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Fantasy Football
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Yvonne Ventresca
Fantasy Football season is here, and the Internet offers the information you need to take your team to the championship. Draft day cheat sheets,
commentary about players, and NFL news are all available online. Fantasy football web sites are a key source of information to help you prepare
for the draft and manage your team throughout the season.
mrfootball.com
Mrfootball.com is a completely free site which provides a draft day cheat sheet , player projections,
overall player rankings , rankings by position, and "news, notes, and arrests".
To date, reviews are available for about 50 players; more will be added later. Mrfootball.com also offers easy
access to team starter and backup information with its interactive depth chart. Wondering if you should
trade a draft pick? Use the pick value calculator to help you decide.
This site is easy to navigate, and items include a helpful date of update, so you know the information is current. Pull-down menus allow easy
navigation to other Fantasy Football sites.
ESPN SportsZone NFL and NFL Fantasy News
ESPN SportsZone NFL is a good source of professional football news. You can scroll through the articles, or use
the pull-down menus at the top of the page for easy navigation. An added bonus is that the articles include links to teams and players.
For example, when an article mentions Warren Moon, you can link to his biography
profile, statistics, and career notes.
ESPN's NFL Fantasy News features an excellent draft guide. Besides a cheat sheet , the draft guide includes player reviews from the August issue of Fantasy Sports
Magazine.
You can access these detailed commentaries by position , running back
, wide receiver , tight end, and kicker for free.
Rankings provided by ESPN Fantasy Games offer an additional source of commentary. Another interesting feature available at this site is a list
of average draft positions based on the drafts for ESPN's fantasy football league.
This list includes links to every player.
thehuddle.com
Thehuddle.com is a free site that focuses on quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends. The cheat sheet rankings provide links to detailed statistics and analyses for a hundred players. Mock draft results are available
by both round and position.
You can access numerous articles, including David Dorey's Catch the Rising Star Series about
breakout seasons, and his 1998 Schedule Strength Series . You can even download his data if
you want to crunch some numbers of your own. The Locker Room provides some humor
(football-related, of course).
Fantasy Insights
Fantasy Insights requires you to pay for "premium services," but does provide some good information for free. You can access mock draft
results among "fantasy experts," current news ,
projected rankings , and a defensive cheat sheet.
This site also provides information on bye weeks and red zone statistics
. After the draft, you can use The Master's Picks ,
the NFL Injury Report , a Monday morning Injury Update
, and Insights Intelligence to help manage your
team throughout the season.
Fantasy Football Field
This site lacks the sophistication of some of the others, but it is easy to use and offers some unique features. If you are looking to join a league,
you can provide contact information through a form and the Fantasy Football
Field will try to assist you.
If you use magazines to supplement your online research, check out these magazine reviews
before you buy. And you can submit questions to The Fantasy Football Field Q & A -- they'll try to
answer them within 24 hours.
Fantasy Football Insider Online
Listen to Fantasy Football discussions while you surf! This site brings you the Fantasy Football '98 Radio Show
, so you can hear Sam Caplan, Adam Caplan and their guests discuss running backs, quarterbacks, and wide
receivers. (You need to download a free copy of RealPlayer 5.0 to
listen to the shows.) You must subscribe to access the complete version of Fantasy Football Insider Online, but even the scaled-down analyses
and articles available for free make it worth a visit.
Totally Football Links
If by now you are addicted to Fantasy Football information online, check out Totally Football Links. This site contains
more than 2,000 football-related links. Two areas in particular will be of interest to Fantasy Football fans: Fantasy/Rotisserie and Pro Football
News.
Under the Fantasy category, there are over 50 links for information and news, 100+ links to
leagues, and another 25 links to statistics and software sites. Check under Pro Football News for
over 100 links to pro football scores, statistics, schedules, standings, injuries, transactions, news and headline stories.
Best of luck for a winning season!
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