Millman as the only two-time winners of the competition.
As part of the Experts Poll, they keep track of overall career success,
tabulating which experts tend to do the best over the years.
The poll has included various formats. In the early and mid 90s, we had 15
experts on our panel. Then it grew to 20 and even climbed up to 25 in some
years. It's been back down at 20 the last two years.
To track overall success, we've gone to a won-loss system. For each year,
each expert is assigned wins and losses, showing how he did against the rest
of the poll. Serra, for example, won this year's poll, so for 2009, we're
giving him a record of 19 wins and no losses he beat all of the other
competitors. Christopher Harris of ESPN finished 2nd, so he gets a win-loss
record of 18-1. Scott Pianowski (Yahoo! Sports) finished 3rd to go 17-2, and
so on.
Using this system for every expert and every year, Pianowski is our current
all-time leader. Add up all of his various years and he's gone 149-42
against other experts. That's just one game ahead of David Dorey (The
Huddle), who's 148-43.
The all-time stuff gets tricky to tabulate. Some guys switch jobs, and other
companies using different guys in their analyst role. Bob Henry, for
example, started with Red Eye Sports before moving over to Footballguys.com.
So do we list those separately? Look at his individual numbers? Or blend his
numbers with other guys who have competed under the Footballguys banner?
We decided to do both. So Pianowski (who's competed for three different
companies) appears an individual, and you also see some of his work combined
with Chris Liss (who's now making the picks for RotoWire.com).
Shown below are all active experts and companies with at least 50 games
worth of action.
These rankings aren't necessarily a big deal. With the way we've got the
scoring set up, assigning points in varying degrees for every pick, experts
are perhaps too heavily penalized when a player blows out a knee or simply
doesn't pan out it can become almost a battle of attrition in years when
there are a lot of injuries at quarterback and tailback.
But this is at least one way of looking at it. And for now, Pianowski, Dorey
and Henry have had the most all-time success.
{Authors note: I have calculated my own W/L record and inserted it based on the two years I have participated in the Experts Poll. HOWEVER, I will not qualify for the minimum number of games (50) until after the 2010 season. Hopefully, in 2010 I can break the Top 10 and improve on my two 12th place finishes.}
FANTASY INDEX EXPERTS POLL: ALL-TIME LEADERS
(50 games minimum)
Win Loss Pct.
149 42 .780 Scott Pianowski (multiple companies)
148 43 .775 David Dorey (The Huddle)
121 46 .725 Bob Henry (Footballguys / Red Eye)
137 54 .717 * Fantasy Football Champs (Jon Millman, Ian Millman, Bo
Mitchell)
139 71 .662 * Footballguys.com (Joe Bryant, Bob Henry)
131 98 .572 Michael Nazarek (Fantasy Football Mastermind)
76 58 .567 * KFFL (William Del Pilar, Cory Bonini)
153 133 .535 James Serra (First Place Sports Software)
100 91 .524 * RotoWire.com (Scott Pianowski, Chris Liss)
63 71 .470 Chris Liss (RotoWire.com)
97 132 .424 Lenny Pappano (Draft Sharks)
94 135 .410 Jeffrey Kamys (Dr. Stats Fantasy Sports)
23 39 .371 * Fanball.com (Bo Mitchell, Ryan Houston, Rick Hawes)
14-24 .368 Sam Hendricks (Author of Fantasy Football Guidebook and FF Tips)
35 75 .318 Nathan Zegura (The Fantasy Consultant)
48 105 .314 Kevin Marshall (Draftwizard.com)
19 43 .306 Scott Endsley (Fantasy Draft Edge)
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