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| Name: George Hoenninger Email: george@smarts.com Age: 30 Home: Westchester County, NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Lawson Email: law1502@mindspring.com Age: 34 Home: NC Alumnus: Wake Forest Univ. Occup: Sales Rep | Smallworld Baseball and Sandbox rookie. I HATE baseball. My girlfriend coerced me into fantasy baseball after my torturing her with fantasy football, hockey and basketball the past 8 months.
Stumbled upon Rotoguru.com by looking at the leaders at the CNNSI/Smallworld site during hoops season. This site and the gurupies have greatly assisted me in maintaining some semblance of WWR respect in baseball. Smallworld baseball team: slapp fippskjegg kjeks This is Norwegian for: Limp Goatee Bizkits. I figured Norwegian baseball knowledge is about what mine is. Favorite teams: Panthers, Hornets, Canes, the Deacs. That's all folks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Robert Email: nolanxpressnono@aol.com Age: 26 Home: Portland Oregon Alumnus: ITT tech Occup: Drafter | I have been playing fantasy sports on Sporting News since 2001, and I was playing on Smallworld sports well before that. While I am extremely accompolished in Basic Fantasy sports, I have not been able to come thru in Ultimate Fantasy sports.
I enjoy and play Golf, and Baseball. I depise the Yankees more than Saddam or Osama, and I am a feind for Fantasy sports. I recently finished 9th in basic hoops 1 2004 I finished 20th in basic baseball 2 2003 I finished 35th in basic baseball 1 2003 I have yet to do anything in Ultimate sports other than a division win in Ultimate football 2003-04 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Josh Dennis Email: JDennis@Beer.com Age: 25 Home: Middletown, CT Alumnus: UCONN Occup: Media Planner (Advertising) | My teams: Red Sox, NY Giants and maybe again someday...the Whalers!
As many of you have figured out my name comes from the movie Fletch. I'm a big movie fan and Fletch is a classic. In fact all of my team names are from movies. My Fantasy Teams: '99 Football (CNNSI) - The Minions of Longshanks - finished poorly Basketball (CNNSI) - 6'9" With The Afro - finished 2000+ '00 Baseball (Smallworld) - $14 the Hard way - finished 400 Football (Smallworld) - Start Drinking Heavily - ugh! Basketball (Smallworld) - 6-9 With The Afro - Even worse! '01 Baseball (Smallworld) - Jobu Needs a Refill! - My job (as I'm sure everyone can relate) is very stressful but thanks to everyone on these boards the day goes by a little quicker. Thanks! Thanks also has to go to my wife and I'm sure the loved ones of many other Gurupies who must put up with our fanatical obsession with fantasy sports and these boards! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: AUSTIN CHESSHIR Email: achesshir@sbcglobal.net Age: 50 Home: SPRINGFIELD, OHIO Occup: TRUCK DRIVER | PSCHALLENGE PLAYER FOR 5 YEARS. cIN REDS AND CLE INDIANS ARE FAVORITES. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mark Gardner Email: maleko@nc.rr.com Age: 41 Home: Raleigh, NC Alumnus: Greensboro College Occup: Project Leader for a library software firm | I found out about Rotoguru a year and half ago. I read all the posts and staring using some of Guru's tools and moved up when I was playing CNNSI basketball. Last year was my first full year as a Gurupie.
FS Finish: WWR 209 MS Finish: WWR 35 I picked the Gurupie name "Addicted" because I thought I was addicted to this game. That was before I started competing in some of the Rotoguru divisions. As some of you know from last year I like to post Song Parodies related to fantasy basketball or the lastest threads on the Forum. Favorite fanatasy quote "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Pavel (really) Email: aiko_ny@go.com Age: 30 Home: New York City Alumnus: Lehigh University / Columbia University Occup: Urban Planner / Architect | Hello, Hello.
I was on the original "Czech-mate" line on my midget team. I've been playing SW Hockey for two years and am in the top 100 this year, thanks to the Gurupies. Came to study under the Guru just this season and plan to continue my education during the baseball season. Daily repricing!?!? As if I don't spend enough time refreshing. New York Yankees season ticket holder at THTRB and now a veteran of two World Series. See you on the boards! jockomo feno na na nay, jockomo feena nay! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: art k Email: allhair7@gmail.com Age: 44 Home: Chicagoland Alumnus: Valparaisio Univ. Occup: Project Manager | Been playin' for SW/TSN for some time now (Hoops, Baseball, Football, Golf) and have made a bunch of friends through RotoGuru.com over the years. Gone are the long hours instant messaging with J, philflyboy, Dave R, Species, jedman, What about Bob, The Judge, KTx, and many, many others. I've managed to meet several Gurupies, including Ender, Mark L, Ref, Jedman, Unemployed, Duke, Skip to My Lou, and except for Unemployed, they're all upstanding, fine fellows.
Over time I've appeared on the boards or have played teams under a number of aliases, most of which are fairly self-explanatory... allhair allstars allhair aa a-squared What about allhair Endangered allhair The Pink allhair allhair's wallet allhair's april call-ups allhair's buggers allhair's disaster brigade allhair's mulligans allhair nostars allhair oldstars allhair midstars allhair's half-timers Yumpin' Yimminies ------- Time for a quick 2012 update... Spent several years running league standings threads for various message board leagues, but when TSN shut down their game that signaled the decline in my involvement with the board. At this point I'm only playing the G20 baseball league - had to pull out of all the others due to the constraints of reality, but I still commish my "home/work" leagues, which currently covers hoops, baseball, football, and NASCAR, with our very on homegrown message board, which was influenced in no small part by RotoGuru.com. First ran into RotoGuru.com back when I was playing SmallWorld Hoops, and read an article written by Guru, with a link to his site in the bio. Been through a ton with the board, and although I'm pretty scarce these days, I still remember fondly my time here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Drew Donoho Email: drewdonoho@consultant.com Age: 17 Home: Ft. Lauderdale Fl Occup: Student, Fast food store manager, Web Site Designer | Hey all,
Well first off I've been playing smallworld for 2 seasons now and only got into rotoguru.com at the beginning of this season and only started on the message boards near Christmas. I don't post very often but I'm on the boards just about every day and during the school day I'm on them all the time (my school a T1, yummy) while my time would probally be better served paying attention in class I'm on these boards. I really really blow at fantasy hoops, mostly cause I didn't really become a sports fanatic till about the time I started useing these boards so my wwr is something pathetic like 20,000 (but that's an almost 30,000 wwr rise since I started haunting the boards) I finished football with a wwr of around 5k and I was very happy with myself. Well I'm 17 and to my suprise one of the few youngins on the board. Sometimes my lack of "seasoning" comes thru in my bad spelling/grammer and the occasinal immature post but I try to keep that in check. I don't like to flame people but I have occasinally when people are ragging on lemmings because that high and mighty attitude really gets me. We'll I'm rambling on to the juicy facts. Fav Basketball Team: Heat Fav Hockey Team: Panthers Fav Baseball Team: Chicago Black Sox (Ok I admit it, I don't keep up with baseball, but seems to me they have as good a chance as any other Chicago team making it to the world series =P ) Fav B-Ball Player(s):Zo, Tim James, Bill Russel Fav Gurupie: probally What about Bob, I enjoy reading his posts Least Fav Gurupie: The Misspelled god of ancient times, Promethius I guess thats about it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Robert Bastow Age: 25 Home: St. Johns, Newfoundland Student: University of New Brunswick - Law School Occup: Student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Robert A. Drabiuk Email: rdrabiuk@hbs.edu Age: 22 Home: Brookline, Massachusetts Alumnus: Boston University, Harvard Business School Occup: Information Technology | I found RotoGuru about halfway through the 1999 baseball season, and I was instantly hooked. I am more of a faithful reader than a writer on these boards, but if I have an opinion I usually post it. My SW success has been decent, considering my nascent status as a gurupie. My SW baseball team finished in the top 1000 last year, and one of my CNNsi/Smallworld Hockey teams finished 102 in the world. I have been pleased with the improvements that I have made in my skills as a fantasy sports player, and I owe it all to Dave and the gurupies.
Personally, I am a huge hockey fan; especially college hockey. I am a season ticket holder at Boston University, my alma mater. My favorite NHL team is Montreal. I am not married, and have no children. My favorite color is blue. Robert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Antti Laurila Age: 25 Home: Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Derek Charles Email: Derek_35@hotmail.com Age: 21 Home: State College, PA Student: Penn State Univ. Occup: Student - Computer Engineering major | I'm a lifetime Baltimore Orioles fan and i'm disgusted by sports today. Free agency has ruined any and all player loyality to teams, and has helped ruin fan loyality to teams. And then we wonder why rating are down. Get paid less, stay with a team, and you will have REAL fans, and baseball will grow.
I also enjoy programming and cars, BMW's especially. I have an silver E30. Most of my time is spent hanging out with friends and my girlfriend (of 2 1/2 yrs.) & studying. I'm practically married, but its all good. :) The rest of my time is spent trying to figure out how to improve my fantasy team and my theories... AIM name : DerekChas Peace! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Pete Spragins Email: ashesfall@ughardware.com Age: 17 Home: New Jersey | Smallworld baseball -> Ash3sF4ll team name.
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| Name: Astade Krishnaswamy Email: astade@hotmail.com Age: 19 Home: Philadelphia Student: Duke University | Currently an undergraduate civil engineer. I play fantasy sports to keep up my interest in baseball, basketball and football. Baseball is by far my favorite sport and I usually finish highest in it. I found Rotoguru.com a little more than a year ago and have loved it ever since (except for the 'elite' forum ;)). Great analytical tool and great people on the forum make it my homepage and definitely have improved my fantasy sports skills. I never thought that I would be able to appreciate the individual people on this site, but it's truly amazing how the personalities jump out of the page. Remarkable!
Favorite teams: baseball; Yankees football; NY Giants basketball; MJ's Bulls hockey; Sabres favorite player of all time: Don Mattingly Many thanks to Dave and all the time and money he has invested into a great site! Click an Ad! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Scott Martin Email: martininaz@hotmail.com Age: 25 Home: Phoenix, AZ Alumnus: University of Wisconsin Occup: Management (restaurant) | I grew up in Wisconsin and am an avid fan of the Packers and the University of Wisconsin sports teams. Have attended, listened to, or watched every Packer game since the age of 4.
In high school I formed a nationwide fantasy sports league, "Badger Fantasy Sports", which I advertised nationally in Fantasy Baseball magazine. I ran football and baseball for two seasons, until losing all my money due to dealings with a customer/bookie of mine in Philly. I attended UW in 1993, their initial Rose Bowl season, and lived on campus for three more years despite not attending school. Moved to Phoenix in June of 1997, a month after meeting my wife at a karaoke bar in Madison. I am currently a GM for RTM, the number one Arby's franchisee in the US. Since I moved to Arizona at the start of the D-Backs initial season, it was easy for me to consider them my team, although I follow my horrible Brewers from afar. Absolutely love the comaraderie and knowledge shared on these boards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Childers Email: mac2352@earthlink.net Age: 50 Home: Chicago, IL Alumnus: Univ. of Houston Occup: Engineering Design Supervisor (Piping) | Grew up in Houston,Tx. (Chicago since 1987)
Had Bulls season tix 1988-1998 (relenquished when Phil Jackson ousted) Played fantasy games before internet (early 90's - by telephone!!) SportsBuff CDM only played internet last 4 years CDM Fantasy Sports SportsBuff Echelon Swirve FoxSports ESPN Fantasy Sports PSC SmallWorld TSN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brent Kramer Email: bkkramer@umich.edu Age: 20 Home: Rochester Hills, Michigan Student: University of Michigan | I was born in Minnesota and grew up mainly in Sioux Falls, SD. So we had no sports teams to cheer for except the Minnesota ones....so i am a huge, HUGE vikings fan, but i have given up hope in the twins and t-wolves long ago.
In basketball i mainly follow the teams with my favorite players...in the 90's isiah was my idol, so i was into the pistons, and now, shaq is king, so i follow the lakers. I played CNN-SI Fantasy Hoops for two years, learned the game and now play Smallworld Hoops. I also tried Baseball for the first time this past summer. I am still learning the game, but eventually hope to make my mark amongst the best soon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dennis Saylor Email: densaylor@yahoo.com Age: 45 Home: Ellensburg WA Student: SUNY/Buffalo, Central Washington U. Occup: Former teacher, Computer science | I played SW baseball last year for the first time. I had some modest success with it once I got the hang of it. Finished about near 100 in midseason and in the 3000's in full season. I'm trying to develop a program to predict winning pitchers. It was a modest success last season. I'm going to have a team with pitchers selected completely by the program this year. We'll see how it does.
I've had a love affair with baseball since I was about 7 and the Cincinnati Reds won the NL pennant (1961). I can still name the starting lineup and most of the staff and bench. I've followed the Reds loyally through the 60's, the Big Red Machine, the awful teams of the mid-80's, to the fine team they have now. I'm working on yet another degree, this one in computer science. Got a 15 year old son, love to fish, testing for my black belt in May. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: zafarhannan@hotmail.com | Waz up!
First yr playing basic fantasy sports. Have a team in hockey,basketball and football. Doing really well in football, winning my division...naked. I am in every division naked in every sport. This site is starting to help. will let everyone know a little later how much it has helped or if has helped at all. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Marco Musumeci Email: maja10@earthlink.net Age: 27 Home: Syracuse, New York Alumnus: Syracuse University Occup: Exec. VP -General Counsel | I have been playing SW Sports for about 3 years, and I started with SW Hoops. I sucked at hoops, and therefore was turned on to RotoGuru by a law school classmate and the rest is history. I started playing Baseball 2 years ago, and the message boards and stats have been a tremendous help. My first year I finished with a WWR in the low 2000s. Last year I finished with a WWR of 69.
A little bit about me: My favorite baseball team is the Yankees. My favorite sports are baseball and soccer I love to play golf and to travel all over the world. I recently put a home theater is my home and enjoy watching DVD's and listening to music. I am more than happy to help Dave maintain his site and would encourage all others to do the same. Any amount of contribution will help him, and perhaps make the site even better. Anyway, I am glad to be a member of these boards and look forward to baseball season every year. Good luck everyone. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: David Helson Email: relentless18@insightbb.com Age: 50 Home: Illinois College: Illinois Institute of Technology Occup: entrepreneur/evangelist/reader | Wife: Loretta
Children: 4 grown boys I have played roto pre-internet for years but really found a home when I discovered Rotoguru. I no longer play TSN but managed to get in the low hundreds occassionally but I was a perenial slow starter. I have played Swirve for several years and can usually manage a top 100 finish, @50 several times. I begged Dave Hall not to start a politics forum but he built that trap for me anyway and I've been stuck there ever since. I won the first three seasons of the Political Guru Yahoo League and what a glorious competition we have there. I'm a Chicago sports fan of a sort but if it wasn't for fantasy sports I'd prolly lose all interest in sports besides my intense passion for playing basketball. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Francke Age: 37 Home: Longmont, CO Alumnus: NM Tech Occup: Engineer | I was raised in Nebraska, so I have been programmed to be a Husker fan. Can't help it. I'm a Rockies season-ticket holder, and also support the Av's, Nuggets, and Broncos when i can get tickets.
Been doing fantasy sports for nearly 20 years, on the internet for the last three. Team name is always Balrogs. Admittedly, I'm mostly a lurker on the boards but I occasionally come up with something inciteful and post. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: BeanDip4@yahoo.com | I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.
I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge. I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer, I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago, I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis. But I have not yet finished in the SW Baseball top 100. (Truth be told, i did not even write the clever portion of this biographical essay) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: JD McNugent Email: beastiemiked@hotmail.com Age: 23 Home: Unknown Alumnus: Subway University Occup: Drifter | Favorite teams:
baseball: Cardinals and Rangers basketball: Sonics football: Rams and Bills Hockey: Blues Discovered this site in April 2000. Has helped me out greatly since. biggest accomplishments: 99-00 Hoops - top 200, gave up with 2 weeks to go 98 Football - top 500 99 Football - top 500 00 Baseball FS - #2 and #32 WWR's (#1 in LRV 1.41 roster value) 00 Baseball MS - #2, #11, #47, #89 WWR's 01 Swirve Baseball #1 WWR 02 TSN Ultimate Baseball #6 and #34 WWR's Pearl Jam sucks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: "Mitch" Email: lunkhead57@yahoo.com Age: 43 Home: Pittsburgh Alumnus: Penn State | I have been playing SW games for 3 years and have gotten a lot of friends involved. We really enjoy playing Baseball, Football & Hockey.
Embarassing Small World Moment: Last season, my beautiful wife won our 10 team SW Football title! I am going to steal all of her picks this year! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: vhinn chan Age: 20 Home: Manila, Philippines Student: De La Salle University Occup: student | Baseball: Atlanta Braves
BBall: Minnesota Twolves F1: Michael Schumacher, Ferrari Football: San Francisco 49ers Golf: Tiger Woods Rookie fantasy sports player.. SW Hoops, SW Football, SW Hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kirk Shultz Email: ho_shultz@commnet.edu Age: 43 Home: Connecticut | Favorite teams: Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Reds, UConn basketball-men's & women's
Fantasy team names: BF Dead, BF Reds. I play SW baseball & football. #53 WWR in SW baseball full season in 2000 #135 WWR mid-season in 2000 #254 WWR full season baseball in 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Jennings Email: ejennings@atinc.com Age: 36 Home: Virginia Alumnus: Virginia Tech Occup: Mechanical Engineer | Favorite Sports Teams: Rams, Lakers, Dodgers
Favorite Sport: Baseball (currently play Baseball with MSBL) Fantasy Sports accomplishments: Perennial also-ran (Too little time usually). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Russell Stein Email: russellstein@hotmail.com Age: 30 Home: Ludlow, MA Alumnus: Emerson College '95 Occup: Sales & Marketing/ Basketball Public Address Announcer | Born and raised in the Boston area now living in the western part of the state. Married (Laurie 10/20/01), no kids to date and super wife gives me plenty of room for roto!
I'm a die-hard Mets fan (blame cable!) I love the Sox too but it's not the same. Even still, I'd love to see the Sox finally win the big one. After 85 years, it's time! Nearly beheaded in '86 for the above reason. Gary Carter was my favorite player growing up. My best friend hates his guts. He'd throw at his head in video games just so Carter wouldn't beat him...HOF finally! That took WAY too long... I'm responsible for creating the roman-numeral RotoGuru Divisions. The RotoGuru XIII 2000 full-season baseball division had 13 top 1000 finishers, including the #1 WWR, EHF. It was a great division with great banter. Thanks to all that made it so great. Favorite team names: Ya Guy (personal catchphrase), The Springfield Isotopes (Simpsons reference) Russellmania, or The Ames Plow Nine (the greatest little bah in Boston). My best SW finishes are 2001 FS Baseball (32)- thanks Occhy!, 2000-01 SW Hoops (453), 2000 MS Baseball (459), '99 mid-season baseball (632), 1999-2000 SW Hoops (822), and 98-99 Hockey, (990). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: emmanuel Email: emmanuelsteve2001@yahoo.com Age: 20 Home: Lagos NIGERIA Alumnus: KINGS COLLEGE Occup: BUSINESS | I AM A SPORT MAN,LIKE TO WACH SPORT AND MY FAVOURITE TEAM IS CHICAGO BULLS, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Cam Email: cam@deadparrots.net Age: 37 Home: Seattle Student: UW | Dodgers, Bills, Sabres, Sonics, Illini.
Pretty much straight roto these days. I make every effort to come in 2nd. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bill B. Email: lginzo@yahoo.com Age: 39ish Home: Plymouth, MA Alumnus: Boston College Occup: Accountant | Dyed-in-the-wool baseball fan (Red Sox, but follow the game passionately)...
Fantasy Teams: The Bookkeepers, cpas, Bookkeepers2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Allan Blocker Email: blockaa@yahoo.com Age: 22 Home: Auburn, AL Student: Auburn University Occup: Student | I promise I'll come back and update this when I've got more time.
I'll be graduating in December with a degree in Software Engineering. I need a job. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Almirante Trentino Email: hrhdavy@aol.com Age: 25 Home: NYC College: Wellesley Occup: Shepherd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Vincent Gu Email: vincent.gu@cornell.edu Age: 20 Home: Ithaca Student: Cornell University Occup: Student - Computer Science | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Blue Glauber Hen Email: howdidbluehendo@yahoo.com Age: 29 Home: New York, NY Alumnus: Baseball University Occup: Professional Slacker, Pseudo Celebrity | Overview
I live and die with the Phillies. I guess that means that I die a lot, but my hope springs eternal every April. Professional Life Still puttin' sports on phones... Personal Life Still puttin' sports on phones... Favorites Musical Group: Pearl Jam TV Show: Six Degrees (I bet a dollar it'll be canceled by the next time I check this site) Pro Wrestler: "The Phenomenal" A.J. Styles Favorite Gurupie: Mikel Least Favorite Gurupie: Twarpy Actual Gurupies Met In Person: 17 (including Guru!) Least Favorite Athlete: Kobe Bryant Best Team Name: Diamond State Dunkmasters (Hoops) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ritchie Hok Email: ritchie_hok@hotmail.com Age: 16 Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Student: Sisler High School Occup: Student in AP Program | Favorite Team - Toronto Blue Jays
Favorite Quote "The one constant through all the years... has been baseball. Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past... It reminds us of all that once was good, and the could be good again." -Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) in the movie Field of Dreams. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Baglieri Email: bmbags@hotmail.com Age: 29 Home: Princeton, NJ Alumnus: Villanova University Occup: System Administrator | Favorite Teams: Devils, Mets, NY Giants
Fantasy Team Names: Bags, Starkies, BMBags Been around these boards since '99 and they are still a staple of my day. Ran a pick'ems game for awhile in hockey until my computer died and I couldn't do anything at night. Love to see the competition here as it keeps me going! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Drew Email: DKJ086@yahoo.com Age: 16 Home: New Jersey | I absolutely love soccer. Hopefully i'll play in college but we'll see. I spend most of my time on the soccer field and basketball and tennis court.
Im in the middle of the NCAA hoop game un by addicted and Im loving that. I play mostly yahoo fantasy games but have played some TSN. GO INDIANA PACERS: THEY ARE THE BEST TEAM IN THE NBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: boikin@yahoo.com Student: UofF Occup: vagrant | Missing the smallworld days. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Neal Email: bonkabombers@yahoo.com Age: 27 Home: Tamaqua, Pennsylvania Alumnus: Lock Haven University | I'm a graduate of Lock Haven University with degrees in Computer Science and Computer Information Science. I competed in sports from when I was 7 until my junior year in college. Played baseball and basketball and also competed in track and cross country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mark Email: ihaplo@aol.com Age: 31 Home: Philadelphia Suburbs Alumnus: Albright College Occup: Computer Systems Consultant/CPA | Favorite Professional Teams: Baseball - Cardinals Football - Cowboys: Hockey: Toss up Flyers/Avalanche (I grew up near Hershey (Colorado's AHL affiliate))
Fantasy Team Names. Either Beats me or AAA Catcher Now using derivatives of bookie My life is one story after another... Many of them interesting....then again many of them not Best Final Rankings Baseball 129 Hockey 140 Football Don't ask... (maybe 1,500) My matchups never pan out Slosh23 is my biggest competitor although the last two baseball and football seasons we've competed against my ex girlfriends father, who pointed me to SW Sports. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jason Boris Email: jlb3@ms1.allencol.edu Age: 21 Home: Tamaqua, Pennsylvania Student: Allentown College | * FANTASY TEAM NAME: The Texas Hangmen
To put it blunty, I am a "Sports-Junkie". Most everything I do, in some fashion, revolves around sport. I am a Senior at Allentown College in Center Valley, PA, majoring in Sport Management. In my spare time, I like to watch, play, and yes, even gamble, on sports. I've been playing fantasy sports for as long as I can rememeber and my latest accomplishment has been a #67 Worldwide Rank in 1999 Smallworld Football (clearly, the most dominant sport in my curriculum). On some side notes, I am a die-hard Cincinnati Bengals fan (one of the 5 remaining in the world today). I am currently working with the Pennsylvania Valley Dawgs (a pro basketball team in the USBL), and I hope to move on with a CBA team after graduation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brady Park Email: bradypark@hotmail.com Age: 25 Home: Orange County, CA Alumnus: UCLA (BS '99) UCI (MBA '05) Occup: Biochemist | Even though I live in the LA area, I still follow all the Chicago sports teams that I watched as a kid. I still believe that the Cubs will win "next year." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: The Brar Email: brar82@freewwweb.com Age: 17 Home: Pennsylvania Occup: Schooling other gurupies in 1 on 1. | This is me:
I'm from mighty India and am a Sikh! I play basketball all the time and am electric when doing so. Fightin Phils are gonna win it all this year! "This ball is WELL STRUCK to DEEP centerfield and it is OUTTA here homerun RRRRICO BROGNA." That's Harry Kalas if ya didn't know. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Fernando Troy Viloria Age: 27 Home: Boston suburbs Alumnus: McGill University Occup: student | Fave teams are: any team beginning with "Toronto", Dallas Cowboys, AC Milan (Italian soccer). BTW, Vince Carter rocks!
If you see a team called "Bubba's Boyz...", whatever the sport, that's probably me. I've cut down on my fantasy sports lately, 'cuz I was on the 'Net way too much. My wife thinks I'm nuts but she's cool with my roto-addiction. Biggest roto-accomplishment: nervously finishing a mere 38 pts ahead of Guru (I'm not worthy!) to finish second behind philliephan in last season's Rotoguru CNN/SI baseball standings. Thanks Guru, I couldn't have done it without your site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brent Buch Email: bbrent@clemson.edu Age: 21 Student: Clemson Occup: Slacker | I've been playing fantasy sports for about 4 or 5 years now. I've played Smallworld, Sandbox, Yahoo, and most recently GSB. My favortie teams are the Braves, Bills, Pacers, and Avalanche. I'm currently a student at Clemson University attempting to complet a major in computer science. I look forward to competing with everyone here for years to come.
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| Name: Glenn Roland Email: gproland@earthlink.net Age: 44 Home: Plymouth, MI Alumnus: Miami U.(BA '77), Ohio State (MBA '82) Occup: Energy Conservation Consultant | Background: grew up in Chicago area
married, two kids Fav teams: all Chicago and Detroit teams Fantasy sports experience: have been playing SW sports baseball, basketball, and football since '98 Top 300 finishes in all including #69 in hoops '99. Best quote: "Son... fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life." Dean Vernon Wormer to Flounder in the classic film 'Animal House ' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Keith C. Age: 35 Home: Boston, MA Alumnus: Ohio State Occup: Registered Pharmacist | Born and bred in NE Ohio
lifelong Tribe and Browns fan OSU basketball and football equally near and dear 3rd year of SW Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Steve Gall Age: 31 Home: Burnettsville, IN Alumnus: Purdue University Occup: Second Grade Teacher | Favorite Teams: Cubs, Colts, Boilermakers
I live in Nappanee, Indiana. My wife and I have been married for seven years. We are the parents of twin daughters, born in February 2001. I teach second grade at Bremen Elementary Middle School. My wife is a speech-language pathologist. 2001 Ultimate Basketball WWR - 83 2002 Ultimate Basketball WWR - 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Home: New York College: N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kevin Hugh Email: gainersfuel@aol.com Age: 28 Home: Columbus Ga Alumnus: Auburn University (Roll Tide!) Occup: Education | Hello. I've been playing fantasy sports for 5 years now. My best finishes seem to always come in football. I play this game for one thing. Bragging rights. Yes, I'm a talker. I could not have done it without the help of this site. Thanx to Guru and all who participate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Craig Age: 44 Home: West Texas Alumnus: Texas A&M University '91 Occup: Higher Education Administration | Played SW Baseball since '97.
Best Finish: "TC@T Ticketheads" 59 WWR in Full Season 2000 and I owe it all to the forum. Previous best: "Educational Research Grunts" 15,000 +/- 1,000 WWR in 1999. How's THAT for an endorsement? I've known about Rotoguru.com since early in '98 season, but didn't follow the forum closely until late '99. I didn't think I had what it took to "Run with the big boys." Played PoliBoard Baseball since 2009. Best finish there was 5th in 2010. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Campbell Email: campbelletti@webtv.net Age: 26 Home: Niagara Falls, Canada Occup: Table Games Supervisor | Favorite Teams: Celtics, Jaguars, Redwings and Braves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Neil Age: Old Home: Moncton, NB, Canada Alumnus: TUNS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Blackstock Age: 32 Home: Chesterfield, MI Alumnus: Eastern Michigan University Occup: Middle School Teacher | Found out about this site Fall 2002. This is awesome info!! I've lived around Detroit my whole life so I am a big Lions, Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons and Wolverines fan. That has been fun at times (Wolverines and Wings and Pistons lately) and not so fun at others (Lions and Tigers - oh my!!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tre' Freeman Email: x2cfreem@hotmail.com Age: 24 Home: Atlanta, GA Alumnus: Georgia Southern University Occup: PC/Network Engineer | My favorite pro b-ball team are the Lakers. Been a fan since my favorite player was playing for them...Magic. Started playing fantasy ball in Dec. and have been addicted since.
I love sports and I played tennis, basketball and football in high school, tennis and basketball while at GSU. My favorite sport is hoops. I got married last July and I have a 20 month old son named Styles. I work at the Federal Reserve Bank and previously worked at Southern Company and State Farm Insurance in IT positions. BTW...go check out AllAdvantage for a very good place to go to make some easy money... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bobby B Email: bbates55@hotmail.com Age: 50 Home: Toronto College: Duh Occup: Semi retired Accountant | New to Rotoguru Jan 2002. Wish I had known about it earlier . . but I'm just starting to get the hang of this contraption they call a computer and the internet. Could have really used these tools when I ran several games (Drafts/pools) in the 70's and did all the stats by hand from the daily newspapers.
My fav. teams are the Leafs, Raptors, Blue Jays (Sort of gives me away as a homer Torontonion). I mainly follow hockey & golf. Hope to spend more time doing the fantasy game thing (if my wife lets me) now that I'm semi retired and not working 50-60 hours a week. Best Fantasy finishes: About 1979 in a Toronto Star (newpaper) run Baseball game 1st prize was a new car, 2nd prize a trip to World Series and $1,000 . . I led with 3 weeks to go . . faded to 5th . . .won 2 tickets to a Blue Jay game and a gym bag. Back then you made your picks by punching numbers in over the phone. Times have changed. In 2000 played "Golfstocks" (another Toronto Star sponsored game). Won 1 of their 4 'seasons' , finished 2nd in another. Got two sets of golf clubs and a little cash for my efforts. (that game required mucho time spent 'buying' and 'selling' players to do well . . wife thought I was nuts). My team name is usually 'Chestergreat' . . named after a race horse I owned back in 70's. With any luck you will see that name in the top 10 in Ultimate Golf (maybe top 10 in division!) 'nuff said . . .hope to pass on some good advice/barbs on the message strings. Quote - from Punch Imlach (Leafs coach) explaining why he took chances in life. "A ship is safe sitting in harbour . . .but thats not what it was built to do" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tony Email: ChicagoTRS@aol.com Age: 33 Home: Brookfield, IL Occup: Software Engineer | Born and raised in Chicago thus I am a fan of Chicago teams period. My favorite sport is baseball. Unfortunately I am a huge Cubs fan...will I ever see a title? If they ever do win a title it will be a party to end all parties. Fantasy accomplishments...top 100WWR in both full season and midseason TSN baseball last year 2001 . Then ended up #3 WWR ranking in the playoff game. Earning me inclusion in the Rotoguru hall of fame =) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chuck Rohde Email: chucknsue@yahoo.com Age: 32 Home: Chicagoland Alumnus: William & Mary Occup: attorney | Favorite teams: Cubs, Bears, Bulls
Favorite place on earth: Wrigley Favorite players (all time): Ryne Sandberg, Babe Ruth. My wife and I are expecting in August. I'm lobbying hard for "George Herman" if its a boy, but its an uphill struggle. 2000 will be my second season in SWB. I did OK last year, but was humbled when I found the Guru site and board. This year I'm taking on the world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Adam Age: 16 Home: Indiana College: N/A Occup: N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Wilkinson Email: korn24@hockeymail.com Age: 25 Home: Tampa, Florida College: Who's got time for school ? Occup: Computer tech- Reynolds & Reynolds | Favroite Teams- Anybody from Detroit. My favroite team is absolutely, the Red Wings!
I hate Claude Lemiuex, and wish I had the chance to get revenge for Kris Draper. I love Bobby Probert, and I wear his #24 very proudly when I am playing roller hockey. My favroite sports cliche is "I told you to skate with your head up!" after catching someone not following the one rule all hockey players know. One last thing: I love playing fantasy sports! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Craig Morris Email: Chuck42181@usa.net Age: 18 Home: New Richmond, WI; school in St. Boni, MN Student: Crown College Occup: Student and future youth worker | Well, I've been all over the place in 18 years, and my sports allegiances show that. I was born in Florida where I picked up the Dolphins. I then moved up to New Jersey and picked up the New York Mets. Just recently, I moved out to western Wisconsin, so I'm looking for another team... I might try to pick up the T-Wolves.
I started as a casual fantasy sports player, but I've become more engrossed the more time I've spent on the boards working out various types of strategies and long-term outlooks. I'm a sophmore in college, and I plan on going into youth ministry as soon as I get out. As much as I love fantasy sports, Jesus Christ is my main man. My personal relationship with him is the best thing I know. I love him with all my heart because I know my eternal destiny of heaven is secure. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: J. Brown Email: kycat@lex.infi.net Age: 29 Home: Kentucky Alumnus: University of Kentucky Occup: Small Business Owner | Im a rookie as far as fantasy sports go, and I dont know what I ever did without it. Ofcourse, I always thought people who played this game had no life....so I was either wrong, or I have no life! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Rodney Age: 28 Home: Churubusco, Indiana Occup: Industrial Maint. (Refrigeration and Electrical) | As you can probably tell, my favorite team is the Cincinnati Reds. My first fantasy game was the '99-'00 Smallworld NBA season. I did okay, finishing in the top 600 after a horrible start.
With a wife and 2 young kids (with another due in Jan. 2001) it is hard to keep up with all the experts, but I enjoy playing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Christopher Eibling Email: CJ@Eibling.com Age: 34 Home: Midland, MI Alumnus: Central Michigan University Occup: Self Employed Contractor | Love Fantasy NBA and a True Pistons fan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Claudio Secci Email: clasecci@hotmail.com Age: 29 Home: Milan - Italy Occup: Sport journalist | I play smallworld basketball (this is 3rd season, but the 1st played only half year)
I discovered rotoguru in the smallworld forums about 1 year ago, but it's only 15 days I read rotoguru forums This site it's simply wonderful: Every day I discover something new and useful. And every night I go bed too late..checking nba live results in sportsline Record 2000 2.500 wwr (2nd of my division- European Division-UML) 257 wwr in playoff (but only 5th in the division UML) 2001 2 teams: 1) petarda (actually 287wwr, 1st in European Division-UML, 250swp ahead of river) Goal: win the division and finish in top 300 wwr 2) petardina (actually 62wwr) Goal: top 100 wwr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Louann Andres Email: landres@keithley.com Age: 45 Home: Akron, OH College: YSU Occup: Product Design Eng. Tech (hardware) | I grew up with the Indians. My dad taught me to never lie or steal, and to hate the New York teams! I started taking my son to games when he was 5. We saw most of the fans walking around with bags on their heads in those days. Now he is teaching Science and still finds time to go to games with Mom. And my phone rings any time something big happens (like a grand slam). I should add that my husband hates all sports and players! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris VanDyke Age: 39 Home: Marion, NC College: Western Carolina University Occup: Real Estate Appraiser (reformed golf professional) | Huge Carolina Basketball and Braves fan. Relatively new to fantasy sports - second year in TSN baseball, first in TSN golf and football. Top 2% for golf (not much of an accomplishment since it kind of falls under my area of expertise, as it were !!!), and learning the ropes in the others. Having a blast playing, and have probably enjoyed my first D&T football season in a private league with several cousins/friends/acquaintances more than I ever expected to. Probably going to go stir crazy after our Super Bowl this weekend with the coming months until pitchers and catchers report. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Home: Franklin, TN Alumnus: University of the South Occup: High School English Teacher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bjφrn Winberg Email: goaldiggers59@yahoo.se Age: 54 Home: Stockholm, Sweden Alumnus: Concordia, Montreal Occup: System Designer | Formerly known as Teddybears.
Still hooked on fantasy sports games:-) Fantasy team names: Spiderman, Goaldiggers, ...... Thanks Guru! Skεl! /Bjφrn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jim Atkins Email: atkinsj@triad.rr.com Age: 51 Home: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Alumnus: North Carolina State University Occup: Electrical Engineer/Software Developer/Financial Planner | I enjoy playing fantasy baseball and hockey. I usually have teams in several different leagues going during each season.
I have been playing fantasy sports on the internet for several years and sports board games such as Strat-O-Matic for many years. I am married with three daughters, the youngest of which is a freshman in college. I collect both baseball and hockey cards and also old Hardy Boys and other juvenile fiction from the pre-1960's. I enjoy developing web sites and other software applications and will gladly help others in this endeavour. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: William Tyrer Email: will@newmarketcap.com Home: Beverly Hills College: University of Bradford, England Occup: Movie Producer | Teams are usually under the name of Coldwater Coyotes, although I sometimes use the name of a latest movie....The Mexican, Cruel Intentions and Memento. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kyle The Genius Email: labby@mail.icongrp.com Age: 14 Home: IN | SHAQ is about as good as CANADIAN AIR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Walsh Email: ULoveMik@aol.com Age: 19 Home: Pittston PA/ Ithaca NY Student: Cornell University | Thanks to the RotoGuru boards I've turned into a complete player. I took a top 400 finish in Hoops this year (2001) without having watched a single game. It's all about the numbers my friends. I'm currently ranked 2nd amongst Gurupies in Baseball, but it's early yet.
My best game is Swirve. I routinely finish in the Top 500, and a few times in the top 50. I'm looking to get better at all of these games. I am only a freshman in college so I have plenty of years ahead of me. My favorite sports are baseball (Go Marlins!) and football (Go Giants!) I also play basketball because it seems to be the Gurupie sport of choice and I find it very competitive. 2000 Finishes: Baseball: Echelon: 393 Midseason:1245 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kathy Eckert Email: corner@erols.com Home: Virginia Alumnus: SUNY Geneseo Occup: Computer Consultant | I am posting here only because I knew Paul Scheirer (philliephan). I worked with him for 5 years and have known him personally for the past 10 years.
I'm actually not a sports fan at all (though my ex-husband vastly improved my non-existant knowledge of hockey in the 10 years I knew him). Of course, that was back in the Smythe, Norris, Adams and Patrick division days. I must say, watching a hockey game live IS awesome!!!!! I am now re-married and have a 5 year old daughter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: George (really) Email: costanza@my-deja.com Age: 25 Home: Ottawa Alumnus: University of Toronto Occup: Software designer | Baseball's been my first love, sports-wise, all my life, but since moving to a city without a MLB team (sniff sniff), my #2 sport, hockey, has moved to the forefront. The Senators made the playoffs the first time the year I moved here, and haven't looked back since... nice living in a city (unlike TO) where "ordinary" fans can actually buy tickets!
I've played many fantasy baseball games for years (Scoresheet Baseball's a personal fave... entering my 11th year with that company). Discovered SWB when a Blue Jay newsgroup league was proposed. Had little success (~15,000th). Came across the Guru/Philliephan sites in time for hockey, though, and am currently sitting in the Top 50. I think there's a lesson, there! Fav. teams - Sens, Leafs, Jays, KC Royals. (Waiting for Smallworld CFL! :) "If it's not about sports, I find it very hard to concentrate" - George Costanza | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Craig Hooten Age: 35 Home: Kansas City, Missouri Alumnus: DeVry Institute of Technology Occup: Windows/Web programmer | Wife: Renee
Sons: Brenden, James and Brett I've been playing fantasy sports since 1988. I ran or participated in a roto league from 88 to 98. I won the league in 91,94,95,96 and 98 never finishing below 3rd after 1988. I've grown to love the Smallworld Baseball format(if not always the execution). I've been a Royals and Chiefs fan since I was a kid. It's been very tough to be a Royals fan since 85, but I am excited about the group of talent the Royals have assembled this year. Next year, when the young pitching matures, I predict they will win the central. As for the Chiefs, I have a feeling they are headed for a big decline for the next few years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Greg Johnson Email: greg.johnson@ladarling.com Age: 32 Home: Sun Prairie, WI Alumnus: Iowa State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jon Migdal Email: jomigdal@vassar.edu Age: 21 Home: New York, NY Student: Vassar College | Born and raised in Manhattan. Went to Stuyvesant H.S.
favorite teams: Yankees, Pistons, Jets sw team names: j-smooth, d-smooth top sw accomplishments: winner of mid-season hoops prize now I am back in 2nd (wwr) currently 2nd in CNN/SI hoops as well top 200 in baseball '99 WWR 82 in mid-season baseball '99 WWR 50 sw hoops '97-'98 Gurupie since late '97? I collect vinatge sneakers and Dj Shadow/Mo Wax goods. Eat lots of pizza, drink lots of yoo-hoo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: David Email: towsontigers@aol.com Age: 24 Home: NYC Alumnus: Towson University Occup: Publicist | Let's Go METS!!!
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| Name: Brian A. McLaughlin Email: tigreblanc1@excite.com Age: 57 Home: New York City Alumnus: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Penn State Occup: Graphic Artist | Fan of Football (49er's, Steelers); Basketball (Celtics); Baseball (Giants); martial arts, track.
Active Leagues (Baseball): SWB, Sandbox, ECH, & trying out Yahoo Fantasy "accomplishments"(?): Won two (out of 3) head-to-head leagues in Excite Fantasy Football; started SWH at midseason, 3 teams are now at roughly 9,800-10,200 SWP, $64-$68M. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dai Email: daipac@hotmail.com Age: 21 Home: South Wales, UK Occup: Systems Engineer | I work for EDS, the company responsible for the Cat Herders commercial during the Super Bowl.
I have been playing Small World Hoops for 3 years now and this year seems to have been the breakthrough for me where I have finally broken into the top 500. I am part of the belly division which became so popular last year. Team names include Dai's Playaz 2000, Made in Wales (Where I live) and Lakerwood (Lakers and part of my surname, my Soccer team names are Littlepool and Liverwood carrying on in this format). I have been a huge Lakers fan since I started liking Basketball in the days of Worthy, Magic and Kareem. Favourite players include Shaq, Vince Carter, KG and Kobe. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Alex Email: GqDeMoN@aol.com Age: 15 Home: Flushing Student: not yet Occup: DeMoN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dan Clozza Email: dclozza@cogeco.ca Age: 17 Home: Oakville, Ont. Student: St. Thomas Aquinas Occup: Student | Well I must say I cheer for any teams from Toronto, well except the Argos as my fav CFL team are the Stamps. I am a diehard Leaf fan, I rarely miss a game all year! I haven't had much success playing SW, but coming into my second year playing Baseball I am currently ranked in the top 100. Well thats all I can think of for now, will add more later...
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| Name: Dan Email: RAEKWONTON@aol.com Age: 19 Home: NY baby (although it's Gambier, OH during the school year) Student: Kenyon College Occup: Student | I am a diehard Mets fan, as anyone who reads any of my postings on the message board will be easy to detect. I am also a huge hockey fan, and of course a fan of the Broadway Blueshirts. I have only recently discovered the treasure trove of knowledge that rotoguru.com contains, but I hope to continue to discover nuggets of information, both for fantasy use as well as simple personal knowledge, that this site provides.
In a few weeks, I will begin my freshman year at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. I will be leaving my beloved New York soil for rural Ohio and (hopefully) lots of fun. I am also a huge music fan, metal and punk being my favorites. I will watch from afar as the Kids From Queens march to the World Series and I will dance and scream jovially as they capture the crown this October, Scankees de damned! "Do you wanna die?" - Slayer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tim Mullen Email: mullenta@hotmail.com Age: 45 Home: Washington, DC Alumnus: Hiram College/George Washington Occup: Manager | Been a faithful member of the RotoGuru community since late 1999.
Grew up a Yankees fan, but switched to the Nationals before the 2010 season so that I could raise my son following the hometown team! Aside from fantasy sports, I really love music (hence the "darkside" handle, from the greatest album ever, Darkside of the Moon). For any other music fans, check out MOFRO if you've not done so--they're amazing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: David C. (Kip) Shawger, Jr. Email: dshawger@bsu.edu Age: 52 Home: Muncie, IN Alumnus: Nebraska Wesleyan University, Bradley University Occup: College Professor/Theatrical Designer | Dyed in the wool Yankee fan. Grew up on the east coast and college educated in the mid-west. Follow the Cornhuskers of Nebraska.
25+ years as Professor/Head of Design, Department of Theatre at BALL STATE UNIVERSITY and free-lance design work. Have tons of credits from New York to California: stage, screen, theme parks, cruise lines...you name it and I've probably worked it. Only play SW football...since 1998. Can't find the extensive time to play the others. Team name is "Kipmongers". Oldest daughter, son-in-law and friends play also. Favorite sports quote: "You're fired"... G. Steinbrenner (I'm kidding, I'm kidding) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Laroy Email: laroymike@yahoo.com Age: 33 Home: Marbella,Spain,Europe Occup: bartender-deejay | favorite NBA team: NY Knicks
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| Name: Roy Jones Email: deepsnapper01@verizon.net Age: 60 Home: Lewisville, Texas Alumnus: NTSU Occup: EDS - Retired | Live in a 'burb of Dallas. Married since '81, homeowner since '85. A DINK for the census.
Been a Cowboys fan since 1960. Enjoy collecting Cowboy memorabelia. Favorite item is an autographed picture of Tom Landy signed "Happy Brithday, Roy". Big fan of 1961 New York Yankees. Got Mickey Mantle's autograph on a baseball in 1987. Goal is to collect all of the '61 Yankees autographs. Whitey Ford latest addition Christmas 2001. Listening to Yankee baseball games on the radio in the 50's with my grandfather got me started liking them. It's odd how things come full circle, 5 decades later I'm listening to games over the computer. Been in love with Fantasy Sports since 1997. Started playing Smallworld in 1997 football season. I use some iteration of "deepsnapper" or "Flower Mound" for my team names. Will play any free fantasy games. I like MFL, ESPN, CBS, and Yahoo for Point & H2H games. Best Finishes: Sandbox SBx Gridiron Greats 12 Team Keeper Champion - 10th season of Competition. CBS Football Gurupie 24 2010 3rd Place CBS Football Gurupie 24 2009 3rd Place CBS Football Gurupie 24 2008 Football Champion The Sporting News Ultimate Football: 2008 Top 100 Rotohog Fantasy Baseball: 2008: Monthly #6 Rotohog Fantasy Baseball: 2007: Monthly #4 Swirve Fantasy Football:2002 WWR #10 2002 Rotoguru Hall of Fame The Sporting News Ultimate Baseball: 2002 WWR #49 The Sporting News Midseason Ultimate Baseball: 2002 WWR #10 Progressive Sports Challenge One Price Football: 2001 WWR #2 Small World Midseason Basketball: 2001 WWR #2 Small World Football: 1999 WWR #50 FSU World Series Baseball: 1999 WWR #2 FSU Baseball: 1999 WWR #10 Texas Twisters 1999 Hall of Fame FSU Football: 1999 WWR #2 Obrien Bulldogs 1999 Hall of Fame I read a lot on the boards, but don't talk a lot as there a so many who contribute now that I seem like I'm regurgitating the same things in some instances. Welcome to any new gurupies or visitors to the site, If you're browsing through this place, then I hope you're either interested in the site or the people. Please watch your language and respect the views of others and you'll get along. You might even learn something, I know I do all the time. Rotoguru.com is a quiet respite for learning about fanstasy games of all kinds and even life in a hectic world of noise and lights. Stop by & drink a cup of coffee. Rotoguru Blurbs If you like what you see, throw a few bucks Guru's way to keep the site up and thriving. Thanks for the site Dave. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jim Email: degaf@yahoo.com Age: 41 Home: Cranberry Twp, PA (Pittsburgh) Alumnus: Shippensburg State College Occup: Director - Internet Site | Let's go Pens! Buccos! and Steelers!
Only fantasy games I play are Golf, smallworld, etc. Have had some success at a few but am still struggling to get into the top 100 this year at smallworld. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Joe Email: jkdeep6@yahoo.com Age: 34 Home: Tucson, AZ Alumnus: Arizona State Occup: Attorney | Favorite teams: Steelers, Suns, Diamondbacks, Arizona State Sun Devils
First year playing fantasy sports. Did well in football despite starting 8 games into the season. Missed the first game in hoops and had no real strategy until I discovered Rotoguru. Now I spend way too much of my time here! Thanks for all your great (and hard, I'm sure!) work, Guru! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: David G. Email: dgredsdgreds@yahoo.com Age: 25 Home: St. Louis Alumnus: Yeshiva University Occup: computer programmer | I've lived in Dayton, Ohio, Bridgeport, CT, Toronto, Ontario, and now in St. Louis, MO. I'm a huge Reds fan and also root for the Bengals, Sixers and Flyers (don't ask how I became fans of the latter two).
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| Name: Richard Email: Dickster100@AOL.com Age: 16 Home: Iowa College: None yet, HS student, finishing sophomore year. Occup: Soda Jerk | My Smallworld Baseball Team:
http://baseball.smallworld.com/main/manager_other.html?user_id=186062 Played 1 year of SW Hoops, and playing my first year of SW Baseball. It's fun y'all. -Dickster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Andy Age: 20 Home: Toronto, ON | Favorite sports: basketball
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| Name: Eric Hsu Age: 24 Home: San Diego Alumnus: National Taiwan University Occup: Software engineer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Don McGurrin Email: donmcg@dejazzd.com Age: 44 Home: Lancaster Pa | I have played fantasy sports for 2 years now. SW mostly
I am not brave enough to let you know how I did. But it was not good. Just found this site not long ago thanks to having guru in the hoops survial divison. I go by the name Three Stooges there. Currently playing nascar and going by lugnuts there. I will be using the name discgolfer for now on just to keep it simple. I follow the Bills (0 for 4) and the Sabres I grew up in Buffalo the Sixers and Phillies I play discgolf & ball golf. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dan Email: danman121@hotmail.com Age: 15 Home: NH | A bit about myself...
I am currently doing SW Hoops FS and thats all I plan to do for basketball. I am also doing SW Baseball FS. This is my first year and is really shows in my WR, 8237. My favorite quote throughout the year so far has been, "There is always next year." My one goal for the year is to get to the top 5000. I just started using the Rotoguru boards but I have used all of the sites other resources since late Dec. SW Hoops Team Name:GWave00 SW Baseball Team Name:There'sNoCryingInBaseball You can check my Hoops team out in the division "sonics". -Favorite Teams- NBA-Celtics MLB-Red Sox NHL-What's that? NCAA Hockey-UNH Wildcats NFL-Patriots NCAA Hoops M-UNC NCAA Hoops W-UCONN Wonder where I'm from? -Favorite Player- Spud Webb IM me if you have AOL or AIM S/N: DMoney074 Lata -DMoney- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Don Merry Age: 28 Home: Victoria, Canada Student: Camosun College/UVIC Occup: Environmental Technology/1 Year hiatus | I've been a Gurupie for about 2 years. I was married in the first week of November 1999 and the Honeymoon messed up my SWHoops season this year so I hope to redeem myself with a strong Baseball season. I have soured on the SW format but remain a loyal rotiserie(sp) player.
Team Names: Donkys, Buff Donkys. Accomplishments: Top 50 Midseason Baseball(1999)Top 500 1999 Hoops. Favorite Players:MLB>Maple Ridge BC boy Larry 'Ive stubbed my toe' Walker. How many BS injuries can one guy have? Randy Johnson...Gotta like a guy whose nickname is 'The Big Unit' NHL>Dave 'Tiger' Williams, Bobby Orr, Martin Gelinas. NBA>Vince 'Hes for Real' Carter NFL>Jon Kitna Favorite Gurupie> Believe it or not...'What About Bob'. The only one to really piss me off. Gotta respect that. Honorable Mention:Madman,Walk,MattS,SteveH. Goals>Win my very tough roto league. Top 50 SW Baseball. Graduate...Buy my first house!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Doug Email: dijital@pacbell.net Age: 29 Home: Palo Alto Alumnus: Pomona College Occup: Video Game Development Manager | I should really fill in some info someday when I'm not too busy. Ha. Yeah, right. Like such a day exists. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Ramos Email: eric_ramos@hotmail.com Age: 28 Home: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Alumnus: Intec (Industrial Engineer), and Aoyama Gakuin, Japan (MBA) Occup: Business Manager, Corporate Banking | I love this site, I have improved my team management a lot since coming to Rotoguru, so first of all thank you all!!!
If you want to escape and visit a piece of paradise in the caribbean send me an email, and I'll see what I can fix up for you, plus the mandatory internet access for gurupies if you come to Santo Domingo. Favorite sports: Basketball, baseball in that order. Favorite Team: L.A. Lakers, since magic entered the league. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: ddoold@shaw.ca Home: Calgary, Alberta Occup: System Analyst/Programmer | I am an avid sports fan, and fantasy pool player. Obviously, being from Canada, hockey is my favorite. I have been lurking around the RotoGuru site for a few years, not saying much since anything I have to say has probably been said by somene else. I have had limited success with smallworld sports, top 200 in hockey, and football, baseball. In Swirve (formerly Echelon) top 20 in hockey and basketball.
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| Name: John M. Davies, DDS Email: swdavies@comcast.net Age: 81 Home: Dallas Alumnus: SMU, Baylor, Pepperdine Occup: Dentist (retired) | Mavericks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: andre Age: 31 Home: Toronto Alumnus: WLU Occup: Sales | Raps Fan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Andrew Gross Email: nvzublkid@aol.com Age: 16 Home: New York City Student: Townsend Harris High School Occup: Full Time Student - also webmaster | Fantasy Team Names - Fudge Packer, nvzublkid
I'm a pretty big mets fan, mostly due to the fact that I live in Queens. I have no prior fantasy accomplishements...i used to think 75,000 was a good wwr =). My webpage is at http://sfcash.cjb.net. Quote: I might be butchering this but "If you come upon a fork in the road, take it" - yogi bera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Raju Prasad Email: XZProlifia@home.com Age: 17 Home: Maplewood,NJ Occup: Student (12th-grade) | Favorite Team: NY Mets
Favorite Player: Mike Piazza Best finish: Top 100 in SW Baseball 1999 Honorable Mention: 136th place in SW Baseball 2000 10th place in PSChallenge Football Favorite Sport: Ultimate Frisbee (hopefully will become one of the major sports in the near future). Former Varsity High School Catcher (I was pretty good too). Team Name: Any Variation of Drunken Masters (ex. DM, Drunken Masters 2, etc.) Started reading the Blurbs about 1 1/2 years ago, got hooked on the message forum about 8 or 9 months ago, and haven't left since. I'd like to thank all the influential gurupies (and the Guru himself) that have helped me to attain my high ranks in various sports. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kyle Barry Age: 33 Home: Puyallup, WA Alumnus: University of Washington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Annie Johnson Email: johnsoab@hotmail.com Age: 40 Home: Boulder, CO Alumnus: Univ of Colorado Occup: Research Asst. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Evan Fox Age: 15 Home: Suffern, NY Student: Suffern High School | Favorite teams: Baseball-Yankees
Football- Giants Basketball-Bulls College-Duke University My teams in SW are usually something close to DukeLax, DukeLax5, or if i'm really crazy that season, maybe even DukeLax22. In high school i am currently playing football, wrestling, and lacrosse. Hopefully, i'll become good enough to one day play lax at Duke. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: dz77 Age: 19 Home: New York City Student: Columbia University Occup: Student | Rookie GM in basketball (first full year this year, had a 8-week late team that ended up WWR Top 40000 or so last year).
Team: Avirex Eagles, final WWR 879. Kinda sucky, but I actually spent time with WWR>10000 for a while this year. Just love basketball. After being introduced to smallworld through cnnsi.com last year, fantasy bball became one of my favorite hobbies. Started reading rotoguru mid October and lurk around for a few minutes every day. Started a baseball team as well this year. I actually hate baseball myself, but whatever, fantasy sports are always good. Fav teams... Hockey: Avs (since Quebec times), Bruins, Sharks Football: 49ers Basketball: just an all-around fan. no fav teams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Joshua Duesterhaus Email: jduece81@yahoo.com Age: 28 Home: Los Angeles, CA Occup: Headhunter | Dodgers, Raiders, Bulls!
I don't do College Sports, just College Girls. =) I play on SN.com - Hoops, Football, and Baseball (both Ultimate and Challenge formats) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tom Moore Email: tommymoore@hotmail.com Age: 20 Home: OH Student: Hiram Occup: Blissfully unemployed | I am a junior Political Science Major, I follow all Cleveland teams as well as the greatest college basketball team ever, the Duke Blue Devils. If anyone out there in the Cleveland area wishes to bring me out of this blissful unemployment thing E-mail at will....
Favorite quote, by a terrific professor: If FDR was as good of a public speaker as JFK, it would have been "Ask not what your country can do for you, we will do it for you before you can ask." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ryan Email: rbeetham@yahoo.com Age: 18 Home: Seattle Student: Univ. of Washington Occup: Freshman at the U | Favorite Team: TeamScrubs (i skate, we're not that good and thats what we call ourselves)
Fantasy Team Name: TeamScrubs Misc: This is my first year playing any fantasy sport. I could never figure out what Rotoguru was on the standings (i thought it was the carpet cleaner, ie rotrooter) so i checked it out once. It helped me move from 65000 up to my current position of 1600. The only thing that I regret from this year was starting a week late, and not discovering this site sooner. As soon as I found the site, I could increase my value and look at all the sortable and the 4 week outlook. Im sorry if I've posted a lot of threads "please help me out" but I sometimes get so frustrated with a move that I just need a litte input before i pull the trigger Peace (shout outs to Tony, Chris, Vinny, Shayne, Kwain, and my inspiration-MonicaJones you know who you are) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ed Smith Email: edwardlsmith@compuserve.com Age: 40 Home: Oklahoma City, OK Alumnus: Oklahoma State Occup: Director, Information Systems | First year in fantasy league, I think I'am addicted. Teams OKC-Lakers and PE&J. Wife Paula, Son Joshua 3 1/2. Favorite teams Dallas Cowboys, Los Angels Lakers, Anaheim Angels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Edgar Email: e_westerveld@hotmail.com Age: 24 Home: Netherlands Alumnus: Rijks Universiteit Groningen Occup: Business Consultant | No serious accomplishments yet. This year ranked in the
top 100 basketball at CNN (rank 14) and SW (56). Also ranked in the top 100 for Hockey (94). I'm one of the European Gurupies trying to convince US Gurupies we play (and play well) fantasy sports too. Favourite Quotes: 'He was lucky he did it to me cause I wasgone do it to him' (D.Schintzius after Shaq brought down the backboard on him) 'Funny thing, right about the time Michael was thinking about retirement I was thinking about retirement as well but nobody seemed to be interested in my story' (Manute Bol on Jordan's retirment) Favourite BB player; Mario Elie aka the 'SHRIMP' Hockey player; Ollie the goalie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Email: eliot187@aol.com Age: 23 Home: Cali Student: UCLA Occup: Escrow Assistant | TSN Ultimate and D&T Player, Team names, Michaels Maulers, Brooklyn Blue, Sayonara Tracy...reclaim L.A. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kyle Age: 26 Home: HK Alumnus: SFU Occup: Manager | I was introduced to the Small World games a
I made it into the Top 50 two years ago and
My biggest accomplishments in terms of
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| Name: Jeff Klein Email: tegguns@aol.com Age: 22 Home: Atlanta, Ga Student: Georgia State University Occup: Sales Associate, DBI, Inc. Associate Sports Editor, GSU newspaper | Favorite Teams: Hawks, Braves, Ga State Athletics, Falcons, Thrashers
Fantasy team names: Beakmans, Beakman Fantasy Sports Accomplishments: 1999-wwr #231 swh 2000-wwr #1 swb (fs) wwr #648 swb (ms) wwr #115 swf pro-sports challenge football #8 2001-wwr #218 swh sandbox wagin' war xfl football #188 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Scott King Age: 28 Home: Indiana Alumnus: Purdue University Occup: 8th Grade Mathematics teacher and Basketball Coach | SW/TSN team names: Ender_____ (fill in the blank with some arcane suffix supposedly representing a particular strategy which I will no doubt abandon a couple weeks into the season regardless of the sport), and Ragamuffin (read "The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning, you'll understand)
I'll spare any cliams to SW/TSN mastery until I earn a spot in Guru's Hall of Fame. I'll simply settle for saying I am pretty good. I have been married almost 9 years and have 3 children: son 8, daughter 6, son 3. I am also a Ragamuffin and I root for both the Indiana teams Pacers and Colts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Bell Email: FunPolice136@yahoo.com Age: 21 Home: Just outside Philly Student: Penn State University (main) | I'm in my junior year at PSU. I have been playing SW sports since I was a freshman (1997). I've also been a loyal Gurupie since then.
Team names: FunPolice & Here I Am! Greatest accomplishment: Finished 7th in SW Playoff Hoops in '98 Favorite teams: Eagles, Vikings, Sixers, Lakers, Flyers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Carlson Email: jcarlson@eup.k12.mi.us Age: 36 Home: the Upper Peninsula Alumnus: University of Michigan/Ann Arbor Occup: teacher - spanish, desktop publishing [computers] | Favorite teams: anything that starts with Detroit or the Univeristy of Michigan. I have also become a "fair weather fan" of the Cleveland Indians [since my wife is from Canton, Ohio she forces me to cheer for the Tribe].
My fantasy teams usually start out with esposo, the Spanish word for husband, my wife [when she plays] uses esposa. I have five kids - ages 12, 12, 10, 3, 1. The oldest three often start a season but rarely finish a season. I enjoy fantasy sports as a release from grading papers at night. I have even helped a couple of other teachers integrate fantasy sports into their curriculum. Words of wisdom - "Don't eat yellow snow." or "Do not assume you are on the right road just because it is a well beaten path." GURU HISTORY: I have been visiting the rotoguru site since the summer of 1998. "Membership has its' priviledges." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Email: Eustacio@hotmail.com Age: 19 Home: Midland, Michigan Student: Northwood University Occup: Computer Lab Assistant, Web Page Designer | Raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
The Free Thinkers, Eustacio's Extempers, Flaming Furballs Been a Yankee fan since 1988 and followed the Packers for the last 6-7 years. Enjoy writing, computers, technical theatre, reading, and fantasy sports among other things. I'm currently majoring in Computer Science/Management. Generally known for picking the sleepers in baseball and long Shakespearian tributes to those players who do me right. My HomePage "What good is a reason without a solution?" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Evans Opoku Email: evansevans@hotmail.com Age: 18 Home: Massachusetts Occup: Student | check out my fantasy team. I always use the name "papapon". You can look me up either on smallworld or cnnsi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: fgump99@hotmail.com Age: 40s Home: Dallas Occup: Estate Planner | Prior Online Fantasy Sports
I have played the following seasons in online fantasy sports (time considerations prevent me from being a continous player) with the following results: 1998 SW Baseball ....Final WWR 15 [this is my proudest accomplishment cause I did it primarily "on my own" - which was a GIANT and unrepeatable time commitment for me - did not find Guru site til late summer] 1998 Echelon Football ....2 teams, Final WWR 20 and 25 1999 did not play - time considerations 2000 SW Baseball ....Final WWR around 85 .....2000 Guru-Site 500K game ....2 teams, finished 1 and 2 and won mid-season prize as well .....2000 Guru-Site LRV game ....finished 2nd 2001 SW Mid-Season Game ... Final WWR 8 2002 did not play - time considerations 2003 did not play - time considerations Favorite Teams: Pro: Cowboys (attended games in the Cotton Bowl for $1 growing up, before they were any good), Mavericks, Stars, and Rangers (still waiting for the day they learn that pitching wins championships) College: Univ of Texas Favorite sports of all: Watching my sons play - my older was all-district as a senior on BOTH offense (OG) and defense (DT) and finished 2nd in wrestling at State Championships ...my younger was All-State DE in 2002 with 27 Sacks and 104 tackles (53 for losses).... both are playing D2 college football this fall My sports pastimes: played small-college basketball for 4 years (started last 3), played small-college football 1 year (started at WR as soph walk-on and decided they hit too hard to play any more years) ... now play tennis (not bad), racquetball (more hustle than skill), golf (very badly!), and thinking games such as backgammon and Scrabble, with an occasional pickup game of basketball at the local rec center thrown in for old-time's sake I enjoy the message forum and am amazed at the analytical talents and software expertise of the participants. At times I even try to add my 2 cents worth. Thank you Guru and Gurupies! Favorite quote: He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. --Jim Elliott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ryan Parr Email: ryan.parr@fantazzle.com Age: 35 Home: Arlington, VA Alumnus: James Madison University Occup: CEO of Fantazzle Fantasy Games Site | Hi all,
I'm the founder/CEO of a daily fantasy games site - Fantazzle Fantasy Games - and I have been a huge fan of DailyFantasyBaseball.com since I ran into it. Not only am an owner, but love to play as well and I'm proud to say that DFB and RotoInfo.com are the two MUST USE sites when I fill out my rosters. Since I started using DFB, I started learning more about the different components and well here I am. I hope I can get involved with the forum and site as much as possible. Thanks for having me and hope I'll be a contributor! Ryan Parr Fantazzle Fantasy Sports Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Farber Email: johnfarber@lakesidechurchofchrist.com Age: 26 Home: Jacksonville, FL Alumnus: Freed-Hardeman University Occup: Youth Minister | I'm married to the most beutiful woman in the world. No kids (yet).
I've been in the fantasy sports scene since SWHoops 1997-98 (I think). That's when all my college buddies and I discovered it and I've been active in hoops and baseball off and on ever since. I've never really won anything, ever. I've never even rung the bell with the mallet at the county fair. I never even get the treats out of the cereal boxes. But being married to the most beutiful woman in the world makes up for all that. However, I'm the eternal optimist. I'm feel like I'm going to win in every division I'm in. Right now, I'm teaching the TSN basic baseball to the JR. High kids in my youth group. I've only told one of them about rotoguru.com. It's a test to see if he excells any better than the rest. I'm winning our division, of course, but we're having fun. And isn't that what it's all about. . . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Drew Farenell Age: 23 Home: upstate New York Alumnus: SUNY Oneonta Occup: Currently a Bum | I finished my undergraduate work in May of 2003. I am taking a semester off and then will begin my postgraduate work. One day I will be teaching students all I know (mostly about fantasy sports).
I am a huge Duke fan. I follow the Marlins and Bulls as often as their light tv schedule allows. I have been playing SW/TSN sports for over 5 years. Had a few solid finishes in basketball and baseball on SW. I finished in the top 500 in Basic Season I in 2002-2003 Basketball. This is my first year back in Ultimate Baseball after a 2 year absence. I am also an avid gambler, including the Best Bets of the forum. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Feazel Email: feazdaddy@yahoo.com Age: 29 Home: Houston, Tx Alumnus: University of Texas Occup: sales | This has been my first go around playing fantasy sports and it's been a blast so far. It's nice to have found this site for all the helpful and nice people here, it's been a great help so far. Being from Houston my favorite teams are of course the Rockets and Astros. Hopefully we won't lose the Rockets like we did the Oilers.
I'm married with two wonderful kids, my daughter Lauren (7) and my son Jordan (1 1/2). Can you guess who he was named after? LOL. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Todd Email: tmandell@trincoll.edu Age: 24 Home: Hartford, CT Alumnus: Trinity College | My Teams: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Boston Red Sox
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| Name: F. Smith Age: 47 Home: Texas Alumnus: Houston Occup: cameraman | The Flakes were born in the late 1970's during the formation of the Natural League. It was played on board games of managerial skill and probability. It was a decade before computers aided in the play, and years more before they would help with the massive amount of statistics once compiled manually. The teams, a 25-man roster of current players performed through a simulated season. We drafted annually (of which 5-10 players were re-signed). Thus Bill Lee would always remain a Flake. We held opening day and all-star events, and even commissioned our own anthem ... "Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise and join in, the singing of our natural Anthem..."
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| Name: Chris M Email: mccar2cm@cmich.edu Age: 20 Home: Clinton Twp. Mi Student: Central Michigan Occup: Student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Email: charette_mike@yahoo.com Age: 21 Home: Atlanta, GA Student: Georgia Tech | I'm from Lansing Michigan so I live and die with the Michigan State Spartans, as well as the Detroit sports teams.
This is my first year of football, last year I finished in the Top 250 in both Hockey, and Basketball, even though I had to quit 3/4 of the way through because of school. Hopefully I'll have the time to follow all the seasons through this year. Good luck to all. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: B D Age: 39 | Been a Mets fan since I was 6 after watching a game against the Pirate team my dad was rooting for. I've became an avid lurker/poster on the hockey and baseball boards sometime in the winter of '99 and haven't looked back since. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Day-Savage Email: peek@uwindsor.ca Age: 37 Home: Windsor, Ontario Student: University of Windsor Occup: Sessional Instructor & Graduate Student | I grew up in Montreal and moved to Windsor, Ontario (across the river from Detroit) to go to grad school.
I live with my partner, Shula, and our 7-yr-old daughter, Persia, who screams "But I hate basketball!!!" every time I change the channel from Teletoon to a game. I am currently "working" on my Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology and teaching undergraduate statistics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Frank Pappagalo Email: fpappaga@bigpond.net.au Age: 30's Home: Adelaide, South Australia Alumnus: Flinders University of South Australia Occup: Teacher | Fave USA teams are (1)Redwings,(2)Clippers & (3)Chiefs.
Here in Australia I support Port Adelaide Power in Aussie Rules. My fantasy team name is the chicken molesters and I play several hockey fantasy leagues (H3HFHL, Y2KFHL & GFHL). I am now a primary school teacher and loving every minute of it. 'Thank you drive through' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Roger Radcliff Email: rgrrdclff@aol.com Age: 38 Home: Bossier City, La Alumnus: Ferris State (Go Bull Dogs) Occup: Real Estate Broker | Age: 38 Married 2 Children 1 Boy 1 Girl
Favoite Pro Teams: Football; Lions,Seahawks,Saints Basketball; Dallas Baseball; Arizona D-Backs Hockey; Red Wings,Stars Favoite College Team: Basketball; MICHIGAN(Not State) and LSU Football; MICHIGAN(Not State) and LSU Baseball; LSU Hockey; Ferris State Third year playing Fantasy Sports. Good luck to All in Fantasy Sports. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mark Lobatto Age: 16 Home: The Netherlands | Having lived in Holland all my life coming to the U.S. only in the summer I got interested in baseball. My cousins sucked me in to it and wanted to recruit me into a Red Sox fan. It didn't work out. I became a Yankee fan (maybe just to annoy them).
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| Name: Aaron Frick Email: fricka@citrine.indstate.edu Age: 22 Home: Terre Haute Indiana Student: Indiana State University Occup: Student of Economics and Finance | I grew up in southern Indiana and I like the Pacers and Colts. It has been tough up until really recently. I am can't wait to go to a game at the Fieldhouse. I am also a huge Cubs fan.
I graduate this semester and I am currently looking for a job in Indianapolis. I feel really bad when I read Guru's message and saw that his 9 year old daughter beat me pretty bad in the March Madness game last year. I now have my goal for that game. "A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." Douglas Adams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Daniel Gillette Email: lbpimp@go.com Age: 23 Home: Long Beach, Ca. Student: UCLA | Favorite teams are the Dodgers, Lakers, Rams, and all UCLA teams. Also I am a cousin of Royal 1B, Mike Sweeney. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mark Green Email: emmgee@neosoft.com Age: 42 Home: Houston, TX Occup: Professional Photographer | Team names include Gangreen, The Gang, and of course Gangmen.
My "fantasy sports background dates back to the Strat -O-Matic spinner game in the 1960's. We kept stats manually in a Bluehorse notebook. Next was SSI Baseball back in the 80's (SSI is a forerunner to toady's internet games. Played first with cards, then on our Apple II's). nad of course....Earl Weaver Baseball. Gangman is a derivation of my team name The Ganja Gang. I have a ten year old daughter who has a Smallworld team, so the ganja reference just doesn't cut it. Hence....The Gang, Gangmen, Gangreen etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Lars Karlsson Email: sportspel@home.se Age: 28 Home: Sweden Occup: Computer Consultant | Love sports, and the excitement around it. Fantasygames is a great way of following sports, simply great fun.
The thrill every morning (in Sweden) when you wake up seeing if your player has done well during the night is fantastic. Don't want to miss it for the world, and I want to be best in the world.... Other interest are movies, computers, play floorball, and creating my own game for Swedish hockey with friends, see you there next year? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Gary Simon Jr Email: kid_web@yahoo.com Age: 30 Home: Dubuque, Iowa Alumnus: University Of Dubuque Occup: Ass. Manager of Subway :( | I am a diehard Packer fan with football be my sport of choice. I wondered here from Small World back just before the Forum started and have been a constant ever since.
Am becoming a bigger Baseball Fan thanks to Guru's site. Being a Braves fan with Maddux my favorite player. In fact I was a Cubs fan until Maddux moved to Atlanta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Gregg Email: gdsplat@earthlink.net Home: CO Alumnus: Ohio State Univ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Smith Age: 22 Home: Cedar Rapids, IA Student: University of Iowa Occup: Sports Medicines | Fav Teams - Lakers (Lakeside Show, pre-Shaq)
Fav Players - Anyone whos successfully gone into the pro's from Iowa. Experience - All State in Basketball and Tennis my senior yr. in HS. Recruited by U of I, Iowa State, and Minnesota for tennis. Played sparingly on the Iowa basketball team my frosh and soph year and then stopped playing b-ball to concentrate on tennis. First year playing fantasy sports, always thought they cost money to play. :P | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: george klavins Email: george8kl@gmail.com Age: 64 Home: new jersey Alumnus: rutgers Occup: retired postal technician | FanDuel DFS @ george8kl - original Mets & Jets (Titans) fan - 1969 was a very good year for NY sports - recovering luddite, 60s-70s music fan, US Army vet 1970-1973, stat head, 40 yr horseplayer/handicapper, metal detectorist
Favorite sports quote = 'baseball is ninety percent mental, the other half is physical' - Yogi Berra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Riso Email: Jariso@aol.com Age: 15 Home: Jackson, Nj Occup: Student | Favorite Teams:
MLB: NY Mets NBA: NY Knicks NFL: NY Jets NHL: NY Islanders Smallworld accomplishments: 1999 Hoops: Won Division named with the NJ METS in my first time ever playing Smallworld when I was just 13. 2000 Baseball Regular Season: Won division in my first time playing SW Baseball with the Ghetto Frogs. 2000 Midseason Baseball: Won divison destroying competition with the Floating Trout. 2000 Baseball Playoffs: Won Division with the Ghetto Frogs finishing 349 in the world at the age of 14. Might have done a lot better but stopped working on my team after the forst round of the playoff because I thought they had no chance and was workin on my other teams. Teams that have done real well: NJ METS Ghetto Frogs Floating Trout Flying Goats Crushed Crawfish Teams that have not fared as well: Crawfish Crushed Banana Keyshaun Sucks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jin Park Email: nijkrap@hotmail.com Age: 23 Home: hometown: Richardson, TX current: Los Angeles, CA Alumnus: University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign Occup: UCLA Electrical Engineering Grad Student | team name: "GinBlossoms"
favorite teams: anything with Dallas in it, Montreal Canadiens favorite sport: hockey go Illini! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: GJB | Owner of free sim baseball and free sim basketball website pennantchase.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Gumerson Email: jgumerson@insightbb.com Age: 43 Home: Greenwood, IN Alumnus: Indiana University Occup: CPA | Married with 3 boys ages 19, 14 and 12. Oldest son plays baseball for St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, IN (Division II). Wife comes from a family of three brothers, so she tolerates the constant sports talk and viewing.
Lifetime fan of the Yankees and Pacers. Became a Yankee due to my grandfather (he moved from New York after WWII) and followed the Pacers since their days in the ABA. Trying to become a Colts fan (much easier now that they are competitive). I've played Smallworld for 2 years (baseball and basketball) and prefer baseball. Not real competitve in WWR, only hope to beat my 14 year old for family bragging rights. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bengt Persson Email: beep@bredband.net Age: 30 Home: Taby, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Brogan Age: 37 Home: kansas city area College: hard knocks Occup: sales | played sporting news salary games for years..play all the big 4 sports and am a huge laker,steeler, and royals fan.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Cliff Dilling Email: GoatLocker@gmail.com Age: 59 Home: Camarillo, CA Alumnus: Southern Illinois University Occup: Training Manager | Favorite Teams are:
Baseball - Padres & A's Football - Chargers (I know, Diehard) & Rams Played TSN Baseball and Hockey in the past. Have cut way back on the number of fantasy teams that I have. My best finishes have been SW Golf and ended up 19th. Also SW NASCAR and ended up around 134 or so. Also am in roto leagues for baseball and football. Cutting back the number of teams due to circumstances beyond my control. No real outstanding WWRs to report, but find I am generally semi-competitive. In open public leagues, would usually be in first or second. Have changed though and only play in very competitive leagues and still manage to stay in the upper 50%. Don't always get a chance to spend as much time checking out the Forums as I would like, but do continue to learn and will try to continue to participate. Can be found bouncing around the current sports forum at most times. Or on AIM with acquaintances from the forum. More time dedicated to GLB now than most other things. Have met several people from the board in person. Have talked with many on the phone as well as AIM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bob Email: thefiveclarks@yahoo.com Age: 30 Home: the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. Alumnus: U.W. Eau Claire Occup: Fantasy Sports Freak | I wouldn't call myself ADDICTED to fantasy sports.
Unless spending 1-2 hour a day, trying to figure out how im going to use my next 4 trades. Is that consider a addicted? Doesn't everyone start there day looking at injuries reports. Calculating there pts for the night before. Looking for the next cheap center? This is my 4th year. 2nd year of using Roto.com. This a great site. I value the many insightful comments from all the gurupies here. And my hat is off to all of you that can hold 1 trade every week! I try but never make it! NFL Packers Brett is a football GOD! MLB Cardinals Miss ya Big Mac NBA Grizzlies Pau Gasol like his energy! NHL Blackhawks Luv the jersey! God Bless America !!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kjell Johansson Age: 37 Home: Gothenburg, Sweden Occup: Web designer/programmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Pepe Age: 45 Home: Central Coast, Australia College: I wish I could have Occup: Project Manager (Real Job - Fantasy SportsTragic) | I love to play fantasy Baseball and Golf because I failed to live up to any standard in real terms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ryan Estok Email: restok79@gmail.com Age: 32 Home: Newark, DE Alumnus: College of Charleston Occup: Merrill Lynch/ BlackRock | If I fail, I will do so by daring greatly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Greg Jamerson Email: greg.jamerson@genworth.com Age: 29 Home: Lynchburg, VA College: Community Occup: Insurance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dave Hall Email: davehall@rotoguru2.com Age: 65 Home: West Hartford, CT Alumnus: Westminster College (PA) Occup: RotoGuru | Cleveland Indians fan since childhood
Originally from Mansfield, Ohio Wife - Gail (who only plays Fantasy Football) 3 kids: Jason, Kevin, Melody Jason attended Tufts Univ. (class of 2004) Kevin attended Northeastern Univ. (class of 2008) Melody attended Hofstra Univrsity (class of 2013) Fantasy teams are usually named "RotoGuru" or some variant thereof. "Experience allows you to recognize your mistakes every time you repeat them." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: 22 Home: Hawaii Student: University of Hawaii Occup: Sun Bather Retired Lottery Winner | My Favorite numbers. Don't Ask.
6-18-22-26-27-38 I won the lottery and said to myself, move to Hawaii and finish college. Sorry if I have to be semi-secret but I can not disclose my real name or real address. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dorian Email: djk18@kozy.tv Age: 21 Home: Minneapolis Student: CSUMB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Email: mmm3@erols.com Age: 34 Home: Fredericksburg, VA Alumnus: Webb Institute Occup: Hydrodynamicist | SWB Sophomore (I can stop anytime I want)
ESPN Rookie (Head-to-Head, 5x5 ROCKS!) 
Turn ons: Thunderstorms, Long Walks on the Beach, Diablo II, No Hitters Turn offs: Mean people, brussel sprouts, lingering hamstring pulls Guru, thanks for bringing us all together. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Hooper Age: 27 Home: Salisbury, NC Alumnus: Catawba College Occup: IT Security | I'd like to thank the Guru for producing such a quality site and helping me become addicted to fantasy league sports over the last several years. It's fun to remember the lemming days...then the evolution to educated competitor. I have still not reached the level of play of some of the other longterm Gurupies but I get a little better each year.
Favorate Fantasy League Sport: NBA Hoops (Smallworld) Also Enjoy: Sandbox NBA Hoops Sandbox NFL Football Favorate NBA Team: L.A. Lakers (since 82') Favorate NFL Team: Cleveland Browns (since 85') | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Age: 28 Home: Virginia Alumnus: University of Pennsylvania Occup: Computer programmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Matt Keller Email: mkeller@hmc.edu Age: 19 Home: Lincoln, NE; school in Claremont, CA Student: Harvey Mudd College | SWH is my first fantasy game--this is my rookie season. I have been hovering around 500 WWR.
Obviously my first and foremost sports passion is University of Nebraska football!! Recently picked up a new college basketball team to cheer for--Arizona St.--because a friend of mine went there to play. Don't really have any fave pro teams in basketball. I have been a Miami Dolphins fan for as long as I can remember and have no idea why being from Nebraska. Played all sports all my life up through high school, now playing Div. III basketball and some intramurals when I get the chance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Cisco Email: franciscointaiwan@hotmail.com Age: 27 Home: Taipei Alumnus: UofT Occup: Teacher | Fantasy Basketball rookie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Yendra Email: Hyperz182@hotmail.com Age: 19 Home: Kearney, Nebraska Occup: Student | gonna make this short.. i am 19, just starting out in college.. will be working towards something in the computer field, don't yet have a clue exactly what.
I am a sports freak, baseball, football, and college football are my sports. College football is the king of them all (being that I am from Nebraska, i think that is a requirement). I have been playing SmallWorld Baseball since the 1997 season, and visiting the guru since sometime in late 98 i believe. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ben Matheson Email: ben.matheson@gmail.com Age: 40+ Home: Montreal, QC, Canada Occup: IT | First of all, great job Guru! You run a very clean and active community.
I originally heard of RotoGuru, through my brother (know as "Letter_J" not "J"). During his pre-law school days, as he was really big on fantasy baseball especially. I started playing "smallworld" hockey back then (1999 I believe?), and found the articles, & sortables extremely useful. Lately I'm not big on TSN, but I really like Guru's tiered leagues that he's running. After stopping playing Fantasy Hockey in 2004 I have mainly played Fantasy Football. I won my first year 2004 in the RIFC Qualifiers, and it took till 2018 before I finally won the top league (after many many tries)! Besides Fantasy sports, I also enjoy enjoy sports simulation ( Strat-O-Matic & Out of the Park ), as well as being an avid Risk / Axis & Allies / Chess player. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bill Reagan Email: slap.nuts@verizon.net Age: 24 Home: Pennsylvania Occup: Press operator | My favorite team is the Pittsburgh Penguins.
I love baseball but I cannot stand the Pirates. My biggest accomplishment came last year when I finished 37th in the TSN fantasy baseball league. If it wasn't for a Maddux shelling and a Pettitte injury I would have finished higher. I do have the cheap hat and sports bottle to prove it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Steve Swartz Age: 51 Home: Indianapolis, In Alumnus: Ball State Occup: Manager | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ira Wurtz Email: Soccer4Life@GMail.com Age: 16 Home: Sherwood Park, AB (Right beside Edmonton) Occup: Bum | Best WWR @ Baseball- 60th (wasnt final ranking)
Best WWE @ Baseball Playoffs (NET)- 814th Best WWR @ Hockey- 800th (wasn't final) Best OTO Team @ Hockey- 22805 TSNP(1st out of 37)Van.Canucks Lowest TRV @ Hockey- 15.29 I'm a HUGE hockey fan (GO OILERS!), and I've actually been #1 overall at cbc.ca hockey pools (They didnt give me the leather jacket because I'm not 18+). Favorite Hockey Team- Edmonton Oilers Favorite Hockey Player- Pavel Bure & Pavel Datsyuk Favorite Oiler- Ryan Smyth & Marc-Andre Bergeron Yes yes, people think of me as the big comedian that people like to joke around about, I am happy at that position.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: James Email: irondogg@shaw.ca Age: 31 Home: Alberta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Randy Email: isles72@hotmail.com Age: 36 Home: Northern Ontario Alumnus: Street Smart Occup: sales and dist. | Artist formerly known as Izbiztuh
I enjoy fantasy hockey most . I help run a keeper league which is heading into its 5th season . I enjoy playing Yahoo/TSN hockey v.s all of you fellow gurus as well as keeping up with the few keeper leagues that I compete in as well . I did fairly well in my first few smallword seasons but have since been getting my butt kicked around . I have now set my goals a little lower than most of you when it comes to division titles and overall standings . Thanks to rotoguru , I have met many online hockey friends who I would have never met otherwise . Thanks , for that | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Alex D. Email: IvoryBalla@aol.com Age: 16 Home: Oakland CA Occup: HS student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jason Zaikov Email: SeminoleU4@hotmail.com Age: 25 Home: Atlanta, GA Alumnus: Florida State University Occup: None of the Above or something | First things first, - Jessica, where are your *'s????
About 4 years ago I stumbled upon this kingdom known as Rotoguru.com. Haven't looked back since! My roomates tease me, but I know they're just jealous and deep down inside they only wish they had a job like mine where I can spend THIS much time on here!!!!! Teams _____ Finished #7 in hoops (FSU1999) Got an autographed Bird/Magic action framed picture! Finished #11 CNNSI Hockey (J) Finshed #29 SW Hockey (J) Basketball & Baseball I'm usually somewhere in the top 100 by the time its all said and done. The Guru has MADE me what I am today!! Thanks again GURU!! ME - I'm a lifelong FSU fan (well, since 1993 at least) via NYC and SW Virginia (Roanoke). Most of my teams, ok, ALL of my teams are in New York - Knicks, Mets, Rangers, Jets (although I also dont hate the Yankees or the Giants, I do hate the Islanders though (and the Braves, but thats for other reasons!)) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bill Fleming Email: bfleming@bendcable.com Age: old Home: Northwest Occup: rare coin, precious metals and antiques dealer | favorite sports team - Yankees! (since 1961)
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| Name: Derek Email: snyders@san.rr.com Age: 29 Home: San Diego, Ca. Occup: Retail Sales | Check out my page at http://home.san.rr.com/thesnyders I like the Lakers...Lakers and more Lakers. I almost never root for any San Diego teams...and most definetly do not jump on the bandwagon if they happen to win a couple times in a row or even have a good season if they are real lucky.
I play Smallworld baseball, basketball and football, but the hoops is my favorite. This season I made a bet with a friend and the loser in Smallworld hoops has to run a 10K!! (ouch) I am way ahead though...so it looks good. I recently got the highest world ranking I have ever got...up to 823 in the hoops world. I was the first of my group to be a Guru regular...still dont know why some of them still wont go to the Guru. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Gilligan Email: jmgilli99@aol.com Age: 47 Home: Orange Park, Florida Alumnus: SUNY at Oneonta Occup: General Surgeon | I,m a rookie at Fantasy Sports Love all sports. My Pro Teams are NY Knicks.,NY Rangers, NY Yankees, Jacksonville Jaguars, Iona Basketball, Jacksonville University Basket
ball College Football completely turns me OFF because they need a 16 Team Playoff and until that occurs Its, all a bunch of Bullshit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Garfield Lindo Email: caseyg@erols.com Age: 36 Home: Ashburn, Virginia Alumnus: University of Maryland College Park Occup: Government teacher | This is my first year playing fantasy baseball, I'm learning a ton and finding it a lot of fun. A friend recommended this site to me and it's proven valuable, so I thought I'd join the roster. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeffrey Email: jasski2001@hotmail.com Age: 29 Home: Ottawa, Canada Occup: Landlord | As my fellow golfers know, I am known to do some drunkin posting...usually with hillarious results, even to me...
Hockey History: 99-00...650 or so final rank 00-01...11th...damn...44points out of 10th...no tv for me 01-02...520th and climbing fast... Golf History: 2000...4th 2001...gave up...silly me...missed a freeze, so I quit... Trying Football this year...not very good at all...but still fun, at least I have something to watch on Sundays... And of course... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Age: 23 Home: Providence, RI | A diehard Jazz fan since the old days of Stockton and Malone. So sad to come closer and closer to accepting the reality that they will become the greatest duo in sports to have never won a championship. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: J. Chancellor Email: jchance568@aol.com Age: 67 Home: oxford ,ms Alumnus: University of Mississippi ( Ole Miss ) Occup: retired | Favorite teams, Ole Miss Rebels. Minnwsota Twins. Minnesota Vikings. Fantasy team name is jc rebs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: julien_cs@hotmail.com Age: 23 Home: Paris, France Occup: Master Thesis in Artificial Intelligence & Shapes Recognition | I discovered this site around March 2000, after I saw this amazing "rotoguru.com" division in the CNN/SI 1999/2000 hoops game. It was my first year playing any kind of fantasy game, this doesn't really exist in my country. I'm mostly a daily visitor since. I only play hoops, and am a proud member of the almighty EuroGurupies division.
I'd like to thank Guru for providing all of this, especially the three things that I think are the most useful : - The Message Forum. - The 4-weeks NBA schedule. - The sartibles. Past Finishes : 2002-2003 : - 8, 11 and 14 WWR in TSN Ultimate Hoops. 2001-2002: - 38 and 59 WWR in TSN Ultimate Hoops. - 21 WWR in TSN Basic Hoops. 2000-2001: 692 WWR in Smallworld Hoops 1999-2000: in the 700's WWR in CNN/SI Hoops | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: 24 Home: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Occup: Computer Programmer | My favoruite teams are:
Penguins A's Broncos Lakers Finished 96 in SW Golf (2000) Only started playing fantasy sports the past few years. Not really that great at it, but I love sports and it keeps me up on what's going on in the sporting world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jamie Edman Email: jamie@totalvendingservices.com Age: 54 Home: Fairfield, California Alumnus: Brigham Young University Occup: Business Owner, Total Vending Services | I've been at this fantasy stuff about 8 or 9 years. I have made some very good friends here at the forum and have had the opportunity to meet a few in person. Special props to Dave R., Species, and Blooki who have become my "go to" for advice and AIM chat. It is one of my hobbies that gives me a lot of enjoyment.
Married 30 years, 4 children ages 29,27,24,22. 3 beautiful girls and one handsome son and the best wife in the world. I also have 2 beautiful grandchildren and another due in May. I'm a lucky guy. Love sports, golf and basketball especially. Played 4 years golf at BYU and 2 years on the European and South African tours. Lived my dream for a couple of years and then moved on to reality. Teams: Warriors, 49ers, Giants, BYU Cougars. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Goldberg Email: jeffg_ny@hotmail.com Age: 38 Home: Bardonia NY Alumnus: Albany State '83 Occup: Computer Professional | Yankee season ticket holder.
Married (Sharon) with 1 year old daughter (Marissa). Gurupie/SW Baseball enthusiast since 1998. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Scott Young Email: s-young@ait.halifax.iti.ca Age: 23 Home: Halifax, Nova Scotia Student: Information Technology Institute Occup: Computer Programmer | I am originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island where I completed my undergraduate degree in Commerce at the University of Prince Edward Island. Moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in November to complete a graduate program in Information Technology.
Discovered Roto Guru early on in the baseball season and used it right through football and hockey. My posts have not been as regular as they were on the baseball baseball boards due to school commitments, but try to scope out the hockey boards regularly. My teams include the Red Sox, Broncos and Flyers and am an avid golfer and curler. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeroen Age: 22 Home: Ohio Student: Kenyon College Occup: Student | New team request:
Gurupie name: Surge Team name: Jeroen78 Team ID#: Division: SMALLWORLD_41195 DOB: 4/14/78 Thanks you! What is team ID#? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Arnold Bugby (snicker) Email: jessicaliveshere@mytalk.com Age: 39 Home: Akron, Ohio Alumnus: Kent State University Occup: Assistant editor, Akron Beacon Journal | Baseball Team: Cleveland Indians, of course.
Baseball Player: A-Rod is cute. Odalis is a dream *wink wink* I've never been a "student" of baseball, but I've been a huge fan all my life. My collection of 100,000 baseball cards will attest to that. Just don't ask me what's written on the back of 'em. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jim Madden Email: jamadden@uiuc.edu Age: 20 Home: Illinois Student: University of Illinois | I have been hanging around here for about the past two fantasy sports years. I have been gradually increasing in my ability all thanks to this site. I hope guru can keep this place going for many others to get the knowledge that i have gotten from this site.
I am currently top 800 '00-'01 Basketball Fullseason top 100 '00-'01 BAsketball Midseason | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Email: MarvinM099@aol.com Age: 17 Home: Riverside, Ca Occup: High School | my teams:
LA Dodgers LA Lakers LA Kings Tampa Bay Buccaneers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Marcus Mattila Email: dctmmaga@yahoo.com Age: 23 Home: Finland Student: HUT Occup: student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Greg Heck Email: greg_heck@compaid.com Age: 26 Home: Allentown, PA Alumnus: Penn State University Occup: Technical Recruiter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Jansons Email: slamdunksportscards@juno.com Age: 16 Home: Colorado Occup: Sales | I love Rotoguru and use it about 1-2 hours a day either sorting through the sortables or reading the posts on the message boards. I found Rotoguru about halfway through the 1998 baseball season and after that I found my way climbing up the rankings each week. I play SW Hoops, Hockey, Football and Baseball, and I have my hands full with usually multiple teams in each sport, so I use Rotoguru religiously. My basketball team is in the top 1,000 and my hockey team is currently in the top 150, and I would be nowhere close to that if I were still just a lemming.
Thanks Dave, and keep up the outstanding work !!!! John Jansons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Gladden Email: johnggladden@hotmail.com Age: 24 Home: Charlotte, NC Alumnus: University of Florida Occup: Ebay Power Seller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: johnnycanuck99@yahoo.com Home: S.Fla Alumnus: Liberty University Occup: Teacher | Go Yanks! Go Wings! Go Lions! Go Pistons! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jonathan Ripley Email: jripley@ait.halifax.iti.ca Age: 24 Home: Halifax, Nova Scotia Alumnus: UPEI Occup: Programmer | Originally from PEI, I completed University there, before spending a year on the west coast in Vancouver. I moved to Halifax to go to ITI, and I'll finish that in April. Afterwards I'll likely be heading back out west or south, as Canada continues to invade the U.S.
I've coming to the Rotoguru boards since November '99 and credit them with developing my teams into contenders instead of Also-rans. I was referred by my roomate, who you guys know as Jerichoholic. My favorite teams are the Devils, Broncos, and Mets. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: M. Terry Caldwell Email: mtcwell@earthlink.net Age: 30 Home: Atlanta, G.A. Student: Kennesaw State University Occup: Sales Rep | Fantasy Team: Wouldn't you love to know
Biggest fantasy accomplishment thus far: Taking my division last year in SW baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Email: chrtur@bergen.org Age: 17 Home: NJ Student: Not Yet Occup: Student | Usual Team name-Josie
METS FAN Giants Fan Devils Fan Knicks Fan and I really hate soccer. Finished 2000WWR in SWhockey in 99 and 00 Finished 1500WWR in EChockey in 00 Will Finish around 500 in ECbasketball and about 5000 in SWbasketball .... Man, that Hampton is really suckcentral. Making Phillips look like a fool for making that trade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Joe Thomas Email: jtserb@sbcglobal.net Age: 22 Home: Chicago Alumnus: Purdue Occup: Unemployed :( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jukka Hannula Email: Jukka.Hannula@Helsinki.Fi Age: 23 Home: Helsinki, Finland College: University of Helsinki Occup: Student | I΄ll do this one later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Julian Atkinson Age: 22 Home: Boston / London Student: SOAS, Univ. of London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Richard Mahan Email: rmahan@ccpace.com Age: 49 Home: Northern Virginia Alumnus: Virginia Tech & Johns Hopkins Occup: database design and implementation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jonathan White Email: jwvo@eircom.net Age: 45 Home: Dublin, Ireland Alumnus: Trinity College, Dublin Occup: Actor/father | Actor: Self-explanatory
Father: Eleanor (9) and Emily (5) As rehearsed before, spent three crucial years in my own (and America's) history - 1967-1970 - living in NYC. Fell in love with all American sports but especially baseball. Returned to Ireland and suffered withdrawal and alienation (!). Kept myself going with baseball card collection and re-reading "Ball Four". Eventually return trips to USA rekindled and strengthened my devotion. Globalization of TV meant tantalizing glimpses became more frequent. Got Internet April 1999. Found Smallworld Baseball about 10 days later (what kept me?). Found the Guru a couple of weeks after that. Have lived here ever since. I play these games not wisely and certainly not too well. "And I derive a great deal of not wholly innocent pleasure from them" ("Sleuth", with apologies to Anthony Shaffer) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Karen Age: 58 Home: Milwaukee, WI Alumnus: UW-Milwaukee Occup: Business Information Administrator | Life-long Packer fan here, but started following the NBA last year when basketball started right after the football season ended. Being a SW addict, (I have to trade something!) and having a non-sports minded husband (who I couldn't trade after 35 years), I turned to the Gurupie Support Network, and did quite well my first hoops season. (Richard helped propel me to #86 WW in football this past season - my Madden 2000 game arrived last week!)
I especially like the Spurs, and want to like the Bucks as much, but they keep breaking my heart. No empty nest here - plenty of fantasy sports and a new golden retriever puppy to challenge me everyday! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: KDHowell Email: kdhowell45@mchsi.com Age: 51 Home: Springfield , Missouri | St. Louis Cardinals & Rams , K.C. Chiefs , Missouri Tigers , Southwest Missouri State (SMSU)Bears. Does anyone have or know where I can get a list of graet baseball players NOT in the HOFame . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Keith Landis Email: keilandis@excite.com Age: 24 Home: Cleveland area Alumnus: Youngstown State University Occup: Math Teacher | I am a fan of all sports, and recreationally participate most of them. I ran cross country and track in high school and college. I coach high school cross country and track now. My uncle is KevinL in this forum. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Keith St.Germain Age: 23 Home: Alexandria, Virginia Alumnus: Hamilton College Occup: Management Consultant | Die Hard Yanks Fan!!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Derek Age: 19 Home: Cincinnati Student: UC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kevin L Email: kjlandis@yahoo.com Age: 39 Home: Cleveland, OH Alumnus: Case Western Reserve University Occup: Software Systems Analyst / Pizza Driver | Blogs:
Pizza Delivery Weekends With Dad Blended Family Youth Sports Coaching Top finishes: 1996 SW Baseball - top 50 1998 SW Hoops Playoffs - top 50 Other finishes, kept here for historical purposes, certainly not for bragging! 2000 Market Madness - 215 2000 SW Hoops Playoffs - 1879 WWR (40 GR) 2000 SW Baseball - 2961 WWR (72 AAA GR) 2000 SW Baseball OTO - 4 (Cleveland Indians) 2000 SW Baseball LRV - 16 2000 SW Baseball Playoffs - 510 WWR (3 GR) 2000 SW Football - 5898 WWR (103 GR) 2000 SW Football OTO - 43 (Cleveland Browns) 2000 Football Pickoff - 44 2001 Market Madness - 83 2001 SW Hoops - 1239 WWR (157 GR) 2001 SW Hoops LRV - 11 ($4.26 m) 2001 SW Hoops OTO - 11 (Cleveland Cavs) 2001 SW Hoops Midseason - 493 (57 GR) 2001 PSC Hoops (Progressive) - 10 2001 Madball April - 15 (31-19) 2001 Madball May - 14 (35-35) 2001 SW Baseball - 3759 WWR (24 AAA GR) 2001 SW Baseball LRV - 11 ($0.72) 2001 SW Baseball 500k - 28 2001 SW Baseball OTO - 10 (Cleveland Indians) 2001 Madball June - 40 2001 Pick 'Ems - 58.39 %, top percentage! 2001 PSC Baseball (Progressive) - 6 2001 Midseason Tag Team AL/NL with Ira - 23 (1st AL team) 2001 SW Golf - 1130 WWR (54 GR) 2001 SW Golf Boatrace - 25 2001 PSC Football (Progressive) - 8 2002 TSN Hoops - 419 (87 GR) 2002 PSC Hoops (Progressive) - 8 2002 TSN Golf (I) - 514 (60 GR) 2002 PSC Football (Free) - 90 2002 TSN College Football - 2136 WWR 2003 TSN Hoops - 824 WWR (109 GR) 2003 PSC Hoops (Free) - 137 2005 Guru Golf 107 out of 311 2006 Guru Golf 40 out of 309 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Cleveland Lawrence Email: kibitzer@mis.net Age: 48 Home: Winchester, Kentucky Occup: Water Distribution Operator | Born and raised in Winchester, Kentucky.
Two years in NY city while in the service. I play SW baseball and football. Six year old daughter. (Still counting the years until retirement.) Pro baseball, college baseball and college basketball fan. Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting. Lawrence Peter (Yogi) Berra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kieran Email: ich@ireland.com Age: 23 Home: Dublin Student: DCU Occup: Researcher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Elon Age: 20 Home: New York, NY Student: Cornell University Occup: Stand-Up Comic, Student | I love the Knicks, Yankees, and football Giants...and to a lesser extent, the NY Rangers, Mets, and Jets.
FANTASY: 1999-2000:SW Full Season(6,442 final WWR). I finished 39th in points, 26th in money, and 30th overall in the basketball MSG game. 2000-2001:Full Season basketball roughly 400WWR I finished nba.com's VirtualGM game in the 99th percentile in 2000. 2002-2003 - Ultimate Basketball WWR was around 250 I think 2003-2004 - Ultimate BBall WWR around 170 I discovered this site in November '99, and joined the message forum in December of that year. I haven't left since. Family: I have 6 kids from 5 different women (gee, do I love those little bastards!), mainly because i want to emulate my favorite NBA stars (Gee, do I love those tall bastards!) You better watch out Shawn Kemp, I'm catching up to you! Professional: Business major at Cornell, graduating in December '04, but I'll most likely put my degree on the back-burner while I pursue stand-up comedy for a few years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Fred Telegdy Email: phred@smoothysmooth.com Age: 28 Home: Charlottesville Alumnus: Auburn University Occup: Web Designer | Some of the sites that I help run/manage:
Kafenatid.com (Work site) Kafenatid.net (Fantasy Sports site) SmoothySmooth.com (Personal Site) I live and work in Charlottesville, VA. I moved here shortly after I graduated from Auburn University (AL) with a degree in Industrial Design. I'm originally from St. Petersburg, FL and my Baseball Claim-to-Fame is that I had Physics class with pitcher Jeff D'Amico. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kyle Uehara Email: kuehara@mail.whitworth.edu Age: 20 Home: Spokane Student: Whitworth College | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: ksouze0007@yahoo.com Age: 50 Home: No Cal & So Cal Alumnus: Pierce College & CSULB Occup: Regional Mgr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeremy Age: 32 Home: Kentucky Alumnus: U of K Occup: Vandelay Industries | Fantasy Sports has destroyed my rooting interest! I now root for players instead of teams. What's up with that!
But I refuse to get involved in the college level....so my love for UK sports remains pure. Wise men once said: It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kyle Email: kyle321n@gmail.com Age: 24 Home: St. John, IN Alumnus: Purdue Calumet Occup: Grad Student | Favorite Teams:
White Sox, Pacers, and Colts. Favortite Sports: NCAA Basketball, NFL, MLB. Not a huge NBA fan anymore. Favorite Fantasy Sports: Definitely Football. I love it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kyle Anderson Age: 16 Home: Southern Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Doug Lockhart Email: loc84@swbell.net Age: 35 Home: Gainesville, Texas Alumnus: North Central Texas College Occup: Network Technician | Happily married for 8+ years.
Moved from Los Angeles area to Dallas --> Denton --> Gainesville, TX since 1980. Notice a trend? If I move to an even smaller town next time, I may write a sequel to Thoreau's Walden. My fantasy team(s) usually start with NCTC. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Donnie Bray Email: alex2ok@aol.com Age: 50 Home: Oklahoma City Alumnus: OCLA Occup: Accountant | Favorite teams: Baseball...St. Louis Cardinals fan since the age of 14, when I got my first radio as a birthday present. I was growing up on a farm in central Oklahoma in 1964 and I could pickup the night games out of St. Louis. I was hooked when they went all the way and won the world series that year. Football...Dallas Cowboys and the Oklahoma Sooners...who else?
Favorite players: Baseball...any current or former Cardinal. Guys like Kenny Boyer, Bob Gibson, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, Mike Shannon, etc. Football...any current or former Dallas Cowboy or Oklahoma Sooner. (Note: Barry Switzer belongs in the college football hall of fame....it's time for those jerks to stop dis'n him and recognize his contribution to the game!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Hoang Email: twostardude@hotmail.com Age: 18 Home: Toronto, Ont | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Email: jhsiung@andrew.cmu.edu Age: 19 Home: Pittsburgh, PA Student: Carnegie Mellon University | I grew up on Long Island, NY and then moved to Taiwan when I was 14. Now I'm back here for college at CMU in Pittsburgh. I'm a big basketball fan. I got a great love for this game which partly came from playing var in high school (we were ranked 4th in all American South-East Asian teams and competed with the best high school and collegiate teams in Taiwan). This is actually my second year playing fantasy basketball though I didn't take the game too seriously my first season. I didn't find RotoGuru until about a month into this season and it's really helped me a lot. Been following the boards but I rarely post. I can't wait until next season to be a contender with what I've learned (much love to the gurus). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: DCS Email: blackinc@usa.net Age: 25 Alumnus: LSU Occup: DCS Industries and Technoligies |
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| Name: Larry Johnson Email: linear10000@yahoo.com Home: Midwest City, Ok Occup: Ticket Agent | Super Bowl Tickets for Sale.
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| Name: Rob Email: lionprideguy@hotmail.com Age: 23 Home: Los Angeles Alumnus: Loyola Marymount University Occup: Development | SW teams listed under variations of the name LMU Thunder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Age: 69 Home: New Jersey Alumnus: SUNY at Buffalo Occup: Pediatrician | Time for an update, the last one being in 2007:
I began to play fantasy sports after reading about Small World Baseball in an article in the NY Times in 1998, and have been playing poorly, but enjoying it immensely ever since. I lost interest in the salary cap game and started to play in the Rotoguru baseball and football games since their inception, but have only made it to RIBC for 2 seasons. I also enjoy the Dirty Dozen keeper league. Personal: 1 wife, 3 daughters, 2 granddaughters and 1 dog. Pediatrician in NJ Teams: LA Dodgers NY Giants-season ticket holder NY Knicks-stopped following after the great 1973 team NY Rangers-stopped following after 3/4 of the league qualified for the playoffs NY/NJ Red Bulls-had season tickets for their 1st 3 seasons as the MetroStars, and have a signed soccer ball from the original team (missing Peter Vermes) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Age: 20 Home: Austin, TX -- from New Orleans, LA though Student: University of Texas at Austin -- Hook 'em! Occup: student | 1st year fantasy player...found these boards a few weeks ago...helped me move up about 400 spots to wwr#223 in hoops...was top 1500 in football this year too.
Big time basketball player...both pickup and intramurals...also play football, soccer, and golf when i have time. Favorite quote: "Control your own destiny, or someone else will." --Jack Welch, GE (it kinda applies to fantasy sports if you think about it the right way...save those trades!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Lou Email: toughlou@yahoo.com Age: 27 Home: Queens, NY Alumnus: University at Albany Occup: Sales | Former moderator for SmallWorld.com from January to October 2000.
Dolphins Fan Shaq fan What happened to anthony mason? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Steve Shelley Age: 39 Home: Louisville Ky College: Univ. of Louisville Occup: Marketing | Started using this site midway through this years football season when one of the guys i work with said "check this site out, there is some guy named Richard who can tell you who the biggest gainers will be, and he hasn't been wrong yet"
Fantasy Team names: louky full season team notlouky 500k game midlouky midseason game Favorite Teams Baseball Reds Football Browns (we'll be back) Basketball Pacers (at least while Larry is still coaching.) Hockey Stars (not a bandwagon jumper, spent the last 3 1/2 years in Dallas, became a fan there.) Greatest Fantasy accomplishment: None. Currently in the 600-700 range in SW hoops. Favorite Quote: "I hope I break even because I could sure use the money." Famous last words on the way to Churchill Downs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Lance Adams Age: 28 Home: Little Rock, AR Alumnus: UALR Occup: Clerk- United States Postal Service | I'm a reborn baseball fanatic. I walked away from the game in '94, disgusted by the avarice of both the owners and the players. I belong to a union, so I understand the dynamic that was occuring between the two groups, but the good of the game should have been a factor in determining the outcome of the dispute. The divisiveness of this labor lockout really put me off. Until recently, I had only peripheral interest in baseball. However, the bug has bitten me again, and I find myself jumping full-bore into fantasy baseball once again. I currently have 4 SW teams (2 full season, 2 mid-season), 2 Echelon teams, 3 Sandbox teams, 2 Yahoo teams and my own traditional face-to-face Roto league. As you might guess, I spend a LOT of time on-line doing research and getting things ready every day. Rotoguru has become an invaluable tool, and I use it daily. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kenny Ludlow Email: PrazTheLud@aol.com Age: 52 Home: Los Angeles & Chattanooga, TN Occup: Screenwriter/Film & Television Producer/Director - Co-Founder, Semper Fi Entertainment | Co-Creator of Any Body Can Draw and Exec.Producer/Director of The Largest Drawing on Earth!
Business partner of Master Artist TJ Johnson and StudioTJ.com. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Luke Email: brian_skillz@yahoo.com Age: 17 Home: Toronto | GO LEAFS GO!!
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| Name: Rob Email: lunkhead57@yahoo.com Age: 44 Home: Pittsburgh Alumnus: PSU Occup: Village Idiot | A tip o' the hat to The Almighty Guru and his Gurupies for all of the incredible thoughts and info that they take the time to post here for all to ponder! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Kevin M. Age: 38 Home: San Jose, CA Alumnus: Univ of Denver Occup: Finance Manager/Semiconductor Mfg | Having lived in Colorado for many years, I was happy to see the Broncos finally win the big one (twice). However, I have been in the Bay Area for 12 years, so I mostly follow the SF Giants, 49ers, A's, Warriors (unfortunately), and Sharks.
I'm married (14 years) and have 3 daughters (9,6, & 2). I get a kick out of Yogi Berra quotes, some of which are applicable to Fantasy Sports: "You can observe a lot just by watching." - i.e., `lurking' on Rotoguru's Forum. "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." - That's why we start with $50M. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: glenn carson Email: gcarson@maine.rr.com Age: 62 Home: maine Occup: owner financial service company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Email: Majicc19@aol.com Age: 38 Home: Oregon Occup: Private Investigator/Hockey Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Gerald Brown III Email: governor@umit.maine.edu Age: 22 Home: Orono, ME Student: University of Maine Occup: Chemical Engineering | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Daniel Shay Email: daniel_shay@hotmail.com Age: 29 Home: Potsdam, NY Alumnus: Rochester Institute of Technology Occup: Student | Found The Guru mid-baseball season 2000. Favorite Smallworld sports are Baseball, Golf and, Hockey.
1999 Golf ~1500 2000 Golf 516 2001 Golf 4 2000 Hockey ~10000 2001 Hockey 1159 2000 Baseball 6500 2001 Baseball 1766 Team Names: Makisupa Policemen, Phish420, Slytherin Ice Wizards, Dupree's Diamond Blues. Member of 2001 LRV 500K Club, as one of 8 Gurupies who achieved for the first time minimal roster value. I can almost always be found on the Golf Boards When I'm not here, I'm busy downloading. Want to trade sometime?? Thanks to all who work hard to make this an outstanding community...Go Mets!. "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb, because that's where the fruit is!" - wise words I try to live by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Marcus Email: camby23mvp@aol.com Age: 20 Home: North New Jersey Student: Ramapo Occup: Student, Part-time worker, Smallworld GM | My friend introduced me to Smallworld Sports and I became instantly hooked. I have been doing Smallworld Sports since the Fall 99 football season. My Favorite teams are the Mets, Rangers, Knicks, Giants
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| Name: Mark Leitner Email: mleitner@execpc.com Age: 41 Home: Real close to Milwaukee Alumnus: Marquette(ug'80); Wisconsin(ls'85) Occup: Lawyer | -Diehard Packers, Brewers, Bucks fan (season tix for all 3)
-Freshman during THE SEASON of Marquette b-ball (Give 'em hell Al) -Fantasy sports freak since '85; former writer for Benson's baseball books -Best known on the boards for: long meandering posts about minor league stats and raving about pitchers' workloads; "Resident Bucks Expert" -Team names: Unbearable Leitners (SW bases; 172 in '99); Wretched Refuse (SW ms bases 102 in '99; currently 149 SW hoop); What's Up With The Shirt (SW Poor Richards; droppin' like a rock) -Confirmed tradeaholic "You can observe a lot by just watching." "It gets late early out there." "If people don't want to come out to the park, how are you going to stop them?" --Yogi Berra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Matt Healy Email: MatHealy@aol.com Age: 31 Home: Hilton Head, Sc Alumnus: Niagara University Occup: Bartender | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Matthew Groff Email: matt_groff@msn.com Age: 22 Home: Lancaster, Pennsylvania Alumnus: Shippensburg Occup: IT Help Desk | Now that I am out of college and have a real job, I'm able to participate more on the boards and in leagues etc. I hope to donate to Guru soon, once I save up some $$$ and move out I'd like to make one large donation. Well thats it for now, i just wanted to change my info. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Matt Stiles Email: MattS8282@hotmail.com Age: 19 Home: Vancouver, BC, Canada Occup: Temporarily Retired | Right now I'm just kickin it. Getting trained to be a lifeguard, and coaching some tennis. Hopefully I can head down to mexico sometime this year to do a little coaching at one of the posh resorts.
I am a minor hockey referee of high levels(Midget AAA) and have a job at a sporting goods store that specializes in golf + tennis. I also play tennis, and as a junior I achieved some pretty high ranks. I still play locally at the 4.5-5.0 level. My best SW result is the top 100 for the first time in Hoops '99-'00, placing #96. Go figure, the sport I least like is the one I do best in... Finished #164 in FS Baseball 2000. Finished a pourous 1340WW in SW Football 2000. I made a trip down to Seattle to see a game with some gurupies in Sept. 2000 with Tosh, RSF, Seattle Zen, and billiruben. Had a blast! "Matt S and the No Tones" Good times! I spend most of my spare time watching sports and rooting for the Canucks, Browns and Angels. Favorite players are: MLB: Carlos Delgado, Jim Edmonds, Darrin Erstad NHL: Cliff Ronning!!! I HATE Pavel Bure, Matthew Barnaby, Dennis Rodman, and others who try to turn sports into a joke. I play Smallworld Baseball, Football and Golf. Sandbox Hockey, Football and Baseball. Team names are usually along the lines of Hockey 101, Baseball 100, etc. I found Rotoguru before the '99 Baseball season, and my ranks have climbed ever since. Hmmmm, I wonder why???? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Joe Email: josephkinlan@hotmail.com Age: 29 Home: Brooklyn, NY | I'm a production coordinator at the news desk of a nationally broadcast cable TV network.
I have taken upon myself a most daunting one man crusade to persuade the powers that be to elect my favorite baseball player (that I've seen play) of all time to the hallowed Baseball Hall of Fame. I know the chances are not great, but I have pledged to perservere in spite of those who choose to mock me and my quest. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Craig Age: 32 Home: Vancouver Alumnus: Brock University, Simon Fraser University Occup: Teacher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Etienne Desmeules Email: etienned@pretech.qc.ca Age: 24 Home: Montreal Occup: construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Demetrios Karathanasis Age: 24 Home: Lexington, KY Alumnus: University of Kentucky Occup: MBA | Huge Kentucky Fan
Fantasy team name: Greecian Formula 17 I always want to win at everything. Am always in the top 2% in the world year in and year out in fantasy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Billy Email: BillLXA@aol.com Age: 23 Home: Memphis, TN Student: Union University and U of Memphis Occup: Law Student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Randy Estok Email: estok16@earthlink.net Age: 26 Home: New Jersey |
dolphins yankees nets tar heels hurricanes SCARLET KNIGHTS of RUTGERS (oh yeah!) tony soprano incubus mexican food dos equis kobe the cat younger brothers that think they are better but are in denial -- and the numbers prove it .. eh hem brunettes green apple soda lifestyles of the rich and famous lime green, navy blue, bright orange, silver and black | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Frank Grillo Email: nyyss23@hotmail.com Age: 23 Home: New York Occup: Cook | Favorite Team: New York Rangers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: mike Age: 44 Home: Houston, Texas Alumnus: wisconsin Occup: planner | "Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have. There are two ways to be rich: one is to have great wealth, the other is to have few wants" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael Ian Jennings Age: 24 Home: Dublin, Ireland Student: Trinity College Dublin Occup: Postgraduate Student in Economics | I have been interested in Basketball since I was about 15, when I started playing for my high school in Leverkusen, Germany (hometown of Detlef Schrempf). I discovered fantasy basketball in the 98-99 season, playing on the CNNSI site. I discovered Guru's site at the end of that season after seeing rotoguru.com in the top 50. My favourite Basketball team is Bayer 04 Leverkusen. My favourite NBA team are the Sonics. My favourite NCAA team is Duke (I was there the summer after their Back-to-Back and got hooked). I currently play for the second team of my College,and am Club Captain (like president/chairman).Check out our website. My personal page is here. For the 2000/01 hoops season I am a proud member of Belly division, as well as a Eurogurupie. Team Names: CourtScholars, Eireballers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike D Email: mdonahue27@comcast.net Age: 37 Home: Harrisburg PA Alumnus: York College of PA Occup: Insurance | Philly sports fan. 3 great children, and a great wife, that allow me to fit in time on the computer for rotoguru.com. Team names of "late men," "sky brothers," "master plan," and various teams starting with the name "Extreme." Sought a higher power and found the Guru 1/2 way through baseball 99. The magnetism on that board drew me close. Brought fellow Gurupie Shifty into the mix.
Strictly a Rotisserie player these days, as the restrictions of the salary cap/limited trade games aren't my bag anymore. I like Pizza and seafood. A beer to wash it down. Love music, and pro wrestling. And free online fantasy sports. Highest finish: Hoops WWR #16 "Anybody can finish second." -- Leo Derocher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Vivian Email: mikevivian@yahoo.com Age: 58 Home: LA, CA Alumnus: Texas Occup: Retired | Team name-Dilligads
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| Name: Mike Davison Age: 28 Home: Brampton Alumnus: University of Waterloo Occup: Software Developer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: anymajordude Email: mjcnba@yahoo.com Age: 46 Home: East Coast Occup: Self employed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bill Meagher Email: mogulsmar@aol.com Age: 46 Home: Granby CT College: what's that Occup: mechanical engineer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Erik Urban Email: urban3@cox.net Age: 29 Home: Florida Alumnus: University of Florida Occup: Contract Specialist, USAF | Orioles suck.
Gators rule. I play fantasy football and win. I play fantasy baseball and lose. I wish I was ukula. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Gary White Email: schmoko@hotmail.com Age: 27 Home: Boone, IA Alumnus: Graceland Occup: chimny sweep | Burns: "Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Matt Buczynski Email: el_mujeriego@hotmail.com Age: 22 Home: Ann Arbor, MI Student: University of Michigan Occup: Student | Born and raised in Michigan, I'm a fan of most Michigan based sports teams. I especially pay attention to the Red Wings and Tigers, who will never be simultaniously good during my lifetime.
I've been playing SmallWorld Sports for 3 years now. My buddies at work decided we should start a league so that we would have something to taunt each other about besides our normal inabilities. I have no notable SmallWorld rankings, but eventually I gain the focus to concentrate on a team for an entire season. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Scott Goodell Email: mulvawho@hotmail.com Age: 29 Home: Fraser, MI. Alumnus: Michigan State Occup: Mech. Designer | Watching baseball, football, hockey, seinfeld reruns, my little girl, and my once tone belly on it's way out.
Baseball is my sport of choice. Even though I haven't played it in a few years. Softball doesn't count. Come on Tigers. I'm getting old and tired waiting for you to make a real run at the playoffs again. Finally working just one job again so I now have time to get out to the bowling alley. I missed that. Problem is, now I suck and have to learn the game all over again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: James Moore Email: jamesr_moore@yahoo.com Age: 37 Home: Chicago Alumnus: Truman State University Occup: HR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jubal Miller Email: jubal.miller@mail.state.ky.us Age: 31 Home: Richmond, Kentucky Alumnus: College of William & Mary Occup: attorney | I loved the Cincinnati Reds when they had Alex Trevino at catcher and Larry Bitner at First Base, so how do think I like them with Junior!
Best SW finish: Football: #81 (1999) Baseball: #151 (2000) 2 kids (age 4 and 1) 1 wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ciaran Quigley Email: ciaranq@msn.com Age: 48 Home: Maple Glen, Pa. 19002 Alumnus: Villanova Occup: Consultant | Favorite teams: Baseball - Yankees; Football - Packers; Rugby - Ireland; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Stone Email: rocket299@hotmail.com Age: 30 Home: Bloomington IN Student: Indiana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Nick D Email: NickDeezy@AOL.COM Age: 16 Home: OakTown Occup: Hustla |
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| Name: Jim Email: jfiles@alumni.ucsd.edu Age: 28 Home: San Diego Alumnus: University of California - San Diego (UCSD) Occup: Software Developer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Richard Age: 40 Home: South Dakota Occup: Accounts manager | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Steve Knudsen Email: Knudedude@hotmail.com Age: 26 Home: Indiana Student: Ball State University Occup: Graduate Student | I am originally from NY and am a huge Yankee and Knick fan.
I had a blast with smallworld sports over the last few years. Rotoguru was instrumental the small success i had in finishing 30 something in basketball and 20 something in the basketball playoffs last year. I can only give credit to Rotoguru.com. This past year I have spent time with sandbox only because of the time factor. Overall I like smallword better because it is fun to see your team move up the overall rankings. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Toni Email: not_anymore@hotmail.com Age: 25 Home: Finland | I've been playing SW fantasy hockey since 1999. Finished top 130 in 1999.
Favorite hockey teams: Montreal Canadiens Fantasy hockey team names: Not & Not HC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: H. Lin Email: hylin@ucsd.edu Age: 18 Home: Arcadia, Ca Student: University of California San Diego (UCSD) Occup: Studying Computer Science | A poor kid from the streets that made it.
Winner of FantasySportsUnlimited.com 's Mid-Season Basketball game(2000). - Prize - $250 DvD Player + $100 Smallworld Sports is a waste of time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bob Beck Email: gopher1@nauticom.net Age: 44 Home: Harmony, Pa Alumnus: Professional Umpiring School Occup: Painter-Wallpaper Hanger | Nuclear Gophers in Football
badnewsbecks in Baseball Have been playing Smallworld Sports (baseball and football)since it started. I have 5 kids Diane 20, Billy 17, Chad 9, Tyler 7, Rachel 4. I crossed the umpires picket line in 1979 and did 5 Pirate games. What an experience. The best I ever did in fantasy sports was in the top 50 in the pick-off game this year and 2 years ago was ranked 170 in baseball. My favorite team is the Braves, Steelers, Penguins, and the Pee Wee team I manage in the summer. I collect Greg Maddux memorabilia. I like to hunt white tail deer in Pennsylvania I have to say that Fantasy sports is my real job and that I go to work to fill the void. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Danny Occhionero Email: occhy32186@aol.com Age: 18 Home: Cleveland Occup: Student | I am a huge sports fan, and I mostly like all Cleveland teams. I have been going to almost every Indians home game since I was 5 or 6. I am a SR in HS, and I am looking for a college where I can major in business and possibly play golf. Any ideas?
I play fantasy baseball and basketball (I am ok at both). I don't post a lot, but I come to the boards fairly often. Feel free to e-mail or IM any comments or ?'s to me. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: George Age: 38 Home: O.C. Ca. Occup: Contracter | Lakers,Cippers,Anahiem Angels,Raiders fan.
TSN UH 3rd year.Still suck!Can't get enough | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Robert Baumgartner Email: rob.baumgartner@planar.com Age: 30 Home: Portland, OR Alumnus: University of Pennsylvania Occup: Director of Marketing | OSU is for Oregon State. My wife and both my parents graduated from there and I grew up watching the great basketball teams of the 80's. Now I hold season football tickets and hope Erickson will take us to the promised land.
When not watching OSU, I am watching the Braves on TBS. Dale Murphy is my hero and I have been a Braves fan since the early 80's. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: 27 Home: Lake Elsinore Occup: Sales | I started playing fantasy basketball 2 years ago, but only play the basic game. Favorite team the L.A. lakers most hated team San Antonio Spurs (Sacramento Kings are my second option) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Matt Overton Email: moverton40@yahoo.com Age: 36 Home: Indiana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Wertz Email: wertzfamily@hotmail.com Age: 37 Home: Northern Indiana Alumnus: Purdue, IUSB, Grace, Ball State Occup: Psychologist | Top 100 finish in my first and only season of TSN Ultimate. Didn't like that they didn't pay me my 90 bucks and I don't like the non-basketball factors in the game enough to commit the time or money to it. So I'm probably done with TSN hoops. Their draft kit was a rip-off too.
However, roto last year ('04 - '05) was a wonderful discovery for me and I think really adds to my knowledge of the players and the league. I'm married since 1993 with three kids. Boys born in '98 and '99 and a girl born in '01. Working in the schools is an outstanding way to have extra time with your family. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jack Brunschmid Email: jackbrun@hotmail.com Age: 49 Home: Murrieta, Ca. Occup: Network Manager | Divorced with two children (Julie and John) and two grand-children (Ashley and Morgan). Avid golfer, Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter watcher. I also enjoy movies (is there anything better than DVDs?).
This is my third season of SW baseball. My teams are Ball-Busters (1,2 & 3) and Padkees (1, 2 & 3). FS and MS. I also participate in SW football and basketball. Favorite teams: Baseball - Yankees (I grew up right outside Cooperstown), Padres (hence the team name Padkees) and any team that plays the Dodgers. Basketball - Lakers Football - Browns (I know) I have been a steady reader of the Baseball forum since James Gang turned me on to it via Managers profile in SW. Very interesting and thought-provoking threads. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Sam Bucovetsky Email: pampelmoose@moose-mail.com Age: 51 Home: Toronto | my cat once won the Belly division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Stelios Email: stelios33@hotmail.com Age: 21 Home: London UK Alumnus: Yale Occup: Consultant | Born and raised in Greece.
B-ball was my life for 12 years until I destroyed my ankle. I still play but on recreational level. Played water polo @ yale. Fantasy team names are variations of the word PAOK in the TSN Ultimate Fantasy Hoops League. Played SW Hoops for three years. 1st year was a disaster finishing somewhere in the middle. 2nd year much better finishing in the top 3000. 3rd year improved a bit but I did not get a single break with injuries. My two favorite players to watch are Vinsanity and Peja. I believe Peja Stojakovic will leave his mark in the NBA unlike any other European player. It's that three-point shot of his... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Paul Charest Age: 26 Home: Boston,MA Alumnus: Providence College Occup: IDX Applications Manager (Medical Billing Software) | Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins fan. Was hooked on the Seattle Supersonics until Xavier McDaniel and Dale Ellis left.
Getting married in about two months, came across this sight a few weeks ago....to this point, one has not interfered with the other!! First year for Fantasy Hoops player. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Email: jsordyl@engin.umich.edu Age: 22 Home: Ann Arbor, Michigan Student: University of Michigan Occup: Student, Brake Engineer at TRW | A lifetime Tigers fan, and a baseball fan in general, I just discovered Rotoguru for the 2001 baseball season. Already, it's helped my WWR to become almost respectable.
I have a fiancee nameed Teriann, set to be married in June 2002, and I am on pace to graduate in December 2001, and am a proud brother of Chi Psi fraternity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Danny Perkins Email: perk9600@yahoo.com Age: 22 Home: Brighton MA Alumnus: University of Connecticut Occup: MBA Student | Love the Sox, Bruins, and Uconn Huskies. Hope the Av's win the Cup for number 77!(looks like they did) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Frederick T. Courtright Email: PermDude@eclipse.net Age: 48 Home: Mount Pocono, PA Alumnus: Xavier University, Cincinnati Occup: Copyright & Permissions Consultant | Born and raised in Cleveland, so I'm a big fan of all North Coast teams.
Age: 48 Married 16 years (wife Amanda) with a 15-year-old son Chase, 9-year-old daughter Cecilia, 5-year-old son Declan, and 2-year-old Rosie. Worked in book publishing for about 10 years in NYC before starting my own consulting business, The Permissions Company, Inc. www.permissionscompany.com Favorite color: Blue Known more for my sharp wit than for my fanstasy sports prowess (which ain't sayin' much), though I finished 17th in Football Pickoff. And I'm the only two-time winner of the Blue Hen, Jr. Award. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Peter Henriksen Email: henrikp@heska.com Age: 1976 Home: Fort Collins, CO Alumnus: Colorado State University Occup: Web Developer, self employed, adventurer | I'm a hockey fan first, and Avalanche fan second. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Peter Nash Email: pnash2k3@hotmail.com Age: 20 Home: Lewisville('burb of Dallas), TX Student: Texas Tech University Occup: student | My favorite sport, by far, is football. I enjoy playing both fantasy and high school football.
I am a die-hard fan of the Dallas Cowboys. I have been a Cowboys Fan as long as I've known football. I go to at least one Cowboy game every year and if I had the money I would get season tickets. Along with fantasy football, I enjoy playing fantasy baseball and basketball. I play all of these fantasy sports in TSN, Yahoo, ESPN, and CBS. I play because I enjoy watching sports in person and on TV and I think that playing fantasy sports makes some of the games you watch in person or on TV a little more interesting and fun. Best WWR Finish: 2002 TSN Ultimate Baseball - Top 50 I don't post on the boards very often instead I like to read what everyone else has to say. Since being introduced to this board by a good friend of mine, Roy Jones, in the summer of 99, my rankings have increased greatly in TSN. I credit some of this to myself and the other to the gurupies on this board and the man himself, Guru. The site he provides everyone sums it all up. Thanks Dave! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Peter Lawless Email: PLawless@worldnet.att.net Home: Weymouth, MA 02189 College: Stonehill Occup: Production Manager | RED SOX FAN! Rookie at smallworld--recently discovered this site and quickly became addicted to it. I knew you people were out there, just had to find you.
My 1st experience at fantasy sports was SW Football and after a slow start came in 7th in Boston area-40,000 pts. Baseball is tough so far but since I found your forum I realized I am on the right track although I don't expect to seriously compete with the regulars. THANKS! Team name----peterl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Paul Age: 18 Home: Ohio Student: Youngstown State University Occup: student | 2000 is the first year i realized the potential of fantasy sports. The people you meet online, the fun, the prizes (like i will ever win).
*16th in world for 6/26/00 on Small World. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Phizken Email: ph75@fisk.tc Age: 37 Home: Sweden Occup: Sometimes | 21st WR SW PL soccer
Sorry to see that SW/SN doesn't carry PL soccer this season. Now trying SW Hockey after a dismal season in the Golf (you have to remember to do the trades!!!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Email: b.talmadge@comcast.net Age: 40 Home: Pennsylvania Occup: Manage apartment complex | I like all the philly teams. yes even the eagles. Enjoy watching all sports.
I was able to win my first SW prize in playoff baseball in 2000. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Paul Scheirer Email: swhockey@hotmail.com Age: 44 Home: Northern Virginia Alumnus: Carnegie Mellon University Occup: Computer Programmer/Consultant | Father of two children one girl 13 and one boy 11.
The guy who does the hockey stats since the Guru is still pissed about the the Whalers leaving Hartford (Well, Dave SAYS he just isn't a hockey fan and is busy enough with basketball and football.) 1999 Baseball Smallword 4th WWR 1999 Baseball CNN/SI 3rd WWR 99-00 Hockey CNN/SI 5th WWR 99-00 Hockey SW 67th WWR Oh, and my favorite teams are, oh I will just let you guess. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Phil Spiegel Email: pbuster57@hotmail.com Age: 56 Home: Ohio Alumnus: Cincinnati Occup: IT Geek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Birth Name is PhillyTom (they just knew) Email: ThomasWeldin@yahoo.com Age: 26 Home: San Diego, CA Alumnus: High Point University (in NC) Occup: Investment Accountant | Originally I am from Wilmington, DE. All the local Philly stations forced their teams down my throat, it was only a matter of time before I caved in. Now here I am In Southern California, having to watch the (spoiled) Southern California Sports Report, thinking 'that's not a favorable highlight of AI'? Hobbies include: travelling to San Fran or Phoenix to see my birds or sixers and counting down the days til the Phils three day stint at Qualcom. Baseball tickets are much cheaper out here ($26 right behind Scotty at 3rd). Look for me on TV, I will be the obnoxious 6"8' guy with the obnoxious red 'Phillies' T on. HERE WE GO, PHILS!!!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Don Email: don.rhodes@standardforwarding.com Age: 48 Home: Quad-Cities, IL Alumnus: BYU Occup: Transportation | Long-time Phillies fan from childhood. I became a Dodger fan as well after living in So Cal for about 10+ years listening to Vin Scully every night (how can you not?). But I'll root for the Phils over LA any time.
I've tried other sports but baseball is my first love. I enjoy golf and play when I can. I view basketball and football only as breaks between baseball seasons. I found rotoguru.com about four years ago after a friend invited my to join his TSN fantasy hoops league and have been hooked on fantasy sports ever since. I tried TSN football one year, and continue to try TSN hoops and RIHC, but I just am not that good. Although last year I did break the top 50 prize list in 2008 for TSN hoops. I have had the most success with baseball and find that the RIBC leagues offer the most challenge for me. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Email: Phyrre56@hotmail.com Age: 18 Home: Philadelphia Student: University of Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Little Email: jefflittle19@hotmail.com Age: 21 Home: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada Student: Brock University Occup: Student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Adam Email: adamcz@aol.com Age: 21 Home: NYC Alumnus: Berklee College of Music, Manhattan School of Music Occup: Student/Jazz Musician | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Sean mcKinley Age: 29 Home: Riverview New Brunswick Canada Occup: Project Analyst | Football Fav KC Chiefs
Hockey fav Montreal Canadians Baseballfav the Red Birds Ultimate user for 3 years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Pete Pedersen Email: gatewaywelding@qwest.net Age: 44 Home: Omaha, NE Alumnus: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Occup: Welding shop owner | wife- Diana (my vice-president) Daughter- Miriam (13)
Huskers rule! We have no pro teams, of course, but the Kings used to be called the Kansas City/Omaha Kings and I saw them play here when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old (Nate Archibald vs Kareem)...heck, put me down as a Kings fan too! I began using the Internet for Fantasy games and Fantasy game info in 1997 (coincidentally the same year I got my PC). Before then (1993-1996) it was Fantasy Baseball, Basketball and Football scored by hand. Ah...the good ol' days. I played the 1997 SW Football game and since then I've been hooked. I also started playing the Sandbox and Echelon games in 1998. My Fantasy Football League has been around for 9 years and I joined a traditional NL only Rotisserie Baseball League in 2000 (12 team league!). The first baseball roto league I ever joined (1993) was disbanded after the strike year, so it's nice to be playing traditional roto ball again. My SW teams are usually references to songs by "The Church" or other songs by my favorite bands: Blurred Crusaders, Freeze to Burn, Asphalt Eden, etc. Highest WWR finishes: '99-00 CNN hoops- 95th, '01 Midseason SW hoops- 18th, '00 SW Baseball- 95th, '01 SW Baseball- 5th. Also finished 3rd in Guru's 2000 March Madness contest. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Clarence Email: hardbodyharrison@yahoo.com Age: 24 Home: Tucson Alumnus: Pima Community College Occup: Product Test Specialist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Phil Taylor Email: cguy@sprint.ca Age: 29 Home: Hamilton, ON Canada Student: McMaster Occup: Residential Counselor | Hello. I am an avid fantasy pool player all year round(baseball, basketball, football and hockey). I have used Rotoguru's ever-improving fantasy tools for 2 plus years now. With, ever-improving strategies, I usually finish in the top 2% in most pools. My best is 2nd in a hockey fantasy pool.
I believe that "I am my own worst enemy" in fantasy pool play. Here are some tips I have learned over my years of playing fantasy pools. 1. Recognize that your favourite team or player may not produce the "most" points for you in a fantasy pool. You must detach yourself from your favourite team or player and try and find the best players. 2. Know thy league schedule inside and out. 3. Read your sports news everyday. (Injuries, daily efforts, trades, opinions) 4. Don't take advice from people who do not know anything about the fantasy pool your playing. They know nothing about the scoring of the game and their choices for good players may only be mediocre in the pool you are playing. FAVOURITE TEAMS Baseball: Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres Basketball: Toronto Rapters, Sacramento Kings Football: Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins, Hamilton Ti-cats Hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers Players: (Vince Carter, Grant Hill, Shawn Green, Doug Flutie, Terrell Davis, Luc Robitaille, Pavel Bure) Good luck to all in your fantasy pool playing!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Don Age: 48 Home: Concord, MA Alumnus: Trinity College, CT Occup: educator and soccer coach | I am a mature SWM looking for a lasting fantasy relationship...
OK, wife and two kids, work with schools to integrate IT into the curriculum, formerly a management type with very big companies. I like applying investment management techniques to the selection of players in SW games. I'm better at making money than getting points, but I'm getting better every season (except baseball playoffs where I really stink). Like hoops the best although baseball a strong second. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ali Abbassi Email: madhma@hotmail.com Age: 21 Home: Houston, Texas Student: University Of Houston Occup: Current Sports Fanatic, Future Economic manipulator and stock market genius ;-) | Well I've been a visitor off and on, mostly on, to Guru's site now for a long while. I began coming here the year Guru first won SW basketball. I remember I was very interested in coming here and reading how Dave and the other guys would wait each other out till the last minute before filling the final roster slots for the days games. That kind of competitive spirit and one-ups-man-ship got me addicted to this site and the world of fantasy sports online.
Many of the GSB Gurupies know me from GSB, but you don't really know me :-). I was the "Pops" from GSB, however, with the uncertainty surrounding the site I decided to wash my hands of that all at once. Quick List of Accomplishments I W O N THE FIRST EVER Echelon fantasy football contest. Back then Mehul had two contests. A 'weekly' salary cap game and the 'full-season' salary cap game. I believe the name was Touchdown *full-season* and that's the one I won. I first met Taxman *I think it was you* back then as I sent him some messages b/c he had Texas in the name of his teams, and I was curious as to what part of Texas he was from. Though that seems so long ago I doubt he remembers My Team name was Austin 3:16ers ..... I've finished top 75 in SW Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Basketball playoffs. I've finished top 10 in Solaria/Echelon/Swirve Baseball, Basketball, and Football. One more thing, I cried when I read the thread about Philliphan. There was a particular quote in there from him regarding something about his daughter and finding him cool or un-cool. Someone had pasted it from a convo/email they had with him just a couple of days prior to his passing. Regardless of what it was exactly, that brought me to tears. If I could one day be as passionate of a father as he was, I think my life will be fulfilled. RIP. This is the part where I wonder how I could possibly babble on for SUCH a long time about stuff no one really cares about...ah well, it's done! "If the final score can be 0-0, IT AINT A DAG GUM SPORT" - Ali Abbassi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Horgan Age: 38 Home: Connecticut Alumnus: WPI, UConn Occup: Manager | Hockey is my game, but the Mets are my team. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Adolph Email: eadolph1@hofstra.edu Age: 21 Home: Long Island, NY Student: Hofstra University Occup: Student (Business Computer Information Systems) / Computer Lab Supevisor | Favorite Teams
Baseball: Yankess Hockey: Rangers Football: Jets Basketball: Lakers, Pistons, Magic, T-Wolves Just started playing SW Sports this past baseball season; found this site in the middle, but did not start reading the message boards until around the AS Break. Lots of great information. Finished Top 175 in Football after dropping out of the Top 100 all teh way down to 1,500 or so after i tried to differentiate by trading Warner for a few weeks, OUCH! #44 in hockey as of today, around 800 in Basketball. If anyone else is into PowerLifting, feel free to e-mail be to talk about training, etc. Eric's Web Site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff McKinley Email: sportsfan41@yahoo.com Age: 41 Home: Indiana | I will do this later! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dirk Email: promize@charter.net Age: 35 Home: Missouri via Geogria Student: Southeast Missouri State Univ. Occup: Just pure student right now | Every league I join, I seem to end up with the Number 1 team of the whole game! My luck sucks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mark Email: mark@gregw.net Age: 25 Home: Plainville, MA Alumnus: Colby College, Waterville, ME Occup: Web Developer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: RJ Email: rj@proudestmonkey.com Age: 26 Home: Cincinnati, OH Alumnus: University of Maine Occup: Engineer | Favorite Teams: Red Sox, Redskins
SW/TSN experience: Basketball - 3 years, Baseball - 2 years, Football - 1 year My website: ProudestMonkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Joe LaMarsh Email: psycho_joe@mail.com Age: 22 Home: Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada Occup: Manager | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Jensen Age: 36 Home: Lodi, CA Alumnus: Santa Clara University ('86) Occup: Registered Civil Engineer | >Two-time RotoGuru Hall-of-Famer
'99/'00 Echelon Basketball - #1 WWR '00 Echelon Baseball RotoGuru Team Rankings - #2 WWR * Formed "Rotoboys Rotiserrie Baseball League" (1989) - Four-time and defending champion (Sharks) * Formed "Mean Machine Fantasy Football League" (1990) - One-time champion (Punishers) >RotoGuru junkie since 1998. Have developed some tremendous friendships using this message forum. I now consider WaB, Species, Jedman and KB as my good friends. Recent outings to PacBell Park (with Jedman) and Oakland Colesium (with Jedman and Species) have made time on these boards well spent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dave Douglas Email: davepyro@hotmail.com Age: 48 Home: Port Orchard, WA Alumnus: WWC Occup: Naval Architect | I have played fantasy football at work for 15 years. I have played football and basketball online for about 5 years, but do not remember my national rankings. I have played Small World NFL and NBA ever since I found them. MY RC Roadkill team is now in top 200 in Ultimate Hoops. I won an autographed Dan Marino game jersey from Prime Sports, but I lost the authentication in a very safe place. I have read ROTOGURU since last season and love reading the messages. I hope to donate to GURU soon, but have a daughter in private college in Michigan.
I am a season ticket holder for the Mariners, and have been to 1 Seahawks game. I am a licensed pyrotechnician, a member of PGI, and am part owner of a corporation that sells consumer fireworks. I can get you the good legal stuff. I enjoy river fishing for salmon and steelhead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Scott Kube Email: skube@sympatico.ca Age: 30 Home: Sudbury Ontario, Canada Student: Laurentian University (on hiatus right now) Occup: Metallurgical Engineering (If I ever finish) | Well I just looked at this for the first time in years and I think it is about time I changed it around! So I will just say hi and most of the old school will know who I am. Peace all and lets have some BBQ chicken!!
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| Name: George Quade Email: quade05@olg.com Age: 26 Home: California, MD Student: junior college | California, Maryland, located in St. Mary's County, Maryland, home of Tubby Smith -- probably our biggest claim to fame since I've been around.
Lover of all things hoops. Favorite teams -- who else but those old up and down Terps -- beat Duke, lose to Temple. Also, Kentucky and the Cowboys in football. Played fantasy football for the past four years, but this is my first with basketball and I am addicted. Just found the Guru site about a month and a half ago and am addicted to it, too. Avid supporter of Anheuser-Busch products. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: nate lucash Email: npl8@npl8.com Age: 21 Home: NY Student: Cornell Occup: web design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brandon Corl Email: bcorl@hotmail.com Age: 20 Home: St. Louis, MO Student: St. Louis University Occup: Student | College Major: Management Information Systems
I play fantasy hoops on SW/TSN; this is my second year, so I'm trying to figure out all the strategy involved. Hopefully I can gain some experience. Some of my aliases: the troopers the tall boys chuck fenowith (my personal fave) lynch can bomb Yeah, my names are pretty random, but hey you've gotta go with what works. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: 19 Home: Atlanta, GA Student: A college in Atlanta (not that trade school on 10th street though) Occup: Student | My best fantast finish is 182 in SW baseball last year. Soon after finding this site, I put the wealth I had at the time to good use. Without the resources at this site, I probably wouldn't have finished top 1000. It's not much but its a start. My favorite teams and athletes:
College Football: Florida State, Kansas College Hoops: Kansas, Florida State NHL: LA Kings MLB: Oh come on, if you read the Baseball boards once this summer you know its the Boys in Blue NBA: The Lake Show NFL: The Chefs Favorite Players College Football: Pete, Sebastien, Weinke, BA College Hoops: I like all the Jayhawks NHL: Robitaille, I love Luc Robitaille MLB: Anybody in Dodger Blue, Big Kev, Showtime Shawn Green (I'll find a nickname that fits, don't worry), Hund-dog, Piazza, Mondy NBA: Diesel, Kobe NFL: I loved Derrick Thomas. Tony Gonzo, Bad Moon Rison I'm fairly close to retiring from fantasy sports, my friends that I play with have all quit now and I'm left with no competition and no one to trash talk in real life so the fun is almost all gone. It's no fun playing by yourself. We'll see, maybe one last go around so I can talk up every outing Big Kev has this year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: David Email: shead@nevada.edu Age: 20 Home: Chino Ca, except during the school year Student: UNLV Occup: Food Service Manager | I Stumled on to rotoguru.com from an article I found on smallworld a couple years back, it feels like it has been forever. Back then there were no message boards, and I only visited sometimes. However now that I have come to college with my T1 connection I visit about 7-10 times a day. You rock Guru.
My best finishes have been FS SW Baseball 1200. MS 1000. Started playing the other sports as well this year and hope all go well. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Robert Eckhardt Age: 30 Home: Baldwin, Long Island,NY | This is my first season playing smallworld baseball. I fould out about Guru on the smallworld message boards. I started the season about two weeks late and had wwr around 110,000 but since I found this site I brought it down to 25,000. Not great but thats OK because I'm beating my friend who got me started in this. Now I am addicted and having a great time. Bring on the Mid-season game and when does football season start. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ref Email: refguru@yahoo.com | Play TSN Hoops and Baseball
Co-Commissioner of 24 team football Gurupie League and 20-team Hoops league with RFS. GMD Manager. Also play in other Yahoo Baseball and Basketball Leagues. Top 10 Finish in TSN Hoops. Top 30 in Baseball. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Rendlesham Email: br166203@ohio.edu Age: 21 Home: Cleveland, Ohio Student: Ohio University Occup: Independent Insurance Agent | Favorite Teams
Basketball: Cavs Baseball: Indians Football: Browns College: OSU Buckeyes and OU Bobcats I found these boards during the fall of 02 and they have been a big help ever since. I play TSN Baseball, Basketball, and Football. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Doug Age: 44 Home: Wisconsin Alumnus: Grand Rapids Seminary Occup: Pastor | I'm playing TSN baseball again this year, after last year I do not know why. Yahoo Roto leagues in Football & Baseball are fast becoming my choice play. My team names revolve around Redbird Express or Wisconsin Cheesheads.
Last year I started playing TSN NASCAR and have really enjoyed it. (Happy Harvick or Harvick's Revenge are my team names) I have also enjoyed the Kafenatid site with team play, which is a neat change of pace. Favorite teams: Life long St. Louis Cardinals fan Minn Vikings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Richard Blume Email: rblume@cinci.rr.com Age: 28 Home: Cincinnati, Ohio Alumnus: UC Occup: Restaurant Manager - Ruby Tuesday | Favorite Teams:
Baseball: Reds Football: Bengals (sorry, I'm a homer) College: UC (see above) Usual team names: Roto-champ Devil-Dogs (I'm a former Marine) I'm an avid sports fan, with my favorites being pro baseball, college hoops and the NFL. I also like NHL hockey alot and follow golf somewhat. The only pro sport I really don't like is the NBA...I think the talent is great, but the games aren't that exciting for me as compared to college. I've been involved in fantasy sports for three years now, starting with SW Baseball in the '98 season...I finished in the top 500 (thx to the Guru) and was hooked. I followed it up with a top 300 finish in football and have been playing in varius free leagues ever since. Being a Cincinnatian for the last 12 years, I've become a huge Reds fan as well as a Bengal faithful (ouch!). Anyway, hope this was interesting for someone. See ya on the field! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Richard Cullip Email: cullirj@texaco.com Age: 48 Home: Bakersfield, California Alumnus: San Jose State University Occup: Geologist/Computer Applications Specialist | Team names include Texaco Stars, Kern River Stars and FoxGlove Hunters.
I have two daughters (17 and 14) who love to ride horses. They train at FoxGlove Farms and ride English (Hunter/Jumper) style. I'm going to revive my long dormant fly fishing hobby, that is, if I can steal enough time from SW sports I work at Texaco in the Kern River Oilfield just north of Bakersfield California. Born in Minnesota but have lived in California since 1965. Th last 20 years have been in Bakersfield. I love computers and creating Excel macros and spreadsheets. One of my favorite sayings is "Anything worth doing can be done in a spreadsheet." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Richard Marcotte Email: rmarco@po-box.mcgill.ca Age: 26 Home: Montreal Student: McGill University Occup: Graduate Student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Rick Zurbrick Email: RickZ20@home.com Age: 43 Home: Charleston, SC Student: Trident Tech then College of Charleston Occup: Realtor | Favorite Teams
Baseball ---- Braves Football ---- Bills ( I'm originally from Buffalo) Basketball -- Knicks Love to watch sports and play fantasy sports games. Since I have gone back to school to get a computer Science degree and work about 50-60 hours a week I am way too busy to do as well as I would like. But I still have fun and look forward to finishing school so I can get a real job. Real Estate is fun but it takes way too many hours for way too little money. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Marco Email: fantafoot@hotmail.com Age: 36 Home: Italy Occup: Clerk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mark Terwilliger Email: mterwilliger@gw.lssu.edu Age: 35 Home: Michigan Alumnus: LSSU (88), MSU (90) Occup: College Professor | I am currently in my second year of fantasy sports. I enjoy SmallWorld football and basketball, and am going to give SW golf a whirl this year. I learned quickly a few months ago the value of the forum message boards and the Guru tools.
I am a fan of all Michigan sports teams (Red Wings, Tigers, Pistons, and even the Lions). Listed below are all of my fantasy sports accomplishments: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tim Email: rockafellerskank007@yahoo.com Age: 38 Home: Ohio & Arizona (part time) Alumnus: The Ohio State University Occup: Business Management | Favorite Teams:
NBA: Lakers NFL: Steelers MLB: Pirates College: The Ohio State Buckeyes. Fantasy Sports ........... BasketBall: 1998-1999 CNN/SI version of SmallWorld Hoops: 300+/- WWR with a high of 4 WWR as late as 1/30/99 1998-1999 CNN/SI Weekly Winner for high score 1999-2000 SmallWorld Hoops (full season) 500 +/- WWR 1999-2000 SmallWorld Hoops (mid season) 200 +/- WWR, 13th in Gurupie Standings 2000-2001 ESPN Hoops Divisional Champion H2H format with 99.7% Overall Ranking 2001-2001 SmallWorld Hoops Playoff 3-for-all Divisional Champion 2002-2003 TSN #2 WWR Team. WWR # 2 in TSN Hoops Football: 2000-2001 Smallworld Football 2,000 WWR +/- Baseball: 2001 SmallWorld Midseason Baseball: skankboy4 finished #35 WWR and 5th in Gurupie rankings, 1st place in RotoGuru IV 1/2 Division by 580 points. skankboy3 finished #221 WWR, 1st in Small World Order Division by 566 points. 2001 TSN Playoff Baseball rockafellerskank2001 finished 54WWR; 4th in Gurupie Standings; 4th in RotoGuru's Own Division I also run 3 major Gurupie Roto leagues with the help of "Ref") in football, basketball, and baseball. Thanks for the great site, Dave. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Drake Email: interscopebobcat@yahoo.com Age: 21 Home: Columbus Student: Ohio State Occup: Student | Brief Bio:
From near Athens, Ohio, originally. Spent the last several years there falling in love with the Bobcats. If there's such a thing as a second favorite team, it would be Kansas for me, hence the moniker. Currently at Ohio State, transcript says undecided, but looking in the way of Actuarial Science. Favorite Teams: Cincinnati Reds Cleveland Browns Ohio University anything Whoever the Buckeyes are playing. Fantasy History: Smallworld baseball since 1999. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: BILL Email: NINEDB@AOL.COM Age: 27 Home: NEW YORK Occup: CIVIL SERVICE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Richard Email: rogue9@videotron.ca Age: 20 Home: Montreal, Canada Student: Concordia University Occup: Student | I found Rotoguru when the Smallworld hockey forums went down in 2000, been an addict of the site ever since. (Good to know that famous Smallworld instability was good for something. ;)
I've finished in the top 500 in FS baseball and hockey, but haven't been able to do better. Might have something to do with always sleeping past the dang trade deadline. I also play GSB, am in two keeper baseball leagues, and try to play hockey and golf whenever I'm not with people who'll laugh at my atrocious skills. Also a big thanks to Guru for creating this great site. I really should be getting around to donating some cash... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Age: 20 Home: NYC Student: NYU | 1999-2000 CNNSI basketball: WWR 160
1999 Smallworld baseball: WWR 2000 2000 Smallworld baseball: WWR 269 & 407 Bitter rival: Cash Money Crew Sun Tzu on Smallworld philosophy: "...that to see victory when it is obvious is no sign of excellence or cleverness. To lift an autumn leaf requires no great strength, to see the sun and the moon does not indicate keen eyes, and to hear thunder does not necessitate sharp ears. Thus, good warriors win victories by not making mistakes and by positioning themselves where they will win." Sun Tzu on Smallworld tactics: "...that warfare is fluid. It changes continuously, just as water will adapt its form to the earth. He who can change tactics in relation to his enemy or opponent will succeed in winning." Sun Tzu on saving trades: "...to exercise discipline and calm, to await the weary, disordered enemy. This is the art of mastering strength." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Roo Age: 30 Home: Bangkok Occup: (s) Teacher, DJ, Freelance Writer. | Favourite Teams: Arsenal, Blue Jays, Maple Leafs, Lakers
Fantasy Team names: Bangkok Roosters, BKK Roosters (Baseball) BKK FaceOff 2001 (Hockey) Sport quote: "No-one hands you cups on a plate" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Hyde Email: chyde74@hotmail.com Age: 26 Home: Alvin, Texas Alumnus: Ferris State University Occup: Software Development Consultant | Well, I am another relative "newbie" to the world of fantasy sports...I started in baseball last year (1999), and played in basketball this year (1999-2000). I'm not as saavy as some when it comes to intuitively knowing whom to pick up on a daily basis, but I do have fun playing the games. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Rick Jones Age: 48 Home: Colorado Alumnus: U of U Occup: Technician for AT&T 29+ years | Got hooked on fantasy games years back with CyberSkipper, won all sorts of trinkets and Omaha steaks. Hehee! I now only play football, golf and nascar games. I just do not have the time to keep up with the young guns on a daily basis. I am amazed at the info you can gather at this site and am more than willing to contribute my share.
TSN golf, nascar and football team name. Ricks Picks Extra golf team names. Mad Hacker Balls N the Ruff Chip Fade (My sons team) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: lucky Home: a big island in the pacific. no, not that one. bigger. | in a particular order, never to be divulged: cycling, fisticuffs, frisbee, tobogganing, hiking, canoeing, street hockey, cycleball, chocolate.
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| Name: Eugene Age: 16 Home: Philadelphia, PA Student: Lower Moreland High School Occup: Student | Well Im the youngest person seeing this site according to the forum registry. My friend introduced me to this site. This is my first year playin fantasy sports and i like it. I settled into the 10 position in my division in the first few month but move up to sixth and eventually to fourth thanks to this site. In 2 months went up 5,000 in the WWR. Still 15,000, but improving. Gonna play baseball this year so we'll see. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Russell Stadelman II Email: prosales@memphisonline.com Age: 55 Home: Fort Lauderdale, FL Alumnus: Vanderbilt University Occup: Lumber Importer | Raised & lived majority of life in Memphis, TN. Worked in China & Hong Kong for 3 of past 5 years. Now moved to Fort Lauderdale.
Love Fantasy sports but need to spend less time as catch myself doing this at work too much - I know I am not only one. Two sons - 25 and 22 - one a graduate of UT (Tennessee) & other a senior. Would love to have a website like the Guru. Think what he is doing is amazing with Fantasy Sports. Try to play everything but Hockey but like Baseball most of all. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jorge Sagastume Email: jorgesags@gmail.com Age: 32 Home: Utah Alumnus: BYU Occup: Vice President Operations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Sam Musa Email: NYKWarrior@aol.com Age: 39 Home: New York College: Duke Occup: Waiter | My team ID is 61799. Please put me in your standings. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Sam Joseph Email: cdjsamson@yahoo.com Age: 39 Home: Roanoke, VA Alumnus: ECPI Technical Occup: IT Support Technician |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Geordie Email: geordie@elite.net Home: Merced, CA Occup: furniture retailer | Believer in Jesus Christ, married for nine years, son & daughter
Favorite teams: Dodgers - boyhood hero Steve Garvey Rams - boyhood hero Jack Youngblood Trailblazers - boyhood heroes Dave Twardzik & Lionel Hollins favorite alltime ballplayer - Brett Butler SW player for the past four years in baseball, basketball & football - usually linger somewhere around 1000 WWR - sometimes higher, sometimes much lower. 2001 fullseason baseball WWR: 837 2001 midseason baseball WWR: 1903 2001 fullseason football WWR 312 (Total Surrender), 3434 (Sandlot - UGH!!) Hobby - baseball & football card collecting old baseball card wantlist old football card wantlist Other enjoyable things - hanging out with my teenager & his friends. Playing with my younger daughter. Playing softball with the fellas. Bible study. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Michael J Benson Age: 31 Home: Topeka, KS Alumnus: Washburn University Occup: Chief Financial Officer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jay Age: 31 Home: NJ Alumnus: University of Delaware Occup: Chemist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Shawn Miller Email: schmegga@bigfoot.com Age: 29 Home: Abilene, TX Alumnus: Hardin-Simmons University Occup: RN | Been playing SW since it's inception as well as having received Dave's first e-mail sent out when he started this great site. Follow it on a daily (actually closer to hourly basis). I absolutely love the message forums. Read almost everything there, but rarely post. There are so many good posts there already that I hardly feel the need. This is a great community. I have a wonderful wife named April and the most beautiful little girl in the world named Abbey. Will post a picture at sometime of them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Troy Colen Home: Clovis New Mexico Occup: US Air Force | Team names - Scrubbunch - Almost all sports
Scrubbunch's Grease Monkey - Auto Racing Not to many high performances, am fairly new to the fantasy sports realm Football - too pityful to say Baseball - Mid season top 500 - 2000 Golf - ~~ 2000WWR - 2000 Hockey - ~~800WWR - 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Charlie Commeree Email: aurorasdad@hotmail.com Age: 36 Home: Seattle Alumnus: UCR and Univ. of Maryland Law School Occup: Public Defender | Lifelong Twins, Vikings, Sonics, WA Huskies fan. Charter member of the Political Guru Baseball league. Hard to believe I've been coming here for over six years.
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| Name: sexgirl Email: sexgirl2032@yahoo.com Age: 22 Home: china Occup: manager | http://www.oh-fashion.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Randy Estok Email: shadysmerf@att.net Age: 25 Home: Myrtle Beach | the Roy Hobbs Foundatioin (Ultimate)
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| Name: Michael Shapiro Email: mashapir@umich.edu Age: 20 Home: Ann Arbor, MI Student: University of Michigan Occup: Student | Favorite Team: Sacramento Kings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Richard Shaw Email: shawricky@hotmail.com Age: 14 Home: Edmonton Alberta Canada College: Junior high school Occup: student | My faviort team is Edmonton Oilers MY smallworld team name is shawr4 im in a school division witch is Lawton1 my stats are Division Rank: 1
World Rank: 55035 out of 233578 Cash Left: 160,000 SWD Roster Value: 54,350,000 SWD Total SWP: 9240 I am on a computer alot and im very serious about this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tim Shaffer Email: timothyshaffer@yahoo.com Age: 34 Home: Lancaster, Pa Alumnus: Shippensburg University, Pa Occup: insurance | Phanatic philly fan (Sixers, Eagles, Phillies)
Twin 2 1/2 year old girls, Kellie and Kylie being bred for fantasy greatness. Work with Mike D., who got me hooked, with no regrets. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brenton Smith Email: shiznitx2@yahoo.com Age: 24 Home: Sioux Falls SD Alumnus: University of South Dakota Occup: Programming | I work for a small computer firm programming database applications, so I always have time to access the rotoguru boards and news. Starting to come around full circle in SW fantasy sports this year. Top 500 in SW football and top 50 for most of 1st half of SW fullseason baseball.
Most of my teams have Shiz in it somewhere. Ex: Shiznit, Shiznitx2, Shiztwins..... "Dirty, Dirty. Im representin' from the treetops." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Hoang Mai Email: silverblazzer@hotmail.com Age: 19 Home: Toronto Student: Seneca Occup: student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Simon Yu Email: simbot_1@hotmail.com Age: 16 Home: St. Catharines, Ontario Student: St. Francis Secondary | I love all Toronto teams- the Raptors, Blue Jays, and mostly the Leafs.
My best finish in fantasy sports was coming 9 WWR for CNN/SI Fantasy Hockey (another version of SW hockey- same rules, different name)in 99-00. I am usually lurking around the baseball and hockey message forums, and have moderate success in both games. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Costello Email: mcostel@st1.wou.edu Age: 19 Home: Monmouth, OR and Portland, OR Student: Western Oregon University Occup: Student, looking for summer job :) | I wouldn't call my self addicted to fantasy sports, but I do love playing them. usually the big 3 baseball, football and basketball. my highest ever WWR was #31 in football. my permanent smallworld name is "Size 12 Feet". Grew up in portland oregon. and played basketball since 5th grade.
fav. sports quote "i'm a baller man, straight up"-edge fav. teams-duke, UofO, blazers, colts, blazers, and the 49ers. fav. players-joe montana, rice, a-rod (w/ seattle), edge, faulk, andre miller. fav. coaches-JOHN WOODEN(G.O.A.T.), dean smith, krzyzewski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Dave Age: 34 Home: Brea, CA Student: Intelisource Occup: Computers | Favorite team - Seattle Mariners
3 Fantasy teams - "Dave's Dongers"(regular team) "My Big Ballers(no headed-monster division) "Brea Bombers"(just a team full of rockies to see how they do this months compared to elsewhere) Second year playing SW. Last year my WWR was usually above 3000, this year am hovering between 250 and 800. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Allen Age: 33 Home: Smyrna, GA Alumnus: University of South Carolina Occup: Aeronautical Engineer | Guess I have to update this once a decade at least!
Lived in Atlanta for 11+ years, active in several sports including basketball, soccer, softball and GoKickball. I have one child. (boy 5 years old) I've rooted for the Braves since I was a kid growing up in NC and SC because they were the closest major team. I love basketball, but don't really have a favorite team although I guess I have to root for the hometown Hawks. I'll root for the Falcons and Panthers in football. My moniker was derived from my favorite band the 2 Skinnee J's. I met the guys back in 1995 and got to know them pretty well. The group is currently on an indefinite hiatus (which basically means they have all gone to seek new adventures), but the music and memories will live on. Best Yahoo, SW/TSN and Swirve finishes: 07-09 3 consecutive yr Elimination Chamber Hoops winner 06-07 Finished 4th both years in RIHC 99-current NoQuitters League - All Sports several titles 03-04 TSN Ultimate Hoops 210 WWR, won division. 01-02 TSN Ultimate Hoops 133 WWR 00-01 SW Basketball FS 151 WWR 99-00 SW Basketball FS 204 WWR 2000 SW Baseball MS 224 WWR 2000 SW Baseball Playoffs T-50 WWR 98-99 Swirve Basketball 102 99-00 Swirve Basketball 85 "I may be standing still, but my energy has potential." -2 Skinnee J's | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: skrumped@aol.com Age: 23 Home: West Palm Beach, FL Occup: Waiter | Beware, the light at the end of the tunnel may just be the headlights of the oncoming train. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tom Mak Age: 26 Home: Hong Kong Alumnus: UCLA Occup: Student | This is my second year playing smallworld hoops. I value the many insightful comments from all the gurupies here. It helps to shape my thinking process and makes me a better smallworld player. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Simard Email: bsimard@pacbell.net Age: 42 Home: Bakersfield, CA Occup: Computer Applications Analyst | Small World team name - LaphamBashers
I am involved in rotisserie league baseball as well as a Strat-O-Matic league. I work for Chevron and have for almost 22 years. In 1997 I transferred for a 6 month temporary assignment to Kuwait. I left opening day of that baseball season and didn't get back until game 2 of the World Series. Nice timing! Aside for that stint overseas I have lived my entire life in California, the last 10 years in Bakersfield. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tim Schlesener Email: sledge@ikansas.com Age: 32 Home: Herington Kansas College: Emporia State U. Occup: railroad engineer - U.P. Railroad | FAVORITES-
K.C. Royals and now the Cincinatti Reds (gotta love Junior) quotes- "If you don't play to win - why keep score?" "It's just throwing and catching and hitting and running. What's simpler than that" accomlishments- only played 2 years of swb. Last year finished 39th in 2nd half season(HIS team). Not a fan of the daily repricing!! My Echelon teams are Diamond Gems and Who needs 'em | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jay Sherby Email: jayrsherby@gmail.com Age: 25 Home: Trenton, NJ Alumnus: Rider University | Chicago Bears. Enough said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Roger Ling Age: 13 | Check out this hilarious website I made:
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| Name: Jonathan Losh Age: 24 Home: Charlotte, NC Alumnus: William and Mary Occup: Consultant | Favorite Teams: Chicago Cubs
Washington Redskins Duke Blue Devils ...at least I can pick one winner!!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: James Surles Email: surles@math.ttu.edu Age: 28 Home: Lubbock, TX Alumnus: University of South Carolina Occup: Statistics Professor | Fantasy Accomplishments:
3-time winner of my fantasy football league: Blind Moose League of Fantasy Football Winner of Guru's inaugural Football Pickoff contest. Ranked as high as #5 in Smallworld Baseball in 1999, but fell down to ~300 due to my wedding and subsequent honeymoon. (Can you really blame me?!) Favorites: New Orleans Saints Houston Astros LSU (I-A) McNeese State (I-AA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jason Wagner Email: jslug4@yahoo.com Age: 36 Home: Indianapolis, IN Alumnus: Purdue University Occup: Sales Engineer | team names: jaw & slug, or any combo of the two
Lifetime Packers fan Bulls fan since Jordan began Married with two daughters, ages 9 & 6 WWR's are not much to brag about. Laugh if you must. Football '99 WWR = 9,000ish '00 WWR = 4,053 '01 WWR = 5,549 '02 WWR = 3,776 Basketball '99-00 WWR = 17,724 '00-01 WWR = 6,264 (200 in mid-season) '01-02 WWR = 123 '02-03 WWR = 103 Baseball '01 WWR = 20,394 (1,676 in mid-season) '02 WWR = 2,294 GO BOILERS!!!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brad Hess Age: 17 Home: Spring Hill, Fl Student: Florida State University (Freshman - Fall 2001) Occup: student / cartman at two golf courses | What to put in the resume?????
current: SW fullseason not a big fan - hovering around 4000 WWR beheaded - in the no headed monster division past: SW football (2000) - 60,000 WWR (pretty bad) SW hoops (2000-2001) - actively managed the final 3 months of the season 20,000 WWR SW midseason hoops - WWR 587 I only recently began reading these boards. I am now hooked on fantasy sports. Originally from Pittsburgh - favorite teams Steelers, sucky Pirates, and the "Jagr's a baby" Penguins Fav. quote - ugh........I can't exactly remember one, but I like quotes from Shaq Daddy, Mike "I will eat your children" Tyson, David Wells, and all of the PGA Tour Tiger admirers. David Duval, Phil Mickelson, and Ernie Els - We got game, but he's so damn good that we're gonna lay down and let him step on our heads. "Former" High School Tight End (whupdi-do), but the ol' ACL, MCL, and lateral meniscus tears ended that debacle (we sucked!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ryan Power Email: igotthepower@hotmail.com Age: 16 Home: Victoria, Australia | Basketball is my favourite sport and Miami Heat my fav team.
I started playing Ultimate Fantasy Hoops in 2000-2001 where i knew nothing about the game and finished poorly (39716 WR) In 2001-2002 I finished 373 WR a great improvement but i couldnt have done it without discovering this site half way through the season. Look out because i plan to go even higher and finish in the top 100. I love this site!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Stuart Schnall Email: stuarts@compubell.com Age: 42 Home: Hillsborough, NJ Alumnus: Muhlenberg College, Univ. of Pennsylvania Occup: Dentist | Hello. I am new to this wonderful site, but hardly new to Fantasy Sports. I must admit that most of my playing has been at sandbox.com (which curiously doesnt get much mention here??!!). However, I started playing at Smallworld around this time last year (1999).
My greatest accomplishment (at least in Fantasy Sports) and I tell anyone who will listen (sometimes 5 times!) is that I finished #1 Overall in WWR in SmallWorld Playoff Basketball last year. I also managed a top 100 WWR in Small World Baseball last year. Finished 780-something in SW Football and am currently hovering around 600 in SW Basketball. I thank everyone at this site for their lucid advice and plan to start to post here more often myself! My favorite sports teams are (all NY) Mets, Giants, Rangers and Knicks. My greatest sports fan moment was being at Game 6 of the 1986 Mets/Red Sox World Series. Electric!!! Sorry to all you Boston and Bill Buckner fans. I am married (19 years) and have two children (aged 14 and 12). That is vastly more about me than any of you cared to know! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Pete Spragins Email: petespragins@aol.com Home: New Jersey | Go yanks!
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| Name: Devize Chen Email: lerxandewler@gmail.com Age: 30 Home: 14 Northampton Street Occup: free | hello | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Gary Henderson Email: sox_man6808@yahoo.com Age: 14 Home: sweet home chicago College: none Occup: none | hey everyone i am 14 and i live in the 'burbs of chi town. I just wanna say that one of these years the White Sox are gonna win the World Series. I am gonna be a freshman in high school and i am plying football. I play offensive guard on the o'line. my fav teams are the White Sox, pacers, and jaguars. My least fav teams are the Cubs, Knicks, and the Cowboys. I am relativly new to fantasy sports (about 2 years) well thats about all i have to say. I'm out. PEACE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jim Bob Jones Email: loki_loki_loki@techie.com Age: 21 Home: Sea-town Student: cannibus community college Occup: slacker | well...im quite the novice here, but with the help of the boards, and the assimilater, im gaining fantasy sports expierince quickly. i found this site halfway through the football year, and have been an avid lurker throughout basketball, and look for 'spanky' in the leaderboards in baseball!! hehe =o)
will finish with wwr of under 5000 in basketball, and top 30 in MSG...heh, not to bad for a rookie fav teams: supe's, seahawks, mariners..naturally west coast baybee!!! fav players: edgar martinez(class act) Griffy Jr(even tho it kills me to see him in red) 'Tez kennedy payton...duh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Scott N. Email: kurupt@punkass.com Age: 19 Home: California Student: Fullerton College Occup: Web-designer, Procrastinator | fantasy team names:
fs/ms hoops: Queensbridge fs/pl fball: Infamous, Queensbridge fs baseball: Queensbridge, H.N.I.C I got the name "Queensbridge" and "Infamous" from the rap group, Mobb Deep. they grew up in an area of New York known as "Queensbridge" :) favorite sports teams: baseball: seattle mariners (since 1990) basketball: los angeles lakers (since 1990) football: oakland (formerly los angeles) raiders (since 1990) current wwr's: fs fbball 01-02 wwr: #### previous wwr's: fs hoops 01-02 wwr: #### fs hoops 00-01 wwr: 3539 ms hoops 00-01 wwr: 371 playoff fball 02 wwr: 38617 playoff fball 01 wwr: 1027 favorite quote: "those who do not risk failure, never achieve greatness" -robert kennedy origin of my name: my handle is "kurupt", but that is a pretty common name considering that I was given it by one of my best friends, who was a fellow fan of the group the dogg pound. he is "daz" and i'm "kurupt", because we both loved the group, and we are both very good friends. one day, a friend of mine decided to call me "K" and then after a while he began calling me "special k", so it stuck with me. so on these boards i'm known as special k. thanks: i'd like to thank Guru, and all the gurupies on the boards for all their help and support and their contributions. they've helped me a lot in my fantasy sports experience. i can say that if i hadn't discovered your site, Guru, I wouldn't have been able to regain the ground I lost this year (00-01). thank you. -kurupt (special k) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Greg Robinson Age: 44 Home: Sacramento, CA Alumnus: San Jose State University Occup: Banking | Three-time RotoGuru Hall-of-Famer:
1 - 1999 Guru March Madness Champion 2 - 2000 Smallworld Playoff Hoops Gurupie Standings Champion (#6 WWR by a scant .5 SWP over fellow HOF'er Jay Siegel) 3 - 2000 Swirve Football Gurupie Standings Champion (#4 WWR) Finished 2nd in Echelon's Touchdown Fantasy Football - 1998 Finished 20th overall in Smallworld Hoops - 1999-2000 Finished 17th overall in Echelon/Swirve Baseball - 2000 Finished 49th overall in Smallworld 3-For-All Football - 2000 Finished 20th overall in Smallworld Hoops - 2000-2001 Finished 6th overall in Smallworld Midseason Hoops - 2001 Big time New York Yankees fan, although I've never been to the hallowed halls of THTRB. Follow the 49ers, Blazers, Kings and Sharks. I owe whatever success I've had in fantasy sports to the Guru and my core Gurupie/AIM pals: WaB, Punishark, jedman, KB, Ender, Dave R and allhair allstars. Special props to WaB for installing the "killer instinct" in me - which states that you don't enter these games to finish "in the top 100"....you play to WIN. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: sprtstar1987@yahoo.com Occup: referee,umpire | referee umpire basketball and baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Adrian Email: outlawracer21@hotmail.com Age: 26 Home: St. Louis Alumnus: NWMSU, IA St., SIUE Occup: MIS | I have been playing fantasy sports since 97-98, can't remember exactly when, but a friend introduced me to rotoguru.com. I feel in love with the site immediately it has everything you need to be competitive in fanatsy sports. I have since seen it grow tremendously and used it faithfully.
Fantasy sports I play: Baseball (SW, Swirve, Sandbox, GSB, Madball from Gleem), Football (SW, Sandbox), Racing(ESPN and my favorite is Best ranking: I am currently experiencing my best ranking in Baseball, I am in the top 250 WW. In Football the best ranking I have ever achieved is around 750 WW and I don't believe that was at the end of the season. Favorite teams: Baseball-Cardinals, Football-Vikings, Racing-Dale Earnhardt (RIP). Thank you Dave for providing us all with such a usefull fantasy sports site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Steve Houpt Email: sjhoupt@aol.com Age: 51 Home: Gretna, LA (New Orleans metro area)) College: Drexel University, Philadelphia (1 YR) Occup: Retired US Navy 26 years | - Born and raised outside Philadelphia, PA
- Phillies, Eagles and Flyers fan. Warriors and 76ers fan during Wilt's years (more anti Celtics). - Team names: 94 Crawfishers (Patrol Squadron 94, the "Crawfishers" was last unit I was in the Navy). P3C (type aircraft we flew - Lockheed P3C "Orion"). 64 Phillies (my greatest and worst summer as a kid). 80 Phillies (the year they made up for 1964). - Best fantasy finish was #9 last year in SW hoops. Top 100 Baseball, top 100 Football. - Two daughters. One a 2001 Auburn graduate (Human Resource Management - hey walk). Second a licensed beautician. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Steve Ozar Email: sozar@hotmail.com Age: 30 Home: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Alumnus: University of Alberta | I go by Steve's Thieves.
Canadian guy who loves Hockey and Baseball Pools. Love crunching stats for their underlying trends and lurking on the boards to read the strategy discussions. Get a kick out of chatting with citizens of the world and getting to know them better than I do my next door neighbours (Note the "u" in neighbours, there it is again, that's how we spell it here). Love Canada. Like America enough. But the biggest part of my life is my wife of almost 6 years and my two boys who are four years old and 18 months old. After them and work and this hobby, there is not much time left, and that is not a bad thing by any stretch. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Alex Age: 23 Home: Boston Alumnus: Northeastern University Occup: Chemical Engineer | Go Sox!
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| Name: puff doggy dogg Email: danielsgs@aol.com Age: 5 Home: in a house College: obedience school Occup: I like trees | Most of my fantasies don't involve baseball players. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: 20 Home: Washington, DC Student: Princeton University Occup: Taco Bender | Born and raised in the DC area, I'm a big fan of the Redskins, Orioles, Wizards, and Capitals... yes, it's been an extremely painful existence of late, thanks for pointing that out. But although the Skins and Orioles blow, we do have Jordan and Jagr now, so perhaps we'll finally have something to cheer for.
I've been playing Smallworld baseball, football, and basketball for a few years now, but the 2001 baseball season (when I found rotoguru.com) is the first time I'm playing SW for more than just to beat some buddies in our little division. This site is undoubtedly helping me alot in improving my WWR. My team in all sports is the Serial Thrillaz. 2001 Baseball: 735 WWR 2001 Football: 217 WWR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Gunnip Email: gunnip5@aol.com Age: 16 Home: Berkley, Michigan Student: Roeper High School Occup: High School Junior (class of 2003) | My name's Jeff and I live in Berkley, Michigan, a little city about 15 miles north of Detroit. I've loved sports ever since I can remember. I'm a fan of most sports with the exception of figure skating, 6-pin bowling, and that stupid game where you hit the ball that's tied to a string around the poll. I'm pretty athletic, or so people say. I play Varsity Soccer, Basketball, Track. I play many other sports too, but's they are just for fun. Soccer is probably my favorite sport to play. I still haven't decided is I want to become serious enough to play in college. I probably have the skill and talent but I don't have drive to do it, too many other things I want to do. Basketball s basically the sport stuck in the middle that there to play so I do. I'm the strating point guard, on the Varsity team, I got a pretty good outside shot, but I don't have teh quickness to take the game to the next level. In the spring, it's Track time. It's fun and serious, but not to serious because it's spring time, and everyone's always itching for summer. I run the 800 and 1600 meter runs and am capable of running the 400 and 3200 too. I've tried all of Smallworld's Games and have settle with Baseball and thhe NFL and NCAA pick'ems games. I also play Guru's Football Pickoff and hope to win this year. Roto Baseball is also on my slate. It's hard to keep up with Football.hockey/Basketball teams when your in the middle of a school year.
I discovered Rotoguru.com around the 2000 Baseball Midseason, when Smallworld did a feature on Craig H. when he won the trip to the All-Star and I've been here every since. My fantasy career is short but I've got a long way to go as well as alot to learn. That's probably why I enjoy the boards so much here. Tehre are so many great opinions around even if they don't always agree. I mostly play Smallworld games, but have recently found a new interest in ROTO games. I'm probably best known for my unfortunate spelling errors (It's just my incompentent typing skils), but I've been working on that. My goal is to eventually make it to the Rotoguru.com Hall of Fame, by winning Smallworld's Full Season game. But first I have to work on breaking the Top 100 on a consistent basis. Favorite Gurupies would include esposo (fellow Tigers fan, Rotoguru XIV divsion), KKB (for keeping up the Pick'Ems and MadBAll games), Madman (great insight), Iriducibili Lazio (Tag Team), J, Philflyboy, Dr. Doom (all three for what they give to the standings forum), plus all of the other Gurupies who have been around for a while and remember me during my "early" months :) And of course, DAve Hall (aka Guru) who provides with theis shrine of info and programs to enhance our fantasy sports experience. You are truly the man! I'm a hometown guy and root for the Tigers, Redwings, Lions, and the Pistons. University of Michigan Football is my passion along with Uof M Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer. Here's my fantasy sports career. Not bragging just informing, since I don't really have anything to brag about. fantasy sports carrer 2000- Smallworld Midseason Baseball: 350 WWR -5th place; Battle of the Ages Division -42nd place; Overall Gurupie Standings -48th place; Gurupie Franchise Value Rankings 2001- Smallworld Full Season Baseball: TBD -Rotoguru XIV division 2001- CBS Fantasy Baseball -Rotoguru.com Shouldergate Fantsay Baseball League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Don Email: donh@rgv.rr.com Age: 55 Home: Texas Alumnus: UMass Occup: Sportswriter, copy editor | Although I recently moved from Florida to Texas, I am and remain an avid Marlins and Dolphins fan.
About my only claim to fantasy fame is winning the Belly division of the 2000 SW fantasy football. I am an avid participant on the boards, though I lurk more than I post. I love the Belly, its members and its camaraderie. Although I'm getting to be older than dirt, there's this little guy who lives inside me that hasn't caught on yet! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Email: jlambeth@home.com Age: 31 Home: San Diego, CA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Josh Lewis Email: joshlewis@socal.rr.com Age: 27 Home: Huntington Beach, California Alumnus: Eastern Washington University Occup: Mortgage Loan Officer/Branch Manager | Favorite Teams: LA Clippers (long time, not recent fair weather fan), Dallas Cowboys. I really don't follow hockey or baseball.
Fantasy Accomplishments: 1999 SW Hoops Playoff #8wwr 2000 SW Football Top 100 (~80) Biggest Fantasy Complaint: Daily Repricing. I had to give up hoops because I couldn't work and stay competitive. Being overly competitive can be a problem, but at least I can say I'm not an addict. I did give up the basketball, not the job. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Evan Bacon Email: ebacon@hotmail.com Age: 25 Home: Kenmore, WA Alumnus: Central Washington University Occup: Washington State Trooper | I go by SuperPower on the boards but you can call me "Porky" if you want. Been playing fantasy sports for 5 years now. Been a Lurker for the past 3. Best finish was in fantasy golf right around 100wwr, cant remember exactly. I am mainly interested in b-ball cuz its more exciting to watch. Sonics are the team to watch over here. Glad to be a gurupie and hope all of my input is worthy of the site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Booden Email: brian.booden@zoom.co.uk Age: 25 Home: Edinburgh, Scotland Alumnus: BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Occup: Finance Systems Administrator | A proud member of the Ultimate Hoops EuroGurupies, i started playing Fantasy Hoops on SmallWorld in 2000-2001. My best result was in the 2002-2003 Ultimate Hoops season, where my WWR was 28th, and my EuroGurupie buddies and i won the Divisional Title on the last day of the season courtesy of the unlikely hero that is Rafer Alston!
I have been known to play a bit of hoops for fun, although you don't get too much interest over here in the UK. I'm also a hugely patriotic Scottish soccer fan, even though we aren't very good. I support Heart Of Midlothian FC, the undisputed 3rd force in Scottish Football! Greatest Sporting Moment - Sitting directly behind the goal when Portugese goalkeeper Ricardo scored the winning penalty kick against England during Euro 2004. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Bill West Email: swoosh4@bellsouth.net Age: 31 Home: Greensboro, NC Alumnus: UNC-Greensboro Occup: Financial Analyst | My team name is almost always Coruscant Swoosh (Star Wars and Nike combination)I have been a UNC fan since birth. I am now a fan of both the Panthers (from their inception)and Hornets(Bulls fan from the day Mike was drafted until both times he retired). I am married with one son. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jeff Kang Email: synocco@hotmail.com Age: 19 Home: Canada Student: UNB | Engineer. Paying through university by playing video games (honest). Blue Jays fan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Troy Email: ttowler@yahoo.com Age: 36 Home: Bremerton, Washington (near Seattle) Alumnus: Walla Walla College Occup: Engineer | I love the Sonics, especially GP. I am the manager of the T-men teams.
I play Smallworld Football and Basketball, and various other fantasy leagues. Smallworld basketball is my favorite. I found this site during the 1999 NBA season, and it opened up a whole new level of fantasy hoops for me! Notable accomplishments: 1999 - Smallworld Hoops Playoffs: 3 Teams in Top 50 (Great prizes that year too, I got three NBA Jerseys, and I love 'em. 2000 - Smallworld Hoops: Finished #21 WWR. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Drew Wilson Email: andrewwilson_2009@depauw.edu Age: 19 Home: Carolina Beach, NC Student: DePauw University Occup: student | *Sports are addicting to me! I couldn't live with out sports and I hope to have a job dealing with sports in the future. I play TSN football, and hope to get better with years. I also use CBS for fantasy baseball, basketball and football. Throw in a few keeper leagues as well and I usually have my board chalk full of teams.
*I aspire to an admired Gurupie, whose opinion is valued on these boards. *I am a student in an honors media program at DePauw University, studying to be a sports broadcaster. Not so coincidentally I chose the school from which the founder of ESPN hailed. I am looking to line up internships in the near future and further pursue a career in sports down the road. I am very passionate about many teams, but my love for the North Carolina Tar Heels supercedes everything else. I can often be very stubborn in my views and would probably argue with a rock. Most of the time I think I am right and you are causing other peoples intelligence to drop by having to listen to your arguments. That said, I never turn down a good sports conversation or miss a quality game. *I am thankful to have found this forum. The people here, contributing to sports banter really make this a special place to talk about sports, and I hope that never diminishes. I appreciate Dave Hall for creating this site, mantaining it, and also those who make up the identity of these boards. Someday I will be a GuruPatron and contributing to this forum in more ways than just my not-so-helpful posts! "If you aren't the lead dog, the scenery is all the same." ---Lewis Grizzard "Luck is when opportunity meets preparation." ---Robert Williamson "Improve your weaknesses until they become strengths." ---MJ "TaR HeeL born, TaR HeeL bred, and when I die I'll be a Tar HeeL dead!" THK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Donny Miller Email: donny@swiftif.com Age: 74 Home: Austin, Texas Alumnus: Had best football team $ could buy (SMU) Occup: Retired Attny/CPA | In memory of philliephan, a leader among Rotogurupies
I rarely post but often visit. Found RotoGuru in 1998. I am in awe of the talent, personalities and good people drawn by Dave to this site. I have played from top to bottom in RIBC and RIFC. Favorite fantasy sport is Hockey. Favorite teams are all Dallas.....Stars, Cowboys, Rangers, Mavs and SMU. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: TD Age: 58 Home: East Norriton, PA Alumnus: Drexel University Occup: Computer Programmer | Favorite Teams: Phila. 76ers, Eagles.
Favorite Team of all time: 83 Sixers championship team with Dr J., Moses, Andrew Toney, Mo Cheeks, and Bobby Jones. I still think they are the greatest team of all time. I started playing SW Fantasy sports with basketball in 1999. My team name is usually 'Drexel Dragons'. I play fantasy basketball, baseball, and football. My best finish is 76 in SW 2000 regular season baseball. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: drorsteinberg@hotmail.com Age: 17 Home: Israel | I'm a 17 years old high school student from Israel, and found rotoguru.com through the swirve overall standings last year (saw a team named rotoguru.com, and decided to chek it out). I have been semi-active around the boards since then.
I have been playing fantasy sports for 5 years now, started with only swirve basketball, and now doing it all (swirve, TSN and draft for football/baseball/bball). I'm a huge NBA fan (long time Spurs fan, way before the happy TD days), but actually enjoys fantasy football/baseball much more. Roto bball is really fun, but in salary games I feel schedules have become the biggest part of the game, wich is not what I'm looking for. common team names: Maccabi Kiriat Gat (My favorite Israeli soccer team) The Red Scorpions 2001 Football Acheivements (the only ones I can dig up): Swirve - #23 WWR, #6 gurupie standings. SW/TSN - #665 WWR, #8 gurupie standings. Actually led the gurupie standings for most of the season, and was as high as #28 WWR (week 8), but had a horroble finish. Football Pickoff - #2 overall (won $100). Doubled the Pats in the Superbowl and stole the 2nd place. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tet Fu Email: tetfu@yahoo.com Age: 43 Home: Edmonton AB Occup: Self Employed | Team name: Yady Yada
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| Name: Bjφrn Winberg Email: b@winberg.net Age: 45 Home: Stockholm, Sweden Occup: Programmer | Got tired of my forum name, and decided to change it.
I'm getting a little old for this, and since I own a Alfa Romeo Spider, my new forum name will be Cobwebs, and my fantasy team names will be Spiderman;-) But I'm still a sucker for fantasy sports games:-) /Bjφrn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ted Ip Email: teddycc@aol.com Age: 20 Occup: student | Die hard Red Sox fan. This will be the year for them... mark my words!
Manager of: Told you Red Sox would rock! Finished last year #51 in world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Brian Email: bbrando72@aol.com Age: 31 Home: Bentonville, Arkansas Occup: Nurse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Roger Age: 30s Home: North Carolina, originally from Oklahoma Alumnus: University of Arkansas Occup: IT manager | Been around here since day 1 due to the incredible Guru! My forum name comes from John Vanbiesbrouck, who is not only my favorite all-time hockey player, but also shares my birthday (Sept. 4)!
My best performance was winning the 2006 RIFC! I've also finished #3 overall in Sandbox's pay baseball game in 1999, 5th in Guru's Market Madness contest in 2001, and #48 worldwide in SW Hockey during the '97-'98 season. My primary focus is on the NFL nowadays from a fantasy perspective, but I still enjoy virtually all other sports. Go Cowboys, Panthers, Razorbacks, Sooners, Flyers, and Phillies! I research technical problems for a major hardware store chain. I am an avid player of chess, backgammon, card games, and about anything else competitive. I'm also a first-degree black belt in Sil-Lum Kung Fu and have the bruises to prove it. :) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Iverson Email: chrisiverson@usa.net Age: 33 Home: Hyrum, Utah Alumnus: Utah State University Occup: Fire Sprinkler Systems Specialist | Manager of:
Kalamazoo Kazoos (Ridin' Randy and Pedro) The Great Kazoo (Hard Luck) ChrisIversonRules (#1 in the world after day 1 but failing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: The Judge :) Email: cmbean@sbcglobal.net Age: 47 Home: Dallas, TX Alumnus: University of North Texas Occup: SAP / Informix Database Administrator | Football Teams: Dallas Cowboys
Basketball Teams: Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets Baseball Teams: Texas Rangers, Houston Astros College Sports: University of North Texas (Eagles) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Perry Age: 22 Home: Vancouver, BC, Canada Student: University of British Columbia Occup: Student | As new as I am in here, I did finish tied-50th last year in SWHockey (and won a copy of NHL2K and an SW t-shirt). That's one of my proudest moments ever in my life (kinda pathetic, eh?).
I didn't do as well with the daily price update thing in SWHoops and SWBaseball, so I guess I won't be up there again this season, but it's still nice to (finally) get to compete with people who really knows hockey. Last year, I led my open league by like 5000 points... This is a really good forum cuz everybody is nice, I love it here. In a typical forum of this type, there are usually destructive people coming in here and post crap. No foul language whatsoever. I give this two-thumbs-up. =) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tony Orcena Age: 19 Home: Ohio Alumnus: Youngstown State University | I am a big wrestling fan, if you didn't already figure that out by my handle, so my team names been "The Rockers", and "The Bigshots" in the past, curently in Smallworld Baseball my team is known as The Great Ones.
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| Name: David Christopherson Email: christopherson_david@hotmail.com Age: 42 Home: Minnesota Occup: Chef | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Carroll Email: quietriot0@yahoo.com Age: 17 Home: NJ | Chris Carroll is the mother fucking man. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Aaron Spolarich Email: gooseattack@hotmail.com Age: 15 Home: North Western Indiana College: Havent been yet Occup: Full time highschool student | Well ive only been around these boards for 2 year(s) and have to thank all here for teaching me everything i know about fantasy sports. Special thanks to Ender who told me about this great site. Oh and I should "List any other items you want to appear on your "resume"." So I shoud have my picture hanging in the Kahler Middle School Hall Of Honor. If you want any more info bug Ender(I HATE MATH TEACHERS!) about it! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: craig ireland Email: threespleens@hotmail.com Age: 32 Home: taiwan (for 8+ years) Alumnus: brock university Occup: teacher | ::only playing fantasy hoops now
::best finish 2004-5, #138 ::as high as #1 in dec 2002 and #2 in dec 2006 ::canadian living in taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tim Garner Email: salitoot@hotmail.com Age: 36 Home: Los Angeles Alumnus: CSU Fresno/UCLA Occup: University Lab Coordinator (Lab. Tech.) | I have played SmallWorld since 1997 where I first read some of Guru's articles (or was that 1998). Anyhow that's how I found this site. I now also play Swirve, Sandbox, and Grand Slam Baseball. Like most of you I spend several hours every night (and a few during the day while I'm "working")on the Message Board, in the Sortables, or messing with my teams.
Highest ranked SmallWorld Teams: 1999 Midseason Baseball: 19'th 1999 Hoops: 52'nd 1999 Hockey: ~220 but they sent me a prize for some reason For some reason I got better after the RotoGuru Message Board was born. Favorite Teams: Chiefs (since the days of Len Dawson, Otis Taylor, and Ed Podalak, I have an Ed Podalak helmet I won at a raffle, and I cried when the Dolphins beat the Chiefs in triple-overtime in the 72 playoffs) Angels (grew up in a Giants household so I'm not allowed to be a Dodger fan) Lakers (a bit of bandwagonning here) Mighty Ducks (I love {to watch} Paul Kariya) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Cory Nance Email: ncory@okstate.edu Age: 23 Home: Stillwater, OK Alumnus: Oklahoma State University Occup: Mainframe (IBM/MVS) Support Specialist | I'm a big fan of college athletics, mostly my Oklahoma State Cowboys and a fantasy sports addict. My favorite pro teams mostly corrolate to my geographic location; Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars, and SA Spurs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tom D Email: ke4dgi@aol.com Age: 30 Home: Charlotte N.C. Alumnus: Furman University(ever heard of it?) BS Chemistry Occup: Service and Process Eng. | Need to find a job that allows me 6 hours a day to play Fantasy sports.
HUGE soccer fan and can only hope that SW sets one up shortly. Bracket racing takes up most of my free time and money. Homebrewing is my other "hobby". Team Names:Hoops and Football- Cuda's and Barracuda (Mopar theme) PR hoops div. - ShakinMoneyMakers (don't ask) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: tom dawson Email: heidi.power@nf.sympatico.ca Age: 27 Home: st john's newfoundland Student: memorial university newfoundland | started fantasy sports last year
Sw baseball was the first sports I palyed for the fll season and finished around 300. My hockey and football teams got scewed because i moved and did'nt have a computer for about a month. Looking forward to full season of hoops | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Mike Marcantonio Email: marcanmj@jmu.edu Age: 18 Home: Fairfax, Virginia Student: James Madison University | Big Fan of the the classic teams...Celtics, Yankees and Redskins
This is my first year in Fantasy and I am addicted. "I am like the phythagorean theorem, there is no answer for me!" SHAQ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tony Slaymaker Email: slaymake@dwsd.org Home: Detroit Alumnus: Ball State Occup: Programmer Analyst for City of Detroit | Been playing at fantasy games for abour 20 years
usually name my teams "detwa" something most successful at football [101 in CDM USA Today in 99] least successful at baseball have corresponded previously with Dave Hall but not recently I follow and struggle with the Detroit teams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: David Yarbrough Email: tysonyar@aol.com Age: 26 Home: Charlotte, NC Alumnus: UNC Occup: Attorney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Randy Turner Email: lodnar@gmail.com Age: 57 Home: Vashon Island, Wash. Alumnus: University of Oregon | Thank you to the Guru for providing all the different tools which have helped me succeed at fantasy sports games.
I cheer for Oregon Ducks, Seattle Mariners, Portland Trailblazers, and Denver Broncos. Two-time RotoGuru Hall-of-Famer: 1 - 2002 TSN Midseason Ultimate Baseball 2 - 2003 TSN Ultimate Baseball --- For easy record keeping, here are my best Fantasy Finishes - 1998 '99 (strike year) Smallworld Hoops 3000ish (discovered rotoguru.com mid-April) 1999 '99 Smallworld Baseball - 85, 102 '99-00 Smallworld Hoops 95, 246 '00 Smallworld Midseason Hoops - 53, 88 2000 '00 Smallworld Baseball 121, 332 '00 Smallworld Midseason Baseball - 46 '00-01 Smallworld Hoops - 130, 269 '00-01 Swirve Hoops - 11 '01 Smallworld Midseason Hoops - 161 2001 '01 Smallworld Baseball - 190 '01 TSN Midseason Baseball - 357 '01 Swirve College Hoopla - 2 '01-02 TSN Ultimate Hoops - 15, 32, 40 '01-02 TSN Free Hoops - 12, 85 2002 '02 Rotoguru.com Market Madness - 11 02 TSN Ultimate Baseball 86, 262 02 TSN Midseason Ultimate Baseball 1, 4, 15 '02 TSN Ultimate Golf Season 2 - 12 '02-03 TSN Ultimate Hoops - 111, 319 2003 '03 TSN Ultimate Baseball - 6 '03 TSN Midseason Ultimate Baseball - 44, 189 '03-04 TSN Ultimate Hoops - 386 2004 '04 TSN Ultimate Baseball - 1116 (ugh) '04 TSN Golf Season 2 - 185 '04-05 TSN Ultimate Hoops - 498 2005 '05 TSN Ultimate Baseball - 459 '05 TSN Fantasy Golf - 125 '05-06 TSN Ultimate Hoops - 225 2006 '06 TSN Ultimate Baseball - 766 '06-07 TSN Ultimate Hoops - 122, 162 2007 '07 TSN Ultimate Baseball - 78 '07-08 TSN Ultimate Hoops - dnp '07-08 Rotohog Hoops(NBASE) - 9th Gurupie20 Finishes '03 Baseball - 5th '04 Baseball - 8th '05 Baseball - 3rd '06 Baseball - 8th '07 Baseball - 12th '08 Baseball - 12th '09 Baseball - 6th '10 Baseball - 14th '11 Baseball - 8th '12 Baseball - 6th '13 Baseball - 10th '14 Baseball - 18th '15 Baseball - 5th '16 Baseball - 7th '17 Baseball - 15th '18 Baseball - 4th '19 Baseball - 8th '20 Baseball - COVID cancellation '21 Baseball - 6th '22 Baseball - 6th (tie) '23 Baseball - 10th '24 Baseball - 6th '25 Baseball - '02-03 Hoops - 4th '03-04 Hoops - 7th '04-05 Hoops - 7th '05-06 Hoops - 8th '06-07 Hoops - 13th '07-08 Hoops - 19th '08-09 Hoops - 16th '09-10 Hoops - 17th '10-11 Hoops - 13th '11-12 Hoops - 9th '12-13 Hoops - 16th (tie) '13-14 Hoops - 10th '14-15 Hoops - 16th '15-16 Hoops - 9th '16-17 Hoops - 9th (tie) '17-18 Hoops - 4th '18-19 Hoops - 12th '19-20 Hoops - 13th (COVID shortened) '20-21 Hoops - 16th '21-22 Hoops - 11th '22-23 Hoops - 14th '23-24 Hoops - 18th '24-25 Hoops - 15th Rotoguru Challenges '04-05 Hoops (AAA) - 2nd '05-06 Hoops (RIHC) - 9th '06-07 Hoops (AAA) - 11th '07-08 Hoops (AA) - 5th '08-09 Hoops (AAA) - 1st '09-10 Hoops (RIHC) - 3rd (Tie) '10-11 Hoops (RIHC) - 6th (Tie) '11-12 Hoops (AAA) - 10th (Draft slot #4) '12-13 Hoops (AA) - 4th (Draft slot #8) '13-14 Hoops (AAA) - 1st (Draft slot #2) '14-15 Hoops (RIHC) - 7th (Draft slot #5) '15-16 Hoops (AAA) - 1st (Draft slot #2) -16-17 Hoops (RIHC) - 6th (Draft slot #5) '17-18 Hoops (AAA) - 3rd (Tie) (Draft slot #1) '18-19 Hoops (RIHC) - 5th (Draft slot #9) '19-20 Hoops (RIHC) - 7th (Draft slot #5) '20-21 Hoops (RIHC) - 5th (Draft slot #5) '21-22 Hoops (RIHC) - 11th (Draft slot #2) '22-23 Hoops -- DNP --- '04 Baseball (RIBC) - 11th '05 Baseball (AAA) - 10th '06 Baseball (AAA) - 2nd '07 Baseball (RIBC) - 4th '08 Baseball (RIBC) - 10th '09 Baseball (AAA) - 1st '10 Baseball (RIBC) - 12th '11 Baseball (AAA) - 3rd (Draft slot #12) '12 Baseball (RIBC) - 5th (Draft slot #5) '13 Baseball (RIBC) - 16th (Draft slot #3) '14 Baseball (AAA) - 1st (Draft slot #12) '15 Baseball (RIBC) - 15th (Draft slot #13) '16 Baseball (AAA) - 9th (Draft slot #4) '17 Baseball (AAA) - 8th (Draft slot #3) '18 Baseball (AAA) - 8th (Draft slot #1) '19 Baseball (AAA) - 13th (Draft slot #8) '20 Baseball - COVID cancellation '21 Baseball (AAA) - 6th (Draft slot #4) '22 Baseball - DNP GuruGolf 2004 BestBall - 47th 2005 BestBall - 12th 2006 BestBall - 10th 2007 BestBall - 45th 2008 Bestball - 19th 2009 Bestball - 45th 2010 Bestball - 55th 2011 Bestball - 26th 2012 Bestball - 13th, 26th 2013 Bestball - 13th, 21st 2014 Bestball - 2nd 2015 Bestball - 61st 2016 Bestball - 13th 2017 Bestball - 11th, 19th Other Rotoguru Leagues '06-07 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 5th '07-08 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 4th '08-09 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 7th '09-10 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 3rd '10-11 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 4th '11-12 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 6th '12-13 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 1st '13-14 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 5th '14-15 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 1st '15-16 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 1st (tie) '16-17 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 3rd '17-18 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 7th '18-19 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 9th '19-20 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 9th (COVID shortened) '20-21 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 4th '21-22 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 3rd '22-23 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 1st '23-24 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 1st '24-25 Jeepers Keepers Hoops - 3rd --- '07-08 Elimination Chamber Hoops - 7th '08-09 Elimination Chamber Hoops - 3rd '09-10 Elimination Chamber Hoops - 3rd --- '04 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 6th '05 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 3rd '06 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 2nd '07 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 1st '08 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 1st '09 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 2nd '10 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 4th '11 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 3rd (Draft slot #4) '12 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 2nd (Draft slot #2) '13 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 5th (Draft slot #7) '14 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 8th (Draft slot #9) '15 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 7th (Draft slot #3) '16 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 1st (Draft slot #7) '17 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 6th (Draft slot #1) '18 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 9th (Draft slot #8) '19 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 9th (Draft slot #3) '20 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 3rd (Draft slot #3) - POINTS League '21 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - 5th (Draft slot #4) '22 PSFL AL-only H2H Baseball - DNP --- '10 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 8th '11 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 4th (Draft slot #4) '12 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 6th (Draft slot #6) '13 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 6th (Draft slot #7) '14 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 1st (Draft slot #2) '15 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 1st (Draft slot #8) '16 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 5th (Draft slot #4) '17 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 5th (Draft slot #10) '18 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 8th (Draft slot #3) '19 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 9th (Draft slot #8) '20 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 6th (Draft slot #6) - POINTS League '21 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - 2nd (Draft slot #5) '22 OIFL NL-only H2H Baseball - DNP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chad Truluck Email: truluck32@aol.com Age: 30 Home: Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Neu Email: twarpy@rogers.com Age: 19 Home: Toronto, Ont. Student: Trent University Occup: Student | Well of course my favourite teams would have to include my home city, Toronto. The Leafs have always been my favourite and the Raptors are beginning to become a favourite too. I'm fairly new to the fantasy game and I usually do well later in the year when my money advantage comes into play. Last year I finished top 1000 in SW baseball which is a real feat for me because until last year I hadn't actually followed baseball. My plan this year is to finish top 100 in baseball, I know this is probably shooting a little high but anything is possible:)
Remember it's okay to waste your trades, but it's even better if you can save one:) Least Favourite Poultry Nickname: Bluehen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: rich953908@aol.com Age: 19 Student: University of Maryland | I love playing smallworld baseball and basketball. Hockey and football aren't as much fun. I have finished in the 500s in baseball and basketball the past two seasons. I just try to look for long term players who increase consistently over time.
I now have a roster value of over $100 million in SW Basketball and I am finally making my big push, as it seems that every time I play smallworld sports, I always gain a lot of money and don't make any moves until the last few weeks. It's tough starting out behind, but look out! I found the Guru's website probably around 3 or 4 years ago (or some time before it was just "http://rotoguru.com" or so when i participated in SW basketball. I saw someone else use the site and I was immediately hooked. I obviously think that Johnny Unitas is the greatest QB of all-time and I am willing to debate it with anyone! :-) I also like the knicks, the New York Giants and the Orioles, eventhough their owner is a complete idiot after firing the GM from the mid-1990s! Well gotta go and analyze some more stats! See ya! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Chris Leung Email: chleung@aol.com Age: 21 Home: Berkeley Student: UC Berkeley Occup: student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Travis Kelley Email: tkelley1@utk.edu Age: 23 Home: Knoxville Student: U of Tennessee | I love college sports, especially basketball and football! GO VOLS!!!
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| Name: walkER Age: 37 Home: New York City Alumnus: Va Tech Occup: Organizational Psychologist | There is just too much pressure to come up with something witty! I am the rambler of the boards who is starting to get more fun out of the boards than out of the game. Smallworld alumnus for 2 years now with the 2000 baseball season coming up the 3rd go-round for me.
Yankees, giants, rangers and knicks fan. Favorite Gurupies: Biliruben & Harkonnon! Smallworld sports are a great combination of investment strategy, player watching, and stat analysis. Talking about the stuff with ya'll has made it 10x better. Talking about stuff other than sports makes it even better than that. Talking is pretty good, too. Okay, typing. Kudos to Guru for his site, boards and wisdom. Kudos to WaB in baseball for his knowledge, advice and co-managing skills. Kudos to those who finish in the top 50 (well, that's always WaB, isn't it?). I have been an avid sports fan since the usual pre-adolescent daze, but now am just an adolscent. Fortunately, a daughter, and other plain hobbies like movies and music keep things somewhat in line. I can type well, but I can't do much more than install software on a PC, so that keeps me from being a complete geek. I qualify for a major partial one though (I'm here, right?). Ciao folks. See you on the boards! - walk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eli Roth Email: eli.roth@teradyne.com Age: 23 Home: Boston Alumnus: Iowa State University Occup: Engineer | Favorite teams:
Baseball - Cubs Football - Bears Basketball - Bulls College - Iowa State Just started playing fantasy sports two years ago. In my second year of SW baseball, but spent most of the first season in Ireland. I wasn't able to watch many games, and my team suffered. Playing SW football, baseball, and grandslambaseball. I live in Boston now, but I grew up in Iowa and am still a Cyclone fan! Go Clones! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ethan Chen Age: 24 Home: Los Angeles Student: University of Southern California Occup: Been forever a student... | Favorite Teams: Lakers, Angels, Rams
Can't stand watching hockey or soccer. Love fantasy basketball to pass away my time...what would I ever do without it? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Amit Simha Email: Kiddisk@cs.com Age: 18 Home: Maplewood, NJ Student: Rutgers U. | The Man
I'm starting college this fall, studying to eventually become a doctor. My favorite sports teams in the order of the heartache they cause me are the Mets, NY Rangers, NY Giants, and Knicks. Just when we Mets fan were getting rewarded for enduring the early and mid 90's, this year happened. My favorite sport is Ultimate Frisbee (CHS Ultimate '00-'01, 5th in the nation, get off us) and I watch Seinfeld and The Simpsons religously. The Legend I finished the 1998-1999 SW Football year with a wwr of 660, and I thought i was hot s#!t, but then i found this site and saw that i would have been like 60th in the gurupie standings. My team names usually are "The People's Hindu," or have the word Airallnite, my forum name, or my hometown in there somewhere. My most recent team name "Finally the Wazaaap Guy Has Come Back!!!" only seemed fitting after my return to the forum and chatroom from a 7 week hiatus for personal reasons. I've had some good finishes in fantasy games, all of which i credit to these boards: SW Football '99-'00 - 73 wwr SW Football '00-'01 - 96 wwr SW Baseball '00 - 50 wwr SW Hoops '00-01 - 180 wwr PSC Football - 3 wwr PSC Baseball - 19, 52 wwr The History Behind the Name When I first found these boards, i just made some generic name like (insert favorite team here) Rules, and just posted a lot asking questions like who is better, which team is better, what should i do, etc. Needless to say the response was not positive and my name was blackened to the point where I started getting no responses at all. After a reevaluation of the situation, I decided to change my name and start with a clean slate. And thus entered wazaaap_guy. Thank you Guru for this site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Fredrik Welander Email: fredrik.welander@st.nu Age: 26 Home: Sundsvall, sweden Occup: Webmaster | A huge Buffalo(Bills, Sabres)-fan, can΄t really tell why I guess. I eat statistics for breakfast, snack on some standings in the afternoon and feast on live-action in the evenings...I live sports! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Josh Email: pimp2505@hotmail.com Age: 15 Home: Miami,fla Occup: Baseball player | My fantasy team name is wesuck!im am currently ranked in the top 2,000!If you would like to visit my baseball web-site go to spiky2505.tripod.com/swbaseball/ that is my web-site!please stop by and take a look at it! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: mike moseley Age: 33 Home: albany, ny Alumnus: college of saint rose Occup: graphic artist | fav teams: what happend to my celtics. red sox, bruins, and miami dolphins.
my fantasy team names usually start with "a" and run on. such as arizonabayswimmers, or my hockey team allrangersmustdie. i will be entering my second year of fantasy sports when baseball season begins. so far all i can say is that it is a totally addictive learning process. needless to say these boards are priceless to me. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Owen Clark Email: oclark@att.com Age: 26 Home: Parsippany, NJ Alumnus: Stevens Tech Hoboken, NJ Occup: Software Development | Play SW Hoops, Baseball and Football.
Played baseball for 4 years in college and still play in the N.J. Majors baseball league in the summer. Totally hooked on fantasy sports since '98. Favorite teams are the Yankees, Raiders, Lakers and that team from Long Island (can't bring myself to say their name) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Eric Wiggins Email: wiggs1766@hotmail.com Age: 33 Home: Binghamton , NY Alumnus: Oneonta State Occup: Teacher | Favorite teams: Yankees and Cowboys. I have been huge fans of both teams for as long as i can remember. I have been to a few yankee games, but i have to say my favorite game was yanks v As playoff game in 2001. I went with Farn and although they lost it was still amazing.
I have been using the board for since 2000 and a donor since 2002. I have been playing yahoo for about 10 year, baseball, football and basketball. I am always in the running for the title so i do feel that i bring something to the board, but i also base my success on other gurupie members. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: J.D. Email: ijio7@bellsouth.net Age: 19 Home: FL Student: Ga Occup: student | oakland a's all the way. Beane is a genius- or at least DePodesta is. Dodgers are gunna be great in 3 years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: David Home: Minnetonka, MN Occup: Computer Consultant | Fantasy Hockey Teams (real creative I might add)
WildandSabres id=18469 SabresandWild id=137832 MN Sabres id=287547 (Midseason Mania team) Favorite Hockey Teams? D'oH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Scott Wilcox Email: swilcox@lennar.com Age: 29 Home: Hollywood, FL Alumnus: Florida State University Occup: CPA - Accounting Manager | I live in South Florida and love all the major sports as well as all FSU sports. I go to Dolphin, Heat, Marlins, and Panther games down here. Those are all my favorite teams except that the Orioles come first in baseball (they have been coming to South Florida for Spring Training as long as I can remember, a long time before the Marlins were even an idea).
Have been a member on the Rotoguru boards since the end of basketball last year. I am addicted to SW and Rotoguru. I love this stuff and the comraderie of the boards. My basketball team is "Hollywood Heat". Haven't done as well as I would have liked so far. I guess I'm just waiting for baseball to start! Hope the O's and Ripken can do something this year. They will have an uphill battle I am afraid. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Willy F. Email: xnez@yahoo.com Age: 15 Home: Southport, CT Occup: High School Student, Web Master, and hopefully another Internet related job. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Laura Marshall Age: 35 Home: Alexandria, VA (DC Metro area) Alumnus: Oklahoma State University Occup: Mom | My husband got me hooked on fantasy sports several years ago. I've been playing SW since Football of 1998. Started coming to the boards shortly after their inception during Baseball of 1999.
I've taken an on-line fantasy game break for about 18 months. I'm still doing standard fantasy football. Maybe I'll give the on-line games another try in the fall of 2001. I follow the DC area teams, Redskins, Orioles and Wizards (ugh!). I've got a first grade daughter and son born in the fall of 2000. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Winston Lam Age: 38 Home: Hong Kong Alumnus: HKBU (BBA, MBA) Occup: TSN GM, Manager in a shipping line | 10th year SWH/TSN UH GM. (basketball only)
99-00 Season WWR: 1057 SWP: 29928.5 TTV: 96.99 M 00-01 Season WWR: 37 SWP: 35,160 TTV: 104.86 M 01-02 Season WWW : 111 TSNP: 30,745 TTV : 66.71 M 02-03 Season WWW : 136 TSNP: 32,719 TTV : 68.78 M 03-04 Season WWR : 55 TSNP: 32,772 TTV : 71.48 M 04-05 Season WWR : 37 TSNP: 34,398 TTV : 85.09 M 05-06 Season WWR : 175 TSNP: 34,142.5 TTV : 75.85M 06-07 Season WWR : 94 TSPN: 32570.5 TTV : 80.51m 07-08 Season WWR : 28 TSPN: 35051.5 TTV : 89.63m 08-09 Season WWR : 33 TSPN: 33375.5 TTV : 78.67m Team objectives: i. All superstars line up. ii. Finish higher than top 100 WWR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Neal Hechtkopf Email: pensteel@aol.com Age: 18 Home: Arlington, Virginia | Favorite teams: all Pittsburgh teams, Penguins, Steelers, Pirates
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| Name: Bill G. Age: 31 Home: North Texas Alumnus: Hard Knocks Occup: Computer Operator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: ian Email: TheWonderboy@sympatico.ca Age: 30 Home: ontario Alumnus: university of western ontario Occup: Bell Canada technician | i only play the SW/TSN hoops fantasy game. i have tried the football and hockey games but lost interest as soon as the hoops game started.
i work with MAIN EVENT and we talk hoops every day, every chance we get. this more than anything keeps me interested. we are both absolutly addicted. i use this site every day faithfully and i guess it's paid off with an 8th wwr in the 2003-2004 season, my 5th year of playing. i discovered this site last year in the 2002-2003 season but only started taking part in the forums and the other activities like the GMD and gurupie standings this year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Shane Whelan Age: 25 Home: Lithia Springs, GA Alumnus: Mississippi State University Occup: Video Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Tim Herrick Age: 13 Home: Greenwich, NY Occup: student | My favorite sports teams are the New York Knicks, Buffalo Bills, St. Louis Cardinals, and Detroit Redwings. My favorite player is John Starks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Ryan Email: rpisgod@hotmail.com Age: 21 Home: Philadelphia, Pa Student: Penn State University Occup: Student | I started playing TSN/Smallworld in 1998 and stumbled across this site around January '99. Baseball and Hoops are my thing. Best finishes IIRC:
Baseball: 88wwr in 2000? Hoops: 101wwr in 2002 My favorite sports teams are all teams from Philly. But my heart is in Boston. I go to Penn State but it'll be back to Boston when i'm finished up with this ARMY thing =) I also like Duke basketball, Miami Hurricanes football and i'm a diehard Redsox fan of course. Other then that, I plan on graduating with a Criminal Justice degree and commissioning for the Army in May '04. "RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!" Much thanks goes out to Guru who maintains this site better than anyone would could. Good looking out, it's appreciated by so many! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Matt Email: mattkampf@yahoo.com Age: 34 Home: NY Alumnus: SUNY Albany Occup: Park Ranger, former Marine | This is the greatest hitter ever: 
I am better known now as "soxzeitgeist", as there is no reason to hate on the Yankees any longer. My best finishes in fantasy baseball have been last and cellar in the last two years respectively on the political boards ROTOYAKL league. I am a much better Yahoo! non-roto player with a 5th in my office pool and a first in football. Needless to say, I enjoy playing more than winning! I am a retired rugby winger as well, after 2 knee surgeries in 18 months. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: John Tevitts Email: yankeesalldaway@yahoo.com Age: 16 Home: New York College: None Yet Occup: High School Student | This is me: 
I am an avid player of fantasy baseball. I hate all other sports but I love baseball. This is my girl friend: 
Accomplishments: 6478 wwr SW baseball 1998 121 wwr SW baseball 1999 189 wwr SW baseball 2000 1342nd overall MSNBC Fantasy baseball 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Jim Age: 40 Home: Colorado Springs CO Alumnus: North Carolina State Occup: Computer Systems Analyst | Accepted the Guru as the one true fantasy sports master in July 98.
Rewarded with the Triple Crown in 99: Hoops (18), Baseball (87) and Football (54) - all the video games are still in the box. Yo is the stick man's call when an eleven comes up in craps, love to throw the dice. Team names always contain yo: Hoops (yodaman), Baseball (dollar yo), Football (Yoyo - I usually do, lucky this year). Grew up on the East Coast, but two Superbowl victory's was a great introduction to Colorado sports. Coors Field may be "baseball with an altitude", but it's a great place to watch a game. Add in the Pepsi Center , a much needed replacement for Mile High, and I'm a happy camper. After six years in Colorado, I'll never go back east. Still follow my Wolfpack very closely, graduated the year that a dunk by Lorenzo Charles ended the season. Give Wittenburg an assist, it wasn't a shot hehe. It was incredible to watch what Valvano did with that team. Still have a warm spot for the Redskin's, two Superbowls while I was in DC. Followed the Cubs through cable, but grew out of that. It's the Rockies now. Ironic that I almost cried when DC did not get the franchise. Favorite quote: "Ninety feet between bases is the closest mankind has ever come to perfection." - George Will | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: yoni Email: yonis@mail.com Age: 22 Home: israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Roman Email: youngroman@hotmail.com Age: 22 Home: Vienna, Austria, Europe Occup: Programmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name: Zack Occup: Professional Bum | My teams are Bizkit(22385) Fungi(57214) and Oxana (61581) (ID numbers)
My famous quote I use all the time after I look at how I did last night "Damn, I suck" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||