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January 2nd NFL Tournaments
Fanduel is offering three big NFL tournaments this Sunday (January 2nd).
The Blitz and Bomb are identical to last week, while the Elite has been expanded to a $3K prize pool and an entry cap of 66 total entries.
Blitz – $5K, $10 per entry, multiple entries, no cap on total entries.
Bomb – $6K, $25 per entry, multiple entries, cap at 264 total entries
Elite – $3K, $50 per entry, multiple entries, cap at 66 total entries
Good luck to everyone on Sunday!
Two more big leagues this weekend: $2000 Elite NFL League, $1000 NHL Shootout
All right everyone, we have two more big time leagues this weekend at FanDuel. First is the high-roller $2000 NFL Elite League. $100 entry, but it’s a capped league, so only 22 people can play in it. That significantly increases your chance of taking home one of the 3 top prizes. $1000 for first, $600 for second, $400 for third. This league needs at least 18 people playing in it to go live though, so tell your friends.
Next up we have the $1000 Saturday NHL Shootout. This league is only $10 to join, and there are prizes all the way down to 9th place. This league is also capped at 115 entries, so tell your friends that they better hurry to get a seat.
There is a ton of prize money out there this weekend, so good luck to everyone this weekend.
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League Week 10: Not Quite the End of the Road
We’ve the end of the line for the FanDuel Fantasy Writers League. Well, for most of you. Nathan Zegura, Founder of The Fantasy Consultant, is headed to Vegas in a few weeks to compete in the final for $40,000 after winning a week of the contest flat-out.
Meanwhile, Matt Ufford, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber, will be facing off against Ben Ice, Founder of RotoExperts and Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks, this weekend for an extra $500 and an all expenses paid trip to Vegas. That’s thanks to the fact that both finished 2nd overall in different weeks, making them the highest finishing experts who didn’t win the contest flat out. Since they tied, time to go to the head-to-head tie-breaker.
Thanks to everyone for playing for the duration of the contest.
Here’s how the final week went:
21. Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer (rwbrinso) – 153.22
35. Matt Mullin of Philly.com (philly_sports) – 147.62
97. Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register (R_Youngman) – 134.22
147. Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated (jimmy_traina) – 124.96
149. Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage (bustedcoverage) – 124.76
159. Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism (isaacand) – 123.52
180. Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest (paulgreco) – 121.12
181. Marc Caviglia – Bruno Boys Fantasy Football (brunoboys) – 121.02
211. Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball (cgdoc) – 117.28
234. Paul Hickey – Founder of NoOffseason.com (nooffseason_com) – 115.52
297. Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant (tfc_zegura) – 109.88
301. Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber (matt_ufford) – 109.62
408. Will Leitch – former editor of Deadspin, contributing editor to New York Magazine, Sporting News columnist (will_leitch) – 101.84
420. Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks (ben_ice) – 100.92
470. Tom Herrera – AOL Fanhouse (snydayre) – 96.36
471. Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com (bberkowitz) – 96.32
513. Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead (crm_stephen) – 93.82
738. Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal (e_fisher) – 60.3
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League Week 9 Report: Chet Gresham Does It Again
For the second time during the FFFC contest, Chet Gresham of Razzball has found himself in the top 10. Gresham finished 6th in Week 9 (winning $90) after previously finishing 8th back in Week 2.
Overall, it was a pretty good week for the experts, as four experts finished in the top 30 spots. With only week left, it’ll be interesting to see what everyone can do.
Week 9′s full results for the experts are below.
6. Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball (cgdoc) – 164.3
28. Marc Caviglia – Bruno Boys Fantasy Football (brunoboys) – 146.22
29. Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead (crm_stephen) – 145.76
30. Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest (paulgreco) – 145.66
80. Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage (bustedcoverage) – 135
164. Matt Mullin of Philly.com (philly_sports) – 125.42
194. Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant (tfc_zegura) – 122.36
213. Will Leitch – former editor of Deadspin, contributing editor to New York Magazine, Sporting News columnist (will_leitch) – 120.4
216. Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com (bberkowitz) – 120.2
219. Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer (rwbrinso) – 120.02
257. Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks (ben_ice) – 116.12
329. Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated (jimmy_traina) – 109.8
457. Tom Herrera – AOL Fanhouse and RotoExperts fantasy writer (snydayre) – 100.02
507. Joe Fortenbaugh – National Football Post (national_football_post) – 93.72
519. Bill Kline – Sports editor of The Morning Call (bill_kline) – 92.2
526. Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register (R_Youngman) – 91.62
543. Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber (matt_ufford) – 88.16
591. Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism (isaacand) – 79.7
592. Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal e_fisher – 79.32
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League Week 8 Report: Bit of an Off Week
Sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t. For the first time in a while, no expert finished in the Top 10 in the Fantasy Football Championship. And overall, it wasn’t a particularly good week, period. Only three experts finished in the Top 200.
Nate Zegura, Founder of The Fantasy Consultant, had this week’s best finish by an expert, finishing 17th with 138.66 points.
But hey, everyone’s allowed a bad week here and there. The good news is there are still two week left in the contest. I have a feeling we’ll see some strong performances in these last two weeks.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of how all the experts placed in Week 8:
17. Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant (tfc_zegura) – 138.66
82. Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer (rwbrinso) – 123.46
188. Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register (R_Youngman) 111.1
240. Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber (matt_ufford) – 106.44
256. Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks (ben_ice) – 104.92
287. Marc Caviglia – Bruno Boys Fantasy Football (brunoboys) – 1o3.1
289. Tom Herrera – AOL Fanhouse (snydayre) – 102.82
314. Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage (bustedcoverage) – 100.58
342. Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball (cgdoc) – 98.12
353. Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated (jimmy_traina) – 97.42
358. Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest (paulgreco) – 97.2
400. Matt Mullin of Philly.com (philly_sports) – 94.1
428. Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal (e_fisher) – 91.9
436. Will Leitch – former editor of Deadspin, contributing editor to New York Magazine, Sporting News columnist (will_leitch) – 91.2
447. Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism (isaacand) – 90.54
506. Joe Fortenbaugh – National Football Post (national_football_post) – 84.62
510. Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead (crm_stephen) – 83.7
549. Bill Kline – Sports editor of The Morning Call (bill_kline) – 78.1
580. Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com (bberkowitz) – 70.32
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League Week 7 Report: Ben Ice Comes Up Big
Even though pretty much no one selected Darren McFadden or Kenny Britt this weekend (a combined 7 TDs), there were still plenty of other players who put up some monster numbers. And more than a few experts took advantage.
For the first time, two experts finished in the top ten, despite an all-time high of 670 entries in the FFFC this past weekend. Ben Ice, the founder of RotoExperts and senior writer at Fantasy Sharks, came in 2nd, winning $500. Will Brinson of CBS Sports came in 9th, winning $60. Nate Zegura of The Fantasy Consultant (who won Week 4 flat-out and who always seems to be lurking near the top) just missed some prize money by coming in 11th.
Here’s how everyone placed this week:
2. Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks (ben_ice) – 153.5
9. Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer (rwbrinso) – 142.52
11. Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant (tfc_zegura) – 141.94
40. Marc Caviglia – Bruno Boys Fantasy Football (brunoboys) – 131.44
62. Joe Fortenbaugh – National Football Post (national_football_post) – 126.92
153. Tom Herrera – AOL Fanhouse (snydayre) – 114.74
217. Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism (isaacand) – 110.2
265. Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest (paulgreco) – 105.62
272. Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated (jimmy_traina) – 105.14
283. Matt Mullin of Philly.com (philly_sports) – 104.44
342. Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead (crm_stephen) – 100.28
367. Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com (bberkowitz) – 99.24
410. Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball (cgdoc) – 95.54
444. Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register (R_Youngman) 93.14
472. Jack Decker – Lead fantasy football writer at Sports Blog Nation (thesavant) – 90.94
492. Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage (bustedcoverage) – 89.54
494. Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal (e_fisher) – 89.38
504. Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber (matt_ufford) – 88.78
537. Will Leitch – former editor of Deadspin, contributing editor to New York Magazine, Sporting News columnist (will_leitch) – 85.88
583. Bill Kline – Sports editor of The Morning Call (bill_kline) – 81.14
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League Week 6 Report: Jimmy Traina of SI tops a rough week
With half of the NFL getting concussed or brutally injured this weekend, it’s not all that shocking that a lot of people had tough weekends in the FFFC (myself included). So after four straight weeks of experts in the top 10, we’ve finally had a bit of a dip.
Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated’s Hot Clicks had the high mark for the writers league this week, scoring 104.44 points. He was followed by Joe Fortenbaugh of National Football Post and Eric Fisher of Sports Business Journal.
The good news is that despite this rough week, there’s still four weeks to go in the contest, so everyone still has plenty of opportunities. Provided players can actually stay healthy for 60 minutes, of course.
Here are all the scores from this weeks writers league:
112. Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated (jimmy_traina) – 104.44
119. Joe Fortenbaugh – National Football Post (national_football_post) – 103.48
124. Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal (e_fisher) – 103.28
145. Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant (tfc_zegura) – 101.5
163. Paul Hickey – Founder of NoOffseason.com (nooffseason_com) – 100.16
200. Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest (paulgreco) – 97.78
236. Tom Herrera – AOL Fanhouse (snydayre) – 95.48
247. Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead (crm_stephen) – 94.6
283. Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer (rwbrinso) – 92.46
292. Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber (matt_ufford) – 92.14
352. Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com (bberkowitz) – 70.58
365. Marc Caviglia – Bruno Boys Fantasy Football (brunoboys) – 87.38
375. Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism (isaacand) – 87.06
407. Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage (bustedcoverage) – 84.54
463. Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball (cgdoc) – 80.38
464. Matt Mullin of Philly.com (philly_sports) – 80.26
503. Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register (R_Youngman) – 75.96
520. Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks (ben_ice) – 73.78
579. Bill Kline – Sports editor of The Morning Call (bill_kline) – 61.68
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League Week 5 Report: Matt Ufford leaves no margin for error
Lot of bizarre things happened this weekend. Pretty much every productive offensive player on the Packers got injured and a number of teams with big time fantasy mainstays played like crap. But none of that mattered.
For the fourth week in a row, someone in the experts league made it into the top 10 of the FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship. This week it was Matt Ufford of Warming Glow and Kissing Suzy Kolber who finished second overall with a score of 155.78. Matt also takes home $500 for his troubles.
This also means there’s now basically no margin for error for the experts in regards to winning a trip to Las Vegas. That said, there’s still five weeks left in the FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship, so we’ll see what happens.
Here’s how everyone placed this week:
2. Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber (matt_ufford) – 155.78
140. Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register (R_Youngman) 115.04
141. Marc Caviglia – Bruno Boys Fantasy Football (brunoboys) – 114.68
177. Paul Hickey – Founder of NoOffseason.com (nooffseason_com) 110.78
192. Tom Herrera – AOL Fanhouse (snydayre) – 109.22
222. Will Leitch – former editor of Deadspin, contributing editor to New York Magazine, Sporting News columnist (will_leitch) – 106.6
227. Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks (ben_ice) – 106.24
240. Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest (paulgreco) – 104.68
288. Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage (bustedcoverage) – 100.34
343. Jack Decker – Lead fantasy football writer at Sports Blog Nation (thesavant) – 95.62
352. Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com (bberkowitz) – 95.16
355. Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball (cgdoc) – 94.96
357. Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant (tfc_zegura) – 94.84
396. Bill Kline – Sports editor of The Morning Call (bill_kline) – 92.56
429. Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal (e_fisher) – 90.06
440. Joe Fortenbaugh – National Football Post (national_football_post) – 89.56
490. Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer (rwbrinso) – 85.26
504. Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism (isaacand) – 83.34
589. Matt Mullin of Philly.com (philly_sports) – 71.56
614. Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated (jimmy_traina) – 58.56
618. Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead (crm_stephen) – 55.08
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League Week 4 Report: Nathan Zegura is headed to Vegas
Considering the writers league consists of a ton of guys who know their fantasy football cold, it was only a matter of time before someone won a seat in Vegas and a chance at $40,000. And Nathan Zegura of The Fantasy Consultant did that this week.
By the end of the Monday Night Football game, Zegura sat on top of the overall scoreboard with 146.94 points. Zegura will now head to Vegas on the weekend of Dec. 4-5 to compete for $40,000.
As for the rest of the experts, this was a brutal week, which tends to happen when Michael Vick drops to the ground like a shot dog early in the Eagles/Redskins game and Chris Johnson doesn’t do much. Needless to say the results this week would have been a lot different if Vick had actually played.
One special note for the writers, even though Zegura has won a seat in the finals in Vegas, that does not mean that the contest has concluded. The writer who places the highest – without actually winning the FFFC contest overall – still gets a free trip to Vegas and $500. Chet Gresham of Razzball remains the writers league leader, having finished in 8th place during Week 2.
Here are Week 4′s final rankings and point totals for the writers league:
1. Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant (tfc_zegura) – 146.94
98. Matt Mullin of Philly.com (philly_sports) – 113.9
105. Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated (jimmy_traina) – 112.36
107. Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer (rwbrinso) – 112.22
113. Marc Caviglia – Bruno Boys Fantasy Football (brunoboys) – 111.6
148. Paul Hickey – Founder of NoOffseason.com (nooffseason_com) 106.64
195. Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com (bberkowitz) – 101.24
226. Will Leitch – former editor of Deadspin, contributing editor to New York Magazine, Sporting News columnist (will_leitch) – 97.84
288. Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest (paulgreco) – 92.74
325. Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register (R_Youngman) 89.54
336. Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism (isaacand) – 88.38
365. Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks (ben_ice) – 86.28
366. Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball (cgdoc) – 86.06
397. Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage (bustedcoverage) – 82.74
398. Joe Fortenbaugh – National Football Post (national_football_post) – 82.5
417. Jack Decker – Lead fantasy football writer at Sports Blog Nation (thesavant) – 81.28
530. Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal (e_fisher) – 66.68
534. Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber (matt_ufford) – 66.26
535. Tom Lorenzo – AOL Fanhouse and RotoExperts fantasy writer (snydayre) – 66.16
567. Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead (crm_stephen) – 57.88
FanDuel’s Fantasy Football Writers League: Who Will Come Out On Top?
A true fantasy football expert
What’s up FanDuel? As you know, the Fantasy Football Championship has begun. And yes, I know you’re certain you’re going to win it (and I’m sure you will). But I have some additional cool news for you. We have a group of celebrity writers who will be competing against each other to see who is the top dog amongst themselves.
Now you’re probably wondering, who are these guys? Well, here they are, complete with their usernames so you can follow them on FanDuel. In fact, you probably know a lot of them already.
We’ll also be posting about them during the whole tournament. That way we can all track how they’re doing, and see which writers really know their fantasy football cold.
| Jimmy Traina – Sports Illustrated | jimmy_traina |
| Will Leitch – former editor of Deadspin, contributing editor to New York Magazine, Sporting News columnist | Will_Leitch |
| Paul Hickey – Founder of NoOffseason.com | nooffseason_com |
| Will Brinson – CBS Sports football blogger and writer | rwbrinso |
| Andrew Isaac – Sports editor at Guyism | isaacand |
| Tom Lorenzo – AOL Fanhouse and RotoExperts fantasy writer | snydayre |
| Chet Gresham – Editor at Razzball | cgdoc |
| The sports staff of Philly.com | Philly_Sports |
| Joe Fortenbaugh – National Football Post | National_Football_Post |
| Paul Greco – Founder of FantasyPros911 and associate editor of Baseball Digest | PaulGreco |
| Nathan Zegura – Founder of The Fantasy Consultant | TFC_Zegura |
| Jack Decker – Lead fantasy football writer at Sports Blog Nation | TheSavant |
| Stephen Douglas – Writer for The Big Lead | CRM_Stephen |
| Matt Ufford – Editor at Uproxx Media, author of Warming Glow, founder of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber | Matt_Ufford |
| Joe Kinsey – Founder of Busted Coverage | BustedCoverage |
| Ben Ice – Founder of RotoExperts, Senior writer at Fantasy Sharks | Ben_Ice |
| Brian Berkowitz – Senior Director of Digital Media at Maxim.com and Blender.com | bberkowitz |
| Marc Caviglia – Owner of Bruno Boys Fantasy Football | BrunoBoys |
| Eric Fisher – Sports Business Journal | E_Fisher |
| Bill Kline – Sports editor of The Morning Call | Bill_Kline |
| Randy Youngman – Columnist at Orange County Register | R_Youngman |
So let’s see how they do and see if they’re as good as they think they are. Also, be sure to give them a big hello when you see them on the site.
