2020 Franchise Player List

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The 2020 Franchise Player deadline has passed and 65 players will be returning to action with their same team…This is 1 more than last year…why do we need all those weeks when we can get the same results in 4 days?…We did have a Franchise Player in every eligible round and at least 1 Player franchised at every position…This is the 3rd Season in a row where the Undrafted Free Agent Round was not fully utilized…

The full position breakdown:

36 Wide Receivers
15 Running Backs
11 Quarterbacks
2 Defenses
1 Kicker

The complete listing is below…now sortable by Pick or Franchise…and searchable to narrow down by position. (more…)

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2019 Potential Franchise Players

Quick FAQ:
UFA = Undrafted Free Agent
The number shown for 2018 is the round the player was drafted in.
The number shown for 2019 is the lowest round that player can be franchised.
If you want to franchise two players with the same number (i.e. 7) one can be held in the 7th round, while the other will have to be held in the 6th or higher round.
The Franchise Player Deadline is Sunday, August 18, 2019.

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2016 Franchise Player List

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The 2016 Franchise Player deadline has passed and 74 players will be returning to action with their same teams…Interesting in that it is only 3 less Franchise Tags than last year…but much more talent seems to be available at the top of the draft…essentially a full 6.17 rounds of the 2016 TBFL Draft are completed before we even begin. At least 2 players were franchised into every eligible round and all 5 positions were tagged.

The full position breakdown:

38 Wide Receivers
23 Running Backs
10 Quarterbacks
2 Defenses
1 Kicker

The complete listing is below…now sortable by Pick or Franchise…and searchable to narrow down by position. (more…)

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2015 Franchise Player List

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The 2015 Franchise Player deadline has passed and 77 players will be returning to action with their same teams…this is the most since 2012…and 1 short of the record set in 2010 (78 for math challenged)…essentially a full 6.33 rounds of the 2015 TBFL Draft are completed before we even begin. It was quiet for a few weeks…but everyone came alive in the last couple days with a flurry of trading…resulting in a player being franchised in every possible round.

No Kickers received tags this year.

The full position breakdown:

41 Wide Receivers
25 Running Backs
8 Quarterbacks
3 Defenses

The complete listing is below…now sortable by Pick or Franchise…and searchable to narrow down by position. (more…)

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Statistically Speaking – Husslenomicon

Statistically Speaking

As we continue our march toward the Franchise Player deadline (Today at Noon EST) I am running through last year’s TBFL prediction posts…Husslers started a new column in 2014 (that I hope continues into the current year) where he made his weekly predictions and Smack Talk runs called…HUSSLENOMICS…

His 1st post appeared on the Message Board HERE and is preserved for posterity HERE as well…Let’s get to it…
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Statistically Speaking – Podium Breakdown

Statistically Speaking

As we continue our march toward the Franchise Player deadline (This Sunday at Noon EST) I am running through last year’s TBFL prediction posts…Every couple of years…Playground Legends owner Danny Miller emerges from the shadows like a forgotten spectre…then rises up to lay down a surprise rant of Smack Talk toward his fellow owners…how long these rants will last until Danny disappears silently back into the ether…no one ever knows…
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Statistically Speaking – 2015 BAT-tleship

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Not a good sign that I am starting the 2015 TBFL season behind by 2 weeks…especially when I only have 6 days to go till the moved up Franchise Player Deadline (Sunday August 23rd for those not paying attention)…I managed to post every week in 2014 on schedule…and to keep things rolling along…we continue the now tradition of grading the previous year predictions.  Last year we had 4 teams participate and each will get a detailed breakdown…but we start as always with a new edition of BAT-tleship and the post Draft predictions of our perennial Fantasy Bowl participant Bay Area Thrashers…The original post can be found HERE…but since MyFantasyLeague will eventually stop archiving it…it is preserved for posterity HERE as well…As in our past posts…each prediction will be examined and then graded as either:

HitA *HIT*
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MissA *MISS* (more…)

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