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.
Andy Andres
Baseball HQ /
Tufts University
Andy teaches what is likely the first ever college course in Baseball Analysis and Sabermetrics at Tufts University in Medford, MA. He also teaches biology at Boston University and Harvard College. One of Baseball HQ's data analysts, Andy is a diehard Red Sox Fan and has been schooled at Universities Brown, Harvard, and Tufts.
Jeff Barton
Scoresheet Sports
Jeff and Dave Barton started Scoresheet Sports in 1987. Unlike other Rotisserie or fantasy games, Scoresheet Baseball teams play complete simulated head-to-head games, using the current week's major league stats. Scoresheet Baseball currently has over 5000 teams participating in the current season.
Pete Becker
ESPN.com
Pete is the senior fantasy editor for ESPN.com, and formerly the editor-in-chief of Matthew Berry's TalentedMrRoto.com. He is the creator of ESPN's revamped fantasy projections system and specializes in the strategy and economics of rotisserie baseball.
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.
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 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 currently hosts 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.
Jason Grey
FantasyBaseball.com
Jason 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.
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.
Gene McCaffrey
Wise Guy Baseball
Gene is the author of the annual book, Wise Guy Baseball and is one of the industry's leading authorities on salary cap games.
Deric McKamey
Baseball HQ
Deric is the minor league director at 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.
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, most recently ESPN Magazine. 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.
Trace Wood
Long Gandhi
Trace is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research Scouting Committee, and from 2001-2005 he scored games in Baltimore and Washington for MLB.com. He's written for a number of publications including the STATS Inc. Scouting Notebook, Fantasy Baseball Index and the Fantasy Baseball Guide - Professional Edition, and is the author of the Fantasy Baseball Scouting Handbook. He's also appeared as a guest on XM Radio, ESPN radio and ESPNews.
Todd Zola
FantasyBaseball.com
Todd is the Senior Research Analyst for FantasyBaseball.com, formerly Mastersball.com. He specializes in the science of player valuation and game theory and is currently researching the skill versus luck dynamic of player performance. Todd represents his site in Mixed Tout Wars and plays in the XFL. He currently writes a weekly strategy column for SI.com and can be heard occasionally on XM-radio.
This is the current slate of speakers. Others will be added at a later date.
