Fantasy Football Season Begins!
It’s a little late for me this year, actually, a lot late. Usually I begin my FF prep in early April around NFL draft-time and start my big board rankings in June. This year, for whatever reason, has been a little different and I’m only getting around to seriously diving in over the last few days. Sometimes the best part of the FF season is the prep work though over the past few years I’ve probably gone a little overboard with it. Maybe I’m getting to this a little late this year because I know what a daunting task it is with so little free time.
Obviously, the first step when it comes to ranking your big boards is the all-important Fantasy Football Magazine purchase. I’m starting to think that one day the internet will make these things obsolete but as long as someone is willing to cut down trees to print one, I’ll be there spending money on it. It’s the one thing the internet can never replace. That being said, the best Fantasy Football magazine by far is Fantasy Football Weekly by fanball.com (the one with ROMO on the cover). FFW’s mag is innovative in that it has 9 different editors ranking players instead of 1 and you get all 9’s opinions on their top 10 at each position. Next, they do varying Big Board drafts depending on which type of scoring system you use in your league. They rank players on their boards based on yardage system, points system, points and yardage systems, auctions system and keeper leagues. Genius.
I don’t always agree on everyone’s Big Boards no matter what the magazine but the magazines are always a catalyst to get my mind going. I already see some overrated players and busts in these things. I’m going to write about those later.