Fantasy Football Guidebook: Fantasy Index Experts Poll RB FFGuidebook 8th place Finish

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Fantasy Index Experts Poll RB FFGuidebook 8th place Finish

The Fantasy Index Experts Poll and the Fantasy Index Open are sister competitions. The Experts Poll proper has been around for 24 years. It’s the original fantasy experts competition. Fantasy Index Magazine added the Open a few years back; it uses the same format but is an all-comers competition, open to any attorney, tax accountant or insurance underwriter from around the country who thinks he can build a good draft board.

Each year they invite the top 2 finishers from the Fantasy Index Open to compete against the industry analysts in the regular experts poll. They haven’t fared very well. The open champions have finished just 14th in each of the last two seasons.

But they claimed a victory today in the all-important running backs category of the Experts Poll. Michael Livengood of Ward, Ark., was the high scorer at this position, beating out Mike Clay of Pro Football Focus and Bob Henry of Footballguys.com.

Livengood was the runnerup in last year’s Fantasy Index Open, and he seems to have a good feel for these kind of competitions. He is in 5th place overall in the Fantasy Index Open again this year. That’s out of 170 entries.

The other Fantasy Index Open qualifier from last year, Tom Deskovitz from Michigan, also did well in this category, finishing 6th.

For Livengood, he won this category in the top 10. He was one of four guys who ranked Adrian Peterson down at No. 4. That helped (since Peterson was suspended for the vast majority of the season). But Livengood also generated value relative to most of the field by being one of the highest on three different backs who exceeded expectations – DeMarco Murray, Arian Foster and LeVeon Bell.

EXPERTS POLL, RUNNING BACKS (standard scoring)
Rk	Team	Points
1.	Michael Livengood	52,074
2.	Mike Clay	51,754
3.	Bob Henry	51,383
4.	Michael Nazarek	51,244
5.	Alan Satterlee	50,842
6.	Tom Deskovitz	50,709
7.	Micah James	50,575
8.	Sam Hendricks	50,467
9.	Bryan Hough	50,256
10.	Michael Fabiano	50,130
11.	L'Roy Anthony Hale	49,725
12.	Chris Liss	49,646
13.	Lenny Pappano	49,348
14.	David Dorey	49,233
15.	Scott Sachs	48,843
16.	Paul Charchian	48,727
17.	Scott Pianowski	48,619
18.	Cory Bonini	48,163
19.	Tony Holm	46,559
20.	Bill Enright	46,099

I participate in this contest every year. I finished 8th in RB. So far: RB-8th WR-13th TE-16th K-12th DEF-18th The top 11 finishers qualify to participate in the Mock Draft that will appear in the 2015 edition of Fantasy Football Index magazine.

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