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FHD Fantasy Football Expert Rankings
How good is your Fantasy Football Expert? Fantasy
Hound Dog is the only place you can find out. We sniff out
the facts and rank and analyze the fantasy football experts.
 Expert
Predictions - does anyone ever check?
Over the last few years, as we at FHD tried to dominate
our fantasy football leagues (and we all want to dominate, don't we?),
we found ourselves often asking (usually after getting
killed in a game because we played the guy recommended
by an ffl expert), which experts really know what they're
talking about? Are some better than others overall?
Does anybody ever go back and check?We decided
that it was time to answer these questions, and that's
what FHD Fantasy Expert Rankings are about. Put simply,
FHD Fantasy Expert Rankings are something like the Consumer
ReportsTM of
the fantasy football expert industry. It's a
way for fantasy footballers everywhere to get information
on the actual performance of fantasy football experts,
and then decide where they find the most value.
Expert advice is everywhere
Fantasy football is exploding, and for good reason.
It's a blast! It's everywhere. When an
NFL trade is made, the fantasy implications are discussed
as much (if not more) than the impact on the teams
themselves. Media outlets, including TV, are
heavily factoring fantasy football into their coverage.
But as fantasy football explodes, so does the number
of fantasy experts. Fantasy expert advice is everywhere,
in every media stream. And like anything else,
there's some good and some not so good. So,
like Consumer ReportsTM,
FHD provides fact-based information to help sort it
out. So you can make the most of the time and
money you have as you dominate your league.
Facts are Stubborn Things
Fantasy Hound Dog Expert Rankings works on the
premise that, as John Adams
himself said, "facts are stubborn things."
On a weekly basis, FHD compares what fantasy experts
projected to what actually happened, and use those
facts to determine how often the experts are essentially
correct. The results are displayed in a graph
that lets you see how experts stack up. The
graph is interactive, so you can drill down to see
prediction summaries and player performance data.
You can also utilize the FHD Control Panel to filter
rankings by week, position, prediction type, expert
type, and more.
High Value Predictions
We also apply techniques to ensure that experts are
ranked on those predictions that offer the highest
value to fantasy footballers. Let's face it
- you don't need to be told to play LaDainian Tomlinson
or Peyton Manning. And you don't need to be
told to sit the 3rd string running back for the Detroit
Lions. So experts don't get credit for these
kinds of picks on FHD. There are players that
you play or sit no matter what. But fantasy
football games and leagues are won or lost by those
players in- between - what FHD calls value players.
Fantasy football experts who do well on predicting the performance
of value players rank the highest on FHD.
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It's not easy being a real expert
But let us also point out what FHD is not.
It's not a mechanism to point out failure. Let's
face it, predicting the performance of NFL players
from week to week, or sports in general, is not an
exact science. Things happen - it doesn't turn
out like we think - that's why they play the games,
as the saying goes. So we recognize that even
experts aren't going to get it right all the time
and it's not the purpose of FHD to point that out.
But that said, if a person or organization holds themselves
out as an expert and provides advice (and even asks
you to pay for it), there is a reasonable expectation
that they have special knowledge, and are investing
extra resources (the time and money you don't have),
to figure it all out and do a better job than most
at predicting performance. And for the most
part, they do. And in fact, some are indeed
better than others.
And some are real good
In addition to helping you figure all this out and
identify the not-so-good experts, FHD highlights exceptional
performance, and even rewards it with the Weekly FHD
Top 10. The Top 10 Fantasy Experts are provided
a special logo to put on their site recognizing their
performance. And at the end of the year, we
hand out the Annual FHD Expert Awards (click
here for the 2006 Awards).
More than just advice
We want to make one last point here. FHD ranks
fantasy football experts on their player projections.
But it needs to be said that many of the expert sites
provide much more than than player projections.
So when choosing a fantasy expert, make sure to consider
the other benefits they offer in addition to how well
they project player performance. Doing t his,
you can find the best value and the best fit for
your fantasy football expert needs, and that's what the
FHD Fantasy Expert Rankings are really all about.
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