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NFL Fantasy
NFL FAAB Strategy for Week 3
Welcome to FAAB Whisperer, my high-stakes FAAB projection piece. This weekly column will serve as a supplement of our traditional FAAB column, but with its own spin. Specifically, for the many of you who play higher stakes at NFFC and FFPC. The basis for our weekly bid review will the $350 NFFC Online Championship. It’s […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
Streaming TEs for Week 3 in fantasy football
Yet again in Week 2, the tight end position was all over the board in fantasy points compared to their ownership percentage. The top five in fantasy points scored in Week 2 were Travis Kelce, Rob Gronkowski, Maxx Williams, Jack Doyle and Noah Fant. Kelce and Gronkowski were the only tight ends to repeat while […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Using the splits tool to set your fantasy football lineup | Week 3
Arguably the most powerful tool we offer FTN Fantasy subscribers is the FTN NFL Splits Tool. Powered by the FTN Data database and revamped for the 2021 season, the FTN NFL Splits Tool gives you the power to find the players in the best (and worst) positions on a weekly basis. Each week, this article […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football trade targets – Week 3
Week 2 of the NFL season is in the books and even though we have two weeks of data to look at, it’s still very easy to overreact. The goal here is to highlight a few players who have seen their stock rise and fall which ultimately leads to buy-low and sell-high trade targets in […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart – Week 3
Welcome to FTN’s Week 3 fantasy football trade value chart, where we provide you with relative values for every relevant fantasy player for the rest of the season to help you make a trade. The trade value chart is based on a 12-team league that starts 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE, and […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Dynasty moves to make entering Week 3
In dynasty fantasy football leagues, it’s important to be ahead of the curve. If you’re one step ahead of your league mates in your transactions, then you can take advantage of windows to roster players before the market corrects or wises up. That’s what we’ll be covering weekly here — Players to add, hold or […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Week 3 fantasy football waiver wire rankings
It’s time for the Week 3 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 3. We cast a wide net […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Streaming QBs for Week 3 in fantasy football
Now that we have two weeks of NFL data for fantasy football, we can start to get a sense of each team’s identity and what we should project moving forward. It’s still a small sample size, so don’t bank everything on what we’ve seen thus far. “It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football waiver wire targets for Week 3
Every Monday during the NFL season, I am going to be presenting you with my top three waiver wire claims to prioritize for your fantasy football teams. I will also include a shortlist of “ther options. These are players worth consideration if your team is in a bind, but not ones that take priority over […]
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Joe Metz
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NFL Fantasy
High-stakes fantasy Week 2 thoughts
It’s important each week of the NFL season to step back and take stock of what we saw in the previous week so we can properly prepare for the week to come. Each week, I’ll be offering my thoughts on what we saw. Here are my quick fantasy football thoughts from all the Week 2 […]
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Nelson Sousa
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NFL Fantasy
Matchups to target for Week 3 in fantasy football
It is never too early to look ahead in fantasy football, especially if you are coming off a down week. And especially if you faced Derrick Henry in any of your leagues (raises hand).  Let’s take a look at a few matchups that stand out for Week 3 in the NFL before it even kicks […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football stats to know for Week 3
Week 2 of the NFL and fantasy football seaosn is just about in the books, and there was a ton to digest Sunday. We had injuries, huge games, rough games, you name it. And while we still have one more game on the schedule, it is never to early to look ahead, which is what […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football preview for Week 3
Week 2 was absolutely wild around the NFL and fantasy football. There was plenty of ugly football, amazing football and a ton of injuries. Things continue to change in the fantasy football world and with so much happening Sunday, let’s take a look at what stood out from Week 2 and how we can apply […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Sunday Football Locks and DFS Breakdown
QB  There are a lot of good quarterbacks in good matchups this week, so I’m going to fade the real chalky ones.(Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert)  Tom Brady Russell Wilson RB  Nick Chubb Ezekiel Elliott Najee Harris Melvin Gordon/Javonte Williams WR  DeAndre Hopkins Keenan Allen Tyler Lockett Mike Evans Cooper Kupp Antonio Brown TE  Kyle Pitts […]
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Nelson Sousa
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MLB Fantasy
The Double Dip: Fantasy baseball 2-start pitchers for the week
We’re back again for this week’s fantasy baseball Double Dip — highlighting pitchers making two starts in a week. Some of the plays may be obvious — you don’t need a 1,000-word soliloquy highlighting why it’s a good idea to start Jacob deGrom twice. You just do it.  But volume is key, especially two-start-pitcher volume. […]
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Matt Kupferle
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MLB Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide
Excited to bring my free agent bidding column to FTN Fantasy. Trust Your Gut! My column focuses on weekly FAAB, as I try to cover the gamut of all host sites from ESPN, Yahoo, Fantrax, CBS and RT Sports. I do manage the bulk of my leagues on NFBC, which is the premier site and […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football injury situations to watch for Week 2
Welcome to the Week 2 injury report and fantasy football impact article. Injuries are the worst part of football, but we can’t pretend like they don’t happen and that they don’t have an impact on fantasy football decisions. Each week during the 2021 NFL season, I’ll walk us through the key injury news and notes […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
The Fantasy Football Report for Week 2
Seven months without football is a long time. When we finally get to NFL’s opening week, we’re all starved for football. And then we get overloaded with 16 games and all types of crazy stuff happening. So it’s easy to overreact to what happens in Week 1.  We all do it.  But the NFL season […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Freedman’s Week 2 fantasy football breakdown
Week 2: Just like Week 1 — except totally different. Now we know just how little we know. I could expand on that idea with a long introduction, but I’m too lazy and you’re too busy. Let’s get into the good stuff. In the main 13-game weekend slate, here are the quarterbacks, running backs, wide […]
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Matthew Freedman
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NFL Fantasy
Using betting lines to set your Week 2 fantasy lineup
Week 2 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
Expected Fantasy Points Report – Week 2
Welcome to the Week 2 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
Splits tool update for Week 2 – 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. We’re heading into Week 2 and it’s important not to overweight Week 1 in our assumptions on a team-level and a player level. Each week, we’ll highlight three […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football rankings vs. expert consensus – Week 2
It’s time to set fantasy football lineups for Week 2 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
Start or Sit: Week 2 sponsored by TopProp
Welcome to the Week 2 Start or Sit brought to you by Top Prop. You hear the term “play your studs” a lot in fantasy football, and I’m a believer in that strategy. But there are tough matchups each week that we should look into. There may be times when we hit the bye weeks […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL Fantasy
WR/CB matchups for fantasy football – Week 2
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
Streaming DSTs for Week 2 in fantasy football
Streaming defense/special teams has been a fantasy football strategy for as long as I have played the game. More times than not I’m not going to be looking to get attached to any particular DST due to the schedule/matchups and being able to churn and burn via free agency.  Listed below are DST I’m willing […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football sleepers for Week 2
Week 2 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
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NFL Fantasy
Directional rushing update for Week 2
During the 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 defense and an offense that we’re targeting in fantasy football.  Note: There was an issue with data from MNF, so […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Weekly HOFL Update: Week 2
Week 1 of the NFL has come and gone as we officially have some solidified standings under our belts in the Hall of Fantasy league. If you are unfamiliar with the league, they do a fantastic job of laying everything out clearly and concisely on their home page: “The HOFL consists of 10 Football Franchises […]
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Joe Metz
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football flex rankings for Week 2
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time to break out the flex fantasy football rankings for Week 2 of the 2021 NFL season. If you’re new to the concept of flex rankings, these are simply the combined overall rankings for running back, wide receiver, and tight end for each week during the fantasy football season. […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
NFL FAAB Strategy for Week 2
Welcome to FAAB Whisperer, my high-stakes FAAB projection piece. This weekly column will serve as a supplement of our traditional FAAB column, but with its own spin. Specifically, for the many of you who play higher stakes at NFFC and FFPC. The basis for our weekly bid review will the $350 NFFC Online Championship. It’s […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
Using the splits tool to set your fantasy football lineup | Week 2
Arguably the most powerful fantasy football tool we offer FTN Fantasy subscribers is the FTN NFL Splits Tool. Powered by the FTN Data database and revamped for the 2021 season, the FTN NFL Splits Tool gives you the power to find the players in the best (and worst) positions on a weekly basis. Each week, […]
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Tyler Loechner