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 “cheat sheets” 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 cheat sheet 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 cheat sheets. At their best, cheat sheets 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 cheat sheet 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.

Some of us fantasy football players just realize that we personally can’t put in the thousands of hours that the pros can, so we look to the experts for a little help and guidance. When we’re really in a time crunch, we may not even read a word these experts say but we’ll gladly download or print their rankings since we know they represent a nicely formatted and to-the-point summary of their player advice. Some of us who think several brains are better than one will actually copy several cheat sheets and combine them into one. Others don’t even care whether the cheat sheets are coming from real experts…they believe in the “wisdom of the crowd” even when they have no idea what the crowd’s credentials are. At the end of the day, whether it’s one expert, several experts, or hundreds of people, we’re all looking for faster and better advice, in the form of a darn good cheat sheet.

With FantasyPros, getting a good cheat sheet will be about as easy as Tiger’s…uh, pitching wedge. Do you believe in “wisdom of the few? Then check out our Accuracy Rankings to pick a good expert to follow. Do you like combining several expert cheat sheets into one? Then you have to check out our Cheat Sheet Wizard that lets you instantly get one consensus list based on the multiple experts you want to include. Do you believe in the “wisdom of the crowd?” Well we’ll have a pretty sweet product for you in the future, but for this draft you can get part of the way there by selecting “all experts” in our Cheat Sheet Wizard.

Now, before you throw sticks and stones at me, I realize that we haven’t launched the aforementioned fantasy tools yet. I’m just cheating a little now so you can cheat a lot later. Hopefully the fact that these products are FREE, will let you cut me some slack. If you register now we will notify you of our launch. Thanks!