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NFL Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Football Week 1 Waiver Adds to Make a Week Early
Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season hasn’t kicked off yet, but wise fantasy football managers may already be looking to the waiver wire to get a head start on the competition.   As we do every year, this article will get ahead of the game by helping you make some early waiver claims before […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
The Read Option, Week 1: Tennessee Titans @ New Orleans Saints
The Read-Option is Adam Pfeifer’s weekly fantasy football game-by-game breakdown, covering everything a fantasy manager needs to know before setting or building lineups for the week. Below, check out his breakdown of the Tennessee Titans and New Orleans Saints game for Week 1.   Tennessee Titans @ New Orleans Saints Total: 41, NO -3Pace: TEN: […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football 2023: Week 1 Flex Rankings
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time to break out the fantasy football flex rankings for Week 1 of the 2023 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
The Read Option, Week 1: Houston Texans @ Baltimore Ravens
The Read-Option is Adam Pfeifer’s weekly fantasy football game-by-game breakdown, covering everything a fantasy manager needs to know before setting or building lineups for the week. Below, check out his breakdown of the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens game for Week 1.   Houston Texans @ Baltimore Ravens Total: 43.5, BAL -10Pace: HOU: 28.2 sec/snap […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
The Read Option, Week 1: Jacksonville Jaguars @ Indianapolis Colts
The Read-Option is Adam Pfeifer’s weekly fantasy football game-by-game breakdown, covering everything a fantasy manager needs to know before setting or building lineups for the week. Below, check out his breakdown of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis Colts game for Week 1.   Jacksonville Jaguars @ Indianapolis Colts Total: 45, JAC -5Pace: JAC: 26.4 sec/snap […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
The Read Option, Week 1: San Francisco 49ers @ Pittsburgh Steelers
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
The Read Option, Week 1: Cincinnati Bengals @ Cleveland Browns
The Read-Option is Adam Pfeifer’s weekly fantasy football game-by-game breakdown, covering everything a fantasy manager needs to know before setting or building lineups for the week. Below, check out his breakdown of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns game for Week 1.   Cincinnati Bengals @ Cleveland Browns Total: 47.5, CIN -2.5Pace: CIN: 28.0 sec/snap […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
TE Streamers for Week 1 in Fantasy Football
Looking for tight end streamers in your fantasy football league for Week 1? You’ve come to the right place. Streaming TEs is a popular strategy — but picking the right matchups is key. Let’s dive into the top TE streamers for Week 1. Listed below are tight ends I’m willing to stream in my NFFC […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Streaming Defenses for Week 1 in Fantasy Football
Looking to stream defense/special teams in your fantasy football league for Week 1? You’ve come to the right place. Streaming DSTs is a popular strategy — but picking the right matchups is key. Let’s dive into the top streaming defenses for Week 1. Listed below are the DSTs I’m willing to stream in my NFFC […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
2023 NFL Season Preview — Staff Predictions and Awards
The 2023 NFL season starts Thursday, so some members of the FTN team wanted to get our picks on the record. Today, we’re running through our picks for division winners, awards and some key fantasy tidbits for the 2023 season.   Check below to see what everyone thinks. The participants: David Jones Daniel Kelley Tyler […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
The Read Option, Week 1: Detroit Lions @ Kansas City Chiefs
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
The Read Option: Fantasy Football Game-by-Game Breakdown (Week 1)
Welcome to The Read Option, FTN Fantasy’s NFL Week 1 game-by-game previews. This landing page will serve as your quarterback for the week and will link to preview for the upcoming slate of games. FTN’s game-by-game previews are the most detailed and data-rich in the industry. This page will be updated throughout the week as […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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MLB Fantasy
Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (9/5)
Get into the groove as I take you on a stadium tour across the fantasy baseball realm! It is my hope that you will find this article both entertaining and informative. Don’t forget about our stellar season-long fantasy baseball coverage at FTN Fantasy. Save a couple bones with my promo code MJGOVIER when you sign […]
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Michael Govier
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NFL Fantasy
NFL FAAB Strategy for Week 1
Welcome to FAAB Whisperer – my weekly column that will serve as a guide for twice-weekly FAAB for mid and high-stakes leagues and national contests such as NFFC, FFPC, FFWC and RT Sports. The basis for our weekly bid review will be the $350-entry NFFC RotoWire Online Championship. It’s the perfect framework for our purposes […]
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Vlad Sedler
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MLB Fantasy
Whitestone’s Waiver Watch: NFBC Main Event (9/4)
The Main Event is an Ogre Welcome to my weekly NFBC Main Event recap article. Each week, I’ll dig into the top free agents added in this premier fantasy baseball contest, letting you know who was added in the most leagues, how much money was spent and more. In addition, we’ll revisit the top pickups […]
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Todd Whitestone
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Offseason Team Needs Revisited (NFC)
Teams have cut down to their 53-man rosters and NFL action is less than a week away. At the start of the offseason, I went through all 32 teams to assess their biggest need heading into free agency and the draft. This article will focus on how well each team filled their biggest needs throughout […]
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Dan Fornek
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MLB Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide (Week 24)
SUNDAY UPDATE Many of us are working with less than $20 in our FAAB budget and need to be mindful on how to deploy it tonight with consideration to the final three weeks of FAAB. You damn well know that no matter how much fun spending it on 4 weeks of Jasssson or Ronny sounds, […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Offseason Team Needs Revisited (AFC)
The preseason is over, teams have cut their rosters down to 53 and the NFL season is officially on the horizon. Teams have had months to build out their roster and make the improvements they needed to be competitive for the 2023 season. This article is a callback to early in the offseason when each […]
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Dan Fornek
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NFL Fantasy
Jeff Ratcliffe’s 2023 Fantasy Football Cheat Sheets
Our 2023 fantasy football cheat sheets have arrived to help you dominate on draft day. These cheat sheets cover everything you need to walk away a winner on draft day. Whether you are playing in PPR leagues, non-PPR leagues, superflex, 2QB, half-PPR or another variation, we have you covered at FTN Fantasy. Everything is broken […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Training Camp Battles Revisited (WR/TE)
The NFL season is nearly here, with teams finalizing their 53-man rosters and solidifying their depth charts. In this article, we are going to revisit the pre-training camp positional battles for fantasy football, today looking at wide receivers and tight ends.   Wide Receivers Arizona Cardinals Winner: Michael Wilson With Marquise Brown out in the […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
Beware the Week 1 Fantasy Football Storyline
We love fantasy football. We’ve researched fantasy football. We studied rookies, reviewed depth charts, and analyzed beat reporter comments ad infinitum. We think we know everything there is to know, especially about Week 1. Then, after Week 1, we all love to jump to irrational conclusions. Week 2 of every NFL season brings classic knee-jerk […]
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Mike Randle
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NFL Fantasy
Boring-But-Worth-It Draft Picks for 2023 Fantasy Football
After the first few rounds of your fantasy draft, or your first few successful bids in an auction draft, the players left on the board begin to lose their shine. Unfortunately, teams aren’t entirely composed of first and second-rounders. They’re the anchors while the rest of a roster is typically a mix of potential breakouts […]
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Nick Makowitz
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NFL Fantasy
What We Learned for Fantasy Football in the 2023 Preseason: NFC Edition
The NFL preseason is finally over, which means it’s time to get excited about real football coming our way. Before we set our sights on the games that really matter though, it’s important to recap what we learned for fantasy football this offseason and use that information to prepare for the upcoming year.  Check out […]
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Michael Dolan
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MLB Fantasy
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory (Week 23)
Four. More. Weeks. If you’re atop your fantasy baseball standings, you’re likely counting down the days until September ends. I know I am. Many of you might be locked into the first matchup of your head-to-head points league playoffs. Great. This edition of Game Theory is for anyone still playing for something — no matter […]
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Adam Young
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football 2023: Training Camp Roundup (9/1)
Training camps provide our first look into NFL players and teams as we prepare for the upcoming fantasy football season. Information will now begin to flood our social media timelines, leaving us to determine the subsequent fantasy impact. It’s a matter of knowing which information matters, and which should be ignored.   So each day […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Training Camp Battles Revisited (QB/RB)
The NFL season is nearly here, with teams finalizing their 53-man rosters and solidifying their depth charts. In this article, we are going to revisit the pre-training camp positional battles, today looking at quarterbacks and running backs.   Quarterbacks  Arizona Cardinals  Winner: Joshua Dobbs  The Cardinals placed Kyler Murray on the injured reserve list and […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
Meaney’s Targets: 4 to Draft in Fantasy Football 2023 (8/31)
Welcome to the seventh and final edition of the series “Meaney’s Targets” here at FTN Fantasy. The goal of these articles was to highlight my favorite targets in fantasy football drafts.    We’ve now in the final rounds of fantasy football drafts. Below you’ll see the first six parts of this series with three targets […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL Fantasy
The Fantasy Football Gradebook: Quantifying Relative Fantasy Value
Last year, we broke new ground with the introduction of Fantasy Wins Added. Then we doubled up on new stats to play with by introducing Fantasy Grades. Think PFF grades — but for fantasy football. This piece explains  FTN’s Fantasy Grades, gives a review of last year’s takeaways, and lets you know how to use […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
What We Learned for Fantasy Football in the 2023 Preseason: AFC Edition
The NFL preseason is finally over, which means it’s time to get excited about real football coming our way. Before we set our sights on the games that really matter though, it’s important to recap what we learned for fantasy football this offseason and use that information to prepare for the upcoming year.    AFC […]
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Michael Dolan
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NFL Fantasy
Vlad Sedler’s 2023 Fantasy Football All Late-Round Team
Our last couple of picks in fantasy football drafts outside of DSTs and kickers can be utilized in a variety of ways, but the best path to do so is to chase upside. These are offensive players with undefined roles who can become impactful parts of their respective offenses and might command a high percentage […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football 2023: Training Camp Roundup (8/31)
Training camps provide our first look into NFL players and teams as we prepare for the upcoming fantasy football season. Information will now begin to flood our social media timelines, leaving us to determine the subsequent fantasy impact. It’s a matter of knowing which information matters, and which should be ignored.   So each day […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Three You’re Too Low On: Fantasy Draft Targets (8/31)
Our fantasy football rankers are some of the best in the business, but that doesn’t mean they always agree. Each Thursday, one of our rankers will highlight some names he’s furthest from the staff consensus on and explain why you should either be targeting those players or steering clear in your 2023 drafts. The FTN staff […]
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Scott Spratt