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2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: The Prospect Vault (Prospects 11-20)
This piece second part of a series you should expect to see throughout the preseason. By the end of February, we will have compiled a list of the top-100 players in my 2023 Prospect Vault. A quick note on “Future Value,” which you will see referenced here and on the accompanying spreadsheet. This is […]
Jake Kucheck
MLB
Fantasy
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Lance Lynn vs. Brady Singer
Every fantasy baseball season, there are baseball players who end up returning a higher fantasy baseball profit than a player selected much earlier in fantasy baseball drafts. This series will attempt to identify players who grade out with a similar profile, range of outcomes and/or projection while having a difference of at least 45 picks […]
Matthew Davis
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Draft & Hold Prospect Targets – Infielders
The back end of draft-and-hold formats can be a treacherous place in fantasy baseball. These rounds don’t necessarily separate the champs from the chumps, but these rounds absolutely need to be taken seriously. Hitting on a few prospects or breakouts from this range can go a long way to the success of your fantasy teams. […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Auction Strategies: Go Cheap for Championships
When you think about joining a fantasy baseball auction, your mind wanders to all the top players you can acquire. After all, you generally have $260 to spend and every player is available to you. You don’t have to wait 12, 15 or even more picks for your turn to roll around. Instead, you can bid […]
Todd Whitestone
MLB
Fantasy
Same Faces, New Places
Welcome to the Same Faces in New Places section of the Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide. This is the part of the draft where I catch you up on most of the player movement across MLB. We’ve seen a lot of money dished out to free agent players, including several big-time shortstops such as Trea […]
Chris Meaney
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Points and H2H Lessons from the 2022 Season
Remember Remember… A year ago last December, we launched the FTN fantasy baseball draft guide, where I appeared as a guest columnist to shed light on how to properly organize the always underrated realm of H2H and points leagues. Now here we are for round 2: FIGHT! Now I actually get paid by FTN regularly as […]
Michael Govier
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Making Batted Ball Data More Predictive
Batted ball data has a major flaw. Fortunately, there’s an easy fix. For this article, we’ll focus on Statcast’s barrel rate and hard hit rate. These stats measure the quality of contact, not the result of contact. As analysts, when we turn to Statcast data, we’re trying to find signal that’s missing from more traditional […]
Alex Blickle
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Early-Round Roster Construction
In the 2022 edition of the FTN Baseball Draft Guide, I wrote about some of the tools that I use to prepare for a rotisserie draft. The most popular part seemed to be the flowcharts that I use, so I thought I’d take a little deeper dive on that portion of my draft prep. The […]
Jenny Butler
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Closers — 2022 Lessons & 2023 Strategies
Although baseball continues evolving in terms of bullpen usage patterns, saves remain tethered with chaos. “Never pay for saves” has been shouted from the mountaintops by many fantasy pundits while others insist fantasy players draft skills over roles. But the term, “closer” gets forced into many team constructs which do not rely on one reliever […]
Greg Jewett
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Identifying Late-Round Profitable Hitters
Landing profitable late-round hitters was a difficult task in 2022. It was the Year of the Late-Round Pitcher as there were a plethora of arms with NFBC average draft positions beyond 250 who provided tremendous profit. Tony Gonsolin, Nestor Cortes, Kyle Wright, Spencer Strider, Tyler Anderson, Cristian Javier and Miles Mikolas were all either drafted […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Identifying Late-Round Profitable Pitchers
More often than not when we get into the deeper parts of fantasy baseball drafts, it’s mostly hitters that end up providing us with a profit. It’s usually easier targeting a hitter in later rounds rather than a starting pitcher. Last season proved that theory wrong as we saw a plethora of starting pitchers going […]
Matthew Davis
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: NFBC Cutline Strategies
The National Fantasy Baseball Championship offers multiple styles of fantasy baseball formats as well as different price points. The NFBC Cutline Championship is one of their most popular formats with it being a fun, exciting and unique contest. The Cutline is somewhat of a hybrid with it being best ball, although you have two FAAB […]
Matthew Davis
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Intro From the Gut
Welcome to the 2023 FTN Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide! You know the old saying: The early birds win their leagues. It’s never too early to start preparing for a new fantasy baseball season. We’re still three months away from Opening Day, and there’s so much that will transpire between now and then – free agents […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Using Fantasy Baseball to Cash MLB Props
There are clear differences between playing fantasy baseball and gambling on baseball. Research and expertise in one area could be extremely helpful in the other. Like fantasy baseball, gambling is all about identifying an edge and striking when there is value. However, instead of competing against other managers, you’re going up against an efficient […]
MLB Dream
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2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Fantasy Impact of MLB Rule Changes
Major League Baseball’s Joint Competition Committee, comprising club representatives, players and an umpire, approved a pitch timer, shift restrictions and bigger bases for the 2023 season. These changes, announced in a press release in September, were tested extensively at the minor league level over the past several years. The game will be different next year […]
Nick Shlain
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Pitching Stats to Absorb and Ignore
If you’re a fantasy baseball player who focuses heavily on offseason research, you’re aware how quickly you can become inundated by numbers. It’s easy to get so bogged down in active spin, a pitcher’s unique arsenal and movement profiles that you forget to see the forest for the trees. Worse, you spend a lot of […]
Alex Fast
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: The Truths & Misconceptions of Scarcity
In economics, to say that a resource is scarce is to say that demand for that resource exceeds supply. So understood, scarcity is an essential element of fantasy baseball. The goal is of course to compile more of certain statistics than your competitors, and those statistics are in limited supply – there are only so […]
Steven Weimer
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: Breaking Down the New NFBC Gladiator
A funny thing happens in sports when you lose on the big stage. Some players saunter off the field with their heads down. Others take out their frustration on the water cooler. Some wrap a towel around their face and sit in catatonic disbelief. Then, there’s Stefon Diggs. Wait! Hold up, isn’t this a […]
Adam Young
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: How to Navigate the NFBC
NFBC is the National Fantasy Baseball Championship — the preferred season-long fantasy baseball site of thousands of the best and most dedicated players. NFBC was created back in 2004 by Greg Ambrosius as fantasy baseball’s first multi-city, high-stakes event. The NFBC hosts online and live (in-person) redraft and auction style leagues and have set the […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: The Anatomy of a Bold Drop
When the baseball season begins March 30, the focus of fantasy baseball players will shift from drafting mode to in-season mode. Podcasts, articles and discussions on Twitter will revolve around which players to pick up Sunday night and how much to bid on them. It makes sense because fantasy baseball leagues have a similar group […]
Philippe Dussault
MLB
Fantasy
Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (10/3)
Welcome to the final Groovin’ With Govier for 2022! What a ride it has been. For one last time, I have a promo code for you if you want to sign up for any of our useful subscriptions we have here at FTN Fantasy, Daily or Bets. If you love betting on NFL, College Football […]
Michael Govier
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Weekly Pitching Primer (Oct. 2)
Each week, we will rank every starting pitcher slated to take the bump. Of course, these are subject to change, but this is what we see for now. Feel free to hit me up on Twitter if you have any questions. 1 Brandon Woodruff MIL vs. ARI Has been totally nails down the stretch. […]
Matt Kupferle
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide Week 27
SUNDAY UPDATE Starting Pitchers Not much to add to the existing groups though if you absolutely must have more starting pitchers in the mix for 15-teamers, you can also consider Rich Hill (vs. TB) and Javier Assad (@ CIN). The 42-year-old Hill hit 100 pitches in a start for the first time all season last […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (9/26)
Welcome to Groovin’ With Govier! It is my hope that you will find this article an enjoyable read. I also have a promo code for you if you want to sign up for any of our useful subscriptions we have here at FTN Fantasy, Daily or Bets. If you love betting on MLB props or […]
Michael Govier
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Weekly Hitting Primer (Week 26)
This is the final Hitting Planner for the 2022 fantasy baseball season. Next week this piece will pivot to a streaming article for the final three days of the season. Schedule Monday, September 26 – Sunday, October 2 (full week) Five Games: Arizona Diamondbacks, Houston Astros, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals Six Games: Atlanta Braves, […]
Matthew Davis
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Weekly Pitching Primer (Sept. 25)
Each week, we will rank every starting pitcher slated to take the bump. Of course, these are subject to change, but this is what we see for now. Feel free to hit me up on Twitter if you have any questions. 1 Robbie Ray SEA TEX, OAK Soft landing spot here, and he’s been […]
Matt Kupferle
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide Week 26
Welcome to my weekly free agent bidding strategy column – Trust the Gut. The by-position list only includes hitters and pitchers available (Roster%) in at least 10% of 12- and 15-team leagues. I use the 12-team NFBC Online Championship (OC) and the 15-team NFBC Main Event (ME) as the Roster% guidelines. Most of the players […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Kup’s Closers: Fantasy Baseball Reliever Updates (September 22)
The fantasy baseball season is down to its last couple weeks, and nailing the closer carousel is an ever important task. Let’s take a look at the changing reliever situations around the league and what it means for our lineups. Oakland Athletics Perhaps it has been situational based, but the A’s have turned over […]
Matt Kupferle
MLB
Fantasy
House of Shlain: Fantasy Baseball Thoughts and Trends (9/21)
In fantasy baseball, as in life, it’s important to stay current and on top of the recent trends. In deeper mixed formats and AL-/NL-only leagues it’s even more important. Once a week we come to a place to discuss fantasy baseball thoughts, trends, and some of the key happenings around the league. That place is […]
Nick Shlain
MLB
Fantasy
Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (9/19)
Welcome to Groovin’ With Govier! It is my hope that you will find this article an enjoyable read. I also have a promo code for you if you want to sign up for any of our useful subscriptions we have here at FTN Fantasy, Daily or Bets. If you love betting on MLB props or […]
Michael Govier
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Weekly Pitching Primer (Sept. 18)
Each week, we will rank every starting pitcher slated to take the bump. Of course, these are subject to change, but this is what we see for now. Feel free to hit me up on Twitter if you have any questions. 1 Dylan Cease CWS CLE, DET The dark horse for the AL Cy […]
Matt Kupferle
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Weekly Hitting Primer (Week 25)
Welcome to my weekly fantasy baseball hitting planner. Each week, I’ll dig deep into every team’s schedule, sifting through news, lineup trends, park factors and more. The rankings/tiers listed will reset each week, as they are only specific to the upcoming week. Schedule Monday, September 19 – Sunday, September 25 (full week) Six Games: Boston […]
Matthew Davis