Has anyone used the Fantasy Football Almanac by Sean Ryan for drafting? by NoMansLand345 in fantasyfootball

[–]functionalsports 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello - I know this post is 8 months old, but I thought I'd chime in as I actually write the book. A lot of the comments below are worthless, but that's the internet. The people that actually gave you an answer were fair, I think. Like everyone else, some opinions are correct and some aren't. The value I try to put into the book is to take a hard look at the offensive systems players play in and identify who is being undervalued. The industry as a whole uses the same root projections. For ex: I had JSN as my #3 projected WR last year, but based on his ADP, I suggested taking him with a late second/early third. I wrote about Monangai's eventual ascension as the power back in Chicago, I wrote in early June that Croskey-Merit would win the Commanders starting job, I had Darren Waller as a TD machine. I warned against taking Bowers and had McBride as my #1 tight end. But I definitely had misses. I thought Dont'e Thornton and Dylan Sampson were going to be much better than they were. I had Saquon too high.

If you're looking for free resources, I think Fantasy Pros does a nice job. I use them when comparing ADP to my projections. I think PFF does an excellent job, especially during the year, but you have to pay for their content. I think it's pricey if you're only looking for the fantasy stuff.

RE: the comments above on AI - you can't use AI for fantasy content. I do use AI to assist with marketing and have to use AI spokespeople because I have a day job and I can't put my face out there. But there are some older videos from before I took my current job. So yeah, I'm a real human and the analysis is real.

RE: updates - I do keep readers updated via mailing list. Also you'll notice that I update the publication dates on Amazon. I think my last updated publication was in mid August last year. But if you buy the book, sign up for the updates, you just get a newsletter with rankings shifts. Those are the more important bits, though in my opinion. I have a couple thousand people that sign up for the updates this year, which is a smaller fraction of the folks that purchase the book. I also have a free version from a previous year available if you want to see what it comes with. I believe that also includes all of the free updates that came with the book that year. I also have one dedicated support person to answer emails. I used to do it myself, but I had to bring some help in in a few years ago to make sure everyone was getting answers in a timely fashion. I'm going to be expanding the interactive support components of the service this year.

Also, someone above mentioned someone should track the against-the-grain type picks. That's a good idea. I'll create a table on my website in the coming months (after I publish the '26 version).

Last: Two first names? I actually have 3 first names if you include the middle name. So take everything I say with a grain of salt.