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Technical Features

Please Note: We are developing numerous new technical features for the 2008 season and will have more offerings than detailed below.

  • Guru Database: Deep statistical database of fantasy football information spanning the past five years. This gives us the ability to build software to isolate top performers, and much more.

Features include:

1.  - Highly searchable, sortable, and customizable.

2.  - Customizable scoring systems.

3.  - Tracks every major statistical category, including pass targets and a breadth of red zone/goal-line
   information.

4.  - Individual game logs for all players and teams.

5.  - Team views that will show top performers on each team.

6.  - Points allowed to different positions.  See what teams are giving up the most/least points to each fantasy

       position.

  • Fantasy Football Projections: Custom built and sortable, expert offensive skill, special team, and IDP projections strictly based on your scoring methods. 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. Expanded Scoring Options in 2008, 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.

  • 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.

  • MyGuru: Personalized portal to all of your fantasy football information. Create your own portal to your fantasy teams by watching your players and viewing news, analysis, and projections on just them, customize scoring, set team news watches, and view expert projections for your players in your various leagues.

  • 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. Then, we’ll compare our raw projections with your inputted league’s scoring system and will suggest a starting lineup for you. You can use this feature for all of your leagues if you’d like. Once you build your roster and input your scoring system, simply check back here each week for our suggested starting lineup based on our projections and your scoring system.

  • 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 five years, including fantasy PPG in YOUR scoring system.  

  • Red Zone Report: See who is the most active inside the 20.  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.

  • Team News Tracker: A comprehensive daily listing of news items from sites across the Web.  Sortable and watch-able by team.

  • Site User Ratings: Allows site users to rate players in the preseason for the 2008 season and for each week of the season as another analytical tool independent from our official site rankings and ratings.

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Preseason Issues – An Overview

These HUGE up-to-date issues will be delivered to you once a week starting in late-July/early August and all will be accessible and updated throughout the preseason. They will give you absolutely everything you'll need for your draft.


Updated Daily:

  • 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 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-150 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. Constantly updated throughout the preseason.

  • 2008 Draft Plan – Perhaps our most popular preseason fantasy football strategy article, we take 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 2008 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 round-by-round. Constantly updated throughout the preseason.

  • The Stock Watch – This in-depth article 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 2X a week starting in late-July, so you’ll always know who’s the rise and decline.  

  • 2008’s Players to Target – The smartest undervalued/sleeper list on the Internet. Constantly updated throughout the preseason with 20+ pages of information and analysis.

  • 2008’s Players to Avoid – A constantly-updated look at some players who you should avoid overpaying for this year, with reasons why.

  • ADP Analysis – In one of our most popular features, our ADP (Average Draft Position) expert Dom Korbel scans as many Internet and local drafts as possible to determine the top-100 players' ADP. Dom 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. Constantly updated 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.

  • Rookie Previews – We rank the year's rookies and offer analysis on their 2008 values and keeper-league values. Constantly updated throughout the preseason.

  • Exhibition Game Notes – Extensive reviews of all the exhibition games, with everything you should know about them.

  • 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, 2008 strength of schedule, and our gut feeling. These previews could be up to 40,000 words alone!

  • 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.

  • Issues – Updates on the top issues currently baffling fantasy owners, such as playing-time scenarios.

  • 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 and analyze how it will affect the fantasy production for its team.

  • Special Team/Kick Returner Previews – Although they are often overlooked by others, we preview each kick return game and rank the top punt and kick return men.

  • 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, top sacker, tackler, and interceptor. Constantly updated throughout the preseason.

  • 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 2008 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.  

  • 2008’s Top Backups – We take an extensive position-by-position look at the top backup 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.

  • 2008's Contract Year Players - An extensive and updated look at those players entering the final years of their contracts.

  • Draft Strategies – You’ll be well covered when it comes to fantasy football strategy articles. Here are just a few of the articles we’ll produce.

  • 2007's Lessons Learned – We apply the lessons fantasy owners should have learned from 2007 to the 2008 season.

  • 2008 Coaching Changes – We analyze the fantasy implications of each of 2007's coaching changes.

  • Sleeper Strategies – We update our well-known guide to spotting sleeper players for 2008.

  • Avoiding Busts – We update our well-known guide to spotting busts for 2007.

  • Auction Draft Plan – Similar to our 2007 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. Pages and pages of sharp insight.

  • Trading Strategies – We offer up a plethora of tips and trading strategies.

  • Keeper League Strategies – We give you a ton of 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.

  • Mr. Relevant – Your best guide to getting the best player available with your last or next-to-last picks. Last year, this guide advised to take players such as Willie Parker and Kevin Curtis.

  • Breakout WRs – Our annual and extensive look at those wideouts entering their second and third seasons, when they should be ready to break out.

  • 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 – We produce 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.

  • 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.

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 2008 Strength of Schedule – With extensive analysis on the SOS ramifications on players and teams.

  • SOS for the fantasy playoff weeks – With extensive analysis on the SOS ramifications on players and teams.

  • Red zone analysis – Going over the RZ activity from 2007.

  • Field goal kicker stat analysis

  • Pass Target Analysis - Going over the PT activity from 2007.

  • Player consistency index

  • Distance scoring analysis – Breaking down which players' TDs came from the longest distances.

  • 300-yard/100-yard player performance analysis.

  • And at least 10 more statistically-based articles.  

IDP Content:

  • IDP Stock Watch - Upgrades and Downgrades from the IDP world will be covered here.

  • 2007 IDP Rookie Report - The top-30 or so rookies for IDP leagues.

  • IDP Values & Sleepers – Tim O'Malley's updated look at this year's IDP choices.

  • IDP Top-100 Overall - Ranks and analysis for the top-100 IDP players overall.

  • IDP Buyer Beware – Our extensive look at fantasy's overvalued IDPs.

  • 2008 IDP Draft Plan - We bust out a plan of action for drafting IDPs broken down by early, middle, and late rounds.

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 – 2008 NFL Schedule color coded for H/A games.

  • Backup QBs - Best backups for quick reference when looking for a viable backup QB to your starter.

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Regular Season Issues – An Overview

 

Sunday Night:

  • Fantasy Podcast – We start the week off with an exclusive Podcast hosted by John Hansen and Adam Caplan, the hosts of "Sirius Fantasy Football" on Sirius NFL Radio and the two most respected fantasy analysts in the country. They review the events of the week, injuries, WW material, and more. It's a great wrap-up and early preview of the coming week.

  • Post-Game Injury Report – 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.

Monday:

  • Injury Report – We track the status of the week’s injured players, with an early outlook for the upcoming week. We even update these as information comes in on Monday.

  • The Stock Watch - A weekly feature detailing which players’ (offensive and defensive) stock is rising or falling, with reasons why. Usually covers 25-30 players. You’ve likely seen the stock market analogy before – but we were the first to do it.

  • 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. We also constantly update this feature throughout the week.

  • 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 (such as the number of passes thrown to each RB, WR, and TE) and game analysis from strictly a fantasy perspective. During the season, we track the number of passes thrown to each receiver and spot the trends before they are trends. Again, we were the first to do such analysis starting in the late 90s.

  • IDP Stock Watch/Waiver Wire – This week’s risers and fallers from an IDP perspective, plus WW options for IDP leagues.

  • Game Center Misfires – Added in 2007, we review some of the key projections and analysis that didn’t exactly pan out. The goal is to try to understand how players fail to live up to expectations and to learn from that.

Tuesday Report:

  • 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.

  • Injury Report – 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.

  • News & Notes – An early-week look around the league, with pertinent and informative fantasy-related tidbits.

  • 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.

  • SOS Analysis – Each week, we list every team’s remaining schedule and offer a quick-glance overview of their opponents’ strength against the run and the pass. This is great for evaluating player pickups and trades.

  • Season Player Rankings – Each week we list generic rankings for the rest of the season at QB, RB, WR, TE, PK, and DT.

  • 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 IDP included.

  • Expert Chat – Chat with one of our experts on Tuesday evening.

Wednesday Report:

  • Injury Report – 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. Includes 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 also reviews tons of information

  • 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.

Thursday Report:

  • (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.  

  • Injury Report – Our first look at the injuries from the released NFL Injury Report, with info on player status through the Wednesday practices.

  • Office Pool Picks – With predicted scores for those.

  • Insider Column – We have a true NFL insider who each week will go over some interesting fantasy-related tidbits.

Friday Report:

  • Injury Report – Updated with info on player status through the Thursday practices.

  • News & Notes – A late-week look around the league with pertinent and informative fantasy-related tidbits.

  • (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. Generic yardage + TD rankings 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 the players who are looking better or worse than usual (with analysis why) as well as the players who aren’t looking particularly better or worse than usual. In addition, we offer up “reaches of the week” with plenty of analysis, the current injury updates for each game, each key player’s recent history against his opponents, including stats, the weather report for the game, lineup updates for important lineup changes, and more. It’s not just a “Start/Bench” feature; it’s much, much more.

  • Looking Glass - We break out player analysis down by position, so you can see all the players by position listed by those who are Looking Better than Usual, Worse than Usual, etc.

  • Reaches of the Week - Broken down by position, our long shot options for the week, with analysis.

  • IDP Game Previews - A game-by-game look, with analysis on all players of note, IDP style.

  • 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.

  • Special Team Report – We even cover, rank and analyze kick returners for the week.

  • Expert Chat – Chat with one of our experts on Friday afternoon.

Saturday Weekend Update:

  • Injury Report – Updated through the Friday practices, we produce an extensive injury roundup for each player of consequence (offensive and defensive). We even go as far to suggest when certain injuries (OL, DL, CB, etc.) may have an effect on the fantasy performances of others. Take the weekends off without worrying about missing some crucial information.

  • (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.

  • Fantasy Podcast – Hansen and Caplan check in on Saturday morning, when most of the injury status are clear, and go over each of the upcoming matchups. They go over players they like, do not like, injuries, sleepers, and long shots for the week, etc. It's a great last-minute look at the upcoming week.

Quick Sunday Update:

  • Quick Sunday Update - We'll have a "quick update" available by e-mail or on the Web 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.

  • Game-Time Injury Updates – We continue to update the injury situations online until the start of the 1 p.m. games and the 4 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.   

  • 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.

Post season:

  • Playoff League Report – For those who re-draft just for the post-season, 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 mini-game 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 '08 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.

We work hard so our subscribers don't have to! Our reports are absolutely, positively everything you'll need to save yourself hours of work each week and field a winning fantasy football team!

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