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NFL Fantasy
High Stakes Fantasy Football Strategy – 2021
In just five short weeks, I’ll be on my flight to Las Vegas to compete in the NFFC Primetime Championship fantasy football draft. The draft is hosted at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino with an entry fee of $1,700 and an overall prize of $200,000. Before the trip comes a lot of time and preparation […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profile: Josh Allen
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Josh Allen) Fantasy football value 2021 – Josh Allen When the Buffalo Bills traded up […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: ATL
(FTN's Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profile: D.J. Moore
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: D.J. Moore) Fantasy football value 2021 – D.J. Moore D.J. Moore is really, really good at […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: CAR
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides of […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The top scorers inside of 2 minutes
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Never count your fantasy players out. When the clock is nearing zero at the end of a half, teams are often running a two-minute drill to get […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profile: Kenny Golladay
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Kenny Golladay) Fantasy football value 2021 – Kenny Golladay This past offseason, the New York […]
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Dom Cintorino
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NFL Fantasy
2021 Fantasy Football Post-Hype Sleepers
Fantasy football sleepers aren’t what they used to be. Fantasy players in 2021 are significantly more informed than they were 20 years ago. So we don’t have a lot of draftable players who only a select few in our leagues will know about on draft day. However, we can still take advantage of the common […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
When to draft in fantasy football: Running backs
A nice simple question to tackle. When should you draft running backs? It would be nice to have a clear succinct answer to that, but if you’ve been on fantasy Twitter or spoken to someone about fantasy football — ever — you know it’s a rather loaded question. We do player evaluations, we have great […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The 2020 leaders in points per drive
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) This week, we’ve been taking a look at drive-based stats for our Stat of the Day articles, starting with the teams that had the most most drives […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Stock Watch: Fantasy Football ADP Movement (8/4)
Welcome to the fourth edition of Stock Watch where I take a look at the latest fantasy football ADP movement. The goal here is to identify which players have rising and falling ADPs in fantasy football as we inch closer to the NFL season. I’m looking at NFFC high-stakes drafts that have taken place over […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: TB
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
10 tips for fantasy football auction drafts
Auction drafts aren’t as common as their snake draft counterparts in fantasy football, but it’s an exciting format that every fantasy football player should try. Where snake drafts are checkers, auction drafts are chess. Auctions have a much more nuanced strategy and give you the possibility for a wider set of outcomes for your rosters.  […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profile: CeeDee Lamb
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: CeeDee Lamb) Fantasy football value 2021 – CeeDee Lamb It was pretty shocking to see […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profile: Austin Ekeler
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Austin Ekeler) Fantasy football value 2021 – Austin Ekeler All Austin Ekeler does is produce. Since […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The 2020 leaders in yards per drive
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Tuesday, we took a look at which teams had the most drives during the 2020 season. The gist is that more drives means more chances to score […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profile: Justin Jefferson
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Justin Jefferson) Fantasy football value 2021 – Justin Jefferson No rookie made a bigger splash […]
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Dom Cintorino
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: NO
(FTN's Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) Check out FTNFantasy Platinum for the latest rankings, premium content, and guides to help you win in fantasy football. A critical point projecting […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Superflex rookie dynasty mock draft
Dynasty rookie draft season is here! This glorious time of the year ignites the NFL general manager inside us all. Now that we have teams tied to this prospect class let’s roll through a superflex PPR dynasty rookie mock draft and see how it all sifts out.  (Take advantage of the FTNFantasy Platinum package for […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: More drives means more opportunity
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Your fantasy studs aren’t going to score points if their team never has the ball. This is obvious, but we don’t talk about team opportunity quite enough […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
5 upside QBs to draft in 2021
With this quarterback piece, I conclude my series on upside players I’m targeting in 2021 fantasy football drafts. Here are the first three pieces in the series. 10 upside running backs 10 upside wide receivers 5 upside tight ends As I mention in my recent article on my 2021 fantasy football rankings, I place a premium […]
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Matthew Freedman
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: DET
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: Quarterback yards per TD pass
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Last week, we looked at the RBs who had the longest average TD runs and the WRs with the longest average touchdown receptions. We wanted to know […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profile: Calvin Ridley
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Calvin Ridley) Fantasy football value 2021 – Calvin Ridley Fresh off the most productive season […]
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Dom Cintorino
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football player profiles
Some fantasy football options have pretty clear outlooks. They did X before, they’re likely to approximate X again, don’t spend too much time on it. Others require far more attention. They’re on a new team, or their situation has changed, or … there are any number of reasons a player might need a deep dive. […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
2021 NFL dynasty rankings
Season-long fantasy football was my first love. Daily fantasy was my first job. And best ball is my fun side hobby. But dynasty — she’s my wife, the forever love. Of all the fantasy formats out there, dynasty is my favorite. Like life, it forces you to deal with the consequences of your actions. Every […]
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Matthew Freedman
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Multiverse: Green Bay Packers
(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
40 Days of NFL Discord
At FTN We want our subs to have access to the brilliant minds that work here. That is why we are running 40 days of NFL Discord leading up to the first week of the NFL season. Every day one of our experts from @FTNFantasy, @FTNDaily, @FTNBets, or @FTNData will be in our NFL discord […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football ADP – Draft Adam Thielen or Chris Godwin?
(All summer, Adam Pfeifer will be putting the tightest fantasy football picks under the microscope in our ADP Decisions series.) We continue our ADP series with a look at two receivers being selected right next to each other in that WR17-20 range. Adam Thielen is coming off a tremendous season, as he found the end zone […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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MLB Fantasy
Week 19 fantasy baseball FAAB check-in
The trade deadline didn’t disappoint, with a lot of deals being done throughout the league. This was arguably the biggest trade deadline in MLB history. It’s also going to have a major impact on fantasy baseball the remainder of the season. Now that the dust has settled with the deadline behind us, there are new […]
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Matthew Davis
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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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NFL Fantasy
5 upside TEs to draft in 2021
With this article, I continue my upside fantasy saga. It’s exactly like the Star Wars Skywalker saga, except more valuable and with a better ending. In my first two pieces, I highlighted 10 upside running backs and 10 upside wide receivers I like for 2021 at their average draft positions. In this piece, I look at five […]
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Matthew Freedman