Right now there's only one site I check daily for NFL Draft News, and that's Mocking The Draft, our SBNation sister blog covering everything you need to know about the NFL Draft. It's also hosting the SBNation NFL Mock Draft, which is now finishing up the 2nd round. It's a great blog and I highly recommend it. The author of Mocking the Draft is Matt Miller, and as you can imagine he's busier than Olympic Torch Security right now. Not only is he providing expert commentary on every single pick in the SBNation Mock Dr... lire la suite
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As part of an agreement between SBNation and AOL, each SBNation football blog is hosting their own AOL Fanhouse Fantasy Football League. Originally Fake Teams had been left out of this deal, but after a discussion with the SBNation Leadership involving torches and a pitchfork, they agreed to incorporate our Fake Teams League into the promotion.
The Fake Teams AOL Fanhouse League drafted on Saturday and it was as crazy as you’d expect a 16 team IDP draft to be. I’ll review the first three picks for some selected teams. Remember, in a 16 team draft the first 48 players only make up three rounds. In a 12 team league you’d get these players in four rounds, in a ten team league they would make up almost five full rounds.
Right now there's only one site I check daily for NFL Draft News, and that's Mocking The Draft, our SBNation sister blog covering everything you need to know about the NFL Draft. It's also hosting the SBNation NFL Mock Draft, which is now finishing up the 2nd round. It's a great blog and I highly recommend it.
You may have noticed a new advertisement on the site -- Register to win a chance to play fantasy football with SBNation bloggers. Sounds pretty cool, right? It would sound very cool except for the part where THEY LEFT US OUT! The marketing agreement with AOL only covered the 32 SBNation NFL blogs.
With Yahoo! opening its 2008 fantasy baseball this week, many fantasy baseball players will be looking for the best fantasy baseball names they can find. What better time to kick-off the third annual Fake Teams' Best Fantasy Baseball Names Contest. For those working in government and corporate bureaucracies, the acronnym is FTBFBNC.
Detroit Tigers' ace Justin Verlander took the hill against the most fearsome offense in the American League, the Boston Red Sox, and came out of it with no questions answered. Six innings with five earned runs and ten runners allowed did nothing to quell the queasy feeling his fantasy owners have lived with all season.
Wow, this new Fake Teams is something else, huh? I'm still getting used to it myself. I think this is going to be great) You have to hand it to the Raiders, they do things their own way. Despite having not one, not two, but three former 1000 yard rushers on their roster, the Raiders decided that what they really needed was to draft a running back.
Mock Draft Central has run five expert mock drafts for the 2008 fantasy football season. Fake Teams particpated in the final one on Monday night (August 18th). The first was held on April 28th. What I wanted to do was compare the first and last expert draft and determine which way the most intense fantasy football winds were blowing when it comes to fantasy football draft thinking.
Here are the results of the second Fake Teams Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft for the 2008 season. Picking 12th, I knew I'd have to reach for players at the more scarce positions and that is reflected throughout my draft. Normally, I enjoy that spot, but the results do not make me teribly comfortable.
Sunday night, I had the pleasure of participating in a mock draft with a number of fantasy bloggers for Seamless Baseball's 2008 fantasy guide. My fellow experts were: Pete Abbate and Zach Piso of Rotonomics Bob Taylor of Fantasy Hurler Brad Stewart of MLB Front Office Tim McLeod of RotoRob
2008 Fake Teams Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft: NL-Only
I just finished an appearance on Melnick and Greco Fantasy Sports radio show broadcasting live from Mickey Mantle's Restaurant in NYC. Thank you guys and keep up the great work. On to the "Spring Training Boxscores: Fantasy Notes" for March 21, 2008. Unrivaled starting SS for the Baltimore Orioles, Luis Hernandez, stole his second base of the Spring.
Here is the rest of my interview/conversation with Matthew Berry, fantasy expert at ESPN. com. Remember I have "fictionalized" the conversation into a standard Q&A format. Mr. Berry and I spoke for an hour, and I took notes. Without an recording, I can not provide his answers verbatim.
Will Carroll's Under The Knife column includes this gem about how Yankees' manager Joe Girardi will add alpha to the Yankees' clubhouse: the Yankees are removing all candy from the clubhouse. Joe Girardi feels the team isn't in good enough shape. Outside of that, non-subscribers can read injury updates on Scott Kazmir and Chad Cordero above the fold and Josh Beckett and Ben Sheets in yesterday's column.
Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus posted a Rumor Mill yesterday afternoon with some excellent follow-uyp to many of the rumors that have been posted here at Fake Teams, been mentionedin the local papers and floated in the internets for days. With BP offering free access to all visitors through Sunday the 27th, I highly recommend reading this.
The Fake Teams AOL Fanhouse League drafted on Saturday and it was as crazy as you’d expect a 16 team IDP draft to be. I’ll review the first three picks for some selected teams. Remember, in a 16 team draft the first 48 players only make up three rounds. In a 12 team league you’d get these players in four rounds, in a ten team league they would make up almost five full rounds.
I've recently moved back to the Boston area after spending the past few years living in England. It's good to be back in the US and good to be back posting at Fake Teams. By the way, what the hell is High School Musical and why is it EVERYWHERE? Anyway, while I get myself reoriented (Am I watching Division II football?
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The Finalists Are Announced In the Fake Teams Best Fantasy Baseball Names Contest