Week 4 Cumulative Accuracy Rankings

Posted on October 7, 2011 by admin


Welcome to our first cumulative rankings of the year. In this post you’ll be able to see who’s been the best over the first four weeks of the season in each position (so if you have time, you can go to the guys giving THE most accurate advice for your decisions) and overall (if you only have time to go to one site, go to one of the top ones).

 
We require a site be evaluated at least three weeks before they can be included in our cumulative rankings, which means CNNSI’s individual experts and Recliner QB Fantasy Corner won’t be included in this initial release.
 
We’ll use this information to begin to build our best of breed rankings, where we take the top few experts rankings from each category and create our own weekly cheat sheet released each Saturday morning.

 

 

It’s early, but the first thing that should jump out for you as you look across the master list of positional accuracy is that there are no bullseye ratings. No expert has been consistently on top of their game enough to earn a bullseye in any one category. We suppose a lot of that has to do with the shortened pre-season not adding a lot of clarity to how good or bad teams were going to be and the rash of injuries. We don’t include players that are injured in our projections, but their affect on the other offensive players around them, and their back ups performances are big variables in accurate projections.

Some consistency between last years overall winners and this years early success stories: Fantasy Sharks are #2. Last year they finished #2. Let me give you a hint, if you are looking for good, bold, and accurate projections, FantasySharks.com needs to be on your list. Mainstream-wise Yahoo’s Pianowski was a top 5 contender last year and this year is right back up there again. We love to see consistency like that because it just makes your lives easier as a fantasy football player, those are sites to check EVERY week when you have a tough call.

Near the bottom we see two of ESPN’s so called experts Eric Karabell and the Talented Mr. Roto Matthew Berry. Both of those guys are quality fantasy football writers, especially from an entertainment standpoint, but for now, stay away from their weekly rankings for your decision making.

CNNSI’s general rankings (not their expert rankings) were a joke last year and remain a joke this year. We’ll be removing them from our rankings in the upcoming weeks, because frankly they are so bad, no one should be using them. We’ll add them to our “Not an Option” list from an accuracy standpoint as a cautionary tale for anyone that hasn’t been following us the past two years.

It’s very early in the season and I’m sure these rankings will change a great deal, so keep checking back with us each week to make sure you have the best and most up to date data.

Remember if there is a site that we should be tracking, let us know on twitter @ffadvisorcom

Best of Breed rankings tomorrow!

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Week 4 Accuracy Rankings

Posted on October 6, 2011 by admin

Week 4! The last week before the bye week, the last week before we release cumulative rankings and give you a real good picture of what sites are consistently the best in their fantasy football rankings!

As always we removed any players that were injured during the game, we only assess what experts actually rank, we make no assumptions for players they don’t rank.

We welcome ReclinerQB Fantasy Corner (http://reclinerqbfantasycorner.blogspot.com/) to the rankings this week. Recliner QB got their rankings in for week 3, but we didn’t get them inputted in, glad to have them this here now!

Best Calls
This week is a fantastic one to demonstrate why our site exists. Most of your competitors are looking at ESPN, they are looking at Yahoo, they are looking at the mainstream sites and making their decisions based on that info, because it’s most available and it’s most recognized. Week 4 it’s also not the best advice. Looking at QB, The Sports Outlaw dominates the category this week. Pulling a double #1 they also win the TE category. No head shots over at Sports Outlaw. No fancy highlighting. Not even a table with all their rankings. They just come out in a blog post weekly. They also have been pretty darn accurate. Best calls this week. Being closest on Michael Vick (#4 versus #3 actual), Recognizing that Flacco would struggle (#20 versus #31 overall), and being one of the sites to slot Kevin Kolb as a non starter (#23 versus #28 actuals).

I’ve typically hammered CNNSI because their default rankings have been statistically bad. They’ve stepped up their support of fantasy football this year by adding in 4 new experts individual rankings and setting up a composite. After this week we’ll not track their “general” rankings any longer, because frankly no one should be using them. The new approach is working for them as we see one of their first top finishes, with McQaude hitting the #1 in the all important RB category. He just about nailed Steven Jackson at #17 versus a #16 actual. He also was appropriate low on struggling DeAngelo Williams and straight nailed Ryan Mathews performance outside of top ten (#11).

Another couple small sites worth mentioning TheFFAddict breaks into a #1 spot in WR and our newest addition Recliner QB Fantasy Corner being a top 3 QB accuracy and #2 overall in WR ranking. Great job and we look forward to seeing more!

Worst Calls
So yes CNNSI improved in general, but still a scatter shot approach even with the experts they’ve enlisted. CNNSI Sabino struggled in the RB category ranking #1 RB Beanie Wells at 27th and being one of the few to have #2 RB Matt Forte in double digits at #10.

NFL.com’s Damesheck had some significant misses in the WR space. He didn’t rank Julio Jones ho ended up being the #15 WR this week. He had Brandon Marshall in his top 10 (ok Chad Henne’s injury obviously hurt him, but still probably a bit high on the guy in standard scoring) and he was one of the highest on Santonio Holmes this week ranking him at 11th versus his starting 61st ranked performance….that’s gotta sting like Mark Sanchez’s pride after last week’s beat down by the Ravens.

The Fantasy Sharks took some significant beatings this week in the rankings as well, being in the bottom five in three categories. A lot of this has to do with their ranking philosophy. These folks are not for the faint of heart. They rank aggressively and in a lot of weeks that pays off with real positive differenation over sites that are more conservative and go with an always start your studs mentality. This week however we see the flip side, when that risk can, and will hurt your lineup.

Next up is Cumulative rankings and then remember to check back Saturday for our all important, one of a kind, best of breed fantasy rankings, the last word for making your start and sit decisions on Sunday!

Got questions, is there another site we should be tracking? Let us know on Twitter @ffadvisorcom

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Week 3 Accuracy Rankings

Posted on October 3, 2011 by admin

Hey folks, welcome to our (delayed) week three rankings. Lots of exciting stuff happening over here at FFAdvisor and we’re trying to stay on top of it all.

We’ve added a few more experts to the site. CNNSI (long a site who’s fantasy rankings we’ve made fun of) has assembled a panel of four experts and also released a composite score. We’ve added them to our rankings this week.

Coming up in future weeks we’ll be adding more smaller sites and blogs to our list of rankings, with a goal of ranking the accuracy of 50 sites a week by the end of the season, far more than any other service out there!

Also, we’ve started soliciting volunteer writers to craft site and blog reviews as part of our team. We’ve got 5-6 folks out there checking out sites right now and are always looking for more. If you are interested best way to let us know is at twitter @ffadvisorcom or via email FantasyFootballAdvisors@gmail.com

Week 4 rankings should be on schedule for Wednesday, Cumulative Rankings for the year to date will be released Thursday/Friday and remember this Saturday we release our one of a kind Best of Breed Rankings. Your one stop place for making fantasy football start/sit decisions!

 

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Week 3 Accuracy Rankings

Posted on September 29, 2011 by admin

Sorry to everyone awaiting our week 3 rankings. We’ve added 5 new sites to our rankings this week, and it’s making the number crunching take that much longer. Stay tuned, and we’ll have them posted later today!

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Week 2 Accuracy Rankings

Posted on September 22, 2011 by admin

Week two rankings in general are looking stronger than week 1, which makes perfect sense as the experts have more data to help them with their prognostications. We also welcome a new site to our ratings, @theffaddict (http://theffaddict.blogspot.com).

As always we removed any players that were injured during the game (Vick/DJax/Arian Foster etc), we only assess what experts actually rank, we make no assumptions for players they don’t rank.

Best Calls
QB category had a lot of very accurate scores, but none closer to the bullesey than the fine folks over at FFToolbox. Their near record breaking accuracy total was highlighted by nailing Sanchez at 19, pegging orton at 23 vs 21 actual, McCoy at 21 versus 22 actual, Romo at 6 vs 7 actual, Brady at 3 versus 8 actual, and perhaps most importantly putting Cam Newton as 12th against a 2nd overall actual one of the highest projections for Cam week 2.

Ahmad Bradshaw disappointed a lot of people in week 2, but Brandon Funston had him pretty close, ranking him 22 against his 28th actual, Funston also drilled Joseph Addai as a borderline no play directly calling his 29th ranking and was spot on for Michael Turner as the 7th ranked RB this week.

WR remained a challenging category to project this week with a lot of injury variables to account for both before kickoff and then injury factors once the games started. Yahoo’s duo of Brad Evans and Andy Behrens were both at the top of the category this week. Behrens nailing Dwayne Bowe as a borderline sit with a 23 and Santana Moss as a flex play with a 22 versus his actual 21. Evans was one of the lowest on Roddy White, hitting him at 22 versus his 35 actual in one of the bolder calls of week 2 (and one of the better!). Both experts correctly pegged Stevie Johnson’s continued success as a borderline WR #1 ranking him 13/14 respectively against his #12 actual performance.

Let’s just call week 2 “Gates 0 = Experts Innacurate” When a player that is the consensus #1 TE across all experts puts up the goose egg and literally receives the lowest ranking possible, it greatly skews the overall accuracy rankings (and rightfully so). This was the worst week we’ve ever tracked in this category. The one bright spot were the fine folks over at FantasyGodfathers. They just about nailed Aaron Hernandez with a 4 prediction versus his 5 actual and also didn’t buy into the Lance Kendricks hype, tagging him at 21 against a 23 actual. Those solid calls pushed them to the top of our TE accuracy rankings this week.

Worst Calls
Monkeys and Typewriters. I said it last year and I’ll say it again this year. That’s what seems to rule the day at CNNSI’s fantasy department. Very low score here, highest on Flacco with an 8 versus his 28th ranked performance, Highest on Roth with a 3rd versus 14th performance, Highest on Ryan with a 2nd versus 10th performance. Just ugly all around.

The Talented Mr.Roto must have applied his talents elsewhere this week, falling to the bottom of both the RB and WR category. At RB the most inexplicable call was downgrading Jahvid Best to a borderline sit candidate with a 23 against the actual 3 he registered, Berry continued his trend of loving Redskins by giving Hightower a 15 ranking, against an actual of 26th…and much higher than most of the other experts and sites. In the WR category the carnage was not quite so bad for Mr. Berry as he did make some strong calls, but missed significantly on Jeremy Maclin, and took the highest beating of any expert on Roddy White as he had him locked in at #3 WR versus a 35 actual performance.

I covered TE’s up above, but it bears repeating that across the board, even outside of the Antonio Gates collapse it was a bad week from an accuracy perspective.

Kickers and Defense remains quite the crap shoot at this point, if 2011 is anything like 2010 we won’t see a lot of consistent good/bad calls and rankings from experts until about week 6, at that point they have enough information about what teams are doing on both sides of the ball to really start honing in on those two tough positions. In the meantime, best go with your gut!

As a reminder after week 3 we’ll start to publish our cumulative rankings, so that each week you get a view of not just who’s hot right now (and how’s not) when it comes to setting fantasy football rankings, but who’s consistently the site to visit over the course of the year.

Got questions, is there another site we should be tracking? Let us know on Twitter @ffadvisorcom

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Projection Observations

Posted on September 16, 2011 by admin

These observations are collected from the data from Thursday’s inputting of each site’s rankings. We’ll point out the biggest trends and variations in each of the key categories. This info is useful to understand where there may be a boom or bust player which is a guy that is high risk, but might be high reward. We’ll also look at which players had the most consistent rankings, which indicates a guy where you can feel more confident about that player’s slotting.

Biggest Variations in Ratings:
Jay Cutler – The highest QB ranking differential is owned by Cutler. He’s a 4th ranked QB by Fantasysharks and as low as a 22 or 23 by CNNSI or Richard from CBS Sportsline. Apparently the ‘Sharks are buying his week 1 performance, whereas the bulk of the rest of the experts are looking at last week as the aberration.

Jahvid Best – Again FantasySharks tends to really push our boom and bust rankings. They slot Jahvid Best in as the #1 RB this week. The Talented Mr Roto and NFL.com’s Smith have him in the mid twenties…and remember, this is STANDARD scoring, so they aren’t even taking into account points for receptions. We think it’s a bold call for Best, but if you feel like you need to roll the dice on a RB having a big game this week, Best might be that guy.

Mike Williams (TBB) – A very trendy pick this year, we saw MW going as early as the 2nd and 3rd round in 12 team drafts. The whole Tampa Bay offense struggled in week 1, and MW was just as bad as anyone else on that team (ok not as bad as Legarrete Blount). The experts are clearly struggling with where to plot him right now as well…his variation was a whopping 26. Dave Richard @ CBS Sportsline has him in his top 10, whereas the bulk of experts have him in the teens, and KFFL has him all the way down at 34.

TE – As a position we see more variance this week at TE than any other position. The emergence of previously unranked players like Fred Davis, Scott Chandler, and Ed Dickson, combined with a poor showing (in general) by the “elite” TEs on week 1 leaves the experts in a very inconsistent place.

Ben Watson (CLE) – Ben’s the perfect example of the above, several sites didn’t even rank him (so outside of their top 25 including Karabell from ESPN, FFToolbox, and Dave Richard from CBS. Plot that against NFL.com’s Smith and Rank who place him at #9 and #5 respectively and you have the classic boom/bust picture.

Most Consistent Ratings:
Sam Bradford – Huge expectations on Bradford from a fantasy standpoint this year with Josh McDaniel coming over, with Bradford’s first year play, and with the array of weapons he has at his disposal. Week 1 was a big disappointment and indicator of trouble ahead with Amendola’s injury, Steven Jackson’s injury, and Bradford hurting his throwing hand. The experts are in agreement that you should lower expectations this week…all have him slotted well below startability between 18-22 ranked QB.

Kicker is another spot where the variance is amazing by expert. We’ll see who emerges as knowing their stuff when we release cumulative rankings in week 4, but for now, all we can say is play your gut! The only thing everyone agrees on is that Mason Crosby is a top 5 kicker this week!

On the defensive front…the Steelers, Ravens and Vikings are consistent top picks…but the one thing almost every site can agree on is that the Buffalo Bills are the absolutely worst start this week (2 point derivation). Then again, if you were thinking about starting Buffalo this week you either play for the team, have a son on the team, or don’t speak English.

Got questions? Take them to Twitter @ffadvisorcom.

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Week 1 Accuracy Rankings

Posted on September 14, 2011 by admin

Welcome to our first week’s accuracy rankings for 2011! This season, like last season, we’ll be evaluating a site of experts and sites and determining the accuracy of their projections for each position by each week. We’ll release these on Wednesday of each week so that you know what sites to use when making your most important fantasy decisions!

Fantasy Football prognostication is a difficult business with lots of good information, but this year these experts had an even tougher challenge, predicting week 1 rankings with limited off season information.

As always we removed any players that were injured during the game (Kaeding/Steven Jackson etc), we only assess what experts actually rank, we make no assumptions for players they don’t rank.

Best Calls
The FantasySharks started right where they left off last year, in 1st place by a long shot in QB accuracy. These guys make bold calls every week and a lot of times they are spot on. Their best call, being the only site we tracked to put Chad Henne in the top 10, slotting him at #9 against an average ranking by all other sites at 23! Chad put up the 2nd best numbers at the QB position in week 1, and the FantasySharks showed us once again why Bold really is Beautiful!

In the all important RB category a shout out to Brad Evans over at Yahoo! Brad was consistently close on many of the top 10 performers ranking MJD a 9 vs his 8 actual, Wells an 8 vs a 6 actual, Hightower a 12 vs a 7 actual, and also get’s the thumbs up for sliding Mike Tolbert into his top 20, the highest ranking for our #1 scoring RB in week 1.

Tough week for WR predictions,  as many studs were real duds (Fitz, White, VJax to name three).  The SportsOutlaw was able to make some nice predictions however, nailing DeSean Jackson at #6, and being consistently close on the 10-20 WRs including Steve Johnson and Miles Austin. Sports Outlaw lead the way at TE this week as well. Like everyone missing on Antonio Gates, but making up for it with solid calls on Greg Olsen (9 prediction versus 14 actual) and Dustin Keller (8 prediction versus 4 actual)

KFFL just OWNED the kicking category this week, putting up a historically high number in accuracy, highlighted by calling Janikowski’s strong game (1 ranking versus 2 actual) and Nick Folk (2 ranking versus 4 actual).

Worst Calls
Andy Behrens of Yahoo! Struggled at QB projections this week. He was among the lowest on Henne (25 ranking) and among the highest on Ryan (6 ranking versus 25 actual), he also did not include Cam Newton in his top 25 QB but to be fair only a few of the sites did.

CNNSI continues to confound our accuracy rankings with improbably low scores.  I don’t have to say much here other than they predicted Ray Rice to be the #26 ranked RB. Yeah, that was incorrect, thankfully I can’t believe anyone would have possible sat him on week 1.

WR wise even though their overall scores were good it’s hard not to call out FantasySharks who absolutely blasted Steve Smith with a 59 ranking against his #1 overall performance.

As a reminder on week 3 we’ll start to publish our cumulative rankings, so that each week you get a view of not just who’s hot right now (and how’s not) when it comes to setting fantasy football rankings, but who’s consistently the site to visit over the course of the year.

Got questions, is there another site we should be tracking? Let us know on Twitter @ffadvisorcom.

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BrunoBoys.Net Site Review

Posted on September 14, 2011 by admin

Site Name: Bruno Boys

URL: http://www.brunoboys.net

Category: Free Full Service Fantasy Football Website

 

Content

BB covers a wide variety of in season content including weekly rankings of offensive players and D/ST, Waiver wire advice, start and sit,  retrospective evaluations of each week from the “10 things I learned” column. There is an IDP section of the content that provides solid team by team analysis of defensive structure and standouts, but they do not provide weekly IDP rankings.

From a dynasty and redraft perspective the analysis of each NFL team’s needs and rosters provides excellent insight and advice, though not directly labeled as “dynasty or keeper” material, it certainly fits that bill.

Their player rankings are extremely well done, both in terms of accuracy (they scored well in our 2010 beta accuracy reviews) and in explanation. There is a great write up for each position player in the top 20 or so that provides very valuable insight into the “why” behind the rankings. Another huge plus on the Bruno Boys rankings is they are explicit about the scoring system they are assuming when publishing their reviews (which is standard scoring, non PPR). Many other sites unfortunately do not document that, leaving their users to wonder how the rankings are calculated.

In addition to the above fantasy football content, their overall NFL league and team by team content and analysis adds another dimension to the site that should appeal to die hard NFL fans as well as fantasy footballers.

Rating 4 out of 5 stars

User Experience/Navigation

Simply put it’s just really well done. The site is laid out very simply with all the most important content appearing “above the fold” on your screen. The top line navigation includes, draft tools, rankings, advice, insights, NFL draft, Forum, Contact, Login, and Search. Each of those has a drop down with direct clicks to the content that is threaded underneath.

Like a newspaper, each of the Bruno Boys writers is highlighted. This is an effective way of allowing users to click directly to the writers that they are most interested in.

The overall look and feel of the site is very professional, streamlined text, clean images, consistent lay out from page to page. Archived material is arranged in reverse chronology underneath the subject area in which it was originally posted and the search function does its job to point you toward what you are looking for. There are ads on the site, but they are in general placed out of the way, and in general, that’s part of the trade off of a free full service site.

Our only suggestion is on the rankings pages there is no option to view the entire article with one click. Instead after you get through the top 20 or so players, you have to click to open the next page to see 20-40 and so on, if you are going through all the rankings weekly, and you have a deep league and need to see all that content, it’s a real time suck.

Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars

Social Media/Community

Their writers are extremely active in both their excellent on site forums and via twitter and facebook. Content from the forums often finds its way to the main page of the Bruno Boys website, where BB writers pose a question and then facilitate a dialogue with their community of users on the topic. Interesting, compelling, and useful stuff often emerges from these exchanges.

From a twitter perspective they have an active account @BrunoBoys for information sharing, but of greater interest are the accounts for their writers such as Allie Fontana (@AllieFontana). Facebook wise BB brings the activity on their forum to the facebook fan platform. Asking many questions of their fan base around what players they prefer (Mendenhall versus McCoy for instance), and always ensuring to interact and offer their own writers perspectives as well.

Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars

Uniqueness/Entertainment

We believe the best way to put it is that Bruno Boys takes a conversational approach to fantasy football advice and guidance. In the way they write their articles, formulate their rankings, and interact with their users, it literally feels like you are talking to an old friend about fantasy football. It’s a great way of driving user engagement and interaction, and we think it both works, and it is a fairly unique value proposition out in the market.

Rating 4 out of 5 stars

Bottom Line

Bruno Boys is highly recommended for new and experienced fantasy football fans alike. The quality of presentation combined with the highly interactive approach to fantasy football advice, add in the fact that this is a free site, makes this a no brainer for folks to visit and use.

  • Must See Feature: The forums first and foremost, but we do really love their rankings, very few other sites put as much effort and content behind the rankings that are provided weekly. The work shows in accuracy.
  • Area for Improvement: We’d like to see more. More focus on PPR (no doubt a growing trend in fantasy football leagues), more focus on IDP (again a larger number of leagues move to IDP each year), and more explicit off season and in season content around dynasty and keeper leagues.
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Week 1 Accuracy Projections Preview

Posted on September 12, 2011 by admin

On Wednesday we will post our first set of accuracy rankings for the 2011 NFL season. We’re starting with 22 sites/experts, but expect to add a few (with your suggestions email us at FantasyFootballAdvisors@gmail.com or hit us up at twitter @ffadvisorcom) as we go. If you are curious how we tackle measuring accuracy, please click here. We think it’s THE BEST way to assess accuracy out there.

Each week we’ll assess each experts accuracy at every position, for as many players as they rank. We divide the raters into 3 different categories based on how many players they review at each position: Deep, Average, and Shallow. The reason for this is simple, an expert who reviews only a few players, may be highly accurate, but may not be useful to you if you are in a 16 team league and are making start and sit decisions between guys that most experts aren’t even ranking.

We divide our accuracy rankings into categories as well: Bullseye is the gold standard of accuracy. Then our tiers cascade down from there; Highly Accurate, Accurate, Inaccurate, and Wildly Inaccurate. Wildly Inaccurate essentially means that if we had typed random numbers in the player projection field for that expert for that position, it would have been statistically better than his actual projections.

Now, predicting the future, is unbelievably difficult, and we appreciate everything all of these (and every other person out there making projections) are doing. BUT, your time (and money) is precious, and we want to make sure you are spending both of those resources in the best possible places on the internet.

Week 3 we’ll start publishing a cumulative scorecard, so you can see from a  year to date perspective who has been most accurate. Click here if you want to see who was best last year.

Lastly on week 3 we’ll also start using the top 3 rankings in each category to create our “best of breed” rankings for you, if you only have time to go to one site and look at one set of rankings, these are the ones you want to use when you make your decisions on Saturday.

We look forward to a great season with you all!

Dave

Last thing, we are very active on Twitter, as we find interesting stats in our work we push them out on twitter, if we review a site that we think people should check out, we push it out on twitter, we probably answer 100+ fantasy football advice questions each week on twitter. If you aren’t using twitter for Fantasy Football, you are missing out on some good info (not just with us, with all the experts we cover as well.) Our handle is @ffadvisorcom and we look forward to seeing you there!

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2010 Rankings Winners

Posted on September 10, 2011 by admin

Last year we tracked 18 different sites/experts to evaluate the accuracy of their player rankings weekly and cumulatively. We’re hoping to track up to 30 sites this year (still taking suggestions hit us up on twitter @ffadvisorcom ).

Week 1 results will be out on Tuesday September 13th, but we wanted to share with you our final cumulative scorecard of 2010 so as you make those all important start sit decisions today, you are going to the sites that will give you the best chance of winning!

QB
1.       FantasySharks.com – with a ridiculous “Bullseye” cumulative accuracy ranking FantasySharks runs away with the QB accuracy championship, almost DOUBLE the accuracy rating of the next best expert

2.       Yahoo – Andy Behrens

3.       CBS Sportsline – Jamey Eisenberg


RB
1.       FantasyGodfathers.com – not a widely known blog, but one you should be following if you care about highly accurate fantasy football rankings. The Godfathers scored a “Very Accurate” score in the ultra important category of RBs

2.       NFL.com – Consolidated rankings (in 2011 NFL.com has moved to individual experts rankings)

3.       BrunoBoys.net


WR
1.       NFL.com – The only site to score a “Very Accurate” rating in WRs was NFL.com. Unfortunately despite their success in our accuracy rankings NFL.com has re-engineered their rankings process for 2011. They now have 4 experts who each make predictions as well as consolidated rankings. We’ll be evaluating each of those experts individually this year

2.       KFFL.com

3.       ESPN – Erik Kuselias – Mr.Kuselias had a bit of a scandal in the offseason and he won’t be making predictions for ESPN any longer, apparently he couldn’t keep it in his pants at the office, I hate when sexual harassment get’s in the way of good fantasy football rankings!

TE
1.       CBS Sportsline – Jamey Eisenberg – One of three sites to score a “Very Accurate” Jamie was a top three expert in two categories in 2011, so definitely someone to check out on a weekly basis

2.       ESPN – Eric Karabell

3.       ESPN – Christopher Harris (interesting while ESPN is represented in the top 3 several times, we never see “Talented Mr. Roto” in the top 3, maybe he should consider a name change)


K
1.       FantasySharks.com – when they are on, they are completely on, the only site to score any “Bullseye” rankings (or top accuracy tier), not only did it on QB, they also did it on the very difficult to predict K position. How difficult you ask? 14 out of the 18 sites we ranked scored “Wildly Inaccurate” in their accuracy. That means essentially typing random numbers into their K projections would have scored higher on average than their predictions.

2.       FantasyGodfathers.com

3.       Yahoo – Brandon Funston


D/ST
1.       KFFL.com – KFFL is one of the few sites we evaluated that actually covers pretty much every sport imaginable. In general they were a fairly accurate site across all categories, but really were successful at projecting the D/ST where they scored a high “Very Accurate” ranking.

2.       Yahoo – Brandon Funston

3.       Yahoo – Scott Pianowski

Based on last year, you should avoid at all costs (and the costs are the price of your fantasy football league because that is what you will be forfeiting if you follow these folks advice):
CNNSI.com – Just the worst, and frankly starting off on a bad leg already this year, they were the only site we evaluated in week 1 who ranked Aaron Rodgers out of the top 5 (all the way down at #10)…seriously guys what are you doing over there?
CBS Sportsline – Dave Richard: I really enjoy Dave Richard’s columns over at CBS Sportsline, but his fantasy acumen didn’t translate to accuracy success in 2011. We have Dave wildly inaccurate in 3 categories, and in our bottom 50% in all categories.


A few notes – all accuracy rankings are based on performance league scoring. As more sites and more leagues move to PPR based scoring, we will track accuracy of those projections as well. Our ranking system scores the accuracy of all projections each expert/site makes against the actual results. We categorize each expert into the categories of Bullseye, Very Accurate, Accurate, Somewhat Accurate, Inaccurate, and Wildly Innacurate.

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