Fantasy Football Strategy - The Tool Bag

Having a good Fantasy Football Strategy starts with your ability to process and utilize information correctly. If you rely on the information provided from your league's service provider or from one of the talking heads on TV, then you likely are wasting a bit of time each week.

If there is one thing that I have learned over the years, it's that information management is key to your success. Way back in the early days of Fantasy Football, the relied upon source was an Excel spreadsheet and the stats page from USA Today on Monday and Tuesday mornings. Now with the industry growing to nearly 40 million fantasy players, there is a ton of data floating around out there. My goal here is to show you how to process that data quickly and free up your time a bit more by making your time spent on fantasy sports more productive.

I will begin to outline the tools that we will use during the season should you choose to follow along with me this season. Oh, that brings me to another point, make sure you subscribe with your email address so that you can get updates and alerts to new info. Here in the pre-season, I have been given access to some awesome deals and free reports that I have been sending along to folks on my email list. Often times, they are available for a short time, so you certainly do not want to miss out.

The first thing that I recommend you do as your action point for today is to set up a Blog Reader account such as Bloglines. Once you get that set up and running you can add blogs and RSS feeds from sites or blogs that you feel have good information. Why a blog reader? Blog readers organize information and allow you to peruse the title and first few sentences of a post or article which saves time because you are only going to click on links that have a data use you are interested in. I will be posting a short video on how to use bloglines this week, so be on the look out for that.
You can subscribe to this feed in your favorite blog reader by clicking the rss symbol on this blog.

Moving on to the second action point, it will be helpful to you to begin to put your fantasy roster's into an Excel Spread Sheet. You simply need to list each player, their position, the team they play on and their bye week to start with. Now I know that you are a serious player if you have read down this far, so make sure you use the worksheet tabs at the bottom to add the different teams from different leagues. There will also be a video added to show you how to set up the Excel Roster correctly.

Finally, with this being the final week before the official start of the season, if you are like me, you are still looking for one more place to play and one more team to manage. I was able to find this discount option on a pretty nice Fantasy League and one that is perfect for using the Fantasy Football Strategy format found in this blog because of the scoring rules.

Click this link to see the post that outlines the details. Highly Recommended.

Be sure to check back often as we prepare for the Thursday Night Kickoff for the 2007-08 Season and for future key points on establishing a strong Fantasy Football Strategy.