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Title: Fantasy Football's Big Six
ISBN: 1434399559
Author:
Robert Zarzycki
Publicate Date: 2008-07-29
Publish: 2008-07-29
List Price: $21.49
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Pulitzer Prize
This is one of the finest books I have ever read. It moved me to tears. It is practical yet entertaining. I never even played fantasy football before reading this book. It just happened to be sitting next to my toilet one day - I picked it up and couldn't stop reading. I was hooked.
Using these simple yet innovative techniques I was soon kicking some serious butt in my fantasy league. I am thinking of giving up my day job to become a professional fanstasy football "athlete".
Kudos to the writing team. I hope the pulitizer nominating group gets the chance to read this. WOW!
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2: There's only one word for Fantasy Football's Big 6.......Amazing!
This book is an easy, fun and enlightening read. Everyone from the beginner to the seasoned fantasy football veteran can learn from this book. Tapping into areas previously uncovered, Fantasy Football's Big 6 reveals secrets from six of the bigger names in the High Stake Fantasy Football world. Highlighted by Rob Zarzycki (author of Drafting to Win) this 200-page book delves into such topics as IDP leagues, Auction leagues and my favorites Salary Cap and Draft Masters.
Bob Ashmen makes a convincing argument for Salary Cap leagues as the fairest Fantasy Football contest ever invented. He then goes on to explain some of his money winning strategies. It is a great glimpse into these previously unknown formats. The same goes for Mark Moyer and his examination of Draft Masters. The skills and strategies for these types of leagues are different then your standard redraft leagues and he takes the reader into his war room and reveals all.
Jules "Red Ryder" Mclean excites with her take on Dynasty and Keeper leagues (her forte) and Todd Ullman and Mike Weber finish up with their incredibly gifted advice on Individual Defensive Players and Auctions respectively.
And what of "Z-Man"? Rob covers his area of expertise by exploring redraft leagues and the strategies he has used to win at the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF). Speaking of winning, these six experts have over half a million ($500,000+) in career Fantasy Football money. Not bad at all for an obsession most of us call a hobby!
It is a "Must Have" for every Fantasy Footballer!
Sam Hendricks, author of "Fantasy Football Guidebook"
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3: Helpful Hints for 2008 and beyond
This book was very helpful or at least will prove so at the conclusion of the NFL fantasy football season as I picked up hints from really all the authors overall on philosophy of drafting my fantasy football teams this year. The chapter I found most relative was by Mike Weber on his chapter of Auction Drafting which has been getting a lot more players in the bigger leagues (i.e. WCOFF and NFFC) and I certainly felt that in Atlantic City that I was able to outwit my opponents based of Weber's advice (including getting my kickers and defenses filled for $1 to be able to outspend for quality high scoring players late in the draft.)
I also appreciated Weber's back story which reached back to when he and his friends started innocently drafting fantasy football back in late 80's and early 90's as another excuse to hang out and order pizza and hang with your buddies as I related to my own experiences which made me think I was actually there. Who could have forseen the multi billion dollar business that fantasy football has evolved into these past few years and how he and his friends were on the ground floor of drafting for auction style.
I also learned what it is to be in a Draft Masters league and it has inspired me to seek one of these leagues in addition to the auction, keeper/dynasty and re-draft leagues of which I currently participate.
Overall this book is helpful prior to any draft and can be reviwed during season with hints on how to seek wise waiver wire picks, etc, so I give it my full recommendation.
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