Fantazzle has been named a fantasy pro for 2010 based on our strong track record in fantasy football expert leagues, and ranking predictions. We took home the 2008 FFLibrarian and Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) Fantasy Football Projections Accuracy award, beating out 20 FSTA members including CBS, ESPN and Yahoo. We were even recognized by the New York Times for our success in 2008. In 2009, Fantazzle was one of three League Champions comprised of 36 fantasy football expert sites. And a Fantazzle employee Zac Fluewelling had the most points of any ESPN fantasy football team created in 2009. We have had great success since Fantazzle launched, stay tuned to see what we do during the 2010 fantasy football season.

Compete against us at RapidDraft for not only bragging rights, but a chance to win $100,000, all for free. The 2010 winner will receive a spot on the Expert roster in 2011. Sign up, create a team and manage it for the entire fantasy football season as you compete against experts each week for a chance at the $100,000. RapidDraft is unique and will test your fantasy football knowledge. You can draft immediately and get to choose your own draft position. With the opportunity to draft at each draft positions 5 times, you have 60 opportunities to win $100,000.

Compete against Fantazzle now at fantazzle.rapiddraft.com.

Share on Facebook

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.

Ray Rice Facebook

Ray Rice Twitter

Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games Facebook

Fantazzle Twitter

Share on Facebook

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

Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games

www.fantazzle.com

Share on Facebook

Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Sports Games has another free fantasy football promotion ONLY for Twitter followers.

Well we’ve been telling you that we will be having special promotions for members of our social media groups. We started this last weekend where we awarded winners a $10 bonus if they won and were members of our Fantazzle Facebook Fantasy Football fan page and follow Fantazzle on Twitter. We aren’t stopping this weekend. This week, IF you follow Fantazzle on Twitter, you can play in a free fantasy football game with a cash prize. This free game is only open to our Twitter followers. So sign up to follow Fantazzle now on Twitter and you will see the link to enter the game. All you have to do is have a Twitter account (who doesn’t nowadays….and if you don’t create a quick one so you can play for free), follow Fantazzle and you can enter the contest. Make sure you are a follower of Fantazzle. We will verify that you do before we credit the winner’s account.

Hurry as the game starts in about 10 hours!

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Football Games

www.fantazzle.com

Share on Facebook

Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Sports Games was fortunate enough to be on Fighting Chance Fantasy football podcast last night, Midnight Oil (and the name is true to form as it was at midnight). No worries, you can listen to all the shows on Fantazzle’s fantasy sports community page. We have the latest podcast available there every day for your enjoyment. Besides Fighting Chance’s midnight fantasy football podcast, they also offer a football podcast on Tuesday (8pm ET) and Sunday morning (9:30am ET).

I thank Ryan and Jeff for the opportunity to talk about fantasy football. I can do that all day. I won’t lie, but it’s also great to get some words in about Fantazzle in the process. We were able to discuss the current Steve Smith free fantasy football games we are offering and the sponsorship we have with Steve’s 2010 Pro Bowl Football Promotion (sign up to win 2 free tix to the Pro Bowl, dinner with Steve, airfare and hotel stay). Plus we talked about how the fantasy football playoffs have or are about to start and how a lot of teams now have no one to root for on Sunday. Fantazzle’s weekly fantasy football games takes care of that issue since you can play games from week to week and always have some kind of fantasy football action happenin’.

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games

www.fantazzle.com

Share on Facebook

The new Steve Smith free fantasy football game is now up. The winner this week will win an autographed mini helmet signed by Steve Smith. Congrats to last week’s winner, Slammers.

There are two weeks left in the Steve Smith free fantasy football game contests. Make sure to enter the games. Also, make sure you sign up for the Steve Smith Pro Bowl Contest presented by Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games. The winner of that prize will win tix to the 2010 Pro Bowl, airfare, hotel and dinner with Steve. All you have to do is sign up to become a fan of Steve Smith’s Facebook fan page and vote in this year’s Pro Bowl. That will put you in the drawing to win the prize.

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Sports Games

Share on Facebook

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

Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games

Share on Facebook

Make a deposit anytime from now until Monday and we will DOUBLE the bonus points you receive from Fantazzle. These points (called FantaStock) can be used to play any of our fantasy games for free. For more details on FantaStock and the bonus, check out Fantazzle’s fantasy sports promotions page.

Take advantage of this bonus while you can and make a deposit to try our new weekly basketball and hockey salary cap games or continue your fantasy football season playing weekly games.

Share on Facebook

So to reiterate what you hear from everyone about fantasy football. Don’t overreact. Don’t get rid of stars that have started slow. That said, you should start making moves to shore up your bench. In most leagues, you have a couple of spots that are iffy and if those fantasy guys haven’t produced thus far, you can make some add/drops. Guys like Chris Chambers, Le’Ron McClain, Edgerrin James, drop and pick up guys that have upside based on good stats. Guys like Greg Olsen, Jay Cutler, and TJ Housh, I wouldnt recommend moving. There are some that are borderline like L. Coles I would say if a good waiver wire opportunity presents itself, then I’d make a move, but I would be careful and make sure that the upside you get is worth it.

That said, here’s a rundown of some pickups I’m looking at.

I’ll quickly mention the guys that everyone is talking about: Mario Manningham, Johnny Knox, and Percy Harvin. If they are available and you have guys that aren’t producing and iffy to begin with, make the move now. There is no assurance they will continue to produce, but they have enough upside to pull the trigger with no regret.

Here are some guys that have (mostly) been talked about, both good and bad.

Laurent Robinson (WR) – he’s been a popular discussion topic and I recommend picking him up. I had him as a preseason pick based on his situation in St. Louis. I think he is the #1 WR and playing for a team that will be down all game. The O line is getting scary so we may be getting to the point that no WR is useful, but I recommend that he is picked up if you can spare a spot. He’s done well so far and he’s a big target and clearly the #1.

Pierre Garcon (WR) - he’s been talked about as well along with Austin Collie. He was given the #2 spot so he’s the man to get. Some are saying Collie has more upside, but I’m not buying it and he is the guy you want. I would go as far as dropping Anthony Gonzalez so you can win now. Who knows when Gonzalez will be back and if Garcon plays well, it will most likely make neither useful. Go with him for the short term upside you may get out of him.

Jordy Nelson (WR) – I’m not recommending you pick him up, but Greg Jennings injury and stat line from this previous week scares me a bit. If the injury bothers him and he misses time, Nelson will be a useful #3.

Pittsburgh RBs – there is clearly concern for Willie Parker, but I don’t know how this will play out. Its looking more and more like a 3 RB committee. I don’t think I would drop any of them (Parker, Moore, or Mendenhall), but I dont think they will be fantasy relevant soon or we at least won’t have a good take on it until a couple of weeks go by. Right now its not a good situation for owners because your wasting roster spots. If you can trade them and get anything of value, thats what I recommend. Otherwise, keep them on your bench. Even against Cincy this weekend, your options better be limited if your going to start Parker.

Jacoby Jones (WR) - I gotta believe that Kevin Walter will be back soon making Jones a non fantasy factor. Don’t pick him up and don’t drop Walter.

Devery Henderson (WR) - New Orleans offense is so explosive that it makes Devery a tough decision. If Lance Moore comes back soon, then I think Devery will not be startable. All signs point to Moore being back soon. That said, Moore’s status and the fact that a #3 in NO could be relevant, I would pick him up if you have a spot. Use him if Moore is ruled out.

Justin Gage (WR) – he’s the guy you want in Tennessee. Its hard to start any Titans WR, but if I do, I’m starting him. Britt looked good Week 1, but he won’t be a fantasy factor with Nate Washington’s return. Nate is #2 in Tennessee and given that offense doesn’t pass that often (well, they have but that won’t continue), I wouldn’t pick him up.

Michael Clayton (WR) - I recommended him last week and he was a huge disappointment. I see his potential with Bryant out, but I also saw that most passes went to Winslow and Stevens. If you have a spot, keep him or pick him up, but I recommend him now as a last resort. Man…this guy is my Newman! He’s continues to burn me. I never liked him and the moment I do, he disappoints big time.

Ted Ginn Jr (WR) - I don’t like him, but he was targeted a huge amount Monday night. I would find it really hard to start him since it could very easily be someone else on Miami’s team next week. I’m not picking him up because he won’t be consistent enough.

NYG WRs – No reason to own Hixon or Nicks. If Steve Smith or Manningham are available, they are definite priority pickups.

Earl Bennett (WR) – don’t drop him. Johnny Knox got the spotlight, but make sure he is the guy for a week or two before you drop Bennett. Whoever steps into that role is going to have a huge year so store them both if you can. I’m not going to recommend one over the other. It would just be a guess. I will say however that I like both of these guys more than Hester. Not sure I would drop Hester for them either, but they have much more upside.

Julian Adelman (WR) – In an earlier writeup I said there was only one standout handcuff in fantasy football for WRs (besides Breaston) and that was Joey Galloway. Yikes. It looked like I was right on the #3 WR spot for NE, but looks like I picked the wrong guy. I blame it on Bellichek. That said, its hard to justify a pickup unless your a Wes Welker owner because nobody in football has any idea of Welker’s status. Your on your own with this one.

Jason Avant (WR) - DeSean Jackson is nicked up. Keep your eye on his injury status. If its not looking good, pick Avant up. He’ll most likely be the #1 guy in Philly and accrue the stats DeSean would get.

Brent Celek (TE) - if you don’t have a good TE option, go ahead and give Celek a shot. I’m not a big fan of him so only grab him if you are playing a guy like Kevin Boss or Visanthe Shiancoe (the latter of which I wouldn’t drop, he’ll turn it around).

Justin Forsett (RB) – I own Julius Jones in just about every league I’m in. He slipped way too low for a full RB role. Forsett scares me a little. He looked good and he may play a bigger factor. If you have Jones, you may want to handcuff if you need to secure a RB situation. Edge is not the guy. This guy is probably more of a wait and see. If Hasselback misses an extended amount of time, chances are neither of them are relevant. Keep an eye on him.

Stay away from Malcolm Kelly, Brandon Stokley, Sims-Walker, Louis Murphy, WRs in Cincy (Chris Henry and Andre Caldwell)

Thats what I got for you. Hope you’ll be able to use some of the info.

Fantazzle Fantasy Football Games

Play fantasy football week to week at Fantazzle Fantasy Football. Games start on Sunday and cash prizes are awarded on Tuesday. No season long commitment. Use your fantasy football knowledge to win cash! Fantazzle is currently offering free fantasy football games with the chance to win cash prizes.

Share on Facebook