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July 3, 2021

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. […]

Eliot Crist

NFL Bets

July 3, 2021

NFL Betting Props | League Leaders 2021

As we look ahead to the 2021 NFL season, FanDuel Sportsbook has posted odds for league leaders — options to lead the league in passing, rushing and receiving — and there is some excellent value. Those of you who tailed my picks know I love the Sunday specials on who leads the league in yards, […]

Eliot Crist

NFL Fantasy

July 2, 2021

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 […]

Derek Brown

NFL Fantasy

July 2, 2021

Introducing Premium Stats at FTN Fantasy

FTN Staff

NFL Fantasy

July 2, 2021

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 […]

Derek Brown

NFL Bets

July 2, 2021

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 […]

Derek Brown

NFL Fantasy

July 2, 2021

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 […]

Tyler Loechner

NFL Fantasy

July 1, 2021

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 […]

Derek Brown

NFL Fantasy

July 1, 2021

Fantasy football: Beware of too much confidence in a single offense

I'm always reviewing fantasy football draft boards and then taking a look at NFL offenses from a normal football perspective and not a fantasy football lens. What that does is help me evaluate and call out any type of discrepancies that might not make sense or translate to fantasy versus actual football. What I mean […]

Nelson Sousa

NFL Fantasy

July 1, 2021

Introducing FantasyHQ

Eliot Crist

NFL Fantasy

July 1, 2021

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 […]

Matt Jones

NFL Fantasy

July 1, 2021

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 […]

Tyler Loechner

NFL Fantasy

June 30, 2021

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 […]

Derek Brown

NFL Bets

June 30, 2021

How to use a deposit bonus

The easiest way to become a profitable sports bettor is to take advantage of the deposit bonuses offered. No matter how talented you are at picking winners, someone with the added benefit of free money in their account will have a much higher return on their deposit investment than someone who does not have bonus […]

FTN Staff

NFL Fantasy

June 30, 2021

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” […]

Tyler Loechner

NFL Bets

June 30, 2021

Chargers Super Bowl Odds and Futures Picks

Can the Chargers win the Super Bowl? It’s well within their range of outcomes for this season. While that may come as shocking, the closer you look at the roster, the more excited you become to hold a long-shot ticket of +3500 on this team. Last year, I bet on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at […]

Eliot Crist

NFL Bets

June 30, 2021

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

NFL Fantasy

June 29, 2021

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 […]

Derek Brown

NFL Fantasy

June 29, 2021

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 […]

Tyler Loechner

NFL Fantasy

June 29, 2021

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 Fantasy

June 29, 2021

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

NFL Bets

June 28, 2021

NFL Player Props – Two key bets to make

As prop bet lines continued to get released, being on top of them is key. I have written up Josh Allen over 4,130.5 passing yards as an extreme value, and the line has since adjusted, raising by 170 passing yards in the last week alone. Normally I have three player props in these pieces, but […]

Eliot Crist

NFL Fantasy

June 28, 2021

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 Fantasy

June 28, 2021

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

NFL Fantasy

June 28, 2021

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

NFL Bets

June 28, 2021

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

NFL Fantasy

June 28, 2021

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 Fantasy

June 28, 2021

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 Fantasy

June 27, 2021

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

NFL Fantasy

June 27, 2021

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 Fantasy

June 26, 2021

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 Fantasy

June 25, 2021

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