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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
  • Fantasy Pro: Rating the blue chip stocks

    The economy sucks. The market is down, unemployment is up, and the dollar is so weak that developmental players in MLS are moving into training ground locker rooms in order to avoid paying rent. And with tax day behind us now, what better time to examine the places where we're spending a lot of dough? So in this week's blog entry, it's time to ...
    Posted to Fantasy Blog (Weblog) by Jonathan Nierman on April 20, 2008
  • Survivor Pro: Consistently consistent

    We've decided that it would be best not to dwell on last week's results and just look ahead to this week's upcoming matches. We'd like to blame the unusual weekend weather -- 44 degrees in Kansas City on Saturday, 89 degrees in Carson, Calif. on Sunday -- but there's no excuses. We can't even blame it on the rain (yeah, yeah). There are seven ...
    Posted to Survivor Experts Blog (Weblog) by Staff on April 16, 2008
  • Fantasy Pro: Worst picks by team

    As stated right here in last week's entry, first impressions in fantasy soccer don't mean all that much. But that's not going to stop us from having them, is it? So in the spirit of ''do as I say, not as I do,'' here's the one player on each team that if you've got, you need to dump. Note that this list ignores bench warmers and other dudes ...
    Posted to Fantasy Blog (Weblog) by Jonathan Nierman on April 7, 2008
  • Fantasy Pro: Set your roster for opening day

    We’re less than a week away from the start of the 2008 Major League Soccer season, and as the action nears commencement on Saturday, things in the fantasy ranks are already running hot.   Don’t put it off any longer; if you haven’t done so already, now is the time to complete your fantasy team so that when the weekend rolls around (and it ...
    Posted to Fantasy Blog (Weblog) by Jonathan Nierman on March 23, 2008