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Clevelander Wins 2009 World Championship of Fantasy Football

December 31, 2009 By 3 Comments

wcOFF_Logo_1Prior to the 2009 season, it was estimated that over 27 million individuals would be participating in fantasy football leagues across the country.  While each league has its own competitive banter, rules, scoring systems and prize, only one is considered to be the league for fantasy football participants to claim that they are in fact the best. 

The World Championship of Fantasy Football (or WCOFF) is the high-stakes money league that has an up front cost of $1,750 for a single team and drafts every September in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Each year, only one team can claim that it was in fact the best and it just so happens that this year’s winner was owned by a Clevelander.  [Read more...]

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Self Promotion: Charity Pick’ Em, Fantasy Hoops

September 1, 2009 By 2 Comments

foodbank-719453-798180Just a quick side post on  some things that are in the satellite WFNY pipeline. 

First, I will be participating in a Media Charity NFL pick’em contest that is being put on by BoDog.com’s Richard Gardner.  There will be prizes both weekly and one big one for the entire year; I will be playing for The Cleveland Foodbank. 

If I somehow win the entire shebang, as I did with Cuzoogle’s contest last season, TCF will get a cool $5,000.  Can’t argue with that, right?

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WFNY Fantasy Football League

August 23, 2009 By 60 Comments

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So with the football season rolling up on us in a few weeks, we may or may not decide to have a WFNY fantasy football league.  I thought I’d put up a post to gauge the interest that’s out there.  So, if you’d like to participate in an NFL fantasy league along with the fine folks that frequent this arena, leave a comment.  We’ll either do a pick’em league or a full-blown fantasy league (I don’t play fantasy sports, so I assume that’s what a league is called).

Make sure you leave a legit email address if you want in, as some of you jerks leave email addresses that clearly are not for realsies.

At some point in the next week we’ll figure out what we’re gonna do in terms of a league and we’ll let you guys know.  If there’s more interest than spots, we’ll do a super secret drawing of straws to determine who gets in.

And I’m gonna rig it – I get first pick, and I’m takin’ Dan LeFevour.

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WFNY Fantasy Baseball

March 25, 2009 By 27 Comments

We mentioned it in an earlier post, but we have more information for you now. There will be a WFNY fantasy baseball league, but with a twist. The league will have 16 teams and 2 divisions. WFNY staff will be one division, and readers will be another! In addition, there will be an online auction for players. If you want to participate, you MUST be available for the online auction on Wednesday, April 1st at 8pm EST.

If you can make the auction, and think you have what it takes to take down the staff, (usually a good movie quote will distract us by the way) then add a comment to the post and we’ll draw names for the spots. Good luck.

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Survivor: WFNY Island Update

October 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Just wanted to give you all a quick recap on the dual WFNY Survivor pools:

After the Giants and Redskins were upset by teams with a combined win total of one last week, we’re now down to five participants: Craig, TampaBrett, The Big Heavy, Survivor Mansfield, and Lyon.

There are a few teams with double-digit spreads this week, but will that be enough to keep all five alive?

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Only a Few Spots Remain…

October 16, 2008 By 11 Comments

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No Time for Losers…

October 14, 2008 By 17 Comments

Congratulations to Jeremy, who won the inaugural WFNY baseball fantasy league! You might recognize Jeremy as Cpl Yuk in the comments. It was a 13 team roto league made up of readers plus Scott and myself. Scott and I put up a valiant effort to keep the coveted t-shirt in house, but in the end we were no match for More Cowbell, who finished no lower than 5th in any one category in the 6×6 league.

Jeremy wore his new WFNY jersey style shirt to the Browns big win last night. Is it any coincidence that the Browns offense was unstoppable as a result? Did I mention those shirts are available at the WFNY cafepress store? Jeremy is also still alive in the WFNY Survivor football league. Anyone interested in basketball? If so leave a comment. [Read more...]

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A little fantasy baseball?

March 25, 2008 By 18 Comments

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I have to admit, I love some fantasy sports. With baseball season right around the corner I thought I would offer up a Waiting For Next Year fantasy baseball league. Those interested please respond in the comments section, and I will send you an email with the league ID and password. It will be a roto league, from both AL and NL. Draft will be autodraft, since trying to get a bunch of us together at the same time is probably a reach. The league will be through Yahoo, and will be free.

And since I suppose there needs to be some type of prize involved, how about a fancy WFNY t-shirt? Sounds good to me. Who’s in?

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Checking In On Franklin Gutierrez

March 19, 2008 By 1 Comment

Franklin Gutierrez 
When I covered the Tribe in a recent Fantasy Baseball primer, one of the players that did not make the cut in terms of mentioning was our current right fielder, Franklin Gutierrez.  It wasn’t that I don’t think that Franklin would put up some numbers, it was that his ADP is very, very low and outfield is just a very deep place in terms of value.

But I would be remiss if I didn’t mention his production that he has provided this spring.  Through 22 at-bats, Gutierrez has hit two home runs, knocked in eight runs and is hitting splits that would make Ted Williams look twice: .409/.458/.773.  Now, I’m no mathematician, but that looks like a current OPS of 1.231 – very Bonds-like. 

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Fantasy Baseball Primer, Part I: The Cleveland Indians

March 15, 2008 By 6 Comments

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Jake Westbrook mentioned in a Fantasy Baseball Primer?

♩♪♫♬♭♩♪♫♬♭…It’s the Time…♩♪♫♬♭…of the season…♩♪♫♬♭♩♪♫♬♭While the 1960′s Zombie’s track doesn’t exactly pertain to baseball, and there is about a foot of snow on the ground in lovely Cleveland, Ohio, I figured it would be a good time to delve into the realm of the wood ‘n’ twine…but on a fantasy level. If you have read any of my work over at Dropping Dimes (for hoops) or First And 10 Inches (for football), you know that I’m a big fan of fantasy sports. What can I say? I’m a fan of sports and a fan of numbers. What better way to satisfy the two?

And if you’re not familiar with any of my fantasy-related work, check out this post over at GiveMeTheRock. Yes, the others in that league include Rotoworld.com’s Dr. A, Yahoo!’s Kelly Dwyer and a slew of other very, very talented writers. I can’t help talking about it – it’s been a great year thus far! What can I say?

But enough about me, as this post will be about what you should be looking for this season from the members of the Cleveland Indians. And for a little added bonus in the near future, I’ll discuss a few guys that I would be on the look-out for in terms of sleeper potential in a second part. Do enjoy.

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