I can provide some background on this.
There were benefits and drawbacks associated with being included in the FantasyPros rankings. Our standings in their accuracy rankings, especially David’s, were only ever considered a benefit. (Not
just David’s. I also did
pretty well and was improving each year, and
Bob Henry’s preseason rankings are legendary. I’ll stop naming names, but the list doesn’t end there.) When we decided to withdraw from being included, I promise that “we should pull out because after multiple years of David being in the
top 7%, he had a couple years that were merely solidly above-average, leaving him with a top 20% career mean” was not part of our reasoning. We decided that letting a competitor use our paid content, for free, to compete against us for market share, wasn’t our best business strategy. It was a tough decision because we really liked being stacked up against other prognosticators (honestly), but we thought their business model wasn’t compatible with ours.