FTN NBA Betting Show: November 6th
Alex Christenson
Prop God
Dane Martinez
Fantasy MLB Articles
MLB
Fantasy
Whitestone’s Waiver Watch: NFBC Main Event (4/22)
FTN's Todd Whitestone goes through some of the most notable moves in the NFBC Main Event's FAAB period and reviews the moves made by some of fantasy baseball's best managers.
Todd Whitestone
MLB
Fantasy
Drops & Disasters: Fantasy Baseball Roster Moves (4/21)
FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.
Mike Mager
MLB
Fantasy
FTN Fantasy Baseball Podcast – Ep 11 (2024) Don’t tweak the Oblique
It’s Episode 11 of the 2024 FTN Fantasy Baseball podcast with Vlad Sedler (@rotogut) and Jason Anthony (@booms62) as the duo discuss a variety of topics from the recent string of oblique injuries, small sample sizes, FAAB woes and players they regret not having more shares of. Players and Topics Discussed: – New Daily Projections […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide (Week 5)
FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 5 of the fantasy baseball season.
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory: Using Psychology
FTN's Adam Young discusses how to use psychology to your advantage when making fantasy baseball decisions.
Adam Young
MLB
Fantasy
Whitestone’s Waiver Watch: NFBC Main Event (4/15)
FTN's Todd Whitestone goes through some of the most notable moves in the NFBC Main Event's FAAB period and reviews the moves made by some of fantasy baseball's top managers.
Todd Whitestone
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide (Week 4)
FTN's Vlad Sedler provides an overview of how to approach FAAB ahead of Week 4 of the fantasy baseball season.
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Drops & Disasters: Fantasy Baseball Roster Moves (4/14)
FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.
Mike Mager
MLB
Fantasy
Crossovers & Cross-Offs: Trending Fantasy Baseball Performers (4/10)
While we’re only around two weeks into the 2024 regular season, it’s never too early to dive into data for players who are off to hot or cold starts to the season. Are the performances for real? Fluky? Should you buy in? Be concerned? Hopefully, all those questions will be answered in this weekly column […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: NFBC Cutline FAAB (April 9)
TUESDAY 4:10pm ET UPDATE Added a certain AL East outfielder to that table (towards the top) Added a certain NL Central OF who hit 2 HR today (they count!) Removed Aaron Ashby (sent to minors today) —– NFBC’s Best Ball Cutline contest only has three points of manager control – the draft and the […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Whitestone’s Waiver Watch: NFBC Main Event (4/8)
April Showers MLB Counter: 5.9% of the season complete There’s no sense dwelling here over the poor April weather or the rash of high-profile injuries. You’ve gotten your updates elsewhere so we’ll all have to soldier on as best we can. Just remember that as of this morning less than 6% of the season […]
Todd Whitestone
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Weekly Hitting Planner (April 8)
FTN Data Weekly Projections Week 3, week of April 8 Sort by Position Players, Pitchers, NFBC (page for Player IDs) Sort Position Players by scoring period: MON-SUN, MON-THURS, FRI-SUN —- Welcome to my weekly fantasy baseball hitting planner! I’ll delve into every team’s weekly schedule, analyzing news, lineup trends, team tendencies, park factors and more. […]
Lucas Biery
MLB
Fantasy
Drops & Disasters: Fantasy Baseball Roster Moves (4/7)
With the first full week of MLB games completed, and many crushing injuries to address, this should be a busy FAAB weekend. Fantasy managers will be evaluating potential acquisitions, ranking targets within FAAB strings and deciding how much to bid on each player. While doing so, managers would be advised to give due consideration to […]
Mike Mager
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide (Week 3)
SUNDAY UPDATE A brutal week we’d like to forget but its effects will resonate with us for a long time. Nothing to stew on though as doing so takes up unnecessary energy we can be using for our FAAB decisions. There’s no replacing Spencer Strider. STARTING PITCHERS There will be some Main Events where the […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory: Week 1 Overreactions
The wait was grueling, but we’re finally into the MLB regular season. No more draft talk. No more draft strategy. If you’re reading this, you’ve accumulated a week’s worth of statistics on your fantasy baseball teams. I’m sure our reactions to that sample will be perfectly rational (shrugs shoulders). I always get a kick […]
Adam Young
MLB
Fantasy
Crossed Up: 6 Hitters to Target for Dynasty Contenders
In the blink of an eye, the 2023/2024 MLB offseason is over, and spring training has come and gone as well. Now the grind is on for the next six months as we work toward winning championships or improving our dynasty teams from the previous season. But while the offseason is over and the 2024 […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Whitestone’s Waiver Watch: NFBC Main Event (4/1)
It’s a brand new baseball season, and for fantasy managers it’s time to see what type of stats result from those draft plans. For those playing in fantasy baseball’s premier contest, the NFBC Main Event, it’s also the start of a long six-month grind. In the Main Event this year, there are 57 15-team […]
Todd Whitestone
MLB
Fantasy
Drops & Disasters: Fantasy Baseball Roster Moves (3/31)
This is the inaugural article on drops and disasters. Because this is the first big FAAB weekend, there will be a lot of attention on potential pickups and bids, and rightfully so. For every FAAB string, however, there also must be a drop, and this is where fantasy managers need to be careful. In my introductory […]
Mike Mager
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide (Week 2)
Sunday Update Let’s get right down to the nitty gritty – y’all want to talk closers. Here are my thoughts: Kevin Ginkel (ARI) Three punchouts in a non-save opp today for Ginkel. Paul Sewald is out for at least three weeks and he might not have a job to come back to. I do think […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Drops & Disasters: Fantasy Baseball Roster Moves (3/29)
Fantasy baseball drafting season has concluded. With the start of meaningful MLB games, important considerations that have occupied an outsized portion of our collective consciousness – positional ranks, tiers and targets, sleepers and busts, and ADPs and AAVs – are fading into the deepest recesses of our minds. Now, the real grind begins. We […]
Mike Mager
MLB
Fantasy
Gut’s Guys and FOMO — Vlad Sedler’s Top Player Exposures for Fantasy Baseball 2024
Opening Day of the baseball season is finally here, which means we bid adieu to the best part of the season – draft season! These last four months of researching, creating/maintaining projections and multiple sets of rankings, and of course, drafting, has been quite grueling. Now let the fun begin, and let’s play ball! […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
2024 MLB Season Preview — Staff Predictions and Awards
The 2024 Major League Baseball season starts Thursday (other than the Seoul series, but thankfully this is the last time we’ll have to include that caveat), so the FTN team (and a few visitors!) wanted to get our picks on the record. Today, we’re running through our picks for division winners, awards, and some key […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Crossed Up: 2024 Prospect Bold Predictions
It’s hard to believe spring training is almost over and “domestic” opening day for Major League Baseball is right around the corner. At this point, many of you are done drafting or just have one or two more drafts to go. So, with that in mind, let’s shift away from normal draft prep and have […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Crossed Up: 2024 Prospect Bold Predictions
It’s hard to believe spring training is almost over and “domestic” opening day for Major League Baseball is right around the corner. At this point, many of you are done drafting or just have one or two more drafts to go. So, with that in mind, let’s shift away from normal draft prep and have […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
The Shohei Ohtani Situation: What We Know, What We Don’t, What Comes Next
The first Dodgers season for outfielder/DH Shohei Ohtani got off to a completely unpredictable start last week, with news coming down that his longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, had been caught up in a gambling investigation that apparently showed that he had paid some or all of his debts using Ohtani’s money. There is a […]
Daniel Kelley
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (3/25)
Spring training is a wild time for fantasy baseball players, as we see considerable overreactions to tiny sample sizes, changes in player value due to velocity jumps or drops and other big swings. So as we head toward the start of the 2024 MLB season, we’re going to go around all the news from […]
Lucas Biery
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide (Week 1)
Welcome to FTN’s weekly free agent bidding (FAAB) strategy column, Trust the Gut. This article will be published every Saturday of the fantasy baseball season, and I will usually release an update/addendum to Trust the Gut on Sundays, two hours before NFBC’s 10 p.m. ET lock period. The goal of the article is to […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Bullpen Report
I hope you enjoyed the Year of the Stable Closer in 2023, because so far this spring there’s been an onslaught of injuries that have wrecked some of the game’s top options for saves. Devin Williams, Jhoan Duran, Jordan Romano, David Bednar and Kenley Jansen have all suffered ailments of varying severity this spring, creating […]
Robert Orr
MLB
Fantasy
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory: Targets at ADP
Last week, I wrote an intro about my go-to breakfast place, Amy’s Omelette House. In case you missed it, I urge you to check it out. If you’re too lazy to do that (trust me, I understand), I’ll give you the Cliff’s Notes version and how it relates to this week’s topic. Amy’s has over […]
Adam Young
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (3/21)
Spring training is a wild time for fantasy baseball players, as we see considerable overreactions to tiny sample sizes, changes in player value due to velocity jumps or drops and other big swings. So as we head toward the start of the 2024 MLB season, we’re going to go around all the news from […]
Jake Kucheck
MLB
Fantasy
Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Primer for 2024
FAAB stands for “Free Agent Acquisition Budget (or Bidding).” It is the process of adding new hitters and pitchers to our fantasy baseball rosters in exchange for hitters and pitchers we have chosen to drop. Most fantasy sites, including NFBC, run FAAB once a week, Sundays, and use a blind bidding protocol. Over the last decade, […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Mager’s Musings: The MTM $5k Ultimate Draft (3/20)
Cue music from Field of Dreams. Me: “Is this heaven?” Hotel receptionist: “No, it’s Robbinsville.” March 16, 2024, I had the extreme pleasure of traveling to Robbinsville, N.J., to draft in my highest stakes live event of the year, the MTM Ultimate. Administered by the NFBC, the MTM Ultimate is the brainchild of Mike “The […]
Mike Mager