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High Stakes Fantasy Baseball/Football Analyst · Aug 17, 2026

2026 Fantasy Baseball: NFBC Main Event Week 22 Free Agent Bidding Recap

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Shawn Childs · High Stakes Fantasy Baseball/Football Analyst

2026 NFBC Main Event Pickups and Drops Week 22

Combined across all their transactions:

  • Average winning bid: $38.44

  • Average runner-up bid: $21.20

(If instead you want the average of each player’s own average, rather than pooling all their transactions together, it’s $36.56 winning / $20.04 runner-up — close either way.)

Joshua Baez dominates the top-20 board — 18 of the 20 biggest bids of the week were on him.

Joshua Baez is in a class of his own — he not only tops the spend list but has by far the highest per-bid average ($159.84), driven by the $500 headline bid.

  • Average winning bid: $12.88

  • Average runner-up bid: $5.90

  • Average winning bid: $9.82 (vs. $12.88 with him included — a $3.06 drop)

  • Average runner-up bid: $3.95 (vs. $5.90 with him included — a $1.95 drop)

Baez alone pulled the whole week’s average up by roughly 30%, which tells you just how much of an outlier that $500 bid (and his other big prices) was relative to the rest of the pickup pool.

Here’s a list of the number of waiver wire adds for each week in the main event:

Week 1: 417

Week 2: 1,330

Week 3: 1,742

Week 4: 1,869

Week 5: 2,117

Week 6: 2,091

Week 7: 2,037

Week 8: 2,202

Week 9: 2,053

Week 10: 2,159

Week 11: 2,168

Week 12: 1,946

Week 13: 1,924

Week 14: 1,694

Week 15: 1681

Week 16: 1,619

Week 17: 1,539

Week 18: 1,111

Week 19: 1,489

Week 20: 1,657

Week 21: 1,986

Week 22: 1,571

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