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If you are reading this blog, chances are you are getting ready for another exciting year in the NFL, and preparing yourself for your fantasy football draft, arguably the most exciting aspect of the imminent NFL season. Be sure to follow along for what is sure to be another incredible year. As a fantasy football mogul over the past decade I have been awarded 9 first place trophies, only falling once in week 16 of the 2004 season. If you have ever completely dominated a fantasy season only to lose in the championship weekend then you understand the frustration walking away without the trophy or the money. As the famous NASCAR champion Ricky Bobby once said, "If you aint first you're last", which surely holds true for the fantasy sports world. Follow along weekly for vital information to elevate your fantasy team to the upper echelon of your league!
This season I have decided to share my knowledge of the game with my loyal readers of The Fantasy Nostradamus Report. Whether you participate in an office, school, childhood friend league or all of the above, keep up weekly with The Fantasy Nostradamus report as I will help you manage your squad to the promised land in order to enjoy a years worth of bragging rights along with any other prize at stake.
With the regular season kickoff less than two weeks away, anxiously awaiting the day where something other than baseball is featured on SportsCenter's Top Ten, your journey to victory begins with The Draft. A day that many of us spend scrambling through Fantasy Magazines and ESPN player rankings attempting to interpret hundreds of stats while playing catch up reading the latest news in order to compile a list of your potential roster fillers and predict this years sleeper (a player who you feel you may grab in the late rounds in hopes he may have a breakout statistical season). A large key to my past success has been my ability to anticipate the success of incoming rookies. For example, wide receiver for the Geen Bay Packer's Greg Jennings as well as Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones Drew . I was able to draft these players in the later rounds of the draft as the other fantasy managers simply did not do their research or were unwilling to risk a draft pick on an unproven rookie. This is where I had the edge, having done my research I felt it was not a high risk, but a steal (when a player of value goes undrafted in the first few rounds and you can pick him up in the later rounds), and sure enough they proved to become two of the most productive offensive players on their respective rosters. Doing research and locating these sleepers is the key to having a successful year in your fantasy league.
This season I have decided to share my knowledge of the game with my loyal readers of The Fantasy Nostradamus Report. Whether you participate in an office, school, childhood friend league or all of the above, keep up weekly with The Fantasy Nostradamus report as I will help you manage your squad to the promised land in order to enjoy a years worth of bragging rights along with any other prize at stake.
With the regular season kickoff less than two weeks away, anxiously awaiting the day where something other than baseball is featured on SportsCenter's Top Ten, your journey to victory begins with The Draft. A day that many of us spend scrambling through Fantasy Magazines and ESPN player rankings attempting to interpret hundreds of stats while playing catch up reading the latest news in order to compile a list of your potential roster fillers and predict this years sleeper (a player who you feel you may grab in the late rounds in hopes he may have a breakout statistical season). A large key to my past success has been my ability to anticipate the success of incoming rookies. For example, wide receiver for the Geen Bay Packer's Greg Jennings as well as Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones Drew . I was able to draft these players in the later rounds of the draft as the other fantasy managers simply did not do their research or were unwilling to risk a draft pick on an unproven rookie. This is where I had the edge, having done my research I felt it was not a high risk, but a steal (when a player of value goes undrafted in the first few rounds and you can pick him up in the later rounds), and sure enough they proved to become two of the most productive offensive players on their respective rosters. Doing research and locating these sleepers is the key to having a successful year in your fantasy league.
Profile:
Every year millions of Americans grow excited as September nears for another competitive trash-talking season of Fantasy Football. Some play for fun while others play for money but everyone universally plays for bragging rights. With dignity on the line and a possible cash flow, no one wants to loose, everyone wants to be crowned champion at the end of the season in order to maintain the bragging edge until next season. Whether playing in a league against friends, coworkers or family, we all strive to find insider information that we believe will be the key to a successful season. This is where Fantasy Football blogs can useful, but today there are hundreds if not thousands of Fantasy Football Blogs who all claim to provide the best advice. How do you choose which one to follow when you know poor advice will prove to be detrimental to you team? In order to create a reliable blog source, I read through approximately 30 Fantasy Football Blogs and researched their track record by looking at the tips they provided over the last few seasons and compared them with each seasons? results. With an abundance of fantasy football bloggers on the web, it is as if picking a needle out of a haystack, but I finally stumbled across a blogger who has established enough credibility as a successful fantasy player and fantasy football insider.
An anonymous blogger created The “The Hazean” and he posts daily reports with weekly summaries, which I believe to be awfully accurate. The Hazean provides reliable, useful information, while engaging the reader by asking questions and exuding confidence without arrogance. I will continue to follow this blog and strive to attain such qualities in my own blog.
An anonymous blogger created The “The Hazean” and he posts daily reports with weekly summaries, which I believe to be awfully accurate. The Hazean provides reliable, useful information, while engaging the reader by asking questions and exuding confidence without arrogance. I will continue to follow this blog and strive to attain such qualities in my own blog.
Voice:
In creating a blog the author has the power to hide behind their computer and create a pseudo-identity in order to express his thoughts on the issue. This is an interesting concept as it difficult and almost impossible to validate any sort of writer credibility as the reader can only understand the author through his/her pseudo-identity, using a variety of fonts, tones and punctuations to engage their followers-- which in my opinion, is the essence of blogging.
In searching for other blogs on Fantasy Football to analyze the writers voice, the tone was so competitive that, immersed in the trash-talk, I felt I was actually competing in their leagues. Along with trash-talk, most of the blogs I read attempted to give their advice, which they deem expert analysis on the basis of absolutely nothing! But when giving advice on team management in a competitive game every blogger must exude an extremely high level of confidence in their writing, because without confidence, the reader most likely will not think much of the advice provided. In fantasy football blogs especially, this notion of buoyancy is vital each week because the author advises his readers which players should get the starting nod as opposed to those deserving of a spot on the bench, which ultimately determines the outcome of your upcoming fantasy match up!
In analyzing the voice projected in the blog Fantasy Football 101, I came across a number of aggressive and pressing phrases, as it is more an informative than competitive blog. For example when referencing who to start? and who to bench? the writer will often refer to a player as a "must start" followed by "there will be no such troubles illustrating a large amount of confidence behind his pick". Almost never will you find "I think" or "it might be a good idea", as dubious phrases are unlikely to generate confident followers. The writer began the season feeling like a prophet as he claimed ProFootball101 would provide three guaranteed locks each week expressing to his followers that he truly knows the outcome of at least 3 games every week- now if this were true I would be in Vegas making millions - but instead I am blogging about the amount of confidence fantasy football bloggers must boast in order to gain devoted followers.
Once the writer has established some form of credibility based on their picks and guarantees, all other advice is put to the test when the season begins. Anyone can go online and create a blog giving their two-cent on the topic but in order to be successful in gathering followers you must prove your worth. I like this term because it's my measuring device when deciding on whether or not I would follow someone's blog. Before the football season began it was easy to make plenty of predictions and feel ever so confident but once the results are in it becomes clear who truly knows enough to discuss and who is full of Sh**.
This is where the trash-talk between the blogger and his followers comes into play. This happens at the end of every week as the bloggers picks may have guided their followers to victory or led them to their demise in their respective leagues. In week one, the San Francisco 49rs were one of the three guaranteed locks each week but after being blown out by the Seahawks one follower had this to say: "Thanks a lot, 49ers got blown out. Any more bright ideas???"
At the end of the day no one can predict the future especially in sports, once again otherwise I would be a millionaire right now. On a serious note, the most important aspect of an interactive blogging site is to gain and maintain followers. More specifically, as a Fantasy Football Blogger, the goal is to maintain confidence and steer your readers in the right direction so they may become repeat readers.
In searching for other blogs on Fantasy Football to analyze the writers voice, the tone was so competitive that, immersed in the trash-talk, I felt I was actually competing in their leagues. Along with trash-talk, most of the blogs I read attempted to give their advice, which they deem expert analysis on the basis of absolutely nothing! But when giving advice on team management in a competitive game every blogger must exude an extremely high level of confidence in their writing, because without confidence, the reader most likely will not think much of the advice provided. In fantasy football blogs especially, this notion of buoyancy is vital each week because the author advises his readers which players should get the starting nod as opposed to those deserving of a spot on the bench, which ultimately determines the outcome of your upcoming fantasy match up!
In analyzing the voice projected in the blog Fantasy Football 101, I came across a number of aggressive and pressing phrases, as it is more an informative than competitive blog. For example when referencing who to start? and who to bench? the writer will often refer to a player as a "must start" followed by "there will be no such troubles illustrating a large amount of confidence behind his pick". Almost never will you find "I think" or "it might be a good idea", as dubious phrases are unlikely to generate confident followers. The writer began the season feeling like a prophet as he claimed ProFootball101 would provide three guaranteed locks each week expressing to his followers that he truly knows the outcome of at least 3 games every week- now if this were true I would be in Vegas making millions - but instead I am blogging about the amount of confidence fantasy football bloggers must boast in order to gain devoted followers.
Once the writer has established some form of credibility based on their picks and guarantees, all other advice is put to the test when the season begins. Anyone can go online and create a blog giving their two-cent on the topic but in order to be successful in gathering followers you must prove your worth. I like this term because it's my measuring device when deciding on whether or not I would follow someone's blog. Before the football season began it was easy to make plenty of predictions and feel ever so confident but once the results are in it becomes clear who truly knows enough to discuss and who is full of Sh**.
This is where the trash-talk between the blogger and his followers comes into play. This happens at the end of every week as the bloggers picks may have guided their followers to victory or led them to their demise in their respective leagues. In week one, the San Francisco 49rs were one of the three guaranteed locks each week but after being blown out by the Seahawks one follower had this to say: "Thanks a lot, 49ers got blown out. Any more bright ideas???"
At the end of the day no one can predict the future especially in sports, once again otherwise I would be a millionaire right now. On a serious note, the most important aspect of an interactive blogging site is to gain and maintain followers. More specifically, as a Fantasy Football Blogger, the goal is to maintain confidence and steer your readers in the right direction so they may become repeat readers.
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