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Whitestone’s Waiver Watch: NFBC Main Event
Well folks, 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 53 […]
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Todd Whitestone
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Fantasy Baseball Weekly Hitter Report (Week 2)
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, April 3 – Sunday, April 9 (full week) Six Games: Arizona […]
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Matthew Davis
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Fantasy Baseball Weekly Pitcher Report
Another offseason is in the books, and we finally have regular season baseball back in our lives. This will be the first full week of regular season action and my first Top 100 Starting Pitcher rankings for the 2023 season. These rankings are for the upcoming week and not for ROS value. The purpose of […]
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Eric Cross
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Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide (April 1)
Bettle is an exciting new peer-to-peer fantasy sports platform! Let’s say you have an MLB season-long fantasy team you love but want a way to get more action on it. Join the Bettle community and browse other people’s teams to challenge them in a 1-on-1 battle for real money. You can challenge for the day […]
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Vlad Sedler
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Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory (Week 1)
Welcome to the debut of my biweekly fantasy baseball column, “Small Ball: Fantasy Baseball Game Theory.” Baseball is, and always has been a game of numbers. And when numbers are involved, things can get – well, intimidating.   Math isn’t for everyone. Everyone knows the answer to 2+2, but not every fantasy baseball player knows […]
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Adam Young
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Gut’s Guys — Vlad Sedler’s Top Player Exposures for Fantasy Baseball 2023
Opening Day is here, which means the most fun part of baseball season – fantasy baseball draft season – has finally concluded. There is truly nothing more exciting than the January through March stretch of researching, prepping, slow draft DCs and that big build up to the final draft weekend.    I started drafting with […]
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Vlad Sedler
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2023 MLB Season Preview — Staff Predictions and Awards
The 2023 Major League Baseball season starts Thursday, 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 fantasy tidbits for the 2023 season.   Check below to see what everyone thinks. (Best viewed in landscape […]
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FTN Staff
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Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (3/29)
Welcome to the 2023 Opening Day eve edition of Groovin’ With Govier! If you’re new here (regulars: skip), I dissect various players and strategies related to the current fantasy baseball landscape. Don’t forget about our stellar fantasy baseball coverage at FTN Fantasy. Save a couple bones with my promo code MJGOVIER when you sign up […]
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Michael Govier
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Crossed Up: Pitching Prospects Set to Rise
After discussing infielders and outfielders previously, we now wrap up this three-part series by discussing pitching prospect who could vault up inside my top 50 overall rankings by the end of the 2023 season. All of the names below are outside my top 100 overall right now (one barely inside) and possesses the upside to […]
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Eric Cross
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2023 MLB Season Preview: National League
Major League Baseball is coming off its first somewhat normal offseason in a while. There were no concerns about missing games to a pandemic or a lockout, there was no CBA to be ironed out. There were just player transactions, questions about regional TV coverage and hope.   The season starts in just a few […]
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Daniel Kelley
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2023 MLB Season Preview: American League
Major League Baseball is coming off its first somewhat normal offseason in a while. There were no concerns about missing games to a pandemic or a lockout, there was no CBA to be ironed out. There were just player transactions, questions about regional TV coverage and hope.   The season starts in just a few […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Guide Opening Day
Welcome to my weekly free agent bidding strategy column – Trust the Gut. This piece will focus on weekly FAAB strategies and targets to confidently prepare you in your quest to acquire players to help your fantasy teams contend for league titles. I focus primarily on NFBC leagues, but the strategies and players recommended will […]
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Vlad Sedler
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Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Primer
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, on Sundays, and use a blind bidding protocol. Over the last […]
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Vlad Sedler
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Crossed Up: End-of-Spring Training Storylines
It’s hard to believe the MLB season is only about a week away. We’ve had an exciting spring thus far with the World Baseball Classic (Congrats to Japan), young players receiving more playing time, pitchers adding or losing velocity, and plenty of intriguing storylines and position battles unfolding.  That’s what I’m going to be focusing […]
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Eric Cross
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Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (3/22)
Welcome to the last spring training edition of Groovin’ with Govier. If you’re new here (regulars: skip), I dissect various players and strategies related to the current fantasy baseball landscape. Don’t forget our 2023 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is available right now! Save a couple bones with my promo code MJGOVIER when you sign up so […]
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Michael Govier
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Sinking Your Battleship: The Riskiest Fantasy Baseball Picks in Round 6-10
Every fantasy baseball season, there are draft picks made that inevitably don’t return a profit from where they are being selected in drafts. Each draft spot should be looked at as an acquisition cost. Returning a profit with your picks or getting close to that number while being able to avoid picks with a negative […]
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Matthew Davis
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Fantasy Baseball 2023: Who is This Year’s Yelich?
Profit is the name of the game in fantasy baseball. Whether snake draft or auction, the way to set oneself up for success and win leagues is to correctly identify and draft market inefficiencies. Basically, assemble a collection of hitters and pitchers who out-earn their market prices (ADP or AAV). Sounds easy, right? Our goal […]
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Vlad Sedler
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Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (3/15)
Welcome to the opening Spring Training edition of Groovin’ With Govier! If you’re new here (regulars: skip), I dissect various players and strategies related to the current fantasy baseball landscape. Don’t forget our 2023 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is available right now. Save a couple bones with my promo code MJGOVIER when you sign up so […]
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Michael Govier
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Crossed Up: Outfield Prospects on the Rise
After discussing several infield prospects to target in dynasty leagues who could rise into my top 25 overall rankings this season last week, I’m heading to the outfield today with eight more great names. All eight names listed below are outside my top 50 overall right now, with a few outside my top 100 as […]
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Eric Cross
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Sinking Your Battleship: The Riskiest Fantasy Baseball Picks By Round
Every fantasy baseball season, there are draft picks made that inevitably don’t return a profit from where they are being selected in drafts. Each draft spot should be looked at as an acquisition cost. Returning a profit with your pick(s) or getting close to that number while being able to avoid picks with a negative […]
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Matthew Davis
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The Idiot’s Guide to In-Season Fantasy Baseball Management: Part 2
Last week, I wrote a long-winded intro about my days as a chess player. In chess, there are three stages of the game. There’s an opening, the middle game and the end game (preferably, a checkmate). Instead of writing another intro for Part 2 of this series, I’ve decided to give you the CliffsNotes version […]
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Adam Young
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FTN Fantasy Interview with NFBC Champ Bob Cramutola
The NFBC Main Event overall title is the ultimate crowning achievement in high stakes fantasy baseball. In these 15-team leagues at $1,750 per entry, prizes are earned by the top-three per league as well as the top 30 overall. Last year, the NFBC held a record-high 47 Main Event drafts – some in person (in […]
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Vlad Sedler
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The Read Option, Week 6: Washington Commanders @ Atlanta Falcons
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 Washington Commanders and Atlanta Falcons game for Week 6. Sign up for an FTN subscription today! Week 6 Fantasy Football Breakdown: Washington […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (3/8)
Welcome to the opening Spring Training edition of Groovin’ With Govier! If you’re new here (regulars: skip), I dissect various players and strategies related to the current fantasy baseball landscape. Don’t forget our 2023 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is available right now. Save a couple bones with my promo code MJGOVIER when you sign up so […]
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Michael Govier
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2023 Fantasy Baseball Preview: The Prospect Vault (Prospects 81-100)
This piece is the fourth 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. […]
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Jake Kucheck
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Crossed Up: Infield Prospects on the Rise
In the redraft world, many fantasy managers are in the heart of draft season, drafting their little hearts out. However, in the dynasty world, the 2023 season began as soon as the 2022 season ended. That’s the beauty of dynasty leagues. No matter if you’re contending or rebuilding, you’re always searching for ways to improve […]
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Eric Cross
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Crossed Up: Top 100 Starting Pitchers
With the calendar flipping over to March, the heart of fantasy baseball draft season is upon us. Many of us have been drafting for months now, but this is when draft season really ramps up. In this article, I’ll be ranking my top 100 starting pitchers for the 2023 season with notes on many players […]
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Eric Cross
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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Need for Speed
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 segment will attempt to dig into the need for speed, looking at hitters who grade out with a similar profile, range of outcomes and/or projection. The threshold […]
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Matthew Davis
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The Idiot’s Guide to In-Season Fantasy Baseball Management: Part 1
My dad taught me to play chess when I was 3 years old. By the time I was in middle school, I was a top-10 ranked player in the state of New Jersey. I know what you’re thinking. NERD!   Fortunately, my target audience here is a large group of fantasy baseball players. So jokes […]
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Adam Young
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2023 NFBC Positional Tiers – Relief Pitchers
This is the eighth and final piece in my special preseason series breaking down each position by tiers for the NFBC. This series is a deeper view into the underpinnings of VDP (Vlad’s Draft Positions). Each week’s deep dive allows me to adjust and fine-tune VDP to an optimal setting as we head into the […]
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Vlad Sedler
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Groovin’ with Govier: Fantasy Baseball Roundup (3/1)
Welcome to the opening Spring Training edition of Groovin’ With Govier! If you’re new here (regulars: skip), I dissect various players and strategies related to the current fantasy baseball landscape. Don’t forget our 2023 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is available right now. Save a couple bones with my promo code MJGOVIER when you sign up so […]
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Michael Govier
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Crossed Up: 5 Spring Training Storylines to Watch
We finally made it. Another offseason is in the books, and Spring Training action is finally back in full swing. As more and more spring training games are played, lineups, rotations, bullpens and additional storylines begin to take form. All of which impact the moves we make in the draft room. Below, I’ll be focusing […]
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Eric Cross