southeastjerome
Footballguy
Usually some combo of Wood, Bloom, Dodds, Waldman and Henry.
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Which FBG Writer do you trust the most? (1 Viewer)
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Tampa Buc
Footballguy
Realize this topic is for redraft projections but just last week I emailed Dodds why PPR projections are not getting any love with having a lot less "experts" doing projections. Usually there are twice as many experts for standard scoring than for PPR at all the positions. All I asked was for FFG to be more fair and balanced. As of today, I have received no respose. Isn't the general feeling among players that PPR scoring is becomming more popular?
I also asked why Bloom could not be part of the PD experts since I depend on his #'s alot when the Lineup Dominator comes out. Since he is helping me pick my starters, shouldn't he be helping me draft them. Only makes common sense to me.
I also asked why Bloom could not be part of the PD experts since I depend on his #'s alot when the Lineup Dominator comes out. Since he is helping me pick my starters, shouldn't he be helping me draft them. Only makes common sense to me.
Jason Wood
Zoo York
To be fair, I think the poster took the default rankings page to find his options and sometimes if we haven't updated our rankings in the last week, we get bumped from the list unless someone sets the default to extend beyond 7 days. Having been around these parts for a time or twoNo Cecil ???
, a list like this usually crops up every now and again. While I won't lie that it's flattering to see yourself get recognized, I do think it's important to remember that a lot of these votes are usually correlated to which staffers are most visible and active in the Shark Pool, and have features like the projections going for them. If we went back and tracked to "top vote getters" in years past, you would see the correlation. I honestly think the strength of the site, and why I'm so proud to be involved, is the collection of independent voices we've got here. I love that we all have different approaches, and you don't have to look far to find two staffers who strongly disagree about a given player, strategy, concept, etc...yet we always discuss things with conviction and clarity. I have tweaked/altered/blown up my own expectations many, MANY times over the years thanks to the discourse I get to have with my fellow staffers -- as well as many of the great conversations with so many of you awesome Shark Poolers. 
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
They all serve different things on the site and I'll go over a few that I know pretty well and others that I am simply a fan of.
Jason Wood and Sigmund Bloom are both personal favorites of mine. I find that I usually already am leaning towards many of their rankings especially Jason who I also consider to be one of the most intelligent guys on the board, from all accounts he manages a hedge fund in real life and how he juggles that, stays married, and raises his children all while contributing to this place, guy has my respect. Bloom is very insightful and my only criticism of him and others he works with on Draftguys is that they see a player at the Senior Bowl, combine, or rookie camp and they just can't let it go sometimes when that player doesn't pan out. But I also would trade places with those guys for an opp to do that type of coverage all year long.
Chris Smith was/is a favortie of mine when he was writing for tuffsports or whatever the site was called back when this place was cheatsheets.net. I have had the pleasure of working with him including the OL article we put out back in July. He's also a Phinsfan so he's got a lot going for him
Jeff Tefertiller is a very good friend of mine and I am lucky to be able to pick his brain all off season and in season. He's taught me a lot about value in the drafts such as 30 something year old WRs that people tend to gloss over repeatedly year in and year out. He's also a Christian that leads by example and has helped me thru some dark places in my life. If you ever need a friend, Jeff is the guy you want in your corner. He is the AC Forum guru and can help you with line ups and overturning rosters.
Mark Wimer does a tremendous job with the weekly running and passing match ups. I have had an ongoing thread in the SP on RBs that I will try and continue this year so I always like to check in and see what he is posting as good match ups for the week. We like to banter back and forth about the match ups and again he's a nice guy off the boards as well.
Joe to me is like the mayor in this place and that's not a put down. One of the best things he does is facilitate banter and good ideas in the threads. If he likes a thread topic he will jump in and move it in a good direction. He also has keen observations. I have never met him in real life but I imagine in a room full of folks that he is probably somewhat quiet and reserved, seems like an observer of things and thinks before he speaks.
David Dodds probably has more info in his head on football than almost anyone I know. He had a very successful site before he teamed up with Joe, I can never remeber the name of it but it was good stuff. I always look forward to his articles before the season and his rankings or projections week to week are always entertaining. He does a great job of making you take notice of players he feels will score higher than their avg that week. A guy that is usually in the 30s but has a good match up, David will push him into the top 10 sometimes top5 and you won't find that most places.
Finally though I would like to tell you that you're going to find a lot of great people who are not staff that take part in the threads right here in the SP.
Enjoy and welcome to the Shark Pool.
-MOP
Jason Wood and Sigmund Bloom are both personal favorites of mine. I find that I usually already am leaning towards many of their rankings especially Jason who I also consider to be one of the most intelligent guys on the board, from all accounts he manages a hedge fund in real life and how he juggles that, stays married, and raises his children all while contributing to this place, guy has my respect. Bloom is very insightful and my only criticism of him and others he works with on Draftguys is that they see a player at the Senior Bowl, combine, or rookie camp and they just can't let it go sometimes when that player doesn't pan out. But I also would trade places with those guys for an opp to do that type of coverage all year long.
Chris Smith was/is a favortie of mine when he was writing for tuffsports or whatever the site was called back when this place was cheatsheets.net. I have had the pleasure of working with him including the OL article we put out back in July. He's also a Phinsfan so he's got a lot going for him
Jeff Tefertiller is a very good friend of mine and I am lucky to be able to pick his brain all off season and in season. He's taught me a lot about value in the drafts such as 30 something year old WRs that people tend to gloss over repeatedly year in and year out. He's also a Christian that leads by example and has helped me thru some dark places in my life. If you ever need a friend, Jeff is the guy you want in your corner. He is the AC Forum guru and can help you with line ups and overturning rosters.
Mark Wimer does a tremendous job with the weekly running and passing match ups. I have had an ongoing thread in the SP on RBs that I will try and continue this year so I always like to check in and see what he is posting as good match ups for the week. We like to banter back and forth about the match ups and again he's a nice guy off the boards as well.
Joe to me is like the mayor in this place and that's not a put down. One of the best things he does is facilitate banter and good ideas in the threads. If he likes a thread topic he will jump in and move it in a good direction. He also has keen observations. I have never met him in real life but I imagine in a room full of folks that he is probably somewhat quiet and reserved, seems like an observer of things and thinks before he speaks.
David Dodds probably has more info in his head on football than almost anyone I know. He had a very successful site before he teamed up with Joe, I can never remeber the name of it but it was good stuff. I always look forward to his articles before the season and his rankings or projections week to week are always entertaining. He does a great job of making you take notice of players he feels will score higher than their avg that week. A guy that is usually in the 30s but has a good match up, David will push him into the top 10 sometimes top5 and you won't find that most places.
Finally though I would like to tell you that you're going to find a lot of great people who are not staff that take part in the threads right here in the SP.
Enjoy and welcome to the Shark Pool.
-MOP
Jason Wood
Zoo York
Hey Tampa Buc...A few things:
1) Our projections are agnostic to scoring system. Whatever your scoring system, our projections funnel through either the VBD Excel spreadsheet, the Projections Dominator, or the Draft Dominator to give you what you want. We even project (or have formulas that estimate) things like 300-yard passing games, 100-yard rush/rec games, etc...
2) As to the number of "experts" [i loathe that term but I understand its place in the common vernacular] doing projections...there are considerations there, as well. Doing up-to-date projections is very time intensive, much more so than keeping rankings updated. Our projections literally add up across the board and match against league-wide norms. For example, If I'm adding 3 receptions to Joey Galloway, I have to also decide if that means McNabb has three more completions, or if someone else is losing those three receptions. So not only is it hard to expect every staff member to have the time or interest in doing full projections, but it's also something that costs Joe & David more in terms of compensation (because of the time involved) and at some point the economics don't make sense to have a deluge of other projections.
3) I'll let Bloom speak for himself, but my understand is that because he does the weekly in-season projections, and is so unbelievably busy with the Audible and other stuff, he likes the idea of having a reprieve from preseason projections.
4) PPR rankings. Our rankings for PPR and regular are separate, and Joe & David are super cool about which rankings we participate in. We can participate in any set we're comfortable (e.g., Redraft, Redraft PPR, Dynasty, Rookie, IDP) BUT all that they ask of us is that we're able to stay on top of them, have good defensible rationale for them, etc... It's why I don't do IDP rankings. I'm starting to get into IDP, and have views on defensive players and their abilities, but I'm such a noob in that IDP world that I would feel I'm only clouding the value of the IDP rankings and taking away from those who really are deeply embedded in that niche.
Ignoramus
Footballguy
The goodposting smilie is not emphatic enough for this post.
LBH
Footballguy
:( Jeff is great. Thanks for all the trade and value chat
Tampa Buc
Footballguy
Mr. Wood,
First let me say thanks for responding to my questions and how much I appreciate it. I understand how much time and effort has to be put in by all the staffers who do full projections. But just to clairify something, it's more the "default ranking page" that I take an issue with. For example, when I go to that page right now I see 16 staffers ranking WR's for redraft and only 10 for PPR and it is usually worse than that. To your credit, you are listed in both. From your response in #4, it looks like when a staffer chooses not to do a PPR ranking like Mr. Weldman, he does his redraft or standard ranking of a RB, WR, or TE, 1-2-3 ect. without taking into consideration how many receptions a player will get. Is that correct? If yes, then not doing a PPR ranking is understandable and this discussion is ended. If he does consider receptions to get his rankings, then including his rankings in PPR should not be to difficult. Bottom line is does he or doesn't he consider # of receptions when ranking players for just a redraft ranking? We know he has to project # of yards. I guess you can project yards without caring about the # of catches to get them. Thanks for being patient and thanks to all the staff at FFG. Recently signed up for another 3 years because this is a great site. BTW, the PPR content has greatly increased and that is very much appreciated.
First let me say thanks for responding to my questions and how much I appreciate it. I understand how much time and effort has to be put in by all the staffers who do full projections. But just to clairify something, it's more the "default ranking page" that I take an issue with. For example, when I go to that page right now I see 16 staffers ranking WR's for redraft and only 10 for PPR and it is usually worse than that. To your credit, you are listed in both. From your response in #4, it looks like when a staffer chooses not to do a PPR ranking like Mr. Weldman, he does his redraft or standard ranking of a RB, WR, or TE, 1-2-3 ect. without taking into consideration how many receptions a player will get. Is that correct? If yes, then not doing a PPR ranking is understandable and this discussion is ended. If he does consider receptions to get his rankings, then including his rankings in PPR should not be to difficult. Bottom line is does he or doesn't he consider # of receptions when ranking players for just a redraft ranking? We know he has to project # of yards. I guess you can project yards without caring about the # of catches to get them. Thanks for being patient and thanks to all the staff at FFG. Recently signed up for another 3 years because this is a great site. BTW, the PPR content has greatly increased and that is very much appreciated.
Jason Wood
Zoo York
To clarify:Our rankings are meant to be how we think a player is likely to finish in terms of total fantasy points at year endOur default rankings (labeled redraft) assume standard FBG scoring, which does NOT provide points per receptionOur redraft-ppr rankings assuming standard FBG scoring + 1 pt per receptionHope that helps
