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During
the 2006-2008 season we got to take advantage of Fantasy
Football Starters Power Analyzer tools. Fantasy Football
Starters offers 4 Power Analyzer tools that will help your
team to a championship. Their tools start from the draft
and go through the season assisting a fantasy league manager
every week with the lineup analyzer. We actively and
aggressively tested all four of these very useful tools;
Lineup Analyzer, Trade Analyzer, Team Analyzer, and Draft
Analyzer and our results were thumbs up. It is important to
note that for the most part the analyzer tools are based on
expert projections on how the players should perform
throughout the season. These projections are not always
accurate, but when you have to make a decision for that
given week or the entire season, we can’t think of a better
way to do it. It has to be one of the more simple systems
that start by the user creating a team, and entering in
their scoring system. After that, the power analyzers do
all the work.
Draft Analyzer
Going into a fantasy draft
you need all the help you can get. Though the draft won’t
make or break your season, it definitely can start you off
on the right foot, or get you buried real quick. Most
people buy the magazines (I do!) and have cheat sheets
ready. In 2006 we added a third tool, Fantasy Football
Starters draft analyzer. This simple to use analyzer is a
web-based tool designed to allow fantasy players to create
fantasy football rankings and cheat sheets for their drafts
by both the Value Based Drafting and Tiering methods. For
Value Based Draft enthusiasts, it creates a customized
fantasy football draft board by using the lineup and scoring
system requirements of an individual league. It shows an
overall value board with the amount of points projected for
each player and compares the player's across each position
to show that player’s rank and what draft round their value
lies in when compared overall to all other players at every
position. From there, you can sort players by their specific
positions and have a board showing each position’s player
rankings and point projections. It also has the ability to
break down the results of the overall point projections into
positional Tier rankings for those who prefer to take the
Tiering approach to their fantasy football drafts. Both
systems can be set up in a printer friendly model for easy
to use, customizable cheat sheets a fantasy player can use
at their fantasy football drafts. After using Fantasy
Football Starters Draft Analyzer I felt that not only was my
draft far more organized and controlled, but also I felt
relaxed. It helped to focus me on what I needed to draft
rather that what I was going to do. We all have those
moments in the draft where a pick sneaks up on us and we are
still buried in our research. This didn’t happen to me with
the Draft Analyzer. This tool was amazingly simple to use
and in performance making my draft one of the best I’ve ever
had.
Trade Analyzer
The Trade Analyzer was one of
the most useful tools I’ve ever had available when I was
trying to conduct a trade. Several times through the season
trades were offered to me or I was preparing a trade. The
simple to use system just let me pop in the players I was
going to acquire and compared it to my current roster. It
gave me projections on the players involved in the trade and
told whether the trade would benefit me or not. Now this is
work that can be accomplished without a trade analyzer, but
the work could take hours to compile and getting accurate
intelligent projections will end up costing you anyway. We
were thrilled with not only the simplicity of using the
Trade Analyzer, but also its effectiveness in determining
whether I should take a risk on a trade. In the end we all
will decide our own moves throughout the season, but it’s
always helpful to have something like the Trade Analyzer
there to help you. We were definitely impressed with this
program.
Team Analyzer
In head-to-head leagues it
critically important to know whom you are facing, and what
their strengths and weaknesses are. Even in a point-based
league, if you are chasing the point leader you have to know
how you can maximize your points to gain on them. Enter the
team analyzer. This easy-to-use tool allows you to compare
your roster against any other roster (based on your league
scoring system) and shows you (based on expert projections)
how your players will perform against the other team. This
tool was lights out awesome in our head-to-head league. It
quickly shows you not only how your player will perform, but
also breaks in down into detail. It will also show your
backups in that position incase there is a better option.
If you are over-matched at a position, it points it out
using a color code system, so you won’t miss it. Even in a
point-based system it was more than useful, it was a
lifesaver. We used it one-by-one to compare it to the team
directly in front of us. Once we passed that team, we
compared to the next team. We may have finished in 2nd
place in the points-based league, but we could and would
have finished worse if it weren’t for the help of this
fantastic tool.
Lineup Analyzer
The Lineup Analyzer is
another amazing tool that saves team owners wasted time
doing research. Similar to the team analyzer, the Lineup
Analyzer uses your league scoring system to accurately
predict what your players will score, and it will also
predict based on current information what the chances are of
your player achieving that projected score. We’ve all seen
the projections that a QB will get 22 points, but ends up
with 14. Most expert’s projections, though very good, don’t
account for the little things that happen week to week like
injuries to on either offense or the defense you are
playing. Sometimes they don’t even account for home/away
games, and certainly don’t figure in if a player is hot and
dialed in. For all you know your QB may do worse then his
projected score cause his top tackle is out that game.
Fantasy
Football Starters Lineup Analyzer puts the focus on those
factors and color-codes your player’s projected score
whether he will exceed, meet, or do worse than the projected
amount of points. We truly did love this tool, and once we
setup our team we flew through the season and never stopped
using it.
I have
to say that the analyzer tools offered by Fantasy Football
Starters were fantastic tools that any and all fantasy
football owners should have at their disposal. In the
highly competitive game of fantasy football you need every
advantage you can get. Having these tools not only gives
you that advantage, but it allows you the extra time to take
care of other areas of your team, or stop the wife from
yelling at you cause you are spending too much time on the
damn fantasy football! Seriously we recommend this product
for all managers from the rookies to the championship
veterans. Like all analyzers and projections systems out
there, they can be wrong. If there was a con against all
the pros we’ve mentioned it would be that no one is perfect
and no one is right 100% of the time so in the need it will
be up to the individual team owners to decide who to start.
With that said, Fantasy Football Starters Analyzer Tools are
a must have in our opinion.
Written By
Fantasy Football
Search Staff
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