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MLB Fantasy
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Fantasy Baseball Draft Conundrums
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
TopProp Battleground – Week 18 Update
TopProp Fantasy Sports is officially live, bringing you a new way to wager on fantasy football. Are you confident that you have the best team in your league? Great, bet on it. Are you confident that your league mate Bob is going to blow John out of the water this week? Great, bet on it. […]
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Joe Metz
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MLB Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2022: Identifying Draft Market Inefficiencies
When it comes to fantasy baseball drafts, nothing is more important than correctly identifying, targeting and getting the players we believe to be underpriced while identifying and avoiding those who appear to be overpriced. The goal is to spot the inefficiencies on both sides of the value spectrum and adjust our personal draft rankings, positional […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
Injured Reserve Tracker for Week 18
Injuries are one of the worst parts of football, but unfortunately, they are inevitable. The NFL also recently changed the Injured Reserve rules, which can make things a bit complicated. Players can be designated to return from the IR after three weeks, so it gives teams a bit more lineup flexibility on a week-to-week basis. […]
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Matt LaMarca
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NFL Fantasy
WR vs. CB Matchups NFL DFS Breakdown – Week 18
Every week in this article, I’ll be highlighting my favorite WR/CB matchups in DFS with the help of our WR/CB matchup tool at FTN Daily. I’ll be looking at the best plays on the slate while also digging into some receivers with massive upside that could go overlooked.  Top Matchups – WR/CB for Week 18 […]
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Derek Brown
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MLB Fantasy
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Fantasy Baseball Draft Conundrums
Every fantasy baseball season, there are players who end up returning a higher fantasy baseball profit (r$) than a player drafted significantly earlier in fantasy baseball drafts. This weekly segment will try to identify players that grade out with a similar profile, range of outcomes and/or projection while having a lower ADP. All of which […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Directional rushing update for Week 18
During the NFL season, we’re going to break down how different offenses are utilizing their running backs. As the year goes on, patterns begin to emerge that will allow us to anticipate and exploit mismatches between a defense and an offense we’re targeting in fantasy football.      Bird’s Eye View Rushing – Left There’s […]
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Matt Jones
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MLB Fantasy
Kup’s Closers: Fantasy Baseball Closer Strategy for 2022 (AL East)
It’s 2022, and that means we’re getting close to another MLB season. Hopefully, Rob Manfred and crew are back and in business soon. Please talk to each other, MLB. Each week, we are going to start this series by analyzing each division’s bullpens – and a deep dive is what we hope for. It’s easy […]
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Matt Kupferle
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Usage Report for Week 18
Welcome to the Week 18 Usage Report. This piece is designed to give you a glimpse of both rushing shares and usage rates for running backs, wide receivers, and occasionally tight ends. It will help you understand how often a player is involved in his team’s game plan and if those players are susceptible to […]
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Sam Wallace
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NFL Fantasy
What if? A 2021 fantasy football alternate history
It would be easy for you to sit there and see this topic and think we at FTN are trying to capitalize on the SEO boost of naming a fantasy football article after a Marvel TV series. What you might not know, though, is that I’ve been doing this article for years (including here, last […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Directional passing update for Week 18
During the NFL season, we’re going to use the Directional Passing Tool to break down how different offenses are utilizing their weapons all over the field. As the year goes on, patterns begin to emerge that will allow us to anticipate and exploit mismatches between a defense and an offense that we’re targeting.      Short […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Splits tool update for Week 18 – Fantasy football players to watch
As the NFL season progresses, we’ll go through and use our FTN Splits Tool to look for team- and player-level trends to help us through our fantasy season. As we head into the week, we can look at our splits tool to identify three things to watch for this weekend.  NFC West Showdown The Rams host […]
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Matt Jones
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MLB Fantasy
NFBC DC Strategies — Catchers in 2022
In this preseason series, I will be identifying and reviewing the top 450 picks (per ADP) for late-round values that to target in Draft Champions leagues on NFBC. In this first series, I’ll be looking at the catcher position.  Catchers from the Top-10 Teams in 2021 First, let’s get our bearings. In reviewing 2021’s top-10 […]
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Broc Miller
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Market Share Update – Week 18
Each week during the season, we’ll take a look at the changing landscape of usage in the NFL and fantasy football. Whether you’re looking for a waiver-wire pickup, deciding on a tough start/sit decision or looking for a DFS play, understanding how players are being used is vital to success during the season.  Note: These […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Matt’s Musings | NFL Data Study, Week 18
Every Monday, I find myself in a bit of NFL data purgatory. We’re waiting for the week to come to a proper ending, and the data is still yet to be finalized. It’s a great time, however, to look at some historical trends and do some digging on some things we can leverage in the […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Week 18 fantasy football waiver wire rankings
It’s time for the Week 18 fantasy football waiver wire. Fantasy waivers can often make or break your season. Making the right decision on which players to add and drop is crucial, so we have you set up with a deep list of potential waiver wire adds for Week 18. Of course, this is weird […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
2021 Fantasy Football Awards
The 2021 fantasy football season has reached its end, and while the lasting memory will likely be how last second COVID-19 rule-outs wreaked havoc on the fantasy playoffs, there was much more to the season. Today, we’ll be celebrating the winners with the fantasy awards for the 2021 season.     2021 Fantasy MVP: Cooper […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
2022 NFL Draft Rankings
It’s never too early to look ahead, and with the NFL season halfway over, it’s time to start looking in earnest at the outlook for the 2022 NFL Draft.  We’re building our big board for 2022 NFL Draft position rankings now, breaking down the top prospects for next year’s draft in order so you can […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Sunday Football Locks and DFS Breakdown – Week 17
There are lots of options this week in great spots, but I think you need to narrow down your options in your lineups unless you’re max-entering. I usually build 1-3 lineups. I might go with three different quarterbacks because so many of them are set up for success this week. Quarterback  Patrick Mahomes Matthew Stafford […]
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Nelson Sousa
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NFL Fantasy
Start or Sit: Week 17 sponsored by TopProp
Welcome to the Week 17 Start or Sit brought to you by TopProp. First off, congratulations! If you’re hanging out with me on this wild Week 17 weekend it means you’ve made it to the finals in your fantasy football playoffs. Now it’s time to complete the championship run with some Week 17 Start or […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL Fantasy
The Fantasy Football Report for Week 17
Staring at your roster isn’t going to reveal a magical set of answers to the test that will tell you all of the “right” plays to make this week. I know, You want to squeeze every possible point out of your lineup, and that’s fair. But sometimes, you get thrown a curveball that you didn’t […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Freedman’s Week 17 fantasy football breakdown
This week can’t be any worse than last week was, can it? Here are the quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends who stand out to me in this Sunday’s 14-game main slate based on our expert rankings and fantasy projections as well as the Week 17 betting odds and our wealth of football content across FTN Fantasy, FTN […]
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Matthew Freedman
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NFL Fantasy
Directional rushing update for Week 17
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Using betting lines to set your Week 17 fantasy lineup
Week 17 of the 2021 NFL season has arrived, and it’s time to set our fantasy football lineups. As always, lineup decisions are the hardest part of your life as a fantasy manager, and you’ll want to consult as many factors as possible to help you make those choices. Since you’re reading this article, it’s […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Directional passing update for Week 17
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Expected Fantasy Points Report – Week 17
Welcome to the Week 17 edition of FTN’s Expected Fantasy Points Report. The premise is simple: Each time a player earns an opportunity, there’s a certain amount of fantasy points you can expect them to score. Using the rich FTN Data database, we’ve done the math for you. You can compare a player’s XFP to […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football rankings vs. expert consensus – Week 17
It’s time to set fantasy football lineups for Week 17 of the 2021 NFL season, and that means consulting rankings and making tough decisions.  One of the most popular tools here at FTN is our fantasy football rankings. Each week, we bring you non-PPR, PPR and half-PPR rankings to help you win your league. But […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Hall of Fantasy League update: Week 17
Week 17 of the Hall of Fantasy league is here and we’ve now reached the final week of the HOFL season, as the finals are upon us. If you are unfamiliar with the league, they do a fantastic job of laying everything out clearly and concisely on their homepage: “The HOFL consists of 10 Football Franchises […]
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Joe Metz
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NFL Fantasy
TopProp Battleground and Expert League – Week 17 Update
TopProp Fantasy Sports is officially live, bringing you a new way to wager on fantasy football. Are you confident that you have the best team in your league? Great, bet on it. Are you confident that your league mate Bob is going to blow John out of the water this week? Great, bet on it. […]
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Joe Metz
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NFL Fantasy
WR/CB matchups for fantasy football – Week 17
Fantasy football is all about the matchups, especially when it comes to WR vs. CB. Remember when fantasy matchup analysis used to be “Team A gives up the most fantasy points to wide receivers”? Well, we’ve moved from analog to digital and now look at matchups on an individual level.  Each week, I dig through […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Underdog Playoff Best Ball Strategy
There’s nothing quite like the fantasy football puzzle that is best ball. We spent all summer discussing (arguing) what works and what doesn’t. Then we get to watch throughout the season and see who was “right” and “wrong.” I’m using quotes there because a lot of it boils down to luck. But you can definitely […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football sleepers for Week 17
Week 17 of the 2021 NFL football season is days away, and it’s time to fine-tune your fantasy lineups. This includes hunting for solid flex players and sleepers that can pop off and help you win the game. Each week during the NFL season, this article will highlight some deep sleepers for you to consider […]
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Tyler Loechner