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Fantasy Football Magazines are an influencing factor in my fantasy football outlook. For me, reading the opinions of others who research and study the science of fantasy football provides a maleable baseline in formulating my own projections. Thus, the summer magazine releases are something I definitely look forward to as it marks the official start of my fantasy football research for the upcoming fantasy football season. If you think I take this too seriously (1) the only way I have fun playing fantasy football is if I'm winning and (2) try reconciling with the fact that being right in fantasy football is a multi-million, if not billion dollar business. That said I've decided to continue the reviews in 2008. I didn't explicitly announce it, but I didn't know if I was going to run 2008. A lot of factors incited the pause, but an important one to me was reading these mags became work. It's one thing to read the magazines and utilize their information. It's another to read these magazines and then objectively and meticulously review them. I don't know if I fully realized that when I delved into this enterprise. Nevertheless, I feel this site's function has a relevant niche within the industry. I've fielded numerous comments from most of the major players and it sounds like my critique has helped fuel improvements in the publications or, in the alternative, let them know if they're headed in the right direction. And here I'm not talking about predictions or stats, but just magazine quality and the amount of work put in. It really is true, you get what you put in. All this amounts to I feel like this site is improving the grade of information available to myself or any other fantasy football player who reads the magazines, and therefore I'm justified in the time and energy I spend composing this site.
I had someone email me and ask me if I had any jobs. I told them I would welcome any additional opinions but that writing wasn't a paid position. Never heard back from them. Just so everyone knows, this site isn't exactly paying the shampoo bills every month. I'll put it this way, if I went to a casual restaurant the earnings from last year would pay for the majority of a two person check. I'd have to leave the tip though. It's not that I don't mind some monetization from the site, but I'm not trying to milk my traffic into some half-baked cash cow scheme where I get a chain mail list and start sending forwards to everyone saying if they don't make three comments on thefantasyblogger.com their digital cable will skip on Sundays. A couple of more things. How ironic was it that I grilled magazines on their aesthetics when I dished out one of the ugliest web pages known to man? Also, I won 0 championships last year out of 5 serious leagues. I bet some of the guys I gave a hard time to faired better than that. There was an addage I believed in not to draft rookie running backs. That addage now has a home in the bottom of my trash basket. I give a lot of credit to everyone who saw Adrian Peterson and Marshawn Lynch coming. Rereading all of my reviews, my harsher criticism wasn't too far off base, but I can tell you for a fact I was off on several players. I forecasted nice years and surprise years from a lot of guys who were disappointments and inconsistent and then I missed the boat on others who did very well. I think that's all the lead-in we need for 8 right now. As far as the site goes, I want to try to integrate a feedback/general talk forum and hopefully make the site look a somewhat better looking. This page is by no means complete, but I wanted to begin the process of switching skin. For those 6 people in the universe that want to read archived fantasy football magazine reviews from 2007, I'll make those available as well. To Bill, I want to again thank you for all your help last season. (The only reason the web pages were organized as much as they were was because Bill integrated tables into the site.) For those that don't know yet, the reason this site is pink is because I told Rotowire's Chris Liss and Mike Doria a lot of stuff they had in Rotowire was wrong and it wouldn't happen and then of course it did. If you have a fantasy football site and are interested in a link exchange or advertising, send me an email at the new site address - info [at] ffmagazinereview [dot] com. I had to switch from the old one because there was too much spam. And for no reason other than to keep you off balance, I present you FFmagazinereview theater: |