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FF Crystal Ball Finds Fantasy Football Trader Most Accurate

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

The “ranking the rankers” portion of the fantasy football pie has seen some growth over the past couple of years, and one recent entry announced its 2010 results on Thursday.

FantasyFootballCrystalBall.com (in conjunction with FFSpin.com) tracked weekly position rankings throughout the season and found FantasyFootballTrader.com the most accurate site for 2010.

FF Trader came out tops in projecting running backs, wide receivers and defense/special teams units for the season and also finished fifth for tight ends. FOXSports.com, which came in second overall, carried the quarterback and tight end positions, with FantasyFootballJungle.com placing No. 1 for kickers.

FF Trader and FOX were the only two sites to rank among the top five for each half of the NFL season. KFFL proved tops for the first half of the year, while FF Trader was the second-half leader.

The Crystal Ball/FF Spin contest included 19 fantasy sites.

That announcement comes the week after FantasyPros.com unveiled its top five performers in weekly ranking accuracy as part of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association conference. They were:

1. John Paulsen of The Scores Report

2. David Dodds of Footballguys.com

3. Andy Behrens of Yahoo!

4. Josh Moore of 4for4.com

5. Site rankings from FantasyFootballNerd.com

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FSB Daily 2/2: Biro, Job Opening, Fantasy Movies, PFT

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– Ladd Biro gets the proper treatment from his local newspaper following his Fantasy Football Writer of the Year award from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association last week.

– This job posting calls for a full-time senior financial analyst for a fantasy sports company. The best news: The salary apparently falls somewhere within the tight range of $0 to $120,000.

– The Wall Street Journal tells the story of a fantasy movie league that’s actually made up of Hollywood types.

– In Monday’s edition of PFT Live, Mike Florio and Gregg Rosenthal discussed how fantasy football might keep many from viewing Ben Roethlisberger as an elite quarterback.

Send all of your news, job postings, stories and profile ideas to matt.schauf@worldfantasygames.com. Follow us on Twitter (FSBcom).

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FSB Daily 1/31: Neyer, ESPN, Meat Loaf, WCOFF, Fantasy Fishing

Monday, January 31st, 2011

A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– As he points out, Rob Neyer was hired 15 years ago by Starwave to edit fantasy content for the initial iteration of ESPN.com. On Monday, he produced his final piece for ESPN.

– Sprint ID devices earlier this month launched the ESPN Pack, which enables fantasy-team management on the go, among other things.

– To anyone familiar with his fantasy prowess, it should come as no surprise that Meat Loaf knocked off Jerry Cantrell to win the ESPN-publicized Alice In Chains & Friends Fantasy Football Charity League.

– Tony Windis and his girlfriend will be finishing their 2010 football season in Dallas this weekend at the Super Bowl, thanks to Windis’ victory in the World Championship of Fantasy Football. Oh yeah, he’ll have $300,000 to kick around as well.

– The Fantasy Fishing game from FLW Outdoors gained immediate attention by handing out $1 million grand prizes in each of its first two seasons before dipping to a $50,000 top amount last year. The 2011 season opened recently and will close with a $100,000 lead prize.

– Even if ice fishing ain’t necessarily your bag (baby), this guy has the right idea with creating a fantasy-type scoring system for other activities in your life. After all, that’s how all these fantasy sports got their start anyway.

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Bruno Boys, Draft Sharks Lead 2010 Fantasy Football Accuracy

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Bruno Boys and Draft Sharks led the way in year four of the Accuracy Challenge created by the Fantasy Football Librarian.

Announced by co-manager Donnie Campbell of TheMostCredible.com at the Fantasy Sports Trade Association awards dinner Tuesday night in Las Vegas — and via The New York TimesFifth Down blog Wednesdsay — the Accuracy Challenge recognized Bruno Boys for delivering the most accurate set of preseason fantasy football rankings in 2010.

Draft Sharks, meanwhile, stood alone atop the ranks in football stat projections, edging 2009 winner RotoHog.

Not to be pushed aside, RotoHog managed to come out on top for the second straight year in baseball projections.

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