How does it get better than having one of your writers outperform a group of experts? How about taking the top two spots?

Fantasy columnist Jeff Thitoff of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch ran a weekly competition called Rating the Experts this season, where he had a group of fantasy football writers project top performers each week. Overall, it was Jonathan Phillips and Paul Bourdett of RotoExperts who finished first and second, respectively.

ESPN’s Eric Karabell, Michael Cooper of Cooper Sports Radio and Jared Smola of Draft Sharks rounded out the top five.

Thitoff said in an accompanying podcast that the scoring margin wasn’t large among the top seven finishers or so, still 1-2 is about as good as a fantasy site can hope for.

Congratulations to the pair of Experts for outexperting the other experts.

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– His occupation as a Utah Jazz beat writer and preoccupation with fantasy basketball can meet somewhat awkwardly for Jim Burton of the (Ogden, Utah) Standard-Examiner. It does seem to have helped him connect with Jazz center Mehmet Okur, though.

– Jan Hubbard of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram tells of the long-time Larry Bird League set up to follow the Celtics great’s player rating system. Hubbard also learned that if you’re going to trade Bird in his namesake league, you should at least keep it a secret from him.

– Cal Spears has noticed some issues with ballot-stuffing on FantasyTeamNames.net and is imploring users to police themselves.