Fantasy Football Focus: Collaborating Data

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June 28, 2022

by David Earl

What’s The Goal?

If you are anything like me, involved in multiple fantasy football leagues, you are constantly seeking as much information, updates, and data as possible. Now we all have our favorite sites to focus on like Dynasty Nerds or Fantasy Pros but the serious player looks for a consensus before making that trade or critical lineup change. That’s where I come in, as the intention with this new regular column series is not to give you personal insight but to gather as much information from multiple sources in order to allow you to become more informed. I will include some of my own opinions but that should always be taken with a grain of salt as I don’t claim to be the Czar of all things fantasy football. Let’s dive right into this by discussing the resources I see as most reliable and some other information. I want this to grow as much as possible so feedback is highly encouraged and absolutely welcomed. LETS GOOOO!!!

Fantasy League News Sites: Mention Just a Few

  • Dynasty Nerds: This site truly has it all, with both a free and paid version. The free version, which includes access to the free podcast, gives you access to player articles and video breakdowns. As all that is helpful, and their membership version provides a very unique dynasty GM page that will analyze your fantasy team, an information-packed Nerd Herd podcast, help in constructing trades of value, ranks for multiple versions of leagues, and just so much more. This has been my personal go-to for a long time, and as I’ve been able to maintain a strong and deep dynasty team for years now.
  • Fantasy Pros: This site also has a free and premium paid version that offers near-limitless recourses. Fantasy Pros aggregates and rates fantasy football advice from 100+ experts. View expert accuracy ratings, and consensus rankings, and run free mock drafts. This site is one of the more popular sites.  It also has podcasts.
  • Fantasy Sharks: While this site has different VIP levels for a price, they offer a ton of free content and fantasy team tools like draft projections, cheat sheets, lineup tools, and much more. This site is not as popular as others but its fantasy tools section and player projections make this site a must to visit pre-draft.

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  • Yahoo and ESPN: These two are well-known sites and run leagues in very similar styles. The Commissioner has basic controls over the league but these leagues essentially run themselves. They do assist in a year-to-year over keeper leagues but don’t run the advanced version of dynasty leagues. They are free leagues but offer some payment options each individual owner can choose to incorporate or not.
  • MyFantasyLeague: Whatever style league you want to run, this site will do it and the commissioner can get regulate as much of the league as he chooses. The commissioner tools are extensive and can get rather advanced as this site, for a commissioner, has all the flexibility anyone could want. From any keeper format to deep dynasty leagues dealing with contracts and player salaries, this site just simply has it all. Plus their support staff is very responsive and expedient.
  • Sleeper App: Primarily used through a mobile app, this site is very simple and completely runs itself. The commissioner sets up the league and off you go as the commissioner has the basic controls. I found this site the most user-friendly, once you get adjusted than any other platform out there.
  • NFL Fantasy and Fantrax: These also are basic sites but are not as popular as the aforementioned pages. These sites come with some user issues and glitches at times but are solid free sites. If I had to choose one of these 2 it would be Fantrax, as they have been making far more positive changes in the last couple of years while truly listening to their customers.

Coming Together

Through, but not limited to, the sources named above and several recognized fantasy football gurus, this fantasy football focus column will collect some of the top news circulating in the fantasy football world. Average player draft position (dynasty, keeper, or redraft leagues), hot or cold players plus if they are risers or fallers in free agency, and so much more. This hopefully will become one of your one-stop shops for fantasy football information as the plan isn’t to flood you with my worthless opinions but from the sources, you trust the most. That is why feedback and critics are so important as I want an article that helps any average to advanced players.

 

Any feedback DM me at either of my Twitter handles: @DaveEarl_2022 or @AddictDynasty