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What are the good guides and podcasts for Fantasy Football?

  • I'm about to be the only Brit in a US Fantasy Football League. My NFL knowledge isn't bad, and I'm a veteran Premier League FF player, so what should I be reading and listening to both ahead of the draft and throughout the season in order to compete? I've been following the NFL ever since I spent time living in New York, and watch an awful lot of games (the advantage of being a fan in the UK is that the NFL streaming package is ridiculously cheap). I'm also a very active FF player of the soccer variety, both in the traditional UK style and in a couple of draft games, so I'm familiar with the differences between the two models. I've now been invited by some old US friends to be part of their draft NFL league this year, and have accepted. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm critically aware of is the fact that I currently don't know what the good ancillary reading sites specifically about US FF are. What are the good guides with a specific FF focus, for example, and are there decent beginning guides out there? What's the equivalent of http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/ over there for regular news and tips? What podcasts should I be listening to? What advice would those Mefites who are FF players themselves give me? All advice and links appreciated - I'm a massive information sponge on this stuff, so all suggestions are welcome, particularly for stuff that I can read and listen to regularly throughout the season.

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    ESPN's http://search.espn.go.com/matthew-berry/ (not Reynholm Industries' http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1546196/) is knowledgeable, accessible and entertaining - a rare combination in Fantasy commentators. He's got podcasts and columns.

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Another thing to think about (and this may be common in Fantasy Soccer as well, so forgive me if it's obvious) is that scoring systems http://www.cheatsheetwarroom.com/blog/post/standard-fantasy-football-scoring-system.aspx#.Vd8TvvlVhuA and can have a huge impact on strategy. Probably the biggest swing is in leagues that are http://espn.go.com/fantasy/football/story/_/page/nfldk2k14pprstrategy/point-per-reception-ppr-league-strategy, but there are other important scoring considerations - some very idiosyncratic - so it's important to know the details of your league's scoring system before the draft.

Rock Steady

Good point. Official NFL one is what we'll be using, I believe.

garius

I don't play fantasy myself, but I do enjoy Grantland.com's NFL podcast. It's got Robert Mays and Bill Barnwell, and they're currently in the midst of doing their season preview, reviewing one division per episode. Barnwell is the stats nerd --- he used to write for Football Outsiders, another site you might want to check out. Mays is a more traditional sportswriter, he's done some nice feature pieces for them, but he also likes to nerd out about offensive line play. All in all, pretty relaxed vibe and a fairly evidence-based discussion. Barnwell does some pretty stat-heavy columns for grantland too.

Diablevert

ESPN. Fantasy Focus Football (daily podcast with Matthew Berry and new co-host Field Yates), their Football Draft Kit, and the aforementioned Grantland NFL podcast.

Huffy Puffy

Right now I'm really enjoying Christopher Harris's podcast Harris Football, as he's very much tape-driven as opposed to stats driven. Since everything out there is very stats driven right now, I enjoy the different perspective. Former ESPN guy that's recently branched off, so he pulls some recognizable guests. Also, for a great mix of entertainment and as-solid-as-preseason-football information as you can get, I like The Fantasy Footballers. Some also-rans are the 4for4 podcast, and the Audible. Both are good and I listen to their main episodes each week, but I'm not excited to listen to them when they pop on my feed like the first two I listed. As for websites, the defacto one is Fantasypros.com. It's pretty solid. I feel like at this point, any solid player is going to be using that as their basis for their cheat sheets, so you should be familiar with their rankings.

chillin411

Another vote for both the ESPN Fantasy Focus Football and Harris Football. I also listen to CBSSports.com Fantasy Football Today.

vakker

I really, really hope no one else in my league has tracked me down and figured out my username here because it'll let them know too much: Reddit's fantasy football https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball is incredibly helpful. The linked news stories are helpful but I really like the comments sections and then, when the season has actually started, there will be threads where you can post your team and ask folks for advice about who to start. It's a very friendly subreddit. To get started, read about "BeerSheets"... that's step 1 for helping you.

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