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  • Survivor Pro: National duty hampers league play

    Major League Soccer has tried to do a lot of things right, but one of the challenges that league faces is what to do about teams who become desperately short-handed when a league match is played on the same day as a World Cup qualifying matches. There's always less of a draw if Donovan (USA), Beckham (England) and Blanco (Mexico) are going to be ...
    Posted to Survivor Experts Blog (Weblog) by Staff on September 3, 2008

  • Survivor Pro: Picking a winner by default

    After a month-long hiatus, we're back ... and shocked to discover that Spaniards are now ruling the world.  First the Spanish national team dominates Germany in the Euro 2008 championship to win the country's first European title in 44 years.Then Rafael Nadal survives an incredible 5-set match against Roger Federer to capture ...
    Posted to Survivor Experts Blog (Weblog) by Staff on July 8, 2008

  • Survivor Pro: Steady East, Wild West

    We wanted to take this week to expand upon Landon Donovan's incredible first month of the season (one of the best in recent memory by MLS standards) and how he has lifted our fantasy team to the top of its league, but that's the other guy's column. Our job in helping you find your way through Survivor Pro is much more ...
    Posted to Survivor Experts Blog (Weblog) by Staff on April 29, 2008

  • Survivor Pro: Favoring the home team

    The MLS season is only two weeks old, but there is a bit of a trend developing. Have you noticed it yet? It has nothing to do with the Kansas City Wizards' fast start, Cuauhtemoc Blanco's brilliance or Jon Busch's return to prominence between the posts. Take one look at the schedule so far this season and it will instantly jump out at you:The home ...
    Posted to Survivor Experts Blog (Weblog) by Staff on April 8, 2008

  • Fantasy Pro: What do first impressions mean?

    The short answer to the above question is: something, but not everything. After one weekend of MLS action, you've had a chance to ingest and digest quite a lot of soccer information and we're here to help you sort through it all. However, we're also here to remind you that the MLS season is a very long one, and one performance (either by a team ...
    Posted to Fantasy Blog (Weblog) by Jonathan Nierman on March 30, 2008

  • Survivor: No easy choices out there

    Yes, we realize that we slacked in getting a Survivor column posted last week. You probably won't believe it but we actually picked Kansas City to beat Columbus at Arrowhead Stadium (thank you very much, Eddie Johnson and Scott Sealy for allowing us to survive for another week with two strikes in extra time of their 3-2 win). It's more than ...
    Posted to Survivor Experts Blog (Weblog) by Staff on September 19, 2007