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.

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