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The nerd in all of us

Thanks to a savvy reader, Andrew, I have recently learned about a pretty tremendous site that I think many of you are going to like. It's called Fantasy Football Nerd and according to the site it "aggregates the rankings of all those sites we pour over prior to our draft and during the season to analyze the rankings given to each player to produce a Nerd Rank" - sweet, right? This blows my weekly consensus start/sit listing out of the water and it's all freely available but you need to register to use the service. The FFNerd doesn't list all of the sites it uses nor does it explicitly address how it aggregates the rankings, which are two things that I'd like to see on the site, but otherwise it looks like an excellent resource. So if you have a tough start/sit decision to make this week and are wondering what the consensus is from the experts, take a look!

Another fun piece of news is that my local newspaper, the Boulder Daily Camera, did a story on me and FFLibrarian that went up today - CU librarian turns fantasy fanatic. Several of you posted comments to my FFL posts that were included in the story. Really I'm a little embarrassed that I'm somehow newspaper-worthy but thank you all for your interest in this blog - I really appreciate it!

Hope you're all enjoying college football today and here's to an awesome start to the fantasy season...

Comments

Andrew said…
Cool, I made the article too! Where do I collect my royalties? :)
11:03 PM
Unknown said…
Thanks Sara and Andrew...just what I was looking for!
11:38 AM
Thrasher76 said…
The Nerd Site is awesome! Thanks!
10:32 PM
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