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Underdog Best Ball Strategy: Three Man Drafts
If you are looking for fast drafts where your team is full of superstars, look no further than Underdog’s three-man drafts. That's right, there are only three teams and the winner takes all. Three-man drafts create a unique opportunity to take advantage of position scarcity and create positive expected value outcomes with your team. At the […]
Eliot Crist
NFL
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Chicago Bears
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: The Monsters of the Midway. Fantasy Football Booms – Bears Allen Robinson, WR Robinson is the midway […]
Derek Brown
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Fantasy football: Using air yards in your best ball drafts
Raw receiving yardage tells you something about a pass-catcher for fantasy football. But only a little something. Today, we’re going to look at air yards, which is another big piece of the “evaluating a receiver” puzzle. What are air yards? Air yards are the number of total yards the ball travels before reaching a receiver. […]
Eliot Crist
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The perks of play action
(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.) Play action passing is discussed as a Holy Grail of sorts in the NFL world. All of the data supports the notion that play action passes are […]
Tyler Loechner
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Green Bay Packers
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: Some Storied Franchise with an Unhappy Camper. Fantasy Football Booms – Packers Davante Adams, WR Adams is […]
Derek Brown
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Fantasy Football Multiverse: Buffalo Bills
(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 […]
Matt Jones
NFL
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Fantasy football NFL coaching and coordinator breakdown
Fantasy football prep season is heating up. With new players arriving via the NFL Draft and old faces in new places via free agency, it’s time to discuss how these teams will function. Which teams will push the pace? Will the offense feature play-action and deep passing? How will these defensive units stack up to […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Fantasy football: Best ball tournament strategy
Imagine you’re a fish. No, not that kind of fish, that would be too easy. Imagine you’re an actual fish that swims. When you’re young, you’re given a small tank to swim in and as you get bigger and bigger, you’re given bigger and bigger tanks. There’s one problem… no matter how big your tank […]
Andrew Phillips
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Leveraging Schedules in Fantasy Football – Draft Strategy 2021
Schedule analysis is an interesting pool to dip your toe in for fantasy football with this much time before the NFL season kicks off, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have its place. The areas that we can look to attack to find edges in early best ball and redraft leagues are at the […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Top 5 Upside Players in Best Ball for 2021
What is upside in fantasy football? We love to talk about it but rarely define it, because it has so many use cases and it’s an easy out when trying to analyze a player. “He has a lot of speed so he’s got big play upside,” “he has a good matchup so he’s got weekly […]
Eliot Crist
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The target dominators
(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.) People love to talk about what makes an “alpha” WR — but there’s one stat that really captures the meaning better than any other: Team target market […]
Tyler Loechner
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Philadelphia Eagles
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: Fly Eagles, Fly. Fantasy Football Booms – Eagles Jalen Hurts, QB Even with a broken offense around […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Underdog Fantasy: Early look at Best Ball exposure
Having completed 26 of my eventual 150 teams in the Underdog Best Ball Mania II contest, I thought it was a good time to take an early look at my fantasy football exposures for the 2021 NFL season. I try to spread my entries out over time to adjust to both news and ADP, and […]
Eliot Crist
NFL
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Fantasy Football Multiverse: Atlanta Falcons
(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 […]
Matt Jones
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The goal-line vulture
(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.) Vultures are the worst. And I’m not talking about the birds that eat dead animals. You think that sounds bad? How about backup RBs that steal touchdowns […]
Tyler Loechner
NFL
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Who is this year’s Justin Jefferson in fantasy football?
Eliot Crist
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Dallas Cowboys
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: Jerry Jones’ Hobby. Fantasy Football Booms – Cowboys Dak Prescott, QB Early reports are encouraging that Prescott […]
Derek Brown
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: TEs and first downs
(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.) Many players in the upcoming Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) will take a TE much earlier than usual thanks to the unique scoring rules the major tournament features. […]
Tyler Loechner
NFL
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Underdog Best Ball Strategy – Playoff schedules to stack
If you’re entering the Best Ball Mania ll tournament on Underdog Fantasy versus a field of 155,520 other entries, the backbone of solid roster construction that I discuss here is essential to make it past the qualifiers (Weeks 1-14). But also looking at micro-edges to exploit in the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship rounds (Weeks 15-17) will […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day
Not everything that someone digs up in their fantasy football research needs 2,000 words devoted to it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of attention. And so FTN’s own Tyler Loechner is spending the summer offering up his Fantasy Stat of the Day, a daily (almost) look at something interesting he’s found in his […]
Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: WRs and first downs
(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.) The Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) has several unique scoring rules, one of which is that RBs, WRs and TEs get an extra 0.5 points per first down. […]
Tyler Loechner
NFL
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: New York Giants
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: New York’s Blue Man Group. Fantasy Football Booms – Giants Kenny Golladay, WR After an abbreviated […]
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Fantasy Football Multiverse: Arizona Cardinals
(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 […]
Matt Jones
NFL
Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: RB aerial threats
(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.) The Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) is coming up, and it’s the biggest tournament in the season-long fantasy football industry. There are also several unique scoring rules in […]
Tyler Loechner
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Best Ball Strategy with Eliot Crist
Best ball strategy is about trying to capture as much upside as possible, while giving your team the necessary floor to get you through the weeks where your ceiling players don’t have big games so you don’t bottom out. Draft strategy has multiple folds — your rankings, your build type (i.e. zero-RB or similar) and […]
Eliot Crist
NFL
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Washington Football Team
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: The Fightin’ Footballs. Fantasy Football Booms – Football Team Terry McLaurin, WR McLaurin is a budding NFL […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Best ball stacking, Part 4: Multiple WRs from the same team
If you’re playing best ball fantasy football, stacking is a topic that’s hard to avoid. Best ball — especially the large-field tournaments — has a lot of DFS running through its DNA. Volatility in best ball is something that we should target and embrace. Stacking is one way to embrace that volatility. Once you make […]
Matt Jones
NFL
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Underdog Best Ball Stacks to Target
Stacking in DFS has been a profitable strategy for years and the philosophy has carried over to best ball. The goal is to maximize upside; if you’re able to predict one event, it’s easy to get correlated events correct over an entirely separate outcome. In layman’s terms, predicting a quarterback will have a big year […]
Eliot Crist
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The QBs throwing it deep … or not
(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.) Only a few QBs truly excel in deep passing — and Julio Jones might be in for a bit of a surprise in Tennessee if he thinks […]
Tyler Loechner
NFL
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Best ball stacking, Part 3: QB/TE stacks
If you’re playing best ball fantasy football, stacking is a topic that’s hard to avoid. Best ball — especially the large-field tournaments — has a lot of DFS running through its DNA. Volatility in best ball is something we should target and embrace. Stacking is one way to embrace that volatility. Once you make it […]
Matt Jones
NFL
Fantasy
Best fantasy football value for all 32 teams
Dr. Pepper is the most underrated soda in the world. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ordered one, only to be greeted by ridicule and dirty looks. Seriously. For whatever reason, many people don’t enjoy Dr. Pepper like I do. And the same can be said for players throughout the fantasy football landscape. […]
Adam Pfeifer
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Denver Broncos
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: the Denver Donkeys. Fantasy Football Booms – Broncos Javonte Williams, RB Reports are leaking out of Mile […]
Derek Brown