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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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FF Librarian Takes a Week Off for Good Reason

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

A quick check of Sara Holladay’s blog at FFLibrarian.com will make it look like any other day during football season. You’ll find a post with some links to other resources that she thinks are worth sharing for mining fantasy football wisdom.

The difference is, Holladay posted today’s item about eight hours after giving birth to her first child.

She and her husband welcomed their son into the world shortly before noon Eastern time, unfortunately fighting off the urge to name him Anquan or Tamba after the most recent AFC offensive and defensive players of the week.

Congratulations to Scott and Sara, who has been a friend to various writers throughout the fantasy industry since kicking off her Librarian efforts back in 2006. May they adjust quickly to life devoid of sleep, free time and sanity for at least the next 18 years.

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FF Librarian’s Accuracy Challenge Open for New Season

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

There are an ever-growing number of “experts” out here in fantasyland and a new segment of ranking-the-rankers type outlets cropping up. The FF Librarian, however, is heading into her fourth season of holding the pros’ opinions against them.

Sara Holladay, the aforementioned Fantasy Football Librarian — collaborating with Donnie Campbell of TheMostCredible.com and Bill Green of FantasyDispute.com — has announced the opening of Season 4 of her Accuracy Challenge and the third to be affiliated with the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.

As part of this challenge, anyone with an online fantasy football outlet and published rankings and/or projections can submit for judgment, with the results announced at the FSTA’s winter conference as well as reported via FFLibrarian.com and The New York Times‘ Fifth Down blog.

Rankings and projections are due before 8:30 p.m. Eastern Sept. 9, which is the approximate time for kickoff of the season-opening Saints-Vikings game (as if you didn’t know). Late submissions will be accepted, as long as the organizers can verify that the lists were published before the first game.

Entrants must submit rankings for their top 25 quarterbacks, 50 running backs, 50 wide receivers and 20 tight ends in Excel format. The template for projections submissions can be downloaded via the FSTA website.

Past overall winners included CBSSports.com in 2009, Fantazzle.com in 2008 and Ask the Commish in 2007, (under what appeared to be a different scoring format).

Rankings entries should go to fflibrarian@gmail.com.

Projections entries should be sent to FSTA.Accuracy.Contest@gmail.com, dc@themostcredible.com, greenbill@fantasydispute.com and fflibrarian@gmail.com.

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FSB Daily 8/17: FF Tech, Fantasy Alarm, Pro Tour, Buffalo Wild Wings

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

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

– This Carroll Country Times article calls some attention to the changing landscape of fantasy football in relation to advancing technology. (Oh yeah, and they also interviewed a top-notch source … and me.)

– Fantasy sports news outlet FantasyAlarm.com announced it has acquired Fighting Chance Fantasy, a content outlet. The two will be merged into a single brand under the Fantasy Alarm banner.

– This gaming writer opines that fantasy sports should be considered gaming. One question: Does it really matter? Do those of you who operate fantasy games consider it “gaming”?

Pro Tour Fantasy Golf is rolling out two new offerings for the fall portion of the season: FedEx Cup and Fall Series contests. In addition, the company has introduced a private-league platform that caters to country clubs and their members.

– Sara Holladay, better known as the FF Librarian, will be back in the Buffalo Wild Wings Fantasy Football League, competing against the 11 other bloggers and/or fantasy folks revealed in this press release. Holladay won a trip to the Super Bowl for her 2009 title.

– One female uses the Yahoo! Answers portal to ask, “Why is my boyfriend obsessed with fantasy sports?” Um, is that a rhetorical question?

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