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CommonLinks IV (Fantasy Football)
By Jeff | July 27, 2007
With the NFL season fast approaching and the court date for Michael Vick doing the same, I’ve decided to do this installment of CommonLinks on the subject of fantasy football. Do you have the Fever!
Well, I almost do! And to help me along the way, here are a few sites that I will visit frequently in my quest to claim my next Fantasy Championship. In one league, I even hope to be the first repeat Champion in league history. Go me!
Now allow me to do the hard work for you and weed through the plethora of websites available and list the best sites to give you all the tools you’ll need to “Take it to the House!”
Online Leagues:
CBS Sportsline
ESPN
FOX
MyFantasyLeague.com
NFL.com
Yahoo! Sports
Fantasy Football.com
Sporting News
Prizes for your league’s Champion:
Affordable Trophies
Gameball Trophies
Fantasy Rings - Get your league a championship ring like the pros (ok, maybe not just like the pros)
FantasyTrophy.com
Team Names and Logos:
UberPrints.com - Design your own T-shirt for your team or league championship
Zazzle - Another great site where you can print your design or logo on various products to gloat your dominance
Helmet Depot - tons of various logos on football helmets - the coolest site ever for fantasy logos
Helmet Project - Not really for logos unless you want to use an existing college or professional logo, but a very cool site nonetheless
Fantasy Sports Helmets - Get an actual helmet with your logo
Junkyard Jake - Fantasy Team Name and Logo Generator
Sportsdaddy.com
PlayerLine - list of Fantasy Football team names to give inspiration
Digg.com - Fantasy Football Team name Generator
Informational sites:
Fantasy Football Today
DraftSharks - includes analysis, up to date player rankings as the preseason progresses, and high risk bust candidates - awesome site!
FF Toolbox
Athlon Sports Magazine
Fantasy Insights - excellent player analysis on a team by team basis, easy to get to what you want to read
BFD Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football Mastermind
Huddlegeeks
Miscellaneous:
First Place Sports - software to help you run your own league
FantasyLabels.com - solid company that offers a variety of options in your league’s draft board
AntSports Mock Drafts - test your draft strategy with no consequences over and over again
Fantasy Football Bookmarks - So I guess I didn’t come up with this idea all by myself
Fantasy Football Links - Hmm, sounds familiar
Footballguys.com - More links on a cool site
Rookies (Beginners):
Fantasy Gamez - very good tutorial to read through - with nice touch of comedy
Squidoo - solid guide for the beginner
The Winning Drive - not much help, but a funny article entitled “How I Taught Mom to Play Fantasy Football” by Ken Bunter
Fanway.com - simple guide to give you basics
Sportsvl - lots of good information, but a little hard to read and follow
Topics: fantasy logos, fantasy sites, fantasy sports |
July 27th, 2007 at 8:01 am
This is a great list of resources for Fantasy Football, but, as someone who has never participated in Fantasy Football, I don’t know the first thing about getting started. What league do you use or recommend? Can you suggest strategy or tactics or underhanded dealings to help people win? If you have time maybe some sort of short “getting started” post would be helpful. Just a suggestion. There might already be posts like that, but I don’t know where they are. Guide me oh great guru.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Actually, it’s a good question. Thanks to your comment, I have added and additional section of some good websites with basics, tutorials, and information for beginners in the fantasy football realm.
I recommend ESPN, FOX, Yahoo, or Sporting News for your free leagues to help you get started. Ultimately, CBS is my favorite, but it does cost a pretty penny so I would make sure I had plenty of guys to play with so that every team will help pay the bill.
As far as strategies, go - you’re out of luck! I’ll be in several leagues and I can’t allow my enemies to know what I’m doing. I have to defend my championship. However, the general consensus and MY RECOMMENDATION is to secure your starting Running Backs in the early rounds of the draft. They are a dime a dozen and will make or break your season. The rest is up to you to decide what is best and I would use the informational sites above to plan your own strategy.