FootballGuys Draft Mag (and other magazines thread)

[bagobonez]

Anyone know if they're releasing one this yr?

(mod edit: please use this thread for all 2008 fantasy football magazine discussion)

[treat24]

http://footballguys.com/08fbgmagazine.php

1. You can wait and get one of the 100,000 distributed copies at various outlets (July 4th target date). Cost is $6.99 + tax.

2. You can buy one of the 4,000 we have available from us for $8.99 for US orders and $12.99 for international orders (shipping and tax included in this price) and get these extra values:

[BlueBandit24]

It is already on newstands. I saw one at a local grocery store yesterday so I would assume they have been distributed most places.

[treat24]

It is already on newstands. I saw one at a local grocery store yesterday so I would assume they have been distributed most places.

After seeing the cover on FBG.com... I saw one last wednesday morning... so i would make the same assumption...

[The Lung]

The FootballGuys one is indeed on stands in eastern Pennsylvania. I thumbed through it on Wednesday.

I also thumbed through the ESPN and NFL.com ones. One headline that grabbed by attention on one of the mags (I can't remember which one) was "The Next Adrian Peterson. (Hint: It's not Darren McFadden)" and when you opened up the magazine, the article was about Panthers RB Jonathan Stewart.

[aaawall91]

The FootballGuys one is indeed on stands in eastern Pennsylvania. I thumbed through it on Wednesday.

I also thumbed through the ESPN and NFL.com ones. One headline that grabbed by attention on one of the mags (I can't remember which one) was "The Next Adrian Peterson. (Hint: It's not Darren McFadden)" and when you opened up the magazine, the article was about Panthers RB Jonathan Stewart.

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Mustin been ESPN then...

[BlueBandit24]

I picked up Fantasy Football Weekly as I do annually for some reading material. I completely forgot that Fanball overhauled their entire staff, I believe due to a takeover sometime this year. It is the same format but is definitely an inferior product. Ted Carlson is still one of the writers, and I like him, but they have lost other staples such as Bo Mitchell and Anthony Maggio who really made the mag an entertaining read. The new guys offer a bunch of worthless drivel and they don't exactly make me feel comfortable with their overall fantasy football knowledge. Really a disappointment as I enjoyed picking this up each year.

[LS2throwed]

I've been using a magazine called 'Fantasy League Football 2008' and supposedly its the "#1 rated draft guide", but who knows how true that is...What I love about it though is that it isn't just one guy, or two guys offering up perspectives, its alot of combined opinions from knowledgeable people..That was the exact reason I passed up NFL.com's pre season fantasy magazine, because I felt like all of my advice would be offered up by Michael Fabiano, and while he's not the worst guy to take advice from he's still only one guy who can be wrong from time to time.

In this magazine it had a section from 9 different guys, two were editors, a few were staff writers, one was the rotobowl champion, rotobowl co founder, and a few other fantasy guru's, they all picked a list of sleepers, deep sleepers, while providing some key tips to draft strategies...On their player rankings it was 3 of those guys combining rankings and giving their input on projected stats and performance, I feel better spending my money on that then one guy from NFL.com and I've been pretty happy with it...I have to tweak the rankings of course with how my board is, and adjust accordingly for keeper or dynasty leagues, but I would say it was money well spent.

[treat24]

I've been using a magazine called 'Fantasy League Football 2008' and supposedly its the "#1 rated draft guide", but who knows how true that is...What I love about it though is that it isn't just one guy, or two guys offering up perspectives, its alot of combined opinions from knowledgeable people..That was the exact reason I passed up NFL.com's pre season fantasy magazine, because I felt like all of my advice would be offered up by Michael Fabiano, and while he's not the worst guy to take advice from he's still only one guy who can be wrong from time to time.

In this magazine it had a section from 9 different guys, two were editors, a few were staff writers, one was the rotobowl champion, rotobowl co founder, and a few other fantasy guru's, they all picked a list of sleepers, deep sleepers, while providing some key tips to draft strategies...On their player rankings it was 3 of those guys combining rankings and giving their input on projected stats and performance, I feel better spending my money on that then one guy from NFL.com and I've been pretty happy with it...I have to tweak the rankings of course with how my board is, and adjust accordingly for keeper or dynasty leagues, but I would say it was money well spent.

That magazine is almost always the first one on the shelves... so it will tend to be the most outdated. I almost always grab it just for some fantasy fun reading til fantasy football weekly comes out. I agree with BB24, This year's fantasy football weekly isn't the same. Same format, just not the same though. The one you bought ls2 has a decent amount of IDP rankings If I remember correctly.

[LS2throwed]

Yes it has a very in depth IDP section that breaks down lineman, LB's and DB's, and also in the back it has the game logs for every player, QB, WR, Rb, TE, and lets you see how they produced week to week which is pretty handy...But I'll more then likely check out the FFF like you guys to have something to compare it to.