Our occasional look at the plethora of fantasy football magazines continues now with a lesser-known brand. It just goes to show that you don’t have to be a sports juggernaut to put out a preview issue, just like you don’t have to know anything about fantasy sports to run a Web si…OK, bad example.
Fantasy League Football 2010 (Harris Publications)
Vital stats: $9.95, 162 pages, 286 offensive and 105 defensive player previews. (Note: The cover claims “490 Players Ranked!,” but here’s my count, going section by section: 64 quarterbacks, 75 running backs, 75 wide receivers, 40 tight ends, 32 kickers, 35 defensive linemen, 35 linebackers and 35 defensive backs. Even if you count team defenses as “players,” that adds up to only 423. I’m hoping the cover wasn’t put together by this guy.)
Top 10 picks: If you’re in a 10-team draft, the folks at Harris Publications want you to take Chris Johnson, Maurice Jones-Drew, Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Michael Turner, Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, Frank Gore, Rashard Mendenhall and Drew Brees.
Intriguing nugget: This one on Terrell Owens, who was still a free agent when this magazine came out: “If he signs with a good offense, he could produce as a No. 3 fantasy WR.”
Head scratcher: If the 490-players-ranked claim wasn’t enough for you, the cover also claims that this magazine is the “#1 Rated Fantasy Mag!” What the magazine doesn’t say is who rated it #1. I’m sure the editors’ moms love them and think very highly of their product, but that doesn’t mean we should pay attention to what they say, does it?
But then again: These are also the same folks who publish titles like “Tactical Knives” and “Combat Handguns.” So … um … if they want to call themselves “#1 Rated,” that’s OK with me. Really.
(Whew. Now, where was I?)
Kicker rule obeyed? Hard to say, since there is no mock draft, so there was no chance for our experts to pick a kicker before the last round. The closest thing we have to advice in this issue is this nugget from Steve Bennett: “If you really feel the compulsion to have the top kicker or team D or IDP, just trade for them during the season. After all, the spaz who burned a seventh-rounder on David Akers will likely be in the market for a skill position player at some some point.”
One more thing: This magazine has one thing not yet found by the People’s Pigskin in any other magazine: game logs for last season. Want to know how touchdowns Carson Palmer threw in Week 7 against the Chicago Bears? They’ve got it (5, a season high).
Anyway, the lineup polls for this week’s NASCAR race will close later tonight. Please vote now. We’ll be back with the results.
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