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As you should know by now, I along with the managing partner of www.fantasydrafthelp.com Rick Morris, host a fantasy sports internet radio show on www.sportstalknetwork.com and www.sportstalkcleveland.com. Usually, our show airs from 9-11pm est live from the sports talk cleveland palacial studios in downtown Cleveland Ohio. As of tonight said Fantasy Draft Help Insider will be broadcast live from Shula's Steak 2 in Independence Ohio (approx 5-10 min south of downtown Cleveland). Just off of I-77 and Rockside road (one exit south of the I-77 and I-480 intersection). The beauty of broadcasting live on location is our ability to interact with the viewers/listeners who come down to Shula's. If you have a question or concern about your Fantasy team or questions that you'd like answered before your upcoming draft, come down to Shula's and we answer them.
This is a service most fantasy experts/consultants are leary of conducting without some sort of fee. Unlike our competitors in the world of Fantasy Sports, we at FantasyDraftHelp, do not treat this as an infomercial trying to say just enough to steal your money. We sincerely are interested in making you as competitive as possible. There are a multitude of tools, information, and expertise will do charge for, but we will still be happy to answer any question directly and specifically.
Since we approach our craft with absolute honety, we are able to create the kind of strategic process combined with rediculous levels of research and stat crunching that the other guys just aren't willing to do. For instance, anyone can look up season stats and compare those numbers. How many of the people actually have a comprehensive "STATISTIC", one statistic that factors every single aspect of fantasy football and how it compares to every other player? Only one, US. We don't waste your time with End-All-Be-All rules of thumb (i.e. you HAVE TO take 2 RB's in the first 2 rounds). We don't heavily weigh last years stats and forget the previous years stats. I could go on all day long with this, but the point is FDH (FantasyDraftHelp) takes a more analytical approach that ephasizes Value, Balance, and Statistical Research that would choke the like of the Talent-less Mr. Roto, or any other (in big air quotes) fantasy expert.
I was involved in 13 Fantasy Football Drafts last season. I won 6 of them and finished no worse than 4th in any other using the FDH system. The fact of the matter is, most (80% or more) of fantasy owners factor in name recognition, homer picks, a single season spike in production and ill-advised rules of thumb during their draft. If you were to use our system you would be taking valued picks at every round when they are picking based on the previous. Case in point, I was in a draft recently where Antonio Gates was selected 1st in the second round. While Chad Johnson, Marvin Harrison, Terrell Owens, Torry Holt, Willie Parker, Travis Henry, and Tom Brady were still available. If you don't see the problem with that then you need to come Shula's Steak 2 in Independence Ohio on Thursday nights or at the very least listen on www.sportstalknetwork.com or www.sportstalkcleveland.com. Just for the fun of it here's the problem-as a freebie

Antonio Gates -924 rec yds-----9 td's-----139 fantasy points

Chad Johnson -1369 rec yds-----7 td's-----173 fantasy points
Marvin Harrison -1366 rec yds-----12 td's-----200 fantasy points
Terrell Owens -1180 rec yds-----13 td's-----189 fantasy points
Torry Holt -1188 rec yds-----10 td's-----173 fantasy points
Willie Parker -1494 rush yds----13 td's----222 rec yds----3 td's----252 fan pts
Travis Henry -1211 rush yds-----7 td's----78 rec yds----0 td's----161 fan pts
Tom Brady -3529 pass yds----24 td's-----236 fantasy points

And the kicker is, if the guy to selected Gates wasn't a homer for MAC colleges, drafting solely on name recognition circa 2002-2005 he would realize that he could've selected one of the previous and higher valued (QB, RB, or WR) and gotten Kellen Winslow

Kellen Winslow -875 rec yds-----3 td's-----99 fantasy points

Here's the rub. Gates' offensive coordinator who is responsible for getting him the ball in the red zone is now in Cleveland. Winslow played 7 games on a bad leg and still tied the franchise record for receptions (held by hall of famer Ozzie Newsome). Chad Johnson, believe it or not had a down year for TD's. Marvin Harrison was on par for his performance. Owens led all receivers in TD's but had a sub par season with yards in a season where he dropped more balls than he ever had thus far in his career. In the last 4 of the last 5 seasons Holt has been the only receiver to go for 1300 yards and 10+ TD's and last season was the 1 out of 5 where he didn't. Willie Parker? are you kidding me, 1800 total yards and 16 combined TD's for any TE, HELL NO. Travis Henry had 1200/7 for the Tennessee Titans. Now he is in Denver where as we all know, "even you could rush for 1000 in Denver". Tom Brady, 3500/24. Those are QB numbers, period. He almost doubled Gates' production. You see this is all about value, balance and production top to bottom. In conclusion, let's compare that owners team to that of someone following the FDH system completely and take notice of the fantasy point differential.

Team A (not using the FDH system)

QB Carson Palmer----4035 yds----28 tds----261 fan pts
QB Eli Manning-------3244 yds----24 tds----216 fan pts
RB Willie McGahee----990 yds----6 tds------139 fan pts
RB Fred Taylor-------1146 yds----5 tds------162 fan pts
WR Calvin Johnson(R)-N/A--------N/A-------N/A------
WR Braylon Edwards---884 yds----6 tds------116 fan pts
FLEX Laveranues Coles--1098 yds---6 tds------139 fan pts
TE Antonio Gates------934 yds----9 tds------139 fan pts
K Matt Stover--------28 FGM---37 PAT----129 fan pts
DEF MIAMI------------47 Sack-27 TO-3 td---155 fan pts
---------------------------------------Total: 1,456 or 104 per wk

Team B (using the FDH system)

QB Marc Bulger------4301 yds----24 tds----264 fan pts
QB Phillip Rivers-----3388 yds----22 tds----219 fan pts
RB Frank Gore-------2180 tot yds--9 tds----254 fan pts
RB Willie Parker------1716 tot yds-16 tds----252 fan pts
WR Andre Johnson----1147 yds-----5 tds----137 fan pts
WR Darrell Jackson----956 yds----10 tds----150 fan pts
FLEX Reggie Brown------816 yds-----8 tds----129 fan pts
TE Jeremy Shockey---623 yds-----7 tds-----97 fan pts
K Jason Elam---------27 FGM--34 PAT---123 fan pts
DEF Philadelphia--------40 sack-29 TO-5 tds-153 fan pts
----------------------------------------Total: 1,778 or 127 pts per wk

That my friends is the difference between winning and losing weeks. Losing on a last second TD or Winning the week before the end of Sunday and not worrying about MNF. And that is the difference between missing your league's playoffs and Winning your league. PERIOD. The Fantasy Draft Help system works in an unbiased analytical manner. So check us out on Thursday nights from 9-11pm EST on www.sportstalknetwork.com and www.sportstalkcleveland.com or come in person if you can to Shula's Steak 2 in the Double Tree on Rockside Rd in Independence Ohio if you can. It will make the difference.

-Jason Jones
Senior Editor for Fantasy Draft Help.com