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Informed Main Event Category Targets
Most experienced fantasy baseball managers have looked at 80% targets for the various fantasy contests we’re pursuing. For the uninitiated, the idea is that if you aim for capturing 80% of the points in your fantasy baseball league, you’re in excellent shape to win or at least be strongly in contention. Similarly, for NFBC […]
Todd Whitestone
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (3/7)
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
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory: Fades at ADP
There’s a place down the street from me called Amy’s Omelette House. They are famous for having over 200 different omelets on the menu. And that’s just omelets. They also have pancakes, waffles, eggs, you name it. It’s just an absolute monster of a menu. Having ordered there for years, I’ve memorized all the […]
Adam Young
MLB
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Mager’s Musings: Prepping for the Main Event (3/5)
This article is intended to assist subscribers preparing for their first NFBC Main Event league, with a particular emphasis on drafting live. The recommendations advanced, however, also can apply to fantasy managers drafting online and in leagues other than the Main Event. For the uninitiated, the NFBC Main Event is the premier high-stakes fantasy […]
FTN Staff
MLB
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Crossed Up: ‘My Guys’ for 2024 — Pitchers
After discussing “My Guys” on the hitter side last week, we’ll be climbing the mound for the pitcher version in this week’s Crossed Up here on FTN Fantasy. I’ve found myself targeting the below pitchers heavily this season due to being undervalued, possessing a high ROI possibility, or both. Usually both. These names are at […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Best Fantasy Baseball Team Names for 2024
Drafting players, setting lineups, working the waiver wire … it’s all hard. But the hardest part of the fantasy baseball season might be the first part: Your team name. You want to be interesting. You don’t want to be too esoteric. You don’t want to have the default (my brother-in-law’s team name has been […]
Daniel Kelley
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (3/4)
Spring training is a wild time for fantasy players, as we see considerable overreactions to tiny sample sizes, changes in player value due to velocity jumps or drops, and other big swings. We aim to cover notable news, value changes and other nuggets. We’ve got you covered! AL East Baltimore Orioles: Colton Cowser (OF), […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024 Positional Tiers – Starting Pitchers
This is the sixth part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Original Rosters: What Every MLB Team Would Look Like if Trades and Free Agency Didn’t Exist
There are so many things that go into building a Major League Baseball team. Even if you started with a full system of players you had drafted and signed, there would still be coaching them up, trades, free agency. There are so many ways of acquiring players who are already pros. But what if there […]
Daniel Kelley
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (2/29)
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
Fantasy Baseball 2024: ADP Market Watch (2/28)
Following recent articles examining player share diversification and KDS strategy and draft mapping, it’s time to turn back to players whose ADPs are rising or falling materially. This time, we will focus on NFBC Online Championship leagues, which are 12-team, 30-round contests with weekly FAAB and an overall component. The purpose of these articles is […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Crossed Up: ‘My Guys’ for 2024 — Hitters
Going into every fantasy baseball draft season, most of us already know the players we’re going to be targeting heavily in drafts. The “initial targets” if you will. Then, a second grouping of players gets added to the mix due to their respective ADPs being too good to pass up. Throw it all together with […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (2/26)
Spring Training is a wild time for fantasy players, as we see considerable overreactions to tiny sample sizes, changes in player value due to velocity jumps or drops, and other big swings. We aim to cover notable news, value changes or other valuable nuggets. We’ve got you covered! AL East Baltimore Orioles: Cole Irvin […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (2/23)
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
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory: ADP Pockets (2/22)
We’ve all been there. Your hand is on the mouse, but your body is frozen. You stare at the computer screen. Three names are staring right back at you. You could make a case for any of those players. But which one? You shift your focus to the top left of the screen where […]
Adam Young
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024 Positional Tiers – Outfielders (Part 2)
This is the fifth part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Mager’s Musings: KDS Strategy and Draft Mapping (2/21)
Kentucky Derby Style is the feature that the NFBC utilizes to assign draft spots in the vast majority of fantasy baseball leagues. Instead of assigning draft spots on an entirely random basis, KDS allows fantasy managers to rank their desired spots in order of preference. KDS then randomly selects teams, and they are assigned, in […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Roundup (2/20)
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 […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Crossed Up: Infield Prospects to Target
The start of spring training brings plenty of hope throughout the baseball world, both in the major leagues and the minors as well. For the minor leagues, a lot of that hope gets focused on certain prospects progressing in their development or taking a step forward from the previous year. Most of that is considered […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024 Positional Tiers – Outfielders (Part 1)
This is the fourth part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (2/16)
Party people … can y’all get funky? Groove is in the heart! Groovin’ With Govier is on for 2024, and so is the 2024 FTN Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide featuring some of the best in the business. FTN Fantasy Baseball’s head of content Vlad Sedler has put together a stellar lineup of guest writers covering a […]
Michael Govier
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024: Understanding Platoon Splits
Edouard Julien seems to be the perfect fantasy baseball breakout candidate. The 25-year-old debuted last season while batting .263/.381/.459 with 16 HR and 3 SB. There is even a chance he could steal more bases after swiping 34 in 2021 and 19 in 2022. His 408 PA in 109 games could prorate to over 600 […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Mager’s Musings: The Many Layers of Player Share Diversification (2/14)
I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with baseball and fantasy baseball. I love drafting and managing fantasy baseball teams and, every season, take on at least several more teams than I know what’s good for me. In 2023, I had 25 NFBC teams. This year, I’m scaling back, all the way down to […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Crossed Up: Pitching Prospects to Target
Finding players that can turn a positive ROI for you in fantasy baseball is always crucial. That’s especially true in dynasty leagues with prospects, since values are always surging or falling depending on performance and development year to year. That’s what this week’s edition of Crossed Up is all about. I will discuss a bunch […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Sinking Your Battleship: The Riskiest Fantasy Baseball Picks, Early February Edition
FTN Staff
MLB
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Fantasy Baseball 2024 Positional Tiers – Catchers and Designated Hitters
This is the third part of my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while the VDP […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024: Stacking Your Way to Victory
So I had this nutty idea to examine how I could stack the best team in MLB in a hypothetical draft. I said to myself, “You should look at which team has the most high-end talent and write an article about stacking them.” So I used my super-technical analytical skills to determine without question […]
Todd Whitestone
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024: ADP Market Watch (2/7)
After diving into early auction market trends last week, we now turn back to focusing on players whose fantasy baseball ADP rose or fell materially in NFBC Draft Champions leagues, which are 15-team, 50-round draft-and-hold contests. In the next week or two, the focus will shift to Online Championship leagues, which are 12-team, 30-round contests […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Crossed Up: Top 100 Starting Pitchers
In the blink of an eye, the 2024 season is less than two months away, and fantasy baseball draft season is really starting to heat up. If you recall, I wrote a weekly pitcher planner article for FTN last season, which included my top 100 starting pitcher rankings for that particular week. Today, I’ll be […]
Eric Cross
MLB
Fantasy
Sinking Your Battleship: The Riskiest Fantasy Baseball Picks By Round (16-20)
Every fantasy baseball season, picks are made that inevitably don’t return a profit in certain parts of the draft. Each draft spot should be looked at as an acquisition cost. Returning a profit with your pick(s) while avoiding picks with a negative ROI is vital for contending. The players chosen in this article are […]
FTN Staff
MLB
Fantasy
Fantasy Baseball 2024 Positional Tiers – Middle Infielders
This is the second part of my special fantasy baseball preseason series breaking down each position by tiers. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP rankings (Vlad’s Draft Positions). To avoid confusion, please note these are different than VDP Projections. The projections formulate my auction values for each player (VDP$) while […]
Vlad Sedler
MLB
Fantasy
Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory: ADP Pockets (2/2)
We’ve all been there. Your hand is on the mouse, but your body is frozen. You stare at the computer screen. Three names are staring right back at you. You could make a case for any of those players. But which one? You shift your focus to the top left of the screen where […]
Adam Young