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Fantasy Football Multiverse: Los Angeles Rams
(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the road in […]
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Matt Jones
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Fantasy football player profile: Antonio Gibson
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Antonio Gibson) Fantasy football 2021 value – Antonio Gibson The Washington Football Team’s offense is […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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MagicSportsGuide: Previewing the NFC South for 2021
With the start of the 2021 NFL and fantasy football season fast approaching, our own Kevin Adams is going division by division to preview every team in the league from a DFS and betting perspective. Strategy, pace, personnel and more — he’s hitting the season from every angle to help you get ready to put […]
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Kevin Adams
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Fantasy Football Breakouts in 2021
Last week, I published a series on my favorite upside quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends for 2021 fantasy football. And now I ask myself the question: What’s the real difference between a breakout player and an upside player? Here’s my answer: The term “breakout player” might have a different kind of SEO juice. The breakout player […]
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Matthew Freedman
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Fantasy football player profile: Miles Sanders
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Miles Sanders) Fantasy football value 2021 – Miles Sanders Entering the 2020 fantasy season, there […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Hall of Fantasy League – How to play and win
Fantasy football season is exciting. So exciting that you can often find yourself committing to more leagues than you have the bandwidth to manage. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a stake in a league but not be responsible for managing the roster on a week-by-week basis?  Insert the Hall of Fantasy League. What […]
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Joe Metz
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Fantasy football player profile: Jalen Reagor
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Jalen Reagor) Fantasy football value 2021 – Jalen Reagor The Eagles selected Reagor as the […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Freedman’s Fades – Fantasy Football Busts in 2021
I’m a pessimist by nature, so you’d think that I’d love writing a piece about my fantasy football fades for 2021. But that’s not the case. I almost never write about guys I’m fading — and that’s intentional. The longer I’ve been in the industry, the more I’ve realized that most people want positive information, […]
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Matthew Freedman
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Keeper Value Chart for Fantasy Football 2021
Fantasy football keeper leagues are a fun hybrid of the traditional redraft and dynasty formats where you get to carry over players from one season to the next. While these leagues come in all shapes and sizes, the decision on which player to keep can often be a tricky one. If you’re faced with fantasy […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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Fantasy football player profile: Logan Thomas
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Logan Thomas) Fantasy Football Value 2021 – Logan Thomas Logan Thomas finally found a place to […]
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Dom Cintorino
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Red-zone rushing — The risers and fallers for 2021
Touchdowns are maybe the hardest stat to predict in fantasy football. Yearly we chase volume at each position, hoping that the workload for the players we love can outkick variance. Sadly, this isn’t the case, and when we also factor in injuries and personnel changes, the equation can quickly go sideways. As we stand at […]
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Derek Brown
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When to draft in fantasy football: Wide receivers
After tackling the question of when to draft quarterbacks and when to draft running backs in fantasy football, today I’m looking at the wide receiver position. Back in June, I wrote a piece about drafting multiple WRs from the same team. While that’s not technically a traditional “stack,” it was part of my stacking series. I […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL training camp battles to watch: QB/RB
With the NFL preseason and training camp underway, we’ve seen reports left and right of a given player standing out in camp, we’ve seen highlight videos, we’ve seen injury news. This is a pivotal time in the fantasy football world, as the line between what’s impactful information and what isn’t tends to get blurred. With […]
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Joe Metz
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The QBs versus men in the box
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Recent Stat of the Day pieces have taken a look at stats around rushing and the number of defenders in the box on rushing attempts. We’ve looked […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Stock Watch: Fantasy Football ADP Movement (8/11)
Welcome to the fifth edition of Stock Watch, where I take a look at the latest fantasy football ADP movement. The goal here is to identify which players have rising and falling ADPs in fantasy football as we inch closer to the NFL season. I’m looking at NFFC high-stakes drafts that have taken place over […]
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Chris Meaney
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Fantasy football player profile: Cole Kmet
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Cole Kmet) Fantasy Football Value 2021 – Cole Kmet Cole Kmet was the first tight end […]
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Dom Cintorino
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Fantasy football player profile: Jalen Hurts
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Jalen Hurts) Fantasy football value 2021 – Jalen Hurts Entering the 2021 campaign, Jalen Hurts is […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: ARZ
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides of […]
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Derek Brown
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The RBs who had the fewest defenders in the box
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Our last few Stat of the Day pieces have been examining stats around “defenders in the box.” First, we looked at which RBs had to face the […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy Football Rankings – Chris Meaney’s 11-20 RBs in 2021
With training camps open across the league, excitement is in the air, and  2021 fantasy football drafts are starting to heat up. My fantasy football rankings can be found at FTN Fantasy, and there are others who’ve contributed as well to help split the tie if there is one. They are updated daily, so be […]
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Chris Meaney
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Who are this year’s late-round QBs in fantasy football?
The late-round quarterback strategy has been gaining steam over the years in fantasy football as it continues to be an effective one. As the talent pool gets larger and larger at the quarterback position and fantasy leagues continue to refuse to move to superflex format, the quarterback position is devalued. While people will still draft […]
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Eliot Crist
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: LAR
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides of […]
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Derek Brown
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Fantasy football player profile: Mecole Hardman
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Mecole Hardman) Fantasy Football Value 2021 – Mecole Hardman The fifth wide receiver selected in […]
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Dom Cintorino
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: Success against stacked boxes
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Monday, we took a look at which RBs had to face the highest number of defenders in the box on their rushing attempts, on average. New England’s […]
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Tyler Loechner
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10 bold predictions for fantasy football 2021
When it comes to playing fantasy sports, you have to make bold calls. A certain art exists to making bold calls in fantasy football: They should be realistic yet somewhat unlikely and also unorthodox but not overly inflammatory. That’s as true for 2021 as any other year. That’s not an easy needle to thread. But […]
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Matthew Freedman
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Fantasy football draft strategy – How to approach third-round reversal drafts
After reviewing the best fantasy football draft strategy for PPR leagues as well as fantasy football draft strategy for 0.5 PPR leagues, we’re going a bit off the beaten path in this piece, focusing more on the draft structure than the scoring settings of a league. Snake drafts are the most popular drafting format among fantasy football […]
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Joe Metz
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: SEA
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides of […]
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Derek Brown
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Fantasy Football Multiverse: Kansas City Chiefs
(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down the […]
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Matt Jones
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The most defenders in the box
(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) In theory, running the football is a whole lot easier when you don’t have as many defenders near the line of scrimmage trying to stop you. If […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy football player profile: Brandon Aiyuk
(As fantasy football dives headlong into draft season, some players warrant a little extra attention. All August, Dom Cintorino and Adam Pfeifer will do deep dives into some of the notable names. Follow along with our player profiles series. Today’s profile: Brandon Aiyuk) Fantasy football value 2021 – Brandon Aiyuk It just made sense. The San […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Jeff Ratcliffe’s early 2021 fantasy football rankings
It is always fantasy football season, which means it is never too early to rank, and update your rankings throughout the year. When it comes to fantasy football, the most important part of preparation is projections or rankings. For me, rankings helps prepare for fantasy football drafts like no other as it is what we […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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Fantasy football draft strategy – How to approach 0.5 PPR drafts
After reviewing the best fantasy football draft strategy for PPR leagues in my last piece, it’s equally as important to find an edge in other formats. For this piece, specifically, I dove into how you can gain an edge by fully understanding how to approach your 0.5-PPR fantasy football draft. (Take advantage of the FTNFantasy Platinum […]
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Joe Metz