SPEAKERS
Greg Ambrosius
National Fantasy Baseball Championship
Greg has been the editor of Fantasy Sports Magazine since its inception in 1989 and the coordinator of the National Fantasy Baseball and Football Championship high-stakes competitions since 2004. Greg is also the former president of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.
Tristan Cockcroft
ESPN.com
Tristan has been a fantasy writer and editor for ESPN.com since 2004, and a baseball statistics junkie for longer than he can remember. He's a participant in more than a dozen leagues annually, including LABR, in which he has two titles, and Tout Wars, along with multiple sim leagues in Diamond Mind and Out of the Park.
Kimball Crossley
Toronto Blue Jays
Kimball began his career as a sportswriter and is now a professional scout for the Blue Jays organization.
Doug Dennis
Baseball HQ
Doug has been Baseball HQ's Bullpen Buyers Guide columnist since the 20th Century. His work has found its way into the Baseball Forecaster, mainly because he does not believe in "guile" as a pitching skill. Doug has also written regular columns for Sports Weekly, irregular columns for ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine, he has written small pieces for a few springtime fantasy annuals, and he assisted the St. Louis Cardinals with player analysis for two years.
Jeff Erickson
RotoWire.com and BlogTalkRadio
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 currently hosts the daily Rotowire Fantasy Sports Hour radio show on BlogTalkRadio.
Steve Gardner
USA TODAY Sports Weekly
The online baseball editor at USA TODAY for 10 years, Steve took over writing the fantasy baseball column in Sports Weekly from John Hunt in 2006. Since then, he has served as the LABR commissioner and is still in search of his first LABR title. This year, he began writing a fantasy baseball blog, Fantasy Windup, for USATODAY.com. He is a regular panelist on USA TODAY's Fantasy Sports Weekly radio show and the voice of the nationally syndicated Fantasy Sports Minute radio features.
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.
Jason Grey
ESPN.com
Jason began writing for ESPN.com this year. He founded Mastersball.com (now FantasyBaseball.com) in 1997. He has been a columnist and beat writer for MLB.com, a featured fantasy baseball columnist for Sports Illustrated, the fantasy expert for numerous radio programs nationwide including ESPN Radio and XM Radio, and a contributor to numerous magazines. Jason is also a statistician for Major League Baseball Advanced Media. He owns two Tout Wars and one LABR title.
Tim Heaney
KFFL.com
Peter Kreutzer
AskRotoman.com and MLB.com
Fantasy baseball players have been Asking Rotoman and reading his column at MLB.com since 1995. Rotoman is editor-in-chief of an annual Fantasy Baseball Guide and answers reader mail at www.askrotoman.com.
Lenny Melnick
Melnick and Greco Fantasy Sports
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.
Nick Minnix
KFFL.com
Alex Patton
AlexPatton.com
Back in the days when there were books on Rotisserie baseball, Alex Patton wrote nine of them. Now he continues to write for his own web site as well as for various other sites, such as Baseball HQ. With Eric Lindow, he has developed the popular software, Patton $ On Disk, that helps people get ready for the Rotisserie Wars.
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. His "Fanalytics" column runs every Wednesday in USA Today. Ron owns five national experts league titles and three second place finishes since 1998.
Joe Sheehan
Baseball Prospectus
Joe is a founding member of Baseball Prospectus and a featured contributor to their Web site and books, including the upcoming Baseball Prospectus 2008. He appears weekly on ESPNews' "The Hot List," and occasionally on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" and Sportsnet New York's "Daily News Live." Sheehan's analysis can also be found in Sports Illustrated and The New York Times.
John Sickels
MinorLeagueBall.com
John is the author of The Baseball Prospect Book and runs the website, MinorLeagueBall.com. Previously, he was a columnist for ESPN.com. He is one of the industry's leading authorities on minor leaguers.
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 is the founder of the First Pitch Arizona conference series, now in its 13th year.
Todd Zola
Mastersball.com
Proving you can indeed return home, last New Year's Eve, Todd
resurrected Mastersball.com where he enjoys an association with
CREATiVESPORTS.com. Primarily recognized in the industry for his
expertise regarding the science of player valuation, Todd has also
been ahead of the curve with respect to game theory and strategy. He
hopes to expand this niche with the new Mastersball.com, becoming a
portal for some new fantasy research. Todd plays in Tout Wars, LABR
and the XFL, along with being an active participant in the National
Fantasy Baseball Championship.
This is the current slate of speakers. Others will be added at a later date.
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