Emil Kadlec, our publisher and the president of Fantasy Sports Publications, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer as the season began. He's been undergoing chemotherapy throughout the season. Emil plays an integral role in the day-to-day operation of the site and in delivering our content each week. That he's been able to get through the full fantasy season has been remarkable. It's also been taxing.
So now, he'll be standing down.
Emil will be taking 2024 off to focus on his treatment and health.
From the publication of the first Fantasy Football Pro Forecast magazine, through the addition of three other titles, the FootballDiehards.com website and an array of innovations that helped change the trajectory of the fantasy football industry, Emil has been an innovator in this space. He's put an emphasis on serving the customer and audience over himself since 1990.
This was not an easy decision. But it is necessary.
All of us here can't tell you how much we've enjoyed our shared journey in this pastime. From Emil and the entire staff to you: Thank you.
Also, if you'd like to offer Emil and his family some support as they head into an uncertain future, you can do so here:
Help Emil Kadlec Better Secure His Family's Future.
If you'd like to reach out and share your thoughts with Emil, please do. Send to emil.kadlec@gmail.com.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for what the future holds for you and FootballDiehards!
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FootballDiehards Helpful Directory
Preseason - Draft Preparation
The biggest time of the year for fantasy football managers is their fantasy drafts. These are typically scheduled for the preseason time as early as June and all the way through the first game of the season which is typically around Thursday night of the second week of September. The most basic highest priority piece of information that managers are looking for is there fantasy football cheat sheet. These cheat sheets can be configured to their league's scoring system and starting lineup. And if they have multiple leagues obviously they can create unique cheat sheets for each league. Probably our most popular tool is our configurable cheat sheet that includes all these capabilities. These cheat sheets are updated constantly each day of the preseason so you can print out your printer friendly cheat sheet right before you run off to your draft or sit down at your computer for an online fantasy football draft.
FootballDiehards.com also has real-time cheat sheets for ESPN fantasy football, Yahoo fantasy football;" and NFL fantasy. These cheat sheets are updated automatically many times each day throughout the preseason all you to the start of the NFL season. These cheat sheets use our expert rankings and include the scoring system of each of these platforms.
Fantasy Football Rankings Matrix
Our staff rankings are broken down into skill positions quarterbacks, running back, wide receivers, tight ends. Among our five experts within footballdiehards.com, all of them have their rankings within the matrix. Customers can selecgt which experts they want to create an average cheat sheet of. Hence they can see the overall average and see where each expert differs from the average. Another very popular tool.
One of the more popular tools to prepare for managers drafts is the fantasy football mock draft simulator. This allows you to use rules, starting lineup, and even your draft position. This allows you to draft very closely to leave and then pick location within your draft to get a very optimal simulation. Definitely a popular tool to prepare for your fantasy football.
Our flash update premium service which includes our August update draft preparation is incredibly detailed and intense starting essentially the first week of August and finishing up beer to before the first NFL game of the season. We include all these draft preparation tools and features and also daily if not hourly if not medically giving you updates on player preseason performances injuries in our position on players as we go through the preseason preparing for week one of the NFL season. The August update also includes includes expert poll is from information from all of our experts including advice on sleepers, busts and longshot players.
We at footballdiehards.com also have a handful of very detailed draft strategies, draft guide articles that give you a very high level and detailed perspective on the best ways to draft. These strategy articles also include many videos to give even more detail on how to draft, and how to trade as the season starts.
We also have rate my team articles to help you get a feel for any weaknesses and strengths of your team. This will allow you to make trades before the season start if you had a rough patch in your draft. One of the rate my team tools is a free tool where you can enter your roster. The more advanced tool rate my team tool pulls your entire leagues rosters and evaluate your team with respect to yoiur competitors within that league.
Not to be forgotten or the many average draft position (ADP) lists to help you get an understanding of where players are being taken around the country. The very important tool for your draft strategy. If you really want a player and see where they are typically being taken in draft them slightly earlier or if you kind of don't really like a person but you're interested in him you can maybe draft them a little bit later than the ADP. So if there there you can take them if they've Artie been taken you're not too upsetabout it. These average draft positions lists include ESPN ADP, High-Stats ADP, Best ball ADP and Low-Stakes ADP.
Regular Season - Season Long League Support
FootballDiehards.com phases into the regular season with a flurry of information to help managers with their starting lineups and free agency – waiver wire decisions. We have information every week of the NFL season and in the playoffs to help managers with these issues and more including injuries and deciding whether a player is start or not all the way through the NFL regular season and post season. We have weekly cheat sheets – rankings to help with these starting decisions and also a complete cool tool called My fantasy GM which helps you optimize your starting lineups, gives you injury information and most helpful helps you look for free agents across all your leagues the same time. We love this tool and so do our customers.
Most of the year, whether it is fantasy football drafting or regular season, you need to be checking the NFL Bye Weeks of each team. When you are drafting or picking up free agent players, you need to keep NFL team bye weeks on your mind. Another helpful set of features important to the fantasy football managers is our set of fantasy football tools. These tool are used year-round for the savvy owner including stats like fantasy football targets and snap data.
Fantasy advice is spread across all facets of fantasy football. FootballDiehards.com works very hard at providing helpful fantasy football advice - winter, spring, summer and fall.
Fantasy Football Team Names
Team names are a nice way for fantasy managers to express themselve. Fantasy Football is a hobby for peope to excape for reality a few hours each week. Also to show your expertise on building a winning team and enjoy your love of the NFL. Expressing you feeling and personality can be a nice release of your frustrations - Fantasy football team names are a big part of that.
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