Because in 2008, Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games was recognized as the #1 fantasy football player ranking site among the top names in the fantasy football industry. The award was given by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, FFLibrarian and the NYTimes fantasy football blog is where you can see the results. There were over 20 fantasy football sites in the contest and those sites are widely known as the best sources for fantasy football advice and projections.

2010 Fantasy Football Rankings

As described above in  2008 Fantazzle won a major fantasy football award according to the NYTimes. Fantazzle at the time was five months old. We went up against over twenty (20)  of THE best fantasy sports sites (you all ever hear of YaCPN or ESBShoo?) or straight no messin’ around fantasy football sites period (which all seem to have roto in their name, which according to Wikipedia means broken). I gotta believe you all may have come across these sites along with just a ‘few’  fantasy football magazines over the past few years. I think the number of available fantasy magazines this year FINALLY surpassed the tattoo/motorcycle/wave runner segment, a major victory for the fantasy football industry. Now who’s just a fad?

Now to be fair, this was in 2008 (I can’t believe we are not mentioned anywhere on that link). In 2009? We would rather say we didn’t get our picks in time, but we did and they included Matt Forte among other high profile Bears names classified as under-rated. Let’s just say if the Chicago Bears didn’t ever exist, we would have done pretty well. So we got that going for us… Last year, some compamy called ESBShoo won, wait I got that wrong, it was CBS (congrats!) who probably weren’t so high on Forte, Matt 22 RB (CHI). We will be back on the map this year so we don’t become Michael Clayton (WR)…. who reminds me a lot of Matt Forte last year. What makes it worst is I knew better. Never trust a dude w/ a accent aigu…this isn’t only a fantasy rule, but a life rule that I live by day to day.

Nevertheless – 2008. Created Fantazzle, a daily and weekly fantasy football game company and won the fantasy ranking award. A great start for Fantazzle and just the beginning of more things to come. Just this year, we were invited to be a pro fantasy football player in a great fantasy football game in its 2nd year - RapidDraft. It’s free this year so what do you have to lose, what ~20-30min? I know what you have to win – over $150,000! The great thing about RapidDraft and Fantazzle’s fantasy games are that it is not a random contest with a name drawn out of a hit, they are games which allow your skills determine your outcomes. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have my skills determine if I win or lose rather than a lucky number.

Enough! Lets get on with it. So, the projections below will be Fantazzle’s submission to the 2010 Fantasy Football Accuracy Challenge award. The point system is simple and we are only looking at QB/RB/WR/TE. No points per reception (PPR) and four points for a QB TD. And with that, please enjoy the rankings through agreement or whole heartedly ‘Youuuuu IDIOT!!!!’ I will respond to all comments that are not spam, personally!

Fantasy Football Player Rankings

QB – 2010 Fantasy Football Rankings

1. Drew Brees

2. Peyton Manning

3. Matt Schaub

4. Aaron Rodgers

5. Tom Brady

6. Tony Romo

7. Philip Rivers

8. Joe Flacco

9. Eli Manning

10. Jay Cutler

11. Matt Ryan

12. Kevin Kolb

13. Carson Palmer

14. Alex Smith

15. Donovan McNabb

16. Brett Favre

17. Matt Cassel

18. Derek Anderson

19. Ben Roethlisberger

20. David Garrard

21. Vince Young

22. Jason Campbell

23. Kyle Orton

24. Matthew Stafford

25. Matt Moore

RB – 2010 Fantasy Football Rankings

1. Chris Johnson

2. Adrian Peterson

3. Ray Rice

4. Maurice Jones-Drew

5. Michael Turner

6. Frank Gore

7. DeAngelo Williams

8. Ryan Mathews

9. Cedric Benson

10. Jamaal Charles

11. Ryan Grant

12. Steven Jackson

13. Arian Foster

14. Joseph Addai

15. Jahvid Best

16. Shonn Greene

17. Ronnie Brown

18. Jonathan Stewart

19. Rashard Mendenhall

20. LeSean McCoy

21. Pierre Thomas

22. Matt Forte

23. Knowshon Moreno

24. Tim Hightower

25. Ahmad Bradshaw

26. Marion Barber

27. Carnell “Cadillac” Williams

28. Brandon Jacobs

29. Ricky Williams

30. Felix Jones

31. Justin Forsett

32. Clinton Portis

33. Chris “Beanie” Wells

34. Reggie Bush

35. C.J. Spiller

36. Jerome Harrison

37. Kareem Huggins

38. Darren McFadden

39. Fred Taylor

40. Fred Jackson

41. Thomas Jones

42. Leon Washington

43. LaDainian Tomlinson

44. Donald Brown

45. Derrick Ward

46. Chester Taylor

47. Rashad Jennings

48. Bernard Scott

49. Michael Bush

50. Laurence Maroney

WR – 2010 Fantasy Football Rankings

1. Andre Johnson

2. Randy Moss

3. Reggie Wayne

4. Roddy White

5. Brandon Marshall

6. Calvin Johnson

7. Greg Jennings

8. Larry Fitzgerald

9. Miles Austin

10. Steve Smith (CAR)

11. Marques Colston

12. Steve Smith (NYG)

13. Wes Welker

14. Chad Ochocinco

15. DeSean Jackson

16. Anquan Boldin

17. Terrell Owens

18. Percy Harvin

19. Derrick Mason

20. Dwayne Bowe

21. Pierre Garcon

22. Malcolm Floyd

23. Michael Crabtree

24. Donald Driver

25. Hines Ward

26. Bernard Berrian

27. Hakeem Nicks

28. Mike Wallace

29. Robert Meachem

30. Mike Sims-Walker

31. Laurent Robinson

32. Johnny Knox

33. Jeremy Maclin

34. Jabar Gaffney

35. Nate Burleson

36. Steve Breaston

37. Dez Bryant

38. T.J. Houshmandzadeh

39. Santonio Holmes

40. Devin Aromashodu

41. Braylon Edwards

42. Mike Williams (SEA)

43. Patrick Crayton

44. Devery Henderson

45. Santana Moss

46. Roy Williams

47. Jacoby Jones

48. Austin Collie

49. Mohamed Massaquoi

50. Lee Evans

TE – 2010 Fantasy Football Rankings

1. Antonio Gates

2. Dallas Clark

3. Brent Celek

4. Vernon Davis

5. Tony Gonzalez

6. Jason Witten

7. Kellen Winslow

8. Jermichael Finley

9. Chris Cooley

10. Zach Miller (OAK)

11. Owen Daniels

12. Dustin Keller

13. John Carlson

14. Visanthe Shiancoe

15. Jermaine Gresham

16. Heath Miller

17. Tony Scheffler

18. Todd Heap

19. Benjamin Watson

20. Greg Olsen

21. Fred Davis

22. Kevin Boss

23. Rob Gronkowski

24. Daniel Fells

25. Bo Scaife

There you are. Every day or so until the start of the Fantazzle season ON SUNDAY (not Thur), I will be updating any standings and also expand on thought process that went into the lists above.

Good luck to everyone drafting and remember if you don’t do so hot, there are ALWAYS Fantazzle WEEKLY Fantasy Football Games to play like our fantasy football salary cap game among others.

Take care and speak to you soon!

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Allow me a quick moment to reflect, as its been a lot of work from when we started in Sept 2008, up until the very changes you’re seeing now. Three years of hard work, but we have continued to grow and make progress EVERY day and that’s what it’s all about.

I must say that these past three years haven’t been just about the world of business and business lessons, but life lessons with one of the bigger ones learning who your colleagues and friends are. With that, I thank everyone for their part and I look forward to the next three years.

And back to Fantazzle’s 2010 Fantasy Football Player Rankings. We are looking at Monday to start a series of fantasy football player ranking blog posts that will span a few days to build the suspense and tension that all good blogs do (well, that and the work we are doing for the start of the fantasy football season is intense and needs to be done as well).

Speaking of which, if you go to the fantasy games site now, you will see the beginning of a few of the changes you’ll see in the coming weeks. We hope you like the redesign. We believe you will because most of he modifications came from YOU, the user directly, and since these games and everything we do is about the user, it only makes sense to make changes to fit the user.

I look forward to speaking to all of you in the days to come as we start to countdown the two weeks left until that first Sunday aptly named Week One!

Ryan Parr
Founder/CEO
Fantazzle Fantasy Sports Games
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This is not the first time that Fantazzle has teamed up with a NFL player. In 2009, Steve Smith of the New York Giants joined the Fantazzle team and offered special fantasy football promotional games. Weekly fantasy football games had winners receiving autographed prizes from Smith. We also gave away a Pro Bowl trip for two if Fantazzle members voted for Steve Smith to reach the Pro Bowl.

Expect many similar games this upcoming football season with Ray Rice. We will be offering weekly fantasy football games that will include Ray Rice autographed materials and cash prizes. Expect other Ray Rice related games throughout the season as well.

Rice is poised to improve on his 2009 fantasy numbers when he was one of the top backs in the NFL. With an improved offense, Rice is projected to be a top back in the league yet again. Be sure to draft him in your 2010 fantasy football league.

Follow Ray Rice and Fantazzle on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest, breaking news on Ray Rice and Fantazzle.

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Couple of announcements for you all:

1. This is the last week for the Steve Smith’s free fantasy football game. With that, Steve’s camp is setting us up with two prizes for the final game. We’ll have a 1st and 2nd place prize which will both be autographed footballs from Steve. Make sure you sign up to play this free fantasy football salary cap game.
2. The 2010 Pro Bowl voting ends on Monday. That will be the last day you can sign up for Steve Smith free Pro Bowl tickets campaign. Become a fan of Steve on Facebook, vote in the 2010 Pro Bowl (preferably for Steve who has been a major fantasy football breakout player this year as well as a stud WR for the New York Giants), and sign up for the contest presented by Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games. If you win you get 2 tickets to the Pro Bowl, airfare, hotel and dinner with Steve.
3. Fantazzle also has another free fantasy football game offer. Sign up to be a fan of Fantazzle’s Facebook page or follow Fantazzle on Twitter, you’ll get a link to play a free fantasy football game which will start Sunday and is a salary cap format game.
4. Lastly, to add to the excitement of the non-Sunday NFL games (Monday night, Thursday night and Saturday night), we are offering a new football game that uses players only from that game. Play the games on Sunday and you can sign up before Monday’s NFL game and play this special fantasy football game.

Ok, thats enough. Have fun all!

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

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Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Football Games is always trying something new and giving our users what they want. We have had several requests to make Thursday (and now Saturday games) relevant to our lineup of fantasy football games. So this week, we are introducing a new fantasy football salary cap game that will use players ONLY from this week’s Thursday and Saturday game.

And there is no time better to play this fantasy football game. Over 60% of fantasy football fans seasons are over due to bad years in their traditional fantasy football leagues plus these are two incredible games. Both 13-0 teams are playing, the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints, which both host some exciting fantasy football players. Now, thats not to say your going to have a lineup with Peyton, Brees, R Wayne, etc. This is a salary cap fantasy football game so you’ll get a few stars, but you’ll have to watch you budget. You’ll have to pick and choose wisely staying under a $1,000,000 salary cap.

This fantasy football game should be great for fans starting to go through some fantasy football withdrawal PLUS make these games exciting to watch. I’ll watch NFL games at any chance I get, but I know I’m the minority and not the former. I watched all 60 minutes of the Oakland/Washington game on Sunday (it was the only one on TV for me). Thats just me. But I know its tough for some to watch games when the the NFL team they support is not playing AND they have no fantasy football players playing. Makes the NFL game just a tad more boring. This special fantasy game hopes to combat this for you all. Sign up before the game starts on Thursday night at 8:20pm ET and be rewarded with the cash prize Saturday night after the NFL game ends. You’ll have the money deposited in your account IMMEDIATELY following the football game to give you plenty of time to register for our regular weekly fantasy football games that start on Sunday at 1pm ET.

Hope you all find these special fantasy football games exciting to play!

Also, if you missed it last week, we started a new fantasy football promotion. Besides our Steve Smith free fantasy football salary cap game (also make sure to vote for Steve Smith promotion presented by Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Football Games for the 2010 Pro Bowl to win free tickets to the NFL Pro Bowl, airfare, hotel and dinner with Steve), we are offering another free fantasy football game and all you have to do is follow Fantazzle on Twitter. Follow us now and you can receive the URL for this free football game and win a cash prize.

Take care,

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

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I’d imagine that ~90% of head to head traditional fantasy football leagues have started their playoffs or this last weekend will determine your playoffs.  We are here to tell you about Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Football Games. This isn’t a set your lineup advice fantasy football playoff article. If your looking for that, I recommend the following sites for that:

• Fighting Chance Fantasy – three podcasts a week and these guys know what they’re talking about. Not only that, but they are entertaining to listen to. Not an easy combo for podcasts. Check out Fighting Chance Fantasy website or go to Fantazzle’s fantasy sports community page for the latest podcast.
• Nova Fantasy Sports – great site for individual fantasy football player news and articles on fantasy football strategy. We use Nova’s info on Fantazzle’s fantasy football news section of our website.
• Fantasy Football Librarian – Great fantasy football blog with links to just about every relevant start/sit site out there.
• Fantasy Smack Talk - one of the better put together video casts about fantasy football.
• The League – ok this is not a fantasy football tip site, but to follow up on my article on The League, give this sitcom a try. Funny funny stuff!

So now that I have some great fantasy football advice sites out of the way, here’s the main reason for the article. Given ~90% of traditional fantasy football leagues have started or are about to start their fantasy football playoffs that means there are a minimum of 60% of fantasy football teams without anything to do. Thats where Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Football Games come in. You can continue to play fantasy football all year by playing in our fantasy games. You can create new teams every week and continue to play fantasy football. Not only that, but Week 17 and the NFL football playoffs are right around the corner and at that time 99% of league seasons will be over. Fantazzle Football Games has got you covered by that as well. We’ll have games all the way up to the NFL Super Bowl.

If you haven’t tried Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Games yet, now is the perfect time to give them a shot.

Sign up now and play in our entry fee games or you can try out our Steve Smith (NYG) free fantasy football game.

Don’t let your fantasy football season end so soon, sign up now!

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

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As many of you know, Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Games has partnered with Steve Smith of the New York Giants in his 2010 Pro Bowl Contest. The winner of this contest will win 2 tix to the 2010 NFL Pro Bowl, hotel, airfare, and dinner with Steve. During the contest, Fantazzle is running free fantasy football games to win free gear from Steve Smith. The free contests will run for the next week and we already had our first free Steve Smith fantasy football game and winner this past week.

Congrats to hedrush who pulled off of a come from behind victory on Monday night. I wrote an earlier post about the leaders of the free fantasy football contest and those who had a chance leading up to NFL MNF. hedrush wasn’t even listed. He was way behind in points so he wasn’t on our radar. But like any given week, Drew Brees can change that very quickly. Couple him with Marques Colston and those 60 points put him over the top. hedrush finished with 147 pts with bdubya3 and BayMan3205 tying for 2nd/3rd with 139 pts each.

I wrote hedrush earlier to congratulate him and you couldn’t ask for a perfect winner as he thanked Fantazzle and added that he has Steve Smith in both of his traditional fantasy football leagues. It was fate from the beginning!

As an aside, the Steve Smith 2010 Pro Bowl Contest is well underway and we believe that Steve deserves a look for all of you Pro Bowl voters out there. He’s in the top 10 for fantasy football WRs and even higher in points per reception leagues (PPR). He deserves every fantasy football players consideration and he has been one of the best players in fantasy football this year. Numbers don’t lie.

So the first free fantasy football contest is over with 3 more to go. Make sure you sign up before the first NFL game on Sunday begins. Spread the word if you like the contest. If we get more entries into the game, we will expand the prize pool and have more than one winner. Its up to you all to get this done. We will run a referral promotion during the Steve Smith free games. Simply refer your friends and shoot us an email at stevesmith@fantazzle.com with your friend’s email and/or username and we will give you an extra prize if you win the free football game. You’ll win the prize of the week plus we will give you a $25 credit to your Fantazzle account to play all of our fantasy games. Help Fantazzle build our fantasy site and we will help you build your account balance. Nothing to lose and a lot to gain!

Sign up now for the Steve Smith free fantasy football game.

May the best fantasy player win!

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

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With a quarter left in the Sunday night Pittsburgh Steelers vs Baltimore Ravens game AND of course the huge fantasy relevant Monday night football games (MNF) between New Orleans Saints and New England Patriots (talk about some big fantasy names in that game), here’s an update on the standings for our first Steve Smith Free Fantasy Football Salary Cap Game:

These teams are playing for a Steve Smith autographed football for this week -

There’s a tie for first place between HadYock and gergman1 with 133 points. Unless Wes Welker scores 0 or negative points, gergman1 will have the edge (he has Welker).  ukula at #5 is the next closest for a shot to get the prize with 117 points and Randy Moss playing tomorrow. GBPackerFan has an outside shot as well with 110 points and Colston playing tomorrow. Lastly, SIMBAKINGS has 104 pts with Welker and Brady tomorrow. Long shot, but it could happen.

You can see all the standings for the Steve Smith fantasy football salary cap game here.

Good luck to all teams. For those who won’t be taking home the prize this week or weren’t able to sign up, make sure to enter for the chance to play next week’s free fantasy football game. The game will be available tomorrow.

Make sure you sign up for the Steve Smith 2010 Pro Bowl Campaign! These fantasy games are supplement to the free tix you can win to the 2010 Pro Bowl.

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

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Big news here at Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Games. Two big fantasy sports promotions going on.

1. We extended our DOUBLE fantasy sports games promotion until Monday at 8pm ET. Make a deposit (1st deposit OR redeposit) and we will double the FantaStock you receive to play entry fee games for FREE. FantaStock work similar to frequent flier miles. The minimum deposit bonus starts at $10, but you maximize the DOUBLE BONUS when you deposit more than $50 or $100 or $200 or $300 or $500. Now is the perfect time to take advantage of the bonus with traditional fantasy football leagues coming to an end, no fantasy football in Week 17 in most leagues plus the NFL playoffs where Fantazzle will be offering fantasy football playoff games. Not to mention we now have WEEKLY FANTASY BASKETBALL GAMES and WEEKLY FANTASY HOCKEY GAMES. Take advantage of our fantasy sports promotions now.

2. Fantazzle has just signed an exclusive sponsorship with Steve Smith of the New York Giants. We’ll be offering free fantasy football games for the next four weeks giving out Steve Smith autographed gear. This week, we’ll be giving a free football signed by THE Steve Smith #12. More info to come, but you can check out this fantasy football promotion here to play in our fantasy football salary cap game.

Stay tuned. Big things happenin’ at Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Sports Games!

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Wanted to let you know about a GREAT podcast out there from Fighting Chance Fantasy. Jeff Mans and Ryan Hallum make it exciting and interact with all their fans by email, live chat or a call in number. They have three shows every week and are giving you the scoop on all things fantasy football. Fighting Chance gave Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games a chance to be on this show this past Tuesday (thanks fellas!) and I recommend you give it a listen. These guys are on ball and the info won’t only help your traditional fantasy football games, but will also help you set your weekly fantasy football games lineup. Figure out what bargains you find in the fantasy football salary game.

All shows are live, but can also be accessed on BlogTalkRadio.com and listen on your computer or download for your iPod or other device.

Here’s the upcoming lineup:

11/24/2009 – Ladies Night (this show is archived and Fantazzle was a guest)

11/29/2009 9:30 AM - Sunday Morning Kickoff Show

12/1/2009 8:00 PM - Ladies Night

12/4/2009 10:00 PM - Midnight Oil — With Jeff Mans & Ryan Hallam

Give it a listen all. Its a great fantasy football podcast and has some great guys behind it.

Ryan

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