We’ve all cheated before. Maybe not as much as Tiger Woods has, but probably more than we let anyone know about. Oops. Sorry honey, I meant cheating like copying, not the satanic stuff that Tiger was doing! Anyway, in the world of fantasy football, copying really is the greatest form of flattery. The experts even call their own player rankings “cheatsheets” to encourage you to look over their shoulders and copy their answers to the most critical test we face each year – the “Who Should I Draft?” test.

Yeah, yeah, I know it’s called a cheatsheet because it’s YOUR condensed summary that you bring into your draft. But anyone that says they don’t borrow some information from their favorite experts is a bigger liar than Mr. Woods. We love fantasy football cheatsheets. At their best, cheatsheets represent thousands of hours of research and insight boiled down into specific decisions about player values and ranking tiers. Any expert worth their grain of salt will put out a cheatsheet that represents his or her cumulative (and most up to date) fantasy football expertise. Incidentally, this is one of the main reasons why we base our accuracy assessments on rankings and projections instead of general advice.

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With the growing popularity of fantasy football, there is an increasing demand from fantasy owners for advice that can be used to dominate their leagues. As mentioned in our Fantasy Football Experts blog post, there are numerous sites that specialize in providing this advice. In many cases, a paid subscription is necessary to gain access to the advice a site offers. Given that there are so many choices available, it stands to reason that a fantasy owner will want a simple way to compare the different paid subscription services before making a selection.

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There are some who feel there is no better reward for winning a fantasy football league than the resulting bragging rights that are earned.  Despite the priceless nature of these victories, there is a rapidly growing segment of fantasy owners that are taking things to the next level by playing for cash rewards to increase their league stakes. Of course, like anything fantasy football related, there is no shortage of options to choose from for fantasy owners considering this path.

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As any fantasy football owner knows, there is no shortage of fantasy “experts” who claim to offer advice that will help the owner win their league.  While having many options to choose from is great, it does present a problem for fantasy owners who aren’t sure which experts they should trust.

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With most fantasy football drafts right around the corner, now is a great time for fantasy owners to begin practicing for their drafts. Mock draft services are becoming increasingly popular as they offer a great way for fantasy owners to practice their draft strategies and to anticipate the countless scenarios they may face during their real drafts.  With new mock draft services becoming available each year, fantasy owners have more choices than ever when it comes to their draft practicing options.

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Choosing the right fantasy football league management service can make the difference between having an enjoyable or frustrating fantasy experience. The decision impacts the types of leagues you can set up, the ease with which you receive live stat updates, the league communication options available, and the degree to which you can personalize the entire experience to your interests. Not to mention, as fantasy owners you depend upon the reliability of the league platform to process your requests without any interruption or errors. Therefore, it goes without saying that selecting a reliable hosting service is a big decision that requires some thought to ensure your needs will be met.

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Matthew Berry’s intros are getting longer and longer. I wish he would just have a link at the top of his articles that would skip over all the fluff. Kind of like this – if you want to just get to the draft tips, feel free to skip the fluff.

Speaking of the Talented Mr. Roto, I’ve heard a lot of guys say they wish they were Matthew Berry. I’m not one of them. I mean it has to suck to churn out entertaining columns each year – like his latest love/hate list – only to get a truck load of hate mail in return. People clamor to read his stuff but not nearly as much as they clamor to bash him when one of his predictions falls flat. At least in my circles, he’s the guy everyone loves to hate. I don’t care that he makes a good living doing stuff that we do for free, I still feel bad for the dude.

So, I’m doing my part to build up his fan club with new blood. Last week a fantasy rookie asked me for advice on what to read up on to prepare for his draft. I naturally sent him a link to Matthew Berry’s Draft Day Manifesto. Literally 5 minutes later, I got a reply email saying, “Dude, that $#@! is way too long.”  Too long? After he got his feet wet with a few beginner articles, I was going to tell him to check out Matt Waldman’s 740 page Rookie Scouting Report at FootballGuys. Or the 2,500+ fantasy articles you can find on their fantasy content directory, TodayInFantasy.

But I get it. Some people just don’t have the time or interest to “work” at playing fantasy football. And, in retrospect, I guess 10,000+ words for an article on fantasy football draft tips is a bit much even if it’s coming from Mr. Berry (especially when half the words are devoted to fluff). I’m at 350 words of fluff now. So my goal is to do a Draft Manifesto in 1,000 words or less (including the fluff). This Lazy Man’s Manifesto is devoted to the guy that wants to win without doing the “work.”

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I asked Google today and they gave me 864,000 answers. Sure, they had some guys they recommended more than others – their top three listings for “best fantasy football advice” were FFToolbox, FantasySharks, and FantasyFootballCafe – but I’m not sure I trust Google’s opinion when it comes to picking my fantasy advisers. It’s pretty important that I win my league this year, so I’m in search of a more reliable recommendation. This is not a knock on the sites I just mentioned, I just know that Google can’t rate the expert’s expertise when determining who to rank at the top (if they can, we should all be buying their stock).

I also asked my buddy that’s totally addicted to fantasy research. He’s the type that reads every article from every website and is willing to “invest” several hundred dollars on subscriptions, draft kits, and tools to try to win his league…which has a $10 buy-in. This is not a knock on paying for good info. In fact, it’s odd to me that people will readily spend $5 on a non-fat-skinny-latte-extra-hot-hold-the-whip, but won’t fork over a few bucks on something they’ll get hours and hours of enjoyment out of for an entire football season. I just think it’s funny that he really considers it an investment. Kinda like when I go to Vegas and convince myself that #’s 3 & 9 on the roulette wheel are investments that will pay for the trip. Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, his advice to me was, “Don’t ask me, I have no idea. That’s why I just read them all.”

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If you’re like me, you probably wait until a week or two before your league’s draft date to start seriously cramming for the new season. This means catching up on offseason player moves, speed reading through “expert” opinions on sleepers, and trying out a few recommended draft strategies at mock draft sites.

But you’re obviously not like me. I mean, you’re reading a fantasy football article in early July so you aren’t exactly the type that needs to cram. Unless you’re in a whacky league that drafts in July, you’ve got two full months to get yourself mentally and physically prepared for the upcoming season.

Here are the top 5 things I’d do in those two months if I were you…and yes, one involves the pretty lady…

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Now that I got my whining out of my system, I want to tell you a little bit about what we’re up to. We’re really excited about how things are coming along and we’re on target to launch our beta in just a few weeks!

In a nutshell, FantasyPros aggregates and rates expert advice from around the web to make it easy for you to make the best decisions. We want to make it dead simple for you to get fantasy advice you can trust. We’ll do this by:

• Showing you who the best fantasy experts are, based on historical accuracy.
• Providing consensus player rankings from the top fantasy experts.
• Giving you an easy way to compare fantasy advice across multiple experts.

Here’s a little more detail on each…

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