SPEAKERS
Ron Shandler
Baseball HQ
Ron is the publisher of BaseballHQ.com and author of the Baseball Forecaster, the longest running publication in the fantasy baseball industry (since 1986). He was the first baseball analyst to develop sabermetric applications for fantasy league play, and his work has found its way into numerous publications and websites, most recently ESPN Magazine. Ron owns four national experts league titles and four second place finishes since 1998.
Rick Wilton
Baseball Injury Report
Rick is the publisher of the Baseball Injury Report, writer for the CDM Fantasy Hot Sheet, Dr. HQ columnist on BaseballHQ.com, author of Forecasting Pitching Careers and the Pitchers Almanac, and the former Fantasy Baseball Analyst at STATS, Inc. Rick founded the First Pitch conference series in 1994.
Jim Callis
Baseball America
Jim became the executive editor of Baseball America in 2000. Among his chief duties are evaluating prospects and covering the amateur draft, as well as editing BA's Prospect Handbook. Jim previously worked nine years at BA between 1988 and 1997, including four years as managing editor, and spent three years as a senior editor at STATS, Inc.
Jeff Erickson
Rotowire.com and XM Radio's Fantasy Focus
Jeff is the co-founder and editor of Rotowire Fantasy Sports, which debuted as the industry's ground-breaking online news service Rotonews back in 1997. He is currently co-hosting the daily Fantasy Focus satellite radio show on XM 175.
Rob Gordon
Baseball HQ
Rob is a minor league analyst for Baseball HQ. He has been playing fantasy baseball since 1984, in a league that uses a modified Runs Created and Runs Allowed formula to determine a winning percentage.
Deric McKamey
Baseball HQ
Deric is the minor league director for Baseball HQ and the author of the Minor League Baseball Analyst. He is a 2002 graduate of Major League Baseball's scout school and has been an advisor to the St. Louis Cardinals since 2004. Deric has been a contributor to Street & Smith's Baseball magazine since 2001, and has also written for Fantasy Sports magazine and BaseballProspectus.com.
Lenny Melnick
Lenny Melnick Fantasy Baseball
Lenny is a true fantasy baseball celebrity. He appeared on "This Week In Baseball" with Fran Healy and TV's "Pennant Chase" fantasy baseball report. With partner Irwin Zwilling, he did his first radio show for Fantasy Sports in 1993 in New York. More recently, he broadcast for MLB.com radio where he was named to their Hall of Fame. Lenny and Irwin own two LABR titles and one Tout Wars title.
Lawr Michaels
CREATiVESPORTS
Lawr founded CREATiVESPORTS.com in 1996 after a stint with fantasy publishing pioneer, John Benson. He has written for the STATS Scouting Notebook, CBS Sportsline.com, MSNBC.com, Total Sports, and many other sites and periodicals. Known as The Zen Master, Lawr won the 2001 AL Tout Wars title with his fluid and unconventional play.
Steve Moyer
Baseball Info Solutions
Steve is president of Baseball Info Solutions, a baseball statistics company on the cutting edge of baseball data collection and analysis. Baseball Info Solutions is probably most well known as the authors of the annual Bill James Handbook. Steve has worked in the baseball industry since 1991.
Todd Zola
FantasyBaseball.com
A member of the Mastersball team since its inception in 1997, Todd specializes in the science of player valuation and his research is a centerpiece of past and present Mastersball projects. Recently, he has begun to explore the science of projection theory. Todd plays in the XFL, Mixed Tout Wars and the AL FSTA expert leagues, along with founding and running the Mixed Nuts Expert League, comprised of twenty members of the fantasy baseball community. From 2002-2004 he wrote the Fantasy Baseball Mailbag for SI.com and has also contributed to mlb.com, Fantasy Sports Daily and the Fantasy Baseball Guide Magazine.
This is the current slate of speakers. Others may be added at a later date.
