Posts Tagged ‘matt schauf’

FSB Daily 1/6: ‘Expert’ Edition No. 1

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

It might not be the ultimate measure of who can offer you the best fantasy advice, but with so many “experts” floating around the industry these days, it’s always interesting to see how they (or we) fare in direct competition. Share your “expert” league/contest results with us, and we just might pass them along to our readership.

These items (and others) can also be found on the FSB News page.

– What did your last victory in an “expert” league (or home league, for that matter) get you? Pride? Some online publicity? A little money? Well, Sara Holladay — better known as the FF Librarian — will be heading to the Super Bowl next month thanks to her win in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bloggers League.

– Jeff Thitoff of 411Fantasy.com has put the wraps on another season of the Experts Contest that be brought from his days with The Columbus Dispatch. The 2009 title went to Thitoff’s 411Fantasy colleague and fellow Dispatch veteran Adam Conn. Although you’ll find my name tied for second in the Week 17 rankings, you’ll have to scroll down farther in the full season edition to find me at 12th. (That’s no place to boast about, but I will at least say that I know of some prominent competitors who finished lower.) A lesser man might call shenanigans on a contest won by one of the hosts. Fortunately, I’m above that.

– The fantasy football draft that opened last June’s Fantasy Sports Trade Association summer conference filled three leagues, which were won by Fantazzle’s Ryan Parr, a RotoWorld team represented by Rick Wolf and lawyer Glenn Colton and Team RapidDraft, piloted by Yours Truly (with draft help from former colleague Caitlin Morrall). The most surprising note, however, has to be that none of the three championship squads sported Tennessee’s Chris Johnson.

As always, send all of your news, job postings, stories and profile ideas to FantasySportsBusiness@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter (FSBcom).

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Get My Fantasy Spin During the Draft

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

The Fantasy Sports Channel certainly won’t be the only place to get opinions on the fantasy impact of all the selections made in Radio City Music Hall this weekend.

Yours truly (that’s Matt Schauf, for those who’ve yet to meet me) and maybe a few of my World Fantasy Games colleagues will also be following the draft action and providing insight into what each pick means on the fantasy front for the rookies and their teammates.

Follow along with the player updates at either SportsBuff.com or ProFantasySports.com.

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Personal Profile: Matt Schauf

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Who: Matt Schauf
What: the voice of FSB

As I go through the industry and ask various people to tell me who they are, I think it’s only fair that I tell you all who I am, beyond the professional stuff that you can read on the About Us page. (OK, maybe we’ll use the professional stuff as a starting point.)

Rather than writing a self-indulgent profile in the normal format and expect anyone to read through, I’ll use the quick-hit format I used to love reading in Baseball Digest and hate getting as a 200-category e-mail forward.

Occupation: Manuscript editor with a legal publishing company

Preoccupation: Senior fantasy football writer/associate editor, SportsBuff.com; Publisher/lead writer, FantasySportsBusiness.com

Education: Ithaca College, bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in sport studies

Work background: Copy editor and page designer at The Daily Star in Oneonta, N.Y.; same position at Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y.

Proudest journalistic accomplishment: Writing an editorial to honor Dr. Seuss in The Daily Star in full Seuss language

Fantasy background: Played football and baseball since 1998; began writing “Fantasy Island” football column for The Daily Star in 2002; joined ProFantasySports.com in 2005 (which became part of the Sports Buff family in January 2008)

Best fantasy pick: LaDainian Tomlinson as a rookie in my keeper league

Worst: Lee Evans in 2007, with Randy Moss still on the board (I just made myself mad again.)

Favorite sport: Football — It was baseball until I played center and guard on my high school football team.

Sport in which I think I could make the U.S. Olympic team: Badminton

Favorite teams: Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Cubs, Carolina Tarheels (basketball), in that order — yeah, baseball and football seasons have been tough my whole life

Favorite athletes: Brian Dawkins, Donovan McNabb, Sammy Sosa (before), Frank Thomas (before he started whining), Antawn Jamison (in college)

Favorite experience as a sports fan: Watching the Eagles beat up Tampa Bay, 21-3, in the playoffs New Year’s Eve in 2000 from three rows behind the end zone

Least favorite: The Bartman game (No, I don’t blame him.)

Family status: Married, one adorable daughter who will turn 2 in December and begin dating at 32, kid No. 2 (a girl, I’m sure) on the way in January

Sleep: Nonexistent

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