here. The listed ADPs are from Yahoo!, which uses half PPR default scoring. Check out the full series: […]

Bijan Robinson and Tony Pollard are two of the most exciting backs in football. But that doesn’t make them fantasy football values at their average draft positions. This article explains my top 40 running back rankings with an advanced stat for each player. You can research those stats and more on FTN’s various tools and […]

Fantasy football managers tend to lament the modern shift to backfield time shares. But about once per year, a couple of running back teammates crash through their presumed workload ceilings and provides a pair of RB2-or-better finishes in fantasy. Measured on a per-game basis, it’s happened 20 times in the last 15 seasons, and those […]

Our fantasy football rankers are some of the best in the business, but that doesn’t mean they always agree. Each Thursday, one of our rankers will highlight some names he’s furthest from the staff consensus on and explain why you should either be targeting those players or steering clear in your 2023 drafts. I won’t shy […]

Last week, I covered the running backs projected for easier and harder schedules in 2023. This week, I’ll do the same for quarterbacks. To predict those fantasy schedule differences, I calculated a weighted average of each quarterback’s opponent Expected Points Added per pass play from 2022. I estimated a weighted average of their opponent EPA […]

Team win total bettors have leaned on projected schedule differences for decades now. But it can be difficult to sort out the schedule’s impact on fantasy football, especially for running backs with their different roles and uneven opportunities from week to week.   Fortunately, FTN’s new Expected Points Added model can help. EPA evaluates plays […]

Our fantasy football rankers are some of the best in the business, but that doesn’t mean they always agree. Each Thursday, one of our rankers will highlight some names he’s furthest from the staff consensus on and explain why you should either be targeting those players or steering clear in your 2023 drafts.   There is […]

Fantasy players understand that the best running back scorers are not always the best running backs. Volume is a bigger driver of fantasy success than efficiency. And while points lead to wins, the backs that contribute the most to those points do not always score the touchdowns that serve as the public credit. What follows […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The NFL Draft is dead. Long live dynasty rookie drafts! What follows are my updated dynasty rookie rankings grouped into the grandest of tiers. The plus and minus totals in parentheses show how much each prospect jumped or fell from my pre-draft rankings. An asterisk means I did not previously rank a player in my […]

Tight ends are more difficult to project by their college efficiencies and combine measurements than either running backs or wide receivers. Most tight end prospects are similarly massive in order to handle the blocking requirements of the position. And none of the combine drills cleanly tips how often a tight end will block or run […]

A decade ago, you could count on the NFL Draft to put wide receiver prospects in order of their likely long-term fantasy potentials. But in recent years, the rules have changed to make it safer for smaller receivers to work the middle of the field. And more and more teams have cultivated timing-based passing games […]

The NFL Draft does a decent job of sorting prospects by their fantasy potentials. But it is hardly a perfect proxy. Typical fantasy scoring places an outsized importance on receiving volume and touchdown potential, and NFL teams can care as much or more about pass- and run-blocking and special teams proficiency as those fantasy-friendlier skills, […]

The Panthers’ trade for the No. 1 draft pick overshadowed early free agency — at least for this apprehensive Panthers fan. But Week 1 of free agency still had major fantasy football implications. And this article explains my biggest redraft ranking adjustments since the start of the offseason. Check out all of the FTN Fantasy […]

The NFL Scouting Combine is a fun potential introduction to the prospects who will star in late April’s NFL Draft. But it can also be confusing and misleading, especially if you consume the bulk of your NFL content through fantasy football.   I wrote this 2023 combine preview to help. It explains the most important […]

After a grueling five months of an NFL season, the FTN fantasy football staff could use a vacation. Instead, I sent our editor a 5,000-word article detailing my fantasy draft board for half-PPR formats for 2023. Enjoy.   Round 1 1. Christian McCaffrey, SF, RB12. Austin Ekeler, LAC, RB23. Justin Jefferson, MIN, WR14. Ja’Marr Chase, […]

With its multimillion commercial spots, blown-out halftime show with Rihanna and prop bets on everything from the length of the National Anthem to the color of the winning coach’s Gatorade bath, the Super Bowl leans into its standing as the biggest football event for non-football fans. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy one last […]

The advancing NFL playoffs have cut the DFS slate to a pair of games, and that reduction makes it possible to cover all of your bases with passing stacks from every remaining team. But not every team enjoys the same matchup potential this Sunday.   This is the pace and playcalling report for the Conference […]