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Technical Features
 
FREE iPhone App!: Free for all subscribers, create custom teams online for customized news, rankings, and analysis for all your teams and then download our "MyGuru" iPhone app and take it all with you on the go!

Draft Analyzer Program: In 2010 we were excited to roll out new draft tool software stemming from an agreement between FantasyGuru.com and DraftAnalyzer.com. This software, both Web-based (PC and Mac) and desktop based (PC only), is a fantastic tool for running quick and easy real or mock drafts analyzing your drafts as they happen in real time or after the fact. And the best part? The version of the software posted on our site is synced up with FantasyGuru.com, so all of our projections, rankings, and recommendations are built right into the software to give you pick-by-pick direction.
 
All subscribers access the software through/while logged into FantasyGuru.com. You can use the Web-based program and download the desktop-based program for no additional charge (on the Web version, just click “Desktop” to download). If you choose to download the iPhone mobile app (which syncs up with the Web-based version) through DraftAnalyzer.com’s store, it will cost you $6.95
 
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Guru Database: Deep statistical database of fantasy football information spanning the past nine years. This gives us the ability to build software to isolate top performers, and much more.
 
Features of the Guru Database include:
  • Highly searchable, sortable, and customizable.
  • Easily sort through categories including pass targets, red-zone and goal-line carries/targets, and more.
  • Individual game logs for all players and teams going back to 2002.
  • Team views that will show top performers on each team.
  • Points allowed to different positions. See what teams are giving up the most/least points to each fantasy position for the season or a specific week range and also in YOUR scoring systems.
  • Strength of Schedule ability to chart out SOS for the remainder of the season or a specific range for YOUR scoring systems.
  • History tool can rank players for any week based on their average fantasy points per game against that week’s opponent. You can also view game logs for any player against any opponent for the last eight years. 
  • IDP Stud report isolates top IDP performers. 
MyGuru: Personalized portal to all of your fantasy football information. Create your own window to your fantasy teams in minutes and view custom news, stats, and projections on just those players, plus view suggested starting lineups for all your teams and switch from team-to-team at the click of a mouse.
 
Guru Glance: When you are navigating our site and database, you can click on any player’s name at any time and you’ll see that the table expands and includes a ton of information, at a quick “Guru Glance.” Let’s break down the information you can now see:
    1. Schedule – Comes in handy when you’re looking at a player. As the season progresses, you’ll see only his remaining games.
    2. Weather – This little widget from weather.com will show the current forecast in the city of his next game, which is something that will come in handy on game days when you’re looking at your players.
    3. Points Allowed – Next up, a nice little bar graph that will show your player’s next four opponents and the points allowed by his next four opponents in YOUR scoring system using those opponents’ last four games. Good for giving you some perspective on their upcoming schedule. This will also show the player’s next opponent.
    4. History – Wondering how your guy has done against this week’s opponent? It will quickly show you how many points your guy has scored in YOUR scoring system against this week’s opponent the last three years, with the dates of those previous matchups.
    5. Remaining SOS – In addition to points allowed, we’ll show you in a chart how you player’s SOS ranks against the league average for the position, all, again, in YOUR scoring systems. This is good for when you’re looking at trades, preparing for the playoffs, etc.
    6. Player News – We don’t have a lot of room for this, but once we’re rolling with player news and information, you’ll see the latest news or injury bite about your player, with a link to his news page with all news.
Fantasy Football Projections: Custom-built and sortable, expert offensive skill, special team, and IDP projections strictly based on your scoring methods, and include kick returner projections for individual players and teams. You can also combine and view projections for WR/TE, RB/WR, RB/WR/TE, etc. Includes expert analysis for each player. Customizable projections includes Up and Down indicators to help you identify who’s on the move up and who’s on the move down. In addition, players are flagged as being injured, having favorable or unfavorable schedules, weather concerns, and more. Expanded Scoring Options in 2011, with more scoring options to accommodate your league rules. Also included are preset scoring systems for popular public leagues such as Yahoo, Sportsline, and ESPN, and many high-stakes leagues.
 
Stat-Based Projections: New for 2011, each Tuesday morning, subscribers can view player projections for each upcoming week based solely on their scoring system(s) and the numbers each defense is giving up to every position. For example, if the Packers’ Week Five opponent is giving up the most points per game to QBs in your scoring system in their first four games, Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers will be ranked #1 at the QB position for Week Five. These statistical projections are offered for QBs, RBs, WRs, Tes, PKs, DTs, DLs, LBs, and DBs and are all customized to your scoring systems. You can also change the outputs to go back as many weeks as you’d like and break down the numbers to reflect what the defenses have been giving up at home and away. It’s a great way to get a jump start on the week to see what the numbers are saying about the upcoming matchups. On Wednesday, we then update our own weekly projections, which account for all factors, not just what the numbers say.
 
Fantasy Football Cheat Sheets: As a bonus, customized rankings can be generated in cheat sheet form (even one-page) for easy access and viewing in the preseason and for each week of the regular season. These are also really useful during your draft!
Roster Analyzer: Use this powerful tool to help with your lineup decisions. Simply build your team’s roster (including IDPs) by selecting all your players, and then input the number of starters you can use at each position. You can use this feature for all of your leagues if you’d like. Once you build your roster(s) and input your scoring system(s) in MyGuru, simply check back here each week for our suggested starting lineup(s) based on our projections and your scoring system with one click of a button. Updated 2-3 times a week in preseason and 6-8 times per week during the season from Wednesday right up until kickoff.
 
Trade Analyzer: Using similar technology as our Roster Analyzer, this tool allows you to enter two sides of a proposed trade. We will then analyze the deal based on your previously inputted/stored scoring system and our projections for the rest of the season and will indicate which side is more favorable. Not only that, but we will calculate a favorability scale for the deal, broken down by Heavily, Moderately, and Slightly favored.
 
Points Allowed Tool: For all positions, including IDPs, see what teams are giving up the most/least points to each fantasy position in your scoring system(s) over the schedule range you select. Say you’re facing a tough lineup decision at QB. Simply use this tool to see which one of your QBs’ opponents have given up more production to the position in YOUR scoring system. Works for all positions, including IDPs. You can even view game logs for all teams and see exactly what they gave up to a specific position, including fantasy points in YOUR scoring system.
 
Strength of Schedule Tool: A purely statistical measure of the schedule for each team. We measure strength of schedule by looking at the fantasy points allowed by each team to a given position and then summing up and averaging those points over the schedule range you select. The SOS shown can be customized to YOUR league’s scoring system, so it’s SOS in YOUR league. Say you’ve been presented a trade, a RB for a RB. Simply use this tool to see which of the RBs has the easier remaining schedule (or whatever weekly range you want to use, next 3 games, 4, 5, etc.) in YOUR scoring system.
 
Matchup History Tool: Use this tool to see exactly what your players have done against this week’s opponent the last eight years, including fantasy PPG in YOUR scoring system. Or, if you’re looking for a free-agent QB for a given week, you can see a ranking of all the league’s QBs for any given week, sorted by their career fantasy points per game against that week’s opponent. Using this tool, you can easily find a FA who has a productive history against his opponent that week. Also view game logs for all players against all opponents going back to 2002.
 
Red Zone Report: See who is the most active inside the 20 and also inside the 10. Keeps track of pass attempts, targets, rushing attempts, goal-line stats (inside the 10), contribution percentages, and more.
 
Pass Target Report: See who is getting thrown at the most across the league for the season, last week, last 2-3 weeks, etc.
 
IDP Stud Report: Keep track of the defensive leaders easily and effectively.  Track all major defensive stats as well as who’s creating most of the opportunities for their team with overall contribution percentages.
 
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Regular Season Issues – An Overview
 
Sunday Night:
 
Weekly Wrap-Up Podcast: We start the week off with an exclusive Podcast that reviews the events of the week, injuries, Waiver Wire material, and more. It's a great wrap-up and early preview of the coming week.
 
Post-Game Injury Roundup: We do a roundup of all the injuries that are “out there” from the Sunday games, with any information that has been disclosed by the player, his coach, or by an NFL beat writer.
 
The Waiver Wire: This column will fill you in on a range of players who are worth picking up and who should be available in your league. We rank all the WW players by position and break them down into players who could be available in smaller, medium, and larger leagues, and even some guys to pick up for later in the season or long shots to take a flyer on. Of course, we have extensive analysis on each player. For example, we listed Green Bay’s James Starks here as early as September 12th this past year. We also constantly update this feature throughout the week.
 
Monday:
 
Monday Injury Roundup: We track the status of the week’s injured players, with an early outlook for the upcoming week. We also update these as information comes in on Monday afternoon/evening.
 
The Stock Watch: An extensive weekly feature detailing which players’ (offensive and defensive) stock is rising or falling, with reasons why. Usually covers 25-30 players. It’s a great way to wrap up the week that was in fantasy football. You’ve likely seen the stock market analogy before – but we were the first to do it. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Inside the Boxscore: No time to watch all the games? No problem! Each week, we look at every play from every game and offer up interesting and hard-to-find stats and game analysis from strictly a fantasy perspective. During the season, we track the number of passes thrown to each receiver, goal-line carries and looks, and spot the trends before they are trends. Again, we were the first to do such analysis starting in the late ‘90s. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
The Waiver Wire: We update our look at all the viable options on the WW with all the news that comes out on a Monday. Available online and also e-mailed
 
IDP Stock Watch/Waiver Wire: The week’s risers and fallers from an IDP perspective, plus WW options for IDP leagues.
 
Tuesday:
 
The Waiver Wire: We update our extensive WW column as information regarding injuries and expected playing time for the upcoming week becomes available.
 
Monday Night Wrap-up: We produce a Stock Watch and go Inside the Boxscore for the Monday Night game. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Tuesday Morning Injury Roundup – We track the status of the week’s injured players, with an early outlook for the upcoming week. We even update these as more information comes in on Tuesday.
 
“In the Loop” Podcast: Senior writers Matt Camp and Joe Dolan host an hour-long call-in podcast, reviewing the previous week’s action and giving you early advice for your next matchup. Camp and Dolan continue “In the Loop” every week throughout the season, playoffs, and off-season, so no stone is left unturned.
 
Tuesday News & Notes: An early-week look around the league, with pertinent and informative fantasy-related tidbits. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Players to Trade and Trade for: One of our most valuable features because of its accuracy, we take a look at all players and list those you should seriously consider trading or trading for, based mostly on their current perceived values versus their future potential. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Cosell’s Film Room: NFL analyst Greg Cosell posts his notes from reviewing the coach’s tape he has access to at NFL Films (exclusive in the fantasy industry).
 
Customized Season Player Rankings & Projections: Custom built and sortable, expert offensive projections strictly based on your scoring methods for the rest of the season. Includes expert analysis for each player. Customizable projections now includes Up and Down indicators to help you identify who’s on the move up and who’s on the move down from the previous week. We include our projected weekly averages for yards and TDs for each player.
 
Updated Depth Charts: Offensive and IDPs included with comments on position battles, temporary roles, injuries, etc.
 
Expert Chat: Chat with one of our experts with access to transcript afterward.
 
Wednesday:
 
Wednesday Morning Injury Roundup: We track the status of the week’s injured players with an early outlook for the upcoming week. We update these as information comes in on Wednesday.
 
Customized Weekly Player Rankings & Projections: Custom-built and sortable, expert offensive projections strictly based on your scoring methods for the upcoming week. Projections include expert analysis for each player. Generic yardage + TD rankings also available.  
 
Hansen on Strategy: Publisher John Hansen’s popular weekly column looks at fantasy football strategies from a wide variety of angles. These will be on topics such as: team maintenance with regard to player schedules; commissioning; understanding the trends; keeping up with the league's top backup players who are only an injury away from starting; and much, much more. This column always includes tons of information and entertainment value. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Production Tracker Report: One of our most popular features, we go team-by-team and report on the actual production each team is giving up to each of the skill positions in their recent games (we typically go back 3-4 games). It’s an excellent tool to use to make weekly lineup decisions, trades, and more. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Place Kicker Report: Our own Mike Horn’s impressive statistical formula for predicting kicker production each week hasn’t been equaled in the industry and is very accurate. So if you need a kicker for this week, or if you play the matchups each week, check here.
 
Wednesday Practice Report: Wednesday is typically the first day teams practice, and we'll have a comprehensive roundup with the status of all the key injured players that night, as opposed to the next day. We get a lot of our information from the teams themselves and from coaches’ press conferences. It’s a comprehensive look at this week’s injuries with all positions covered. Due to our 2008 merger with footballinjuries.com, no other fantasy site can touch us in terms of our accuracy reporting and projecting the status of injured players. Note: These reliable practice reports are quickly e-mailed to our mailing list for easy access and review on a mobile device with e-mail access. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Thursday:
 
Matchup Podcast: FantasyGuru.com's John Hansen and Adam Caplan are joined by Greg Cosell, the Senior Producer of the State Farm Insurance Matchup Show on ESPN. By this point in the week, Greg's broken down hours and hours of coaches’ tapes from the week before, and he shares his insights with FantasyGuru.com subscribers.
 
(Updated) Customized Weekly Player Rankings & Projections: Custom built and sortable, expert offensive projections, strictly based on your scoring methods for the upcoming week. Includes expert analysis for each player and updated through Wednesday practices. Generic yardage + TD rankings also available.  
 
Office Pool Picks: With picks, predicted scores, and suicide suggestions from our staff, as well as consensus staff picks for all of the above.
 
Thursday Night Practice Report: We'll again have a roundup with the status of all the key injured players as of the Thursday practices, with most of our information coming from the teams. Note: These reliable practice reports are quickly e-mailed to our mailing list for easy access and review on a mobile device with e-mail access. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
IDP Rankings & Projections: Full projections and comments for 200+ IDPs.
 
Friday Report:
 
Friday Morning Injury Roundup: Updated with info on player status through the Thursday practices.
 
Friday News & Notes: A late-week look around the league, with pertinent and informative fantasy-related tidbits regarding player roles, injury replacements, and more.
 
(Updated) Customized Weekly Player Rankings & Projections: Custom built and sortable, expert offensive and defensive projections strictly based on your scoring methods for the upcoming week. Includes expert analysis for each player and updated through Thursday practices. Our generic yardage + TD rankings are also available.  
 
Game Center: We wrap up the week with an in-depth look at each upcoming NFL game. For each game, we take a detailed look at all the key players’ matchups and how they are looking for the week. These previews include extensive analysis on the matchups, cover all the stats, cover injuries, weather, lineup updates, predicted scores, and more. It’s not just a “Start/Bench” feature; it’s much, much more.
 
Player Matchups: We take all the player analyses from our Game Center and break them down by position and also by category. Here’s where you’ll get a good feel for the weekly matchups and see which players at all position are looking better or worse, based on the matchup. These extensive overviews cover all angles, such as the defensive matchups, injuries, weather, and more.
 
Reaches of the Week: If you’re looking for a sleeper or upside play for the week at QB, RB, WR, TE, or DT, check here for full analysis on the lower-end players we like this week. Oftentimes, these are backups who are thrust into prominent roles for the week due to injuries.
 
IDP Game Previews: A game-by-game look, with analysis on all players of note, IDP style. We go over the no-brainer starts, the matchup plays, guys to bench for the week, and more.
 
Customized Weekly IDP Player Rankings & Projections: Custom built and sortable, expert projections strictly based on your scoring methods for the upcoming week. Includes expert analysis for each player and updated through Thursday practices.
 
Kick Returner/Special Team Report: We even rank, project, and analyze the top-50 kick returners for each week.
 
Expert Chat: Chat with a FantasyGuru.com senior staff member on Friday afternoon.
 
Friday Night Injury Roundup: We'll again have a full roundup of the final practices of the week with the status of all the key injured players as of the crucial Friday practices. Note: These reliable practice reports are quickly e-mailed to our mailing list for easy access and review on a mobile device with e-mail access. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Saturday:
 
(Updated) Customized Weekly Player Rankings & Projections: Custom built and sortable, expert offensive and defensive projections strictly based on your scoring methods for the upcoming week. Includes expert analysis for each player and updated through Friday practices. Generic yardage + TD rankings also available.
 
Waiver Wire: A final late-week update of our current WW report will include key late information on possible WW pickups due to injury situations and more. Because so many leagues are different in size, our WW recommendations are very deep and go from any obvious pickups to the deepest of the deepest viable options – and in this report, it’s all updated through the final Friday practices.  
 
Sunday Morning/Afternoon:
 
Quick Sunday Update: We'll have a "quick update" available on the Web (and also e-mailed) by 11 a.m. ET. The length of this report is dependent upon the number of key injuries still up-in-the-air as of Sunday. Available online and also e-mailed.
 
Hansen’s Hints: With all the information other than the actual inactives in for the week, Publisher John Hansen goes game-by-game and offers up an extensive last-minute look at the matchups and players of note.
 
Caplan’s Reaches: Respected NFL Insider and fantasy player Adam Caplan offers up the best reach plays of the week at QB, RB, WR, and TE. It’s a great resource for those looking for reach plays.
 
Game-Time Injury Updates: We continue to update the injury situations online until the start of the 1 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m. games, posting important inactives and lineup changes as reported by the teams. We even e-mail breaking news updates when major news breaks, and we can hit our entire mailing list in less than 5 minutes. Our Sunday update pages refreshes automatically, so simple sit back and watch the updates come in on all key inactives, lineup notes, and rumors on gameday.    
 
Weather Updates: If there's a weather-related problem – like rain, snow, sleet, mud, wind – in a particular city, we'll let you know about it here.
 
Game-Day Twitter Updates: We’re around all day on gameday to post quick thoughts, observations, and tidbits via our Twitter feed, which automatically appears on the Subscriber Homepage.  
 
Postseason:
 
Playoff League Report: For those who redraft just for the postseason, we produce a very large playoff preview issue, complete with each team's playoff outlook, tips for drafting, player rankings, sleepers, news and injuries, and more.
 
Playoff Updates: Each week before the weekend games, we offer game/player previews, player rankings, injury updates, picks against the spread, and more for those who can re-draft just for that week.
 
Off-Season Reports:
 
All 2011 subscribers are automatically placed on FantasyGuru.com’s off-season report mailing list. Stay on top of all the off-season events and enjoy some early speculation by receiving an e-mail report from us at least once a month from January through June.
 
Preseason Content – An Overview
These HUGE updates will be posted on a continuing and very regular basis throughout the preseason. It will give you absolutely everything you'll need for your draft.

Updated Daily:
 
Player News & Notes: Updated daily throughout the preseason. Searchable and sortable updates on your players, all players, search by day, etc.
 
Injury Updates: Updated daily throughout the preseason. Searchable and sortable updates on your players, all players, search by day, etc. 
 
Updated Twice Weekly (or more frequently):
 
Custom Projections: See overview above.
 
Fantasy Football Cheat Sheets: Our generic Cheat Sheets rank 375+ players and teams for yardage and TDs, and you can build customized and printable cheat sheets for offensive skill, defensive team, and IDPs. Also available as PDFs.
 
Top-200 Overall: This cheat sheet is a nice reference tool. Also available as PDFs.
 
Master Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet: The same as above, but this one includes more information, such as upside/downside designations, undervalued/overvalued designations, average draft position information, and more.
 
IDP Cheat Sheet: We’ll rank the IDPs and help you locate the players who’ll get you sacks, tackles, and interceptions. And we constantly update throughout the preseason.
 
The Stock Watch: This in-depth article will details which players’ (offensive and defensive) stock is rising and which players’ stock is falling at the time of publication, with detailed reasons why. This feature is produced twice a week starting in late July, so you’ll always know who’s on the rise and decline.
 
Training Camp Battles: A very extensive and constantly updated look at this year’s key training camp battles (usually 45-65 battles), with key information typically obtained from NFL insiders on our payroll.
 
Depth Charts: Updated twice weekly. Easily view/print our depth charts in their entirety, by team, even sort by rookie players or players currently injured. Also gives our projected 3rd-down back, goal-line back, and more. Includes notes on any changes/injuries of note.
 
Updated Weekly (or more frequently):
 
Exhibition Game Reviews: Extensive reviews of all the exhibition games, with everything you should know about them. No need to research what happened in these games; we’ll have it all covered with our game reviews.
 
2011 Draft Plan: In perhaps our most popular preseason fantasy football strategy article, Publisher John Hansen takes a look at the talent at each position and all the trends we’re seeing in the hundreds of drafts we observe to give you a definitive plan of action for your 2011 draft. What positions do you need to address early? Which can you hold off on? Should you take your TE early? It’s all covered here position-by-position, round-by-round, and pick-by-pick. Constantly updated throughout the preseason and covers all the current trends and more.
 
Good Vibes/Bad Vibes: In another one of Publisher John Hansen’s signature preseason pieces, he covers all the overall “vibes” for each team in the preseason and relates them to the fantasy values of their players. This highly-anticipated article is updated weekly and has consistently isolated teams (and, thus players) that have fallen well short of expectations for the season and have greatly exceeded expectations.
 
2011s Players to Target: We isolate some of the players we like as values for various reasons as various stages of a draft (Round 1-3, 4-6, etc.) and offer a ton of analysis why we like them and when you should be targeting them. Last year’s list included players who exceeded expectations and most were drafted after the 4th or 5th round like Matt Ryan, Kyle Orton, Matt Cassel, Arian Foster, LeSean McCoy, Ahmad Bradshaw, Roddy White, Greg Jennings, Hakeem Nicks, Jeremy Maclin, Mike Williams (TB), Kenny Britt, Percy Harvin, Johnny Knox, Malcom Floyd, Mike Thomas, Lance Moore, Mike Williams (Sea), Zach Miller, Chris Cooley, Dustin Keller, Marcedes Lewis, and Ben Watson.
 
2010’s Overvalued/Players to Avoid: Last year’s list included higher-end players/DTs like: Donovan McNabb, Shonn Green, Jahvid Best, Ronnie Brown, Brandon Jacobs, Chris Wells, Michael Crabtree, Mike Sims-Walker, Steve Breaston, Sidney Rice, Owen Daniels, and the NY Jets Defense. It’s a constantly updated look at some players you should avoid overpaying for this year, with reasons why. We look at scheme, player’s role, strength of schedule, injuries, and more.  
 
ADP Analysis: In one of our most popular features, our ADP (Average Draft Position) experts scan as many Internet and local drafts as possible to determine the top-200 players' ADP. We also offers up extensive analysis of the summer's draft trends and which players are going too early and which players are sliding too far. You’ll not only know which players to take, but when to take them for those in 8, 10, 12 and 14-team leagues. This feature is updated weekly throughout the preseason.
 
Snapshot of an Average Draft: Constantly updated, we tell you how many players at each position are being drafted in each round and more, so you know what to expect.
 
Draft Position Strategy: We map out a plan of action for each area of a draft, such as picking early in the first round. We’ll help you if you have an early, mid, or late pick in the first round. In 2009, for example, our “Bottom Feeding” article saved thousands who were baffled as to what approach to take when picking late in Round One.
 
Rookie Previews: We rank the year's rookies and offer analysis on their 2011 values and keeper-league values. It’s constantly updated throughout the preseason and very extensive, also including keeper league rankings and overviews. In 2010 we said that Ram QB Sam Bradford was “by far” the best prospect in his class and was poised to have a very solid career. We also ranked Saint TE Jimmy Graham as our #1 TE prospect, and more.
 
Issues: Updates on the top issues currently baffling fantasy owners, such as playing-time scenarios.
 
Special Team Previews: Although they are often overlooked by others, we preview each kick return game and rank all 32 teams based on their return game prowess and potential.
 
Kick Returner Previews: Our special team’s expert will preview and cover extensively the top-50 return men in the league with analysis, projected stats, and more. It’s updated weekly throughout the preseason as things develop.
 
Return Men/Offensive Previews: If your league awards extra points for return production for offensive and even defensive players, we’ve got you covered this year with guys like Danny Amendola in 2010.
 
Expert Fantasy Football Mock Drafts: FantasyGuru.com experts and some of the top minds in fantasy football will participate in and analyze 20+ mock and real drafts to help our readers get a feel for their 2010 drafts.
 
More Fantasy Football Mock Draft Analysis: In addition to publishing our results and analysis of “Expert Drafts,” we’ll participate in numerous “regular” fantasy drafts to give a clearer picture of the fantasy draft landscape in the real world. We’ll organize (among subscribers) and analyze 3-4 mock drafts a week in the preseason.
 
Updated Periodically:
 
Player Previews: Previews for the approximately top-200 players. Each player preview includes an analysis of the player’s talent, coaching/system, durability, supporting cast, job security, 2010 strength of schedule, and our gut feeling. These previews could be up to 40,000 words alone and also include tons of hard-to-find stats that put the player’s 2010 season in greater perspective.
 
Defensive Team Previews: Similar to our Player Previews, we preview each team defense in a variety of categories, including overall, turnovers/TDs, sacks, points given up, etc.
 
Offensive Line Previews: Perhaps nothing is more important to the success of an offense than the offensive line. While O-lines are often overlooked by others, we preview each offensive line in great detail and analyze how it will affect the fantasy production for its team. We’ll wrap it up by telling you if the lines will be better, worse, or the same for the run and the pass.
 
2011’s Top Backups: We take an extensive position-by-position look at the top back-up players at QB, RB, and WR. Some of these players you’ll want to draft late to protect your starters or even to stash away for a rainy day. Last year in this article we said good things about these guys who were 2010 preseason backups: Michael Vick, Jon Kitna, Kerry Collins, Shaun Hill, Mike Tolbert, Chris Ivory, Ryan Torain, Mike Goodson, James Starks, Anthony Dixon, Rashad Jennings, Brandon Lloyd, Jordy Nelson, Mark Clayton, Jacob Tamme, and Aaron Hernandez.
 
Mr. Relevant: Your extensive guide to getting the best player available with your last or next-to-last picks. Last year, this guide advised to take long shot players such as: Kyle Orton, Matt Cassel, Mike Tolbert, Chris Ivory, Anthony Dixon, Tashard Choice, Steve Johnson, Mike Williams (TB), Mike Williams (Sea), Lance Moore, Mike Thomas, Danny Amendola, Aaron Hernandez, and Tony Moeaki.
 
Break-out WRs: Our annual and very extensive look at those WRs and TEs entering their second and third seasons, when they should be ready to break out. We’ll break all the second and third-year WRs and Tes into various tiers so readers know which of these players has a good chance, a decent chance, or little chance to break out in 2011.
 
PPR Gold: Each year we offer an extensive preview of the RBs, WRs, and TEs who should be more valuable and/or sleepers for those in PPR leagues, and we constantly update the list through the preseason. We also break the players down into targets groups for early, middle, and late rounds. 2010’s version of this article had us pimping players like: LeSean McCoy, Matt Forte, LaDainian Tomlinson, Darren McFadden, Roddy White, Jeremy Maclin, Dwayne Bowe, Mike Williams (TB), Davone Bess, Danny Amendola, Mike Thomas, Jason Witten, Zach Miller, Chris Cooley, and Ben Watson.
 
2011 RB Handcuffs: Throughout the preseason and weekly throughout the regular season, we update readers on who the best RB handcuffs for each “starter” should be. Some teams don’t have an ideal handcuff, but we give you the best overview of how to protect your RB studs with back-up RB info for all 32 teams.
 
2011's TD Vultures: This extensive and constantly upside preseason feature profiles the RBs, WRs, and TEs who should be particularly active inside the red zone and in goal-line situation, thus giving them a good chance to score TDs. Last year’s article profiled scoring surprises like Arian Foster, Mike Tolbert, LeGarrette Blount, Chris Ivory, Hakeem Nicks, Dwayne Bowe, and Greg Olsen.
 
Capital Gains: Draft Strategies & Tactics: Learn how to dominate your fantasy draft by employing strategies utilized by some of the best investors and venture capitalists in the world. This is one of the best-written fantasy articles you’ll read all year, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jeff Brazil.
 
2011's Contract Year Players: An extensive and regularly updated look at those players entering the final years of their contracts with tons of analysis. This article focuses on the player’s potentially-higher-than-usual motivation for the upcoming season. While being in a contract year is only one small factor to consider when looking at a player, we cover it comprehensively.
 
2011 Coaching Changes: We analyze the fantasy implications of each of 2011's coaching changes, including coordinator changes. Our NFL insiders will give you the skinny on all of this year’s changes and how they will affect fantasy production in ’11 by reviewing all moves of note and discussing the coaches’ histories, philosophies, and more.  
 
Trading Strategies: We offer up a plethora of tips and trading strategies to help you form the best team possible.
 
2-QB League Strategies: Dolan provides you with plenty of thoughts, tips, and strategies for leagues that allow you to start 2 QBs, plus we offer statistical breakdowns that support our approach in these types of leagues.
 
General Draft Strategies: Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned pro, you’ll be well covered when it comes to fantasy football draft strategy articles.
 
Trading Draft Picks: We give you some tips and a draft pick value chart to help you trade picks before your draft.
 
2010's Lessons Learned: We apply the lessons fantasy owners should have learned from 2010 to the 2011 season. It’s a detailed review of the previous year with an eye toward what we can take out of it for this year.  
 
National Contest Strategies: For those in national salary cap contests like the ones run by CDM, USA Today, etc., we offer up some strategies.
 
Commissioning Guide: Weproduce a complete "Idiot's Guide to Commissioning." From setting up leagues to handling the malcontents, we will fill you in on what you need to know for regular, keeper, and dynasty leagues. In addition, we will offer up a laundry list of unusual and interesting league rules for your consideration.
 
Keeper League Setup Guide: Everything you need to know about setting up and running a keeper league.
 
Auction Draft Setup Guide: What you need to know to run a successful auction draft.
 
More Fantasy Football Strategy Articles: We always wind up producing several strategy articles in the summer that we do not exactly plan on doing beforehand.
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Statistical Analysis Articles:
We will crunch the numbers and publish numerous statistical studies to give you an even greater advantage over your competition. The charts will analyze last year's numbers together with this year's schedule, and include things like:
 
Projected 2011 Strength of Schedule: With extensive analysis on the SOS ramifications on players and teams broken down for the run and the pass.
 
Projected 2011 DT Strength of Schedule: We look at every matchup for every team to get a better handle on all 32 DT’s prospects for fantasy based on those matchups.
 
SOS for the Fantasy Playoff Weeks: With extensive analysis on the SOS ramifications on players and teams
 
Target Matrix: Resident stat head Mike Horn bring us his yearly draft article on using matrices to identify players to target.
 
Proven Performers: Each year we look at past performances for QBs, RBs, WRs, and TEs to break them down to see how it might relate to this coming year.
 
Offensive Identities: We look at coaching philosophies to determine how it will help or hurt players' production in 2011.
 
QBs Changing Teams: We examine how changing teams affects a QB's performance and break it down statistically.
 
Break-out Rates: We look at NFL draft position and experience to determine likely break-out candidate.
 
QBs Staying on Top: We look at this past year's top-10 QBs and try to identify those who are likely to repeat their success.
 
Expected TDs for WRs: Through statistical analysis, we tell you what receivers will score more (or fewer TDs) in 2011.
 
SOS Adjusted QB Scores for 2010: We examine which QBs scored more or less than expected points in 2010 based on their schedules.
 
SOS Adjusted RB Scores for 2010: We examine which RBs scored more or less than expected points in 2010 based on their schedules.
 
SOS Adjusted WR Scores for 2010: We examine which WRs scored more or less than expected points in 2010 based on their schedules.
 
Playing Games: We crunch the numbers and look at which players are most likely to play a near-full season in any given year.
 
Red Zone Analysis: Going over the RZ activity from 2010.
 
Pass Target Analysis: Going over the PT activity from 2010.
 
Distance Scoring Analysis: Breaking down which players' TDs came from the longest distances.
 
300-yard/100-yard player performance analysis: We break down which players excelled in terms of going over 300 yards passing and 100 yards rushing/receiving for those in leagues that give bonuses for those thresholds.
 
And at least 10 more statistically based articles  
 
Keeper/Dynasty Content: 
 
Keeper League Rankings: Constantly updated, we rank over 375 skill players with comments and insight as to whether or not they have the potential to finish higher or lower than our rankings (upside/downside).
 
Keeper/Dynasty League Players to Trade/Trade For: Last year, we advised readers to trade for guys like Matt Ryan, Eli Manning, Matthew Stafford, Michael Vick, Jonathan Stewart, Matt Forte, LeSean McCoy, Felix Jones, Jamaal Charles, Pierre Garcon, Malcom Floyd, Jermichael Finley, Dustin Keller, and Jared Cook. We also advised readers to consider trading players like Marion Barber, Brandon Jacobs, Steve Slaton, Jerome Harrison, Lee Evans, Anthony Gonzalez, and Kevin Walter.
 
Keeper League Strategies: We give you a tonof keeper league tips and strategies, as well as a definitive plan of action for new keeper league participants.
 
Dynasty League Strategies: More tips and strategies for dynasty league owners.
 
Keeper Stock Watch: We’ll periodically chime in when we see a player who may be emerging as a viable keeper prospect, or if a player’s about to lose some keeper value.
 
IDP Content
 
Understanding IDPs: This is the ultimate IDP article for experts and novices alike. Learn which positions in which schemes are good for fantasy and much, much more.
 
IDP Stock Watch: Upgrades and Downgrades from the IDP world will be covered here and updated regularly in the preseason.
 
2010 IDP Rookie Report: The top-30 rookies for IDP leagues, constantly updated in the preseason.
 
IDP Values & Sleepers: A constantly updated and extensive look at this year's IDP choices. We look at emerging young players, players who benefit from a scheme change, and more.
 
IDP Top-100 Overall: The meat and potatoes of our preseason IDP content, we offer up rankings and insightful analysis for the top-100 IDP players overall, and we constantly update it throughout the preseason.
 
2010 IDP Draft Plan: We bust out a plan of action for drafting IDPs, broken down by early, middle, and late rounds, updated weekly.
 
IDP Strategy, Tactics, & Draft Plan: We follow up on our offensive tactics article with an IDP version you can use to gain an advantage drafting IDPs.
 
IDP Status Report: Each week this preseason feature covers all 32 teams and breaks down what's going on in their preseason games from an IDP perspective, so you know what's going on in terms of playing time, scheme adjustments, and more.
 
IDP Keeper & Dynasty Rankings: Rankings and comments for 130 IDPs for the long-term.
 
IDP Keeper League Prospects: We profile the top young and promising IDP options.
 
Auction Content:
 
Auction Draft Plan: Similar to our 2010 Draft Plan, we give you an extensive plan of action for your Auction Draft. Our seasoned pros will give you the most insightful auction strategies available on the planet. It is pages and pages of sharp insight.
 
Expert/Regular Auction Draft Reviews: We’ll break down numerous auctions and analyze the results periodically throughout the preseason.
 
Average Auction Values: The average $ values for all key players right now, along with highest- and lowest-observed bids along with analysis on the players who are moving up and down the board.
 
Auction Best Practices: This strategy piece will break down your best practices for handling your auction draft and will cover the keys to maximize it.  
 
Nine Possible Auction Teams: We’ll break down nine possible auction teams all using the salary cap and reviews the pros and cons of all of them.

Auction Draft Tool: For advanced Excel users, this tool can help you take our projections and convert them into $ values for your auction.
 
Predicting Auction Values: We detail how to use historical data from your leagues to predict auction prices this year.
 
FantasyGuru.com's Ultimate Auction League: Our stat and auction guy Mike Horn spearheads a staff/MB poster Auction League with extensive analysis from each owner on strategies, outcomes, etc. It is the ultimate guide to a savvy auction, with tons of participant insight on strategies, mistakes, etc.
 
And more auction strategy articles.
 
PDF Worksheets: Print these out and take to your draft.
 
  • Bye Week Sheet - Track your players’ byes.
  • Schedule grid - NFL schedule on one sheet.
  • Roster Sheet - Track your drafted roster.
  • Position Tracker - Track positions drafted.
  • Draft Tracker - Record each round.
  • NFL Schedules – 2011 NFL Schedule color-coded for H/A games.
  • Back-up QBs - Best backups for quick reference when looking for a viable back-up QB to your starter.
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