Today, we complete our interviews with the rest of my league from last year. Three more great ones finish the set. They are Jefferson Davis, Mata Hari and P.T. Barnum.

Jefferson Davis believed in great field generals, but didn’t care much for lowly others and went for too many QBs. This was inspite of asking Fantasy Sports Optimizer for player selection and position selection using Data Sense to learn about player rankings and to try different senarios in mock drafts. On top of that on draft day, he ignored Live Cheat Sheet advise and picked a team of losers named the Lowly Rebels. What can you say. Jeff just never could get it in his head that the whole team won or lost and not just the leaders. He finished nearly last, only slightly ahead of Julius Caesar. Better luck next season Jeff!!!!

Mata Hari is a sexy gal who loves spying. There is a rumor that she has an annual contract with the Patriots to “review” opponents game plans. Mata say it isn’t so!!

MS. Hari used every fantasy tool available to her to help her team named, The Sneaky Devils, to finish in the top half of the league. She said that FSO’s Data Sense really helped her and she looks forward to the upcoming draft season and using FSO’s analytical tools and getting her team to the top of the heap. She also said that this year all the gloves and other articles of clothes will be off and her skill will be used to the fullest. Go Mata!!!!

P. T. Barnum of “there is a sucker born every minute” fame played his first season of fantasy football last season. He did only one mock draft and didn’t know of FSO’s fantasy tools. In spite of using many circus techniques and naming his team The Clowns, he almost missed the safety net and finshed waaaaay down with Jeff and Julie. P.T. said that this year its going to be full use of FSO’s fantasy aids and practicing with mock drafts. He said that analytical tools and optimizing techniques will be at the top of his tent. What a guy, already changing the show to make sure his team will be the greatest show on earth.

So, there are the interviews with nine of the all time greats and their experience last year in the world of fantasy football. Tools, brains and luck all contribute to the winners, but one thing was for sure. No FSO and no glory.

Go Bears!!!!!

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Three cheers for Big Ben, the Steelers most famous player has avoided the pen because his victim was so drunk that she couldn’t get her story straight. Phooey, phooey, phooey!!!!

The NFL really protects their image and Big Ben is a bad smudge on the image. I am glad that the Commisioner is a no nonsense guy, otherwise, it would be like the NBA or MLB a few years ago.

This week is the real draft, no more mock drafts….thank God!!! I am tied of ESPN and it floating crap game of who is slipping and who is ascending. Who cares!!! The draft is a big media event staged for the benefit of the league to get more money out of ADVERTISERS, nothing more, nothing less. Is the real draft important…of course, but mostly it is a media event hyped by the televisors and the NFL.

The real question is what fantasy rankings now change? Who cares about the real draft, when the fantasy drafts are two and a half months from now. That’s what we who do mock drafts care about. Player selection, player rankings, analytical tools,etc. are meaningful to more people than the real draft.

Fantasy Sports Optomizer and other player rankings, position selection tools are getting ready. Are you? Now is a good time to review where the “steals” will be. Probably not in Pittsburg (a hidden pun is there), but who knows who will be the Steeler QB in September? Will the Steelers trade Ben for a draft choice or a “secret” second stringer ready to bust forth, or do nothing and have his teammates give us the cliche of most modern athletes—”We will have to step up.” What have you been doing for the past games? Sitting down???

So now for the real draft…..tune in every ten minutes between playoff games in the NBA and the NHL. You won’t miss anything!

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This is the second installment containing interviews with other players in the fantasy football league that I was pleased to be a member of last fall. Last week, we had interviews with Julius Ceasar, Harry Markowitz and Walt Disney.

This week, we start with Attila The Hun, his nickname was Hunny, and he finished in the lower half of our league. His team name was The Hunny Pots. He led the league in ground yards (he loves hand to hand combat), but was last in passing. Attila, said that he thought the spearchuckers were cowards for throwing the ball and then getting out of the way. “Cowards everyone of them”, stated Hunny. His description of the receivers was less than complimentary and lacked the political correctness that Barney Frank loves, among other things.

This year though, Hunny said that he is going to signup for Fantasy Sports Optimizer’s tools including Data Sense and Live Cheat Sheets. Hunny realizes that in modern warfare called fantasy football, you need all the aids you can get and FSO has the best. Hunny is going to participate in mock drafts to help sharpen his skills at selection. When Hunny was at his peak, he would take what he wanted, but in the modern world of fantasy football you must play by some rules. Tough break for Attila, because otherwise he would be the odds on favorite. Good luck this year Hunny.

The next member I interviewed was Sir Isaac Newton, famous mathematician, scientist and cookie maker. He was especially interested in optics and higher math. This led to the famous question, “what do you see in the numbers?” Sir Isaac named his team The Figs….we believe after his cookies ( The fig newtons dummy) and not as an abbreviation of the synonym of numbers, namely figures.

Isaac knew of Harry’s work and he purchased Data Sense early in the season. He took part in many mock drafts and learned player and position selection. He enthusiasticly, endosed the use of FSO’s Cheat Sheets and finished high in the standings. This year The Figs will be hard to beat as Sir I will use all the analytical tools and aids he can, participate in numerous mock drafts and will be a Fantasy Sports Optimizer booster and purchaser. Only gravity will hold him down, but he is an early favorite along with Harry the genius.

The last player interviewed this week was my personal favorite….Lady Godiva. This gal knew nothing about fantasy football, but the members of league were more than willing to give her a helping hand or any other body part that she desired. They told her about mock drafts, position selection, player selection and the use of many of fantasy football tools and analytical tools.

Her husband Lord Godiva, was the first world famous Chocolatier, consequently, she called her team the Chocolate Riders. Unfortunately, he got kick in the head by her horse and she became a widow. We all went to the funeral and gave the horse a big bag of oats each.

The best week of the season was when Lady G cut her hair…..WOW!!!! what a player to have in your league. Big Ben heard about her and came on the prowl, but Attila explained what he would look like with an ax in his head. Now that is being a good league player and friend, along with being a Hun.

This year Lady G is planning on attending mock drafts, getting player rankings and all the FSO tools possible. She told me that she expects to finish high in the saddle or was it the league?

That’s all from fantasyland for this week…..GO Bears!!!!

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A few weeks from now the NFL draft will be under way and we will know who “filled the holes in their team.” The question is how do some teams always seem to come out of the draft in better shape than others in the long term? And how do they do it year after year?

The answers include superior scouting, an organization that knows what it needs and mock drafting. Mock drafting was invented by teams in the NFL years before fantasy football ever existed.

People tell me that way back in the 1930s, when the draft started (this is the 75th year), teams used mock drafting. They not only knew what positions and players they wanted to match, but what other teams needed and who they might draft. This lead to many modifications of strategies over the years, but the idea is essentially the same today with many more teams.

One interesting fact for the fantasy footbal player of today is that Fantasy Sport Optimizer’s twin drafting tools, namely Live Cheat Sheets and Data Sense help the fantasy player do the same thing by anticipating what positions will be drafted and when. This, of course, makes who you pick and when much easier to do.

In all fantasy drafts, it is always important to have your own strategy, but to recognize what is happening around you. All analytical tools will be of little help if your hard rock strategy is derailed by the person in front of you picking “your guy.”

The same is true in the NFL. That is why they have multiple potential picks depending on what happens in front of them and how the draft is flowing. That is the reason good orgs can draft a Tom Brady in the 6th round and bad orgs can draft a wide receiver early in the first round for 3 or more straight years and have little to show for it. Knowing your drafting position and what it takes to get the job done from any starting point is the secret to drafting success. Try FSO’s Live Cheet Sheet next summer and see what happens.

Two weeks from know there will be a big splash on ESPN as the talking heads say who is doing well and who is goofing up. Oakland, St.Louis and the Lions are probably having mistakes pointed out by the experts, while the Colts, the Saints and the Pats are being congratulated. Here’s hoping that your team will be a Colt like drafter and not a Raider like drafter. Two weeks to go for the real thing. See you in TV land!

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