I wanted to let all of my readers know that the blog will be offline for a bit as I tend to some health issues with my parents. Currently, there’s just not enough time for me to blog about fantasy sports when all available hours are spent at the hospital. Hopefully, I will be able to blog again here soon. Please be sure to keep my family in your thoughts and prayers! As always, thanks for taking the time to read my blog!

Sincerely,

Lightfoot Simmons

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A few weeks ago I came across a unique fantasy sports website, Fantasy Sports Live. Why are they unique you ask? Fantasy Sports Live combines fantasy sports with poker. To me, this is a fantastic idea as most people who are into fantasy sports are usually involved in “paid” leagues of some sort resulting in some financial prize should they win their league.

How FSL Works

At FSL, you can participate in daily fantasy sports contests of skill as they offer a variety of fantasy sports contest structures and sports including football, baseball, basketball and more for your enjoyment. Just like with poker, you have an entry fee, a total prize amount and sometimes a cap (i.e. pot limit). For example, today they have a contest called “Heads Up Week 10″ where 2 managers can pay $5.50 to go heads up against each other for a prize of $10. For this contest there’s no salary cap so you just have to pick the best possible players that you think will outscore the other manager’s team of players so that you can win the $10 prize.

My FSL Experience

Now once I found FSL, I decided to play in a contest so I could give it an accurate review since I liked the idea that they were providing their users. The contest that I decided to do was to compete against other sports blog owners in “Blogger Battle Week 1″ that had a buy in of $11. There were a maximum of 10 managers that could enter to win the total purse of $100; 1st: $50, 2nd: $30 and 3rd: $20. The salary cap was $950 and you had to choose your players while staying underneath that cap. I ended up falling from the #2 spot to finish 3rd for the Week 1 contest, but at least I won $20. Anytime you finish in the money it’s a win-win situation.

Conclusion

If you’re into fantasy sports like I am as well as poker, then I highly recommend playing on Fantasy Sports Live. If you decide to play on FSL let me know how your experience was and maybe we can go heads up sometime!

Please Note: This is a non paid review.

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Well this past weekend I had my another fantasy basketball draft; this time it was for our SEOmoz Mozball Fantasy Basketball League. I totally messed up my draft as I thought the draft was 1 hour later than it actually was supposed to draft as well as I forgot to import my draft settings from my previous fantasy basketball league. Since it is only a 10 team fantasy basketball league it didn’t hurt me too much. I was helped by the fact that a few managers were not present during the draft. Here are the results of our draft:

So what do you think of my fantasy basketball draft? Let me know by leaving me some comments!

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I wanted to take time and post the results from our Twitter Basketball Experts fantasy basketball league on Yahoo Sports! There are 20 teams in this league so by the last few rounds there were slim pickings. I kept asking myself, “Who is this guy and will he help me out any?” I think I did alright in this league’s draft as I was able to get a few picks before they made it back to other certain managers. What do you think of my fantasy basketball draft?

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The NBA exhibition games are now underway and with that brings Fantasy Basketball. And with that I was recently invited to participate in a Yahoo Sports fantasy basketball league with the guys at SLAM Online as well as other people who follow them via Twitter (Invite).

Here are the stats for this Yahoo fantasy basketball league:

FG%, FT%, 3PTM, PTS, REB, AST, ST, BLK, TO

and here are the positions:

PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util, BN, BN, BN

The bad part about this? The league drafts Wednesday October 8, 2008 at 8:00pm EDT. Add to that the fact that I haven’t played fantasy basketball in a couple of years. So tomorrow will be a cram session in order to know who is where and what role they are playing so that I can have a great draft and beat SLAM Online.

Stay tuned to learn how the draft went! Have any ideas who you think will be the major sleepers this year?

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Today, I thought I would teach everyone how to spot lopsided fantasy football trades in your league as we all know they tend to get accepted / proposed by fantasy football “rookie” managers from time to time.

One of the main reason you need to be able to spots these types of trades is the fact that they can make the “winning” team in the trade overly dominate in your fantasy football league. Another reason you need to be aware of these unfair fantasy football trades is the fact that they make the trade for one week and then the next week they trade back their fantasy football players. usually this is due to helping each other out with their bye weeks.

The example that I’m going to use today as our lopsided fantasy football trade is one that was proposed by a “rookie” team manager (one to three years experience in fantasy sports) and accepted by a “veteran” team manager (three to five years experience in fantasy sports) in a league that I am currently participating in just after Week 2 concluded in our 2008 fantasy football season. This traded was vetoed by me as well as enough owners to block the trade.

The Trade Details

Team A (Rookie Manager) sends the following players to Team B (Veteran Manager):

Carson Palmer (Cin - QB) | Chad Johnson (Cin - WR) | Robert Royal (Buf - TE)

Team B (Veteran Manager) sends the following players to Team A (Rookie Manager):

Pierre Thomas (NO - RB) | Michael Pittman (Den - RB) | James Jones (GB - WR)

Why This Lopsided Trade Was Proposed

Do you have an idea on why this fantasy football trade was proposed? Well, lets analyze the Year To Date stats for each player so far during the 2008 NFL season.

I can see why this rookie manager thought it was a good trade merely based on points. Based on the points alone, he was getting three fantasy football players that have outscored the players that he was giving up. Actually, Pittman alone has scored more points so far than his three players combined. But, you can’t just base this trade on two weeks of stats alone. Some players are known to start the season slow due to them not playing much during the preseason to avoid injuries and thus they’re out of sync with your teammates. Plus, you have to base the trade on what these players have done in the past.

Why This Is A Lopsided Trade

So why do I consider this a lopsided trade and why did I veto the trade? Well lets analyze the Three Year Average stats for each player.

After reviewing the three year averages of these six players, you can see that clearly Team A was giving up way too much in this trade. Chad Johnson alone has averaged more fantasy points during the last three years than all of the fantasy football players combined from Team B. The numbers that Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson have averaged over the last three years are Pro Bowl type numbers. What else should this rookie manager have considered?

Additional Facts To Consider

Something else fantasy football managers can research are the roster depth charts for each NFL team. This will show you exactly where these players are ranked on their team’s depth chart. For instance, using the link above you can see that Carson Palmer is #1 QB for Cincinnati, Chad Johnson is the #1 WR for Cincinnati while James Jones is the #3 WR for Green Bay, Michael Pittman is the #3 RB for Denver and Pierre Thomas is the #2 RB for New Orleans. If you’re not the #1 starter for a team, it’s very unlikely that a #2 to #5 player is going to outscore a #1 player unless that #1 player gets injured.

Conclusion

It’s important for everyone to really research their trades that they are about to accept so they can be sure they are trading for players that will actually help their fantasy football team. Also, if after reviewing the trade you still are not sure whether it’s a beneficial trade for you, feel free to consult other managers in your league that are willing to help you out.

It’s important for league managers to make sure lopsided trades do not impact the league in a negative way as you risk damaging the league and having majority of the managers not be interested in finishing out the fantasy football season. This is not fun at all! Keep this in mind the next time you’re about to accept a trade; make sure it’s actually the right move for you to make.

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