Posts Tagged ‘sportsbuff.com’

FSB Daily 4/11: Jobs, Fantasy Postseason, 30 for 30, Yahoo!, Grumblings

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

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

– CBSSports.com filled the marketing manager position we previously posted but is now in search of a marketing coordinator. Like the manager post, this is a full-time job set in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

– Aspiring fantasy writers should also take a look at the Jobs page and check in with World Fantasy Games.

– Fantasy Postseason has added games for the upcoming NBA and NHL playoffs to its repertoire.

– ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary on fantasy sports, Silly Little Game, will premier on April 20 (a Tuesday) at 8 p.m. This site shows a clip (interview snippets with some members of Daniel Okrent’s original rotisserie baseball league), as well as some re-air dates and times.

– AppleGazette.com gives an “A” to the Yahoo! 2010 fantasy baseball app for the iPhone.

– SportsGrumblings.com’s “supercomputer,” Mighty Max, is now generating weekly and daily player rankings for fantasy baseball.

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FSB Daily 11/3: Fantasy College Blitz, Sports Buff in Vegas, FF Librarian Poll

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– Ladd Biro of the Dallas Morning News takes a look back at what his draft board should have looked like from the fifth spot in a 10-team, “standard”-scoring fantasy football league.

– Vince Mullins of FantasyCollegeBlitz.com and some of his industry peers are into the playoff portion of their pro-am tournament that will donate $400 to a charity chosen by the winner. Don’t look now, but the “amateurs” make up more than 80 percent of the six-team playoff field.

– This year’s top finishers in SportsBuff.com fantasy baseball headed to Vegas before the MLB playoffs to enjoy the spoils and pick their post-season teams. Here’s a look at the strategy they took into the draft and the regular-season salary-cap game.

– The Fantasy Football Librarian wants to find out in November who her readers like to go to for their fantasy advice. (No one would hold it against you if you felt compelled to vote for this guy in the “start/sit” category.)

– Here’s another reviewer who didn’t like FX’s new comedy “The League” and wishes it had taken its fantasy football a bit more seriously.

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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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Fitzgerald Delivers for Sports Buff’s Mr. Fantasy Football

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

In post-season fantasy football, the ability of a player’s team to stick around is just as important as his individual talent. That’s why Aaron Bruski was able to pick up Arizona receiver Larry Fitzgerald with the third selection of Round 2.

Four games later, the wideout’s two-touchdown, 127-yard Super Bowl effort grabbed Bruski the title of Mr. Fantasy Football in SportsBuff.com’s premier salary cap contest, with national champions dating back to its inaugural season in 1993.

Bruski finished fifth in the regular season to join the rest of the top eight finishers and Dave Gawron — who runs the Roto Commando blog and beat 75 fantasy experts in the VIP/Reporters league (finishing three disturbing spots ahead of Yours Truly) — in Vegas for the playoff draft.

Bruski’s Fitzgerald- and Willie Parker-led squad trailed Madonna Montz’s team by 11 heading into the big game but wound up with a comfortable 20-point cushion. Steve Homiak, who was in first place following the regular-season component of the contest, rode Kurt Warner to a third-place finish after using his first playoff pick on DeAngelo Williams.

The group traveled to Las Vegas on Jan. 4 for a three-day stay, conducting its purely serious business at Planet Hollywood. The post-season draft and VIP party took place at the nearby Hawaiian Tropic Bar and Restaurant. Sports Buff has been taking its top finishers on vacation since January 1995, when the first crew took a Carnival Cruise to the Bahamas. (Then again, maybe “vacation” is too favorable a word when you realize that you have to put up with Jeff Thomas the whole time.)

Bruski formerly ran a fantasy site called DreamWired.com and now writes updates for Rotoworld. Had Montz hung on, she would have been Sports Buff’s first Ms. Fantasy Football.

“Madonna’s regular season performance and post-season draft strategy from the sixth spot were extremely impressive, earning the well-deserved respect of the entire Sports Buff Nation,” said Thomas, founder of SportsBuff.com.

Here are the top eight, in order of their regular season finish, along with their first-round picks in the playoff contest:

1. Steve Homiak (Arvada, Colo.) — DeAngelo Williams
2. Rick Adelstein (Solon, Ohio) — Steve Smith
3. Brian Schmidt (Fort Myers, Fla.) — Brian Westbrook
4. Mark Severson (Sleepy Eye, Minn.) — Brandon Jacobs
5. Aaron Bruski (San Jose, Calif.) — Willie Parker
6. Madonna Montz (Belle Chase, La.) — Hines Ward
7. Kerry Bates (Powhatan, Va.) — Chris Johnson
8. Harley Pierce (Paw Paw, Mich.) — Eli Manning

(Note: SportsBuff.com and FantasySportsBusiness.com are owned and operated by World Fantasy Games.)

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