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NFL Fantasy
Ideal Landing Spots in Free Agency: Quarterbacks and Tight Ends
The 2022 NFL free agency period is around the corner, which means we’ll get to see plenty of familiar faces land in new places. The fantasy fallout is always a mystery. Some landing spots will be great, some will be terrible. When a player leaves one team and lands on another, it also opens up […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Dynasty Fantasy Football Values That Could Change in Free Agency
Dynasty fantasy football doesn’t end, which is why the NFL offseason is arguably even more fun in dynasty formats. Players are changing teams, the NFL Draft shakes things up and can change the fantasy value of plays in the blink of an eye. And that is absolutely going to happen once free agency kicks off, […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best First Season of a Career
Wednesday’s Fantasy Quiz of the Day asked how many of the top 20 “last season of a career” fantasy performances you can recall. Today, we’re going the other way with it: Who has had the best fantasy rookie seasons since the merger? There are some big current names on this list, some Hall of Famers, […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Fantasy Points in First Year with New Team
NFL free agency is set to kick off Monday. With that in mind, it’s worth a quick look back. What active players have fared the best in their first season with a new team? Whether by trade, free agency or anything else, let’s take a look back on the players with the most PPR points […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Ideal Landing Spots in Free Agency: Wide Receivers
With NFL free agency less than a week away, some of the dominoes are already starting to fall, changing the fantasy football landscape. After taking a preview of the running back position Tuesday, today our attention shifts toward the wide receivers. Let’s take a look at the free agency class and see which teams make […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Indianapolis Trades Carson Wentz to Washington, Fantasy Impact
A day after a big trade involving a high-profile quarterback rocked the NFL news cycle, Wednesday brought another, albeit less high-profile, trade, with the Indianapolis Colts reportedly agreeing to send QB Carson Wentz to the Washington Commanders. The Colts will receive picks, including two third-rounders, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Wentz came to Indianapolis from Philadelphia […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Fantasy
2022 Fantasy Baseball Preview: OBP League Strategies
The majority of fantasy baseball leagues use batting average, not on-base percentage, as the main statistical category to measure the effectiveness of hitters in today’s game. But of course, there are leagues that consider things like slugging percentage, OBP plus slugging percentage, or other alternative metrics.  A growing number of leagues (counting Tout Wars and […]
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Matt Kupferle
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best Last Season of a Career
If Tom Brady had stayed retired, his 374.7 fantasy points in 2021 would have obliterated the record for most fantasy points in the final season of a player’s career. But since Brady is back, let’s take a look at the top final-season performers now. Today’s fantasy quiz of the day wonders how many of the […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Fallout of Russell Wilson Being Traded to Denver
Well then. There have obviously been rumors surrounding a potential Russell Wilson trade for some time, but now it is official (pending physicals). Wilson will join the Denver Broncos, with Drew Lock, Noah Fant and a lot more heading to Seattle. In fantasy football, this is obviously a massive boost for Jerry Jeudy, Courtland Sutton, […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Russell Wilson Reportedly Traded to Denver; Fantasy Reaction
In one of the biggest trades in recent NFL history, the Denver Broncos reportedly acquired QB Russell Wilson from the Seattle Seahawks Tuesday, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Wilson, who had spent his entire career with the Seattle Seahawks, has made nine Pro Bowls in his 10 seasons in the NFL. He has 292 career passing […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Ideal Landing Spots in Free Agency: Running Backs
The 2022 NFL free agency period is around the corner, which means we’ll get to see plenty of familiar faces land in new places. The fantasy fallout is always a mystery. Some landing spots will be great, some will be terrible. When a player leaves one team and lands on another, it also open up […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most TD Passes for a QB/Pass Catcher Duo (Active Players Only)
Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison have the all-time record for most touchdowns between a quarterback and a single pass-catcher in NFL history, at 112. That’s going to be a tough one to catch, especially considering only four duos of active players have even reached 50 together, and of those, two sets aren’t teammates anymore. There […]
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Daniel Kelley
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MLB Fantasy
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Max Muncy vs. Brandon Belt
  Each and every fantasy baseball season, there are baseball players who end up returning a higher fantasy baseball profit (R$) than a player selected much earlier in fantasy baseball drafts. This weekly segment will try to identify players who grade out with a similar profile, range of outcomes and/or projection while having a lower […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Efficient 2021 players who could get a bump
Every year in fantasy football, we find players who continue to produce but just aren’t on the field as much as we would like. Because the sample size is smaller, the efficiency is through the roof, but we always wonder what the season-long numbers would look like if the roles were larger.    Here are […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Takeaways From the 2022 NFL Combine
The NFL Combine was back for 2022 after a one-year reprieve, and while Hand Size Twitter was not missed, there’s definitely something special about getting official measurements and athletic profiles on top prospects.    It should go without saying, of course, that for most prospects, the Combine is not a make-or-break event. Yes, some players will […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
9 Injured Players to Remember in 2022
One of the worst parts about football – and fantasy football – is injuries. There’s nothing worse than watching a star player go down and ultimately be ruled out for weeks or even months.   The silver lining is that injured players have a chance to come back the following season and remind everyone how […]
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Tyler Loechner
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MLB Fantasy
NFBC Positional Tiers – Relief Pitchers
This is the seventh and final part of my special preseason series breaking down each fantasy baseball position by tiers for the NFBC. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP (Vlad’s Draft Positions). As I write each week’s piece, it will help me fine-tune and adjust VDP to an optimal setting […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Post-Hype Sleepers for 2022
Hype is a fickle beast in fantasy football, causing ADPs to rise. Sometimes they rise too far, though, and players don’t live up to that hype and get labeled a disappointment. However, that doesn’t mean you should just completely give up. If you did, you likely missed out on breakout players from 2021 like Deebo […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The 40-Point Fantasy Days of 2021
Putting up 20 fantasy points in a game is a good week. Putting up 30 probably wins your fantasy team the game. Putting up 40? There are only a handful of those a year, and when they happen, we remember them … don’t we? Can you name every player who put up a 40-burger in […]
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Daniel Kelley
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MLB Fantasy
Sinking Your Battleship: The Riskiest Fantasy Baseball Picks By Round (Round 4)
Every fantasy baseball season, there are draft picks made that inevitably don’t return a profit from where they are being selected in drafts. Each draft spot should be looked at as an acquisition cost. Returning a profit with your pick(s) while being able to avoid disastrous picks is crucial to contending. Drafting multiple players with […]
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Matt Kupferle
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NFL Fantasy
Players Worth Some Worry in Dynasty Fantasy Football
Managing a dynasty fantasy football roster is hard work. It’s why so many people bail on teams and join new dynasty leagues. Yes, I know that hit you right in the feels: Emotionally, doing a dynasty startup is easy because it’s fun and your team is obviously going to be good. But making decisions about […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
What Changed in 2021: Tight Ends
The tight end position is always interesting for fantasy football. There are always three or four guaranteed studs at the position and then a bunch of question marks. And that was the case again in 2020-21, and this year we finally saw a new overall TE1 in fantasy.  We continue our “What Changed” series with […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The 200-Point Fantasy Seasons, Last 10 Years
Thursday, the quiz of the day focused on players with the most seasons of at least 100 PPR points over the last 10 years. 22 players have done it at least nine times. Today’s quiz ups the threshold: Who has had the most seasons of at least 200 PPR points over the last decade? 200 […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Rushing TD Leaders, Last 10 Years
Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD runs in the last 10 years we can remember. We don’t have anyone with hundreds of scores like Monday’s passing […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: 19 Years, 19 RB1s
As crazy as it sounds, there hasn’t been a repeat No. 1 overall finisher at running back since 2002-2003. In the 19 years since, 19 different running backs have led the league in PPR scoring. Can you remember the whole list? Take our quiz and see how well you do! (Want to play every Fantasy […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Passing TD Leaders, Last 10 Years
Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD passes in the last 10 years we can remember. Sometimes we have a guy with 317 touchdowns! Sometimes we have […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
5 Teams Set to Improve in Fantasy in 2022
The 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl by being (a) one of the best teams in the league, but also (b) one of the healthiest teams in the league. The team famously re-signed basically everyone, and in 2021, they repeated (a), but by the end (b) had fallen apart like … well, one […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The 100-Point Fantasy Seasons, Last 10 Years
Scoring 100 PPR points in a season isn’t a huge feat. In a 16-game season, that’s only 6.3 points per game. So would you be surprised to learn that only 22 players at any position have scored that in at least nine of the last 10 seasons? Getting there once is (relatively) easy. Getting there […]
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Daniel Kelley
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MLB Fantasy
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Frank Schwindel vs. Miguel Sanó
Each and every fantasy baseball season, there are baseball players who end up returning a higher fantasy baseball profit (r$) than a player selected much earlier in fantasy baseball drafts. This weekly segment will try to identify players who grade out with a similar profile, range of outcomes and/or projection while having a lower ADP. […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Receiving TD Leaders, Last 10 Years
Nothing’s more important in football than finding the end zone. So we should remember everyone who does it most often for their teams, right? Let’s see how many of each team’s top three in TD receptions in the last 10 years we can remember. We wrap up this miniseries of TD scorers with the receiving […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
What Changed in 2021: Wide Receivers
Our “What Changed” series continues with the wide receiver position. Honestly, I could have discussed so many different wideouts, as a lot did change, especially among superstar receivers. But let’s take a look at three pass-catchers who, in one way or another, were impacted over the course of the 2021 season.  (Keep up with the […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Game of 250+ Rushing Yards
In Week 17 of the 2020 NFL season, someone ran for 250 yards … and somehow didn’t even lead the league in rushing that week. (I’m not going to tell you who, that’d be a spoiler.) That little fact has always blown my mind. Imagine running for the 13th-most yards in a game ever, and […]
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Daniel Kelley