coachbobbyfinstock
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anyone have a recommendation for a Fantasy Football news/analysis site other than RotoWorld? Been using them for a long time, without getting into it, I'd like to start using a different resource.
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Ramblin Wreck
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PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
FantasyTrader
Footballguy
Two posts and /thread. KFFL and Twitter covers it all.
QuizGuy66
Footballguy
Brock Middlebrook
Footballguy
Who do you follow on twitter?
Illegal Pants Downfield
Footballguy
coachbobbyfinstock
Footballguy
they've gotten real sloppy. no longer update as often.
Cecil Lammey
Footballguy
Obviously biased but you can check out our News wire here. It's powered by KFFL but features commentary from me and Sigmund Bloom.
http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/news.php
You can also subscribe to our free daily newsletter, which takes the best news stories of the day and rounds them up in one email for you, with Joe Bryant's takes in addition to me and Bloom.
http://footballguys.com/updates.php
http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/news.php
You can also subscribe to our free daily newsletter, which takes the best news stories of the day and rounds them up in one email for you, with Joe Bryant's takes in addition to me and Bloom.
http://footballguys.com/updates.php
Ditka is God
Footballguy
Wow ... I can't believe I missed that one. Good link. Thanks.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Uhm, ok, doing this now. Thank you, was not previously aware of it.RW is dead to me.
tim_whatley
Footballguy
Daily emails are great. I am glad you guys decided to continue them during the season this year.
loose circuits
Footballguy
looking at their info, looks like shoddy writing:
have these guys not watched Philly games, but claim to know what's going on? Lewis has been the back-up past 2 weeks and Ronnie Brown has been on the bench
footballnerd
Footballguy
start with Sigmund and Cecil and pick from their lists
massraider
Footballguy
There are excellent threads here, just do a search for Twitter.
I stopped going there a couple years ago because of poor advice/commentary. I go back there to check it out again and look at their player rankings this week. Some gems: Garcon the #3 WR in standard leagues, Mike Thomas the #8 WR, Mohamed Massaquoi #13, Pettigrew the #1 Tight End in standard leagues, Cam Newton ranked behind Colt McCoy. I'd challenge their guys to actually field a lineup based on their recommendations.I'm staying away.
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Ditka is God
Footballguy
Thanks!
FantasyTrader
Footballguy
See, I call that thinking for themselves. Over the last three weeks only Jimmy Graham and Jason Witten have outscored Pettigrew. If the third highest scoring TE the last three weeks being ranked #1 vs. a good TE matchup is throwing you for a loop then it sounds to me like anything outside of standard cookie-cutter rankings isn't your cup of tea. I'll give you that some of their WR calls are a little out there, but give me that every day of the week (backed by sound reasoning) over a set of rankings based on little more than last week's box scores.
J Giles Band
Footballguy
I'm a big FBG's proponent, but breaking player news is definitely not a strength. I've usually seen it three or four places before here. The company line in the past has been they prefer to sacrifice being first to break news for accuracy. No qualm with that and I do find FBG's analysis better thought out and more reliable. I think FBG's simply decided that player news isn't their niche because I've found them to be the best at the things they want to be the best at.
I guess it comes down to whether you simply want the most up-to-date news or are looking for analysis. When looking for the latest player news, I typically do so without regard to analysis (don't always need someone to explain to me the implications). Twitter definitely can't be beat in terms of timing, but for a one stop shop, Rotoworld is still the best place I've found for the latest player news until someone does a better job of it.
That said, I am in agreement with the OP that Rotoworld has a tendency to get sloppy with their analysis. Their initial blurbs are often filled with inaccuracies (sometimes cleaned up later). I attribute that to an increased presence of less experienced staff doing the news. Gregg Rosenthal spends most of his time at Pro Football Talk now and only appears to pitch in with the weekly player rankings at Rotoworld. Evan Silva and Chris Wessling do a great job, imho, but they can't do everything and the rest of the crew is suspect.
I guess it comes down to whether you simply want the most up-to-date news or are looking for analysis. When looking for the latest player news, I typically do so without regard to analysis (don't always need someone to explain to me the implications). Twitter definitely can't be beat in terms of timing, but for a one stop shop, Rotoworld is still the best place I've found for the latest player news until someone does a better job of it.
That said, I am in agreement with the OP that Rotoworld has a tendency to get sloppy with their analysis. Their initial blurbs are often filled with inaccuracies (sometimes cleaned up later). I attribute that to an increased presence of less experienced staff doing the news. Gregg Rosenthal spends most of his time at Pro Football Talk now and only appears to pitch in with the weekly player rankings at Rotoworld. Evan Silva and Chris Wessling do a great job, imho, but they can't do everything and the rest of the crew is suspect.
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footballnerd
Footballguy
MFL player news is pretty good about rounding up Rotoworld, KFFL, etc news posts in a timely manner. Not sure if its for subscribers only tho.
For FBG breaking news, Joe sends out individual emails, there's a little delay but decent insight comes with it.
Tell you the truth, not too much beats your very own Shark Pool for the latest and greatest.
For FBG breaking news, Joe sends out individual emails, there's a little delay but decent insight comes with it.
Tell you the truth, not too much beats your very own Shark Pool for the latest and greatest.
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eric rymer
Footballguy
'footballnerd said:
pretty much all of the staffers and who they follow. Jay Glazer, Adam Schefter, Chris mortensen, Jason LaCanfora. great resource.
massraider
Footballguy
Here is why people prefer RotoWire to KFFL:
That's from KFFL. If you want as many people as possible to read your news source, you gotta parse this stuff down a bit. And I am talking more about FBGs than KFFL. KFFL does the, 'here it is, all the news, you sort it out' thing. Rotowire picks and chooses, and they do a good job, but sometimes leave out some stuff that may be interesting to those in deep leagues, or IDP. That's the main reason I still use Rotoworld, their news wire is user friedly, and I am not trying to sort through that mess above just to find out that Nick Mangold didn't practice.
Ditka is God
Footballguy
You can call it thinking for themselves, but I call it being different just for the sake of being different. I understand the Pettigrew call. It's the least egregious, but who's going to start him over Witten and Graham? Garcon, Mike Thomas, and Massaquoi at 3, 8, and 13. Sadly, I am actually starting all 3 in a league where I have the worst WRs ever. They won't top the 50 points combined to get them to those rankings.'FantasyTrader said:
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
I guess it depends on what you are looking for. I'm looking for news, not advice or rankings.'De Novo said:
You pretty much spelled out why I prefer KFFL and rarely if ever look at RW.'massraider said:
wiscstlatlmia
Footballguy
I think using a combination of all of these resources is the best idea.
eric rymer
Footballguy
just to add a twitter tidbit....Jeff Tefertiller just tweeted a few must follows for twitter. So once you've signed up make sure you add all the FBG's and check Jeff's recent tweets for some more good ones. 
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Am I crazy or did RW inaccurately suggest that Dan Orlovsky was let go by the Colts?
http://www.rotoworld.com/playernews/related/nfl/3227/dan-orlovsky
http://www.rotoworld.com/playernews/related/nfl/3227/dan-orlovsky
They get their news directly from rotowire, rotoworld, huddle, etc...and get it to you slower.
Multiple Scores
Footballguy
Here is an interesting one on Dwayne Bowe, keep in mind that he is currently WR #5 and they had him as the 8th WR off their board in their midseason mock they just put out.
(Rotoworld) Dwayne Bowe caught four passes for 62 yards in the Chiefs' Week 8 win over the Chargers.
Analysis: The good news is that he was targeted a team-high 11 times. The bad news is that he and Matt Cassel don't figure to be much more efficient anytime soon. If this is his "floor," however, he'll continue to post WR2 numbers with good upside. Rookie Jonathan Baldwin's insertion into the lineup should help, and next week's opponent Miami gives up the seventh-most fantasy points to WRs.
(Rotoworld) Dwayne Bowe caught four passes for 62 yards in the Chiefs' Week 8 win over the Chargers.
Analysis: The good news is that he was targeted a team-high 11 times. The bad news is that he and Matt Cassel don't figure to be much more efficient anytime soon. If this is his "floor," however, he'll continue to post WR2 numbers with good upside. Rookie Jonathan Baldwin's insertion into the lineup should help, and next week's opponent Miami gives up the seventh-most fantasy points to WRs.
Twitter is the best. It's become essential for me. It even allows me to ask Bloom my dumb/obvious questions when I can't see the forest through the trees. 
My essential Follow List is probably similar to a lot of people's on here:
-Cecil Lammey (@cecillammey)
-Sigmund Bloom (@SigmundBloom)
-Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman)
-Will Carroll (@injuryexpert)
-The Audible (@TheAudible)
-Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter)
-Jason LaConfora (@JasonLaCanfora)
I use Lammey/Bloom/Audible for fantasy advice, Schefter/LaCanfora for news (you'll get repeat here, but cover your bases), Carroll for injury analysis, and Waldman for deeper football stuff. If you're an IDP guy add @JeneBramel to that list as well.
My essential Follow List is probably similar to a lot of people's on here:
-Cecil Lammey (@cecillammey)
-Sigmund Bloom (@SigmundBloom)
-Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman)
-Will Carroll (@injuryexpert)
-The Audible (@TheAudible)
-Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter)
-Jason LaConfora (@JasonLaCanfora)
I use Lammey/Bloom/Audible for fantasy advice, Schefter/LaCanfora for news (you'll get repeat here, but cover your bases), Carroll for injury analysis, and Waldman for deeper football stuff. If you're an IDP guy add @JeneBramel to that list as well.
Just to put a finer point on how terrible their rankings are. The 4 rankings I called out a couple weeks back were not just really bad as I suspected, but truly horrific in hindsight.Garcon ranked #3 - finished #43 that week.
Mike Thomas ranked #8 - finished #80 that week
Massaquoi ranked #13 - finished #67 that week
Pettigrew ranked #1 - finished #21 that week
You'd have to try hard to do worse than that. I'm staying away from their site.
FantasyTrader
Footballguy
59 out of 69 sites are apparently trying harder and succeeding. http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/accuracy/At least through 8 weeks...
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