Fantasy Baseball 2025: NFBC Draft Champions Strategies

(It’s fantasy baseball draft season! The FTN Fantasy team and a host of helpful guests present our Ultimate 2025 Fantasy Baseball Guide. Check it out and prepare for the 2025 MLB season.)

Are you looking for a way to prep for the 2025 fantasy baseball season while also having skin in the game and a way to demonstrate your knowledge of the player pool? Look no further than the NFBC Draft Champions format.

The Draft Champions is a 50-round draft-and-hold format with no free-agent pickups during the season. The 50 hitters and pitchers you draft are who you go to battle with for 27 weeks – a war of attrition. You can leverage your knowledge of prospects, 40-man rosters, sleeper pitchers and everything in between. There are a multitude of unique strategies and we can assemble the puzzle in so many different ways. Let’s jump in.

Last Year’s Trends

Before switching our brains to 2025, looking back in the rearview mirror and assessing what happened after a laborious and long MLB season is key. Below are the 80th and 90th percentile marks for the Draft Champions format.