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Exploring FTN Data: Brick Wall Rate
Brick wall rate: The percentage of short yardage runs that don’t result in a first down or touchdown. With the launch of FTN Data’s new site we thought it was important to spotlight some of our new Insider Stats that will be commonly seen and talked about at both FTN Fantasy and FTN Data. Here […]
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Brett Whitefield
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NFL Fantasy
Exploring FTN Data: Gash Rate Allowed
Gash rate allowed: The percentage of runs allowed that go for 10 yards or more. With the launch of the new FTN Data site this summer we continue our series spotlighting some of the Insider Stats that will be commonly seen and talked about at both FTN Fantasy and FTN Data. Here we take a […]
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Brett Whitefield
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NFL Fantasy
Exploring FTN Data: Playmaker Score
Playmaker Score: A weighted composite score, normalized on a scale of 0-100, which quantifies a pass-catcher’s ability to make extraordinary plays relative to opportunity. Taken into account are explosive plays, deep receptions, work after the catch, created receptions and separation. Traditional stats like first downs, touchdowns and drops also factor into the score slightly. Introducing […]
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Brett Whitefield
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NFL Fantasy
Exploring FTN Data: QBs Under Pressure
We continue along in our series Exploring FTN Data. Our new website along with a plethora of new amazing tools will launch sometime this summer so we are taking the opportunity to talk about a lot of the different metrics and insider stats that will be commonly mentioned over at FTN Data and FTN Fantasy. […]
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Brett Whitefield
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NFL Fantasy
Using offensive line stats in fantasy football
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Eliot Crist
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The Konami Code cousins
(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.) FTN’s Eliot Crist recently wrote a must-read piece on the fantasy dominance of rushing QBs —also known as Konami Code QBs. The gist of it is that […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Multiverse: Carolina Panthers
(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 […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: RB yards-after-contact leaders
(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.) Breaking tackles is important for any skill position in football, but it’s arguably most important for RBs, who often face pressure from the defense as soon as […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
2021 Scott Fish Bowl 11 Draft Strategy
The Scott Fish Bowl is one of the biggest season-long fantasy football events of every summer. The charity aspects of it are amazing, but let’s not pretend that everyone that enters isn’t trying to seize first place. The scoring format changes yearly as Scott Fish flips positional values on their head while adding wrinkles that […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Scott Fish Bowl Scoring and Rules Breakdown 2021
The Scott Fish Bowl, known as the SFB, is the most well-known season-long fantasy competition in the fantasy football world. The massive Pro-Am is done for charity, but that doesn’t mean the competition isn’t fierce. To mix things up each year, the league commissioner, Scott Fish, adds a twist to scoring or drafting. This year, […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Cheat Code – Find QBs that Run
The Konami code — Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. It often meant the difference between life and death in a video game back in the 1980s. In fantasy football, we refer to quarterbacks with rushing upside as the Konami Code as they bring life to a fantasy football roster. […]
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Eliot Crist
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football NFL coaching & coordinator breakdown: New York Jets
(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 […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Introducing Premium Stats at FTN Fantasy
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Minnesota Vikings
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: Skol, Skol, Skol! Fantasy Football Booms – Vikings Dalvin Cook, RB Cook is the shifty, tackle-breaking engine […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The tackle-breaking tight ends
(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 this week’s Stat of the Day pieces, we’ve looked at the RBs and WRs that are able to elude the most tackles per touch. Some big […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football NFL coaching & coordinator breakdown: Patriots
(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 […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Introducing FantasyHQ
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Eliot Crist
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Multiverse: Baltimore Ravens
(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 […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The tackle-breaking wide receivers
(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 Wednesday’s Stat of the Day article, we wrote about the RBs who were able to elude the most tackles per touch. (Not surprisingly, advanced stat king […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy football NFL coaching & coordinator breakdown: Miami Dolphins
(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 […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The tackle-breaking running backs
(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.) We wrote Tuesday about how not every rushing attempt is an equal opportunity for RBs to rack up the yards because certain running backs face “stacked boxes” […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy football NFL coaching and coordinator breakdown: Buffalo Bills
(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 […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: Running against 8-man 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.) Not all running backs are created equal — and not every rushing attempt is an equal opportunity for RBs to rack up the yards. If the defense […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
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 […]
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Derek Brown
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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 […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
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 […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
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 […]
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Matt Jones
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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 […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
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 […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
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 […]
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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 […]
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Derek Brown
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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 […]
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Matt Jones