The Fantasy Football Index Magazine Experts Poll overall results are in. Over 4.3 million points were scored between 20 Experts.
And James Serra is the winner of the 2009 Fantasy Football Index Experts Poll.
Serra, of First Place Sports Software, has been part of the Experts Poll
panel since 1996, the longest run of anyone. And this is his second title.
He last won in 1999, and he's also finished 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th during his
14-year run.
Serra won both the defense and tight end categories, and he held onto that
lead with respectable finishes at all of the positions kicker (4th), wide
receiver (6th), running back (8th) and quarterback (8th).
Christopher Harris of ESPN is the runnerup in this year's poll. Harris won
at both kicker and running back and was 2nd at quarterback, but was done in
by finishing 10th at defenses and last at tight end.
Scott Pianowski of Yahoo! Sports finished in 3rd, followed by Rick Hawes
(Fanball) and David Dorey (The Huddle).
By finishing first, Serra gets his choice of draft position in the mock
draft competition held in the 2010 issue of Fantasy Football Index. If Serra
wants to choose first (in a sine-wave draft format), he has the option; or
he can move down to enhance his draft slot in the second round.
The top 11 finishers (out of 20) earn spots in that league. So joining the
top five are Pretzel May, Chris Liss, Alan Satterlee, Kevin Marshall, Louis
Tranquilli and Nathan Zegura. That 12-team league will also include a
Fantasy Football Index reader that will be named later.
Sam Hendricks (FFGuidebook.com) finished 12th, one spot off the pace for inclusion in the Mock Draft competion, but that means he is the first alternate; so if for some reason one of the Experts mentioned above cannot make it, he can jump in. The difference between 12th place and 5th place is just 840 points, quite a narrow margin! 9th and 10th place were only 20 points off.
Here are his rankings by position: QB (12th), RB (10th), WR (10th), TE (2nd), Kickers (13th), Defenses (13th).
Congratulations to the Top 11!
I wish I had done better but beating the likes of Bob Henry, Mike Nazarek, Scott Endsley and Lenny Pappano makes me feel a little better. A slow start at Kicker and Defense (both 13th) set me too far behind even with a 2nd place TE finish and averaging 10th in QB, RB and WR.
EXPERTS POLL: OVERALL STANDINGS (final)
Points
219,854 James Serra
219,198 Christopher Harris
219,051 Scott Pianowski
217,707 Rick Hawes
217,398 David Dorey
217,380 Pretzel May
217,328 Chris Liss
217,188 Alan Satterlee
217,096 Kevin Marshall
217,076 Louis Tranquilli
216,670 Nathan Zegura
216,560 Sam Hendricks
216,259 Bob Henry
215,902 Michael Nazarek
215,183 Scott Endsley
214,697 Jeffrey Kamys
214,446 Colin Darlington
214,261 Cory Bonini
213,955 Bo Mitchell
210,446 Lenny Pappano
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