Are You Spending Your Fantasy Football Money Wisely?

It's that time of year. That time when the Fantasy Football pre-season magazines hit the newsstand.

In the past week or so I've seen at least 10 different publications. I don't need to name them, you know who they are. They all contain about the same information in one form or another. Yet for some reason, we end up buying several different ones. At this year's price of around $7 or $8, that can add up pretty quickly. Before you know it you've spent enough on these magazines to add a sports room to your house, get that Infiniti FX45 you've wanted, or perhaps even go to a real NFL game.

Now, I don't want to talk bad (at least not too bad) about them, because they do contain a lot of good information. But what are you really getting for all your hard earned dough when you buy them?

Think about it for a minute. You just spent $50, $60, or more on a bunch of magazines that do (or don't do) the following for you:

• Provide you with continuous up-to-date player and team data. - All player information is frozen at the time the publication went to the printer. While you may see the mag in late June or early July, rest assured it went to the printer much earlier. You'll see players ranked who aren't on the proper team, who are injured, or who may even have retired.

• As the season progresses the information in these hot little publications just gets more and more out of date. There are no adjustments for injuries, trades, rising young stars, etc. You're stuck with last May's projections.
  

• Customize recommendation and rankings to your specific league. - Players are ranked using at most, one arbitrary scoring system, or worse none at all (most of the publications that pull this one disguise it as "The experts pick").

• I saw one magazine that specified that their rankings were based on a specific scoring system. That system included a 6/6/3 TD (6 points for a rushing TD, 6 points for a receiving TD, 3 points for a passing TD) point value scheme.

• Now this is great on the rare chance that your league uses exactly that system. However, a deviation in just one category can cause all the player rankings to shift. So what do you do if you are in a Best Buy Fantasy Football league or a YAHOO Fantasy Football league?

• Speaking of Best Buy Fantasy Football ... How do these publication help you in a Salary Cap game like the one offered by Best Buy? One where player values change weekly.

OK, now the shameless promotion. Why not try spending you money with us? Well, you should. Why? What do you get for your $14.95? Try this.

• A pre-season draft kit including analysis and projections for all offensive players, kickers, and defenses based on real individual scoring systems for games by ESPN Fantasy Football, CBSSportsline Fantasy Football, AOL Fantasy Football, and more (yes, including Best Buy Fantasy Football).

• For every week of the season, through the Super Bowl: Individual player performance analysis with weekly future point projections based on you leagues specific individual scoring system. We not only do it, we do it well.
  

• The Final Countdown - Our game day information service. Starting 2 hours prior to any NFL game, and continuing through the start of the last game of the day, we continually scan 40 or more sources of real-time player and team information (so you don't have to) to bring you, in one location, all the late breaking news you need to set your final lineup.

• Insightful and amusing (hopefully) articles by Mister2 , yours truly, and perhaps one or two others.

If you join, for the price of about two of those magazines, you'll end up getting most all the information they give you (not to mention in league specific form), PLUS a full seasons worth of unique and valuable information they can't begin to provide.

Lets face it, about the only thing they can offer you that we can't is some great material for the bottom of the birdcage. (Which is where their mag will likely end up halfway through the season. Meanwhile, you'll still be getting great info from us).

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