The Winner'S Guide to Drafting a Fantasy Football Team
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Fantasy football has become one of my favorite pastimes of tens of millions of American males, and there are literally hundreds of websites, books, magazines, and television shows designed to tell you everything you need to know about the subject. Almost everything, that is.
Anyone who has ever tried to find a definitive way to rank players for their fantasy draft or worse, find dollar values for auction-style leagues - knows the difficulty of finding a system that works for their leagues. Because leagues vary according to size, rules, and scoring systems, a player who may be a valuable commodity in one league may be below average in another. Therefore, the "one size fits all" rankings or valuations that you see most places can be useless. And even if those rankings were designed specifically for leagues like yours, values and rankings are normally assigned in a subjective manner, without any mathematical evidence to support the author's case.
The Winner's Guide to Drafting a Fantasy Football Team has a timeless solution to the problem of finding customized and accurate rankings and dollar values that work for any fantasy league. Author Chris Lee explains what constitutes value, and how that value can be translated to rankings and dollar values for any league, in a common-sense way that removes the guesswork that's at the foundation of most ranking and dollar valuation systems.
Simply put, if you know what kind of statistics a player is going to produce in the coming year, you'll know where to draft him or how much to pay for him at your draft. This proven system has helped Chris win many leagues. By following the steps in this book, you can build a spreadsheet that will help you win yours as well..
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Chris Lee is a fantasy football veteran of over a dozen years whose expertise is in player valuation. Chris has honed and perfected the ranking and valuation system described in this book over approximately 10 years. During that time, he has finished in the top third of nearly every league in which he's played, and used the final version of the model (which he came up with in the summer of 2008) to win both leagues in which he participated that fall. He also published a similar work on fantasy baseball, The Winner's Guide to Fantasy Baseball, through AuthorHouse in 2005. He has worked part-time as a freelance sports journalist since 2003, covering college baseball, college basketball, and college football. He is the founder and publisher of VandySports.com (the exclusive Vanderbilt site on the Rivals/Yahoo Network) and has written at various times for news entities such as the Associated Press, College Sports TV, The City Paper (Nashville), and Southeastern Football Saturdays. He is also a regular guest on sports talk radio station throughout the Southeast.
Chris graduated from Lipscomb University with a degree in Business Administration (1993) and also received an M.B.A. from Middle Tennessee State (1999). He is the Vice President of Enrollment at O'More College of Design in Franklin, Tennessee, where he also teaches Economics. He lives in the Nashville area with his wife Kristin.