I've been in mourning over the Broncos' loss a few weekends ago, so I'm finally coming out of my shell to let you all know that the 2012 FFLibrarian/FSTA Rankings Accuracy Challenge results are here! For those who are new to this contest, I've been running it for 6 years now and I compare experts' preseason rankings to how things shook out at the end of the season and use this analysis to determine which site is the most accurate of all. King of the fantasy football hill.
The results were presented at the FSTA Winter Conference last night and posted on the NYTimes' Fifth Down blog early this morning: Fantasy Football Accuracy Rankings for 2012. This link will give you the top 15 overall sites and then the top 10 at each position. This year I included the average ranking across the 4 positions to give you a sense of how closely the sites all line up for the most part. The top 2 sites though clearly had a bit of a lead on the rest of the field and on that note...
Congrats to both RealTime Fantasy Sports and FFMagicMan. Yup, two winning sites. Something unique happened this year: since I run this contest in conjunction with the FSTA, one of the rules is that the official winner must be a member of the FSTA, but I welcome submissions from any site that wants to throw their hat in the ring. FFMagicMan came away with the best accuracy scores (and scored in the top 10 in all 4 positions, something that I've never seen happen before), but is not an FSTA member. So instead the winner is RealTime Fantasy Sports, who also had an amazing performance by coming in the top 10 in 3 of 4 positions. As I've told both sites, this really is a spectacular job considering the hugely talented pool of 61 experts.
Last summer I finally created a multi-year analysis of these contests and I'll be adding these results in over the winter/spring. I'll post the results when they're available, but it will be well before the 2013 season begins.
There were 61 participants this year, listed below in alphabetical order:
The results were presented at the FSTA Winter Conference last night and posted on the NYTimes' Fifth Down blog early this morning: Fantasy Football Accuracy Rankings for 2012. This link will give you the top 15 overall sites and then the top 10 at each position. This year I included the average ranking across the 4 positions to give you a sense of how closely the sites all line up for the most part. The top 2 sites though clearly had a bit of a lead on the rest of the field and on that note...
Congrats to both RealTime Fantasy Sports and FFMagicMan. Yup, two winning sites. Something unique happened this year: since I run this contest in conjunction with the FSTA, one of the rules is that the official winner must be a member of the FSTA, but I welcome submissions from any site that wants to throw their hat in the ring. FFMagicMan came away with the best accuracy scores (and scored in the top 10 in all 4 positions, something that I've never seen happen before), but is not an FSTA member. So instead the winner is RealTime Fantasy Sports, who also had an amazing performance by coming in the top 10 in 3 of 4 positions. As I've told both sites, this really is a spectacular job considering the hugely talented pool of 61 experts.
Last summer I finally created a multi-year analysis of these contests and I'll be adding these results in over the winter/spring. I'll post the results when they're available, but it will be well before the 2013 season begins.
There were 61 participants this year, listed below in alphabetical order:
| 4for4 | ||
| Absolute QB | ||
| Advanced Sports Logic | ||
| Ask the Commish | ||
| Athlon Sports | ||
| Bruno Boys | ||
| CBSSports, Dave Richard | ||
| CBSSports, Jamey Eisenberg | ||
| CBSSports, Nathan Zegura | ||
| Cheatsheet War Room | ||
| Draft Analyzer | ||
| DraftCalc | ||
| DraftSharks | ||
| Drinkfive.com | ||
| edraft | ||
| ESPN | ||
| Fantasy Football Sherpa | ||
| Fantasy Insights | ||
| Fantasy Sharks | ||
| FantasyFootballManiax | ||
| FantasyFootballNerd | ||
| FantasyFootballStarters | ||
| FantasyPros.com | ||
| FantasyPros911 | ||
| Fantazzle | ||
| Fantistics | ||
| FF Guidebook | ||
| FFMagicMan | ||
| FFToday.com | ||
| Fleaflicker | ||
| Football Outsiders | ||
| Footballguys | ||
| FOX Sports | ||
| Hatty Waiver Wire Guru | ||
| Joseph Sigal | ||
| Junkyard Jake | ||
| KFFL | ||
| LeagueSafe | ||
| LeagueSafe Post | ||
| Lesters Legends | ||
| NFL Soup - Keet Bailey | ||
| NFL Soup - Kevin Roberts | ||
| Pigskin Addiction | ||
| ProFootballFocus | ||
| ProFootballWeekly | ||
| Pyromaniac.com | ||
| RealTime Fantasy Sports | ||
| Roger Rotter Sports | ||
| RotoExperts | ||
| Rotoprofessor | ||
| Rotoworld | ||
| Sandlot Shrink | ||
| scoutPRO | ||
| SI | ||
| The Fake Football | ||
| The Hazean | ||
| The Huddle | ||
| The War Room | ||
| WhatIfSports | ||
| XML | ||
| Yahoo |
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This is the Lakewood BlueClaws here informing you guys that on August 31st we are having a football night at our stadium and the team that has the most fans come out will win a prize. Also, use one of our many picnic areas to host your next fantasy football draft or upgrade your experience with a skybox rental. So come on football fans, join us on August 31st and show your team spirit.
For tickets or any questions please contact ndemarco@blueclaws.com
Don't know if you've realised but the Google Doc is down! For those of us coming a bit late to this post, would be great for you to have a look into it!
Cheers!
Thanks again.