Do you have experience writing fantasy sports articles (or wanting to develop that experience)?  Then we are very interested in hearing from you! 

Feel free to drop us a line at Jobs@fantasyfootballtrader.com   We are always on the lookout for talented writers to add to our team and we pay!  

Rick Perkins lives in Loveland, CO. with his wife of 16 years and two children.  In a life prior to Fantasy Football Trader his hobbies were bass fishing, fly-fishing and any other excuse to get up into the mountains over the weekend. 

Rick began playing dynasty league Fantasy Football in 1995 and is entering his 16th season.  He has enjoyed a verifiable 75%+ cashout rate in the leagues he plays; with experince in many formats - auction, dynasty rookie and regular redraft formats.  In his "home" dynasty league Rick posted fantasy championships in '02, '04, '05, '06 and a 3rd place cash in '07.  A second place blemish in 2003 prevented the 5-peat. 

As a member in good standing with the Fantasy Sports Writers Association, Rick's expertise in dynasty league valuations and advanced trade strategy is unparalelled by anyone in the fantasy sports industry. 

Robb Perkins was born and raised in Lincoln, NE. where he lives today with his wife of 15 years and five children.  To say life is hectic is an understatement!  Between home life and Fantasy Football Trader there isn't much time for anything else.  When a break presents itself, Robb like's to bass fish and play video games with the boys. 

Robb began playing fantasy football in 1994 and is entering 17th season, including his 14th as commish of the "home" dynasty league.  He has won two championships but is in a third place drought lately. 

Robb's other job has him dealing with numbers and stats all day and he prides himself on gathering fantasy statistics that the average person may not even think about.  Then applying those numbers toward helping you crush your competition.  His motto is "Stat's don't lie" and he's a valuable resource for the F.F.T. community to have on their side.

The "Godfather of Fantasy Football", Jon Rascon has been playing fantasy football for 15+ years and has yet to see "luck" play a part in any of the countless championships he's won. A native Iowan, but Floridian at heart, Jon takes every opportunity to talk up his Miami Hurricanes. He also has two daughters, Savannah and Lydia, who also represent The U whenever possible.

In his spare time, Jon used to love watching youtube videos of Kimbo Slice. But now that Slice got punk'd, Jon enjoys the simple things in life, such as cracking on his friends' favorite teams (Iowa Hawkeyes, Dallas Cowboys and Notre Dame Irish are all targets of opportunity).

Jeremy Fischer is a native Texan, having grown up in Houston and earned a degree in Theatre from the University of Texas.   His life was permanently altered by Vince Young and the Longhorns’ National Championship in 2005.

He currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife of 8 years, his 5-month old daughter Grace and his very “manly” dog Tex (he goes all of 10lbs. soaking wet).

He was first introduced to fantasy gaming when his family started a Fantasy NASCAR league 10 years ago—a league that still exists today, and a league where he’s never lost money.  He expanded to Fantasy Baseball and Fantasy Football a couple years after that, and is now even caught participating in Fantasy Golf.

Obviously hired for his tremendous good looks, he dispenses fine fantasy knowledge as well.  Since 2006, his work can be found at www.getsportsinfo.com.  He currently hosts a Fantasy Baseball podcast entitled Fantasy Fastball, which can be found at www.getsportsradio.com, where he dispenses fantasy baseball gems.  He is the current champion of the GetSports house league (thank you Aaron Stecker).

Yet another FSWA member, Frank Mazzola is also a fantasy football staff writer for Sportsbuff.com since June '08 where he started out writing a weekly fantasy hockey column. Frank joined the football staff in August last year and took over the Weekly Injury Report. In January '09, he began writing the "Start 'Em/Bench 'Em" Report for those who engaged in Sportsbuff's Fantasy Playoff Contest. 

Frank is 38 years old and left his sales career back in May of 2007, determined to become a sportswriter. To that end, he has pursued this line of work with a passion and currently writes not only for Sportsbuff.com, but also www.sportstalkbuzz.com (fantasy hockey, NHL, NFL and the WWE) and www.rotoexperts.com (fantasy hockey).  

Matt has played NFL fantasy football for a decade and has covered it as a freelance writer/editor for more than five years. Following a five-year stint as a radio news reporter in suburban Chicago, Matt broke into the fantasy football business as a contributor with KFFL.com in 2004, covering just about all things fantasy football and NFL football, and he is entering his second year as a fantasy football features writer for FantasySharks.com. Matt also has been published in The Fantasy Football Source Book (2005 and 2006) and Peter “Rotoman” Kreutzer’s The Fantasy Football Guide (2008 and 2009) magazines. Sporting a 4-3 lifetime mark in fantasy bowls (and haunted by two unlucky breaks that cost him a 6-1 record), Matt is a re-draft league fanatic who has had at least two of his fantasy teams make the playoffs each season for 10 straight years.

Born and raised in Michigan, Matt’s earliest sports memories are the latter years of the legendary “Ten Year War” between Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes. Although Matt moved to the Chicago suburbs and adopted the Chicago Bears 15+ years ago, he is still a huge Michigan Wolverines fan and loves college football. Matt holds a degree in journalism from Northern Illinois.

Ernie Estrella has always lived in hard-nosed, blue collar sports towns as a native Clevelander, who has also spent many years living in Ann Arbor, MI. Now he finds himself in San Diego, CA with his wife in a city where the weather trumps everything, including spectator sports.

With no local NBA team and an apathetic sports fan base for the Padres and Chargers, Ernie's satellite radio is always within arm's length. Fantasy football has been in Ernie's life since 1996 when he began helping a friend make weekly decisions in starting lineups in a dynasty football league.

Now he is usually juggling two or three leagues every year in fantasy football, basketball, and baseball. Two championships, and too many agonizing second and third place finishes to count, fantasy sports have become more than just an escape of disappointments in Cleveland professional sports. Since the seasons cease to change in southern California, fantasy is the only way to keep track of what time of year it is.

Ernie is also a contributing writer for FantasyFootballChamps.com and when not writing about sports, he is a graphic designer and writer/editor/critic covering the entertainment world specializing in film and comic books.

Marc Tokushige lives in Whittier, California, and his life has been consumed by sports since he was born in 1984.  While other kids watched weekend morning cartoons, he watched “College Gameday” and “NFL Countdown”.  Despite having only played fantasy football for two years, he has caught on remarkably fast, winning his “home” league both years, through thorough draft preparation, adding waiver wire gems before they break out, and a remarkable knack for making the correct sit/start decisions.  He swears by his motto that “receivers can win leagues”, and is never afraid to think outside the box.

Marc graduated from UC Irvine two years ago with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, so he naturally loves to write about baseball, football, and just about everything else you can possibly think of in his unique, one-of-a-kind blog.  When he isn’t blogging or breaking down mock drafts, Marc can be found golfing, studying for his grad school classes, playing online poker, or rooting on the Chiefs and Dodgers.

Chris DiLeo lives in the scenic Hudson Valley, about an hour drive north of New York City.  He has been involved with fantasy football for over a decade.  Chris will not deny the assertion that luck plays a role in fantasy football, but his motto is “luck favors the prepared”.

He has published numerous fantasy football articles which have appeared on foxsports.com, and also has had many of his articles linked from the cbssports.com fantasy home page.

Having been a fantasy football commissioner since 2004, Chris also enjoys competing in national contests.  Chris has had success in both salary cap style, as well as re-draft leagues. 

In the sportsbuff.com salary cap contest, Chris finished third overall in the nation in 2006, winning him an expense paid trip to Las Vegas in addition to prize money.  Chris also won the title of New York State Champ back-to-back in 2005 & 2006, then added a third place finish in 2007. 

In 2009, Chris took on the challenge of competing in The World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF).  Winning first place in his 12-team league, Chris was crowned League Champion, and awarded an entry into the WCOFF Championship Bracket in his inaugural year.

TJ Streett has played fantasy sports for well over a decade and considers himself a “Draft Czar.” His specialties are auction drafts and recognizing down years. He writes for www.fantasybaseballgeeks.com where he’s dominating the expert league there. What makes that site unique is its “Fix My Team” portion where TJ and the other writers respond to trade evaluations and daily lineup management.

TJ was raised on Tecmo Super Bowl along with countless others from his generation. He attended the University of Delaware and shortly after pursued a career as a poet. His poetry has appeared in CC&D, FreeXpression and the Fullosia Press among other literary publications.

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FISCHER TAKES DOWN FSWA AWARD 2008 HUMOR COLUMNIST OF THEY YEAR

The Fantasy Sports Writers Association (FSWA) was founded to be a voice for writers in the arena of fantasy sports. Moreover, the organization strives to promote and acknowledge the hard work and dedication shown by fantasy sports writers throughout the industry. On January 27th, 2009 at the Fantasy Sports Trade Association in St. Peter's Beach, Fla. the FSWA served notice to the fantasy community, what was already common knowledge to our newsletter subscribers; that our own Jeremy Fischer is one hell of an entertaining journalist!   Back in December, Jeremy threw his hat in the ring for "Best Humor Article in 2008", by submitting a few of his "Quick H.I.T. (Humorous and Informational Tidbits)".   He outdueled industry icon Lenny Pappano of DraftSharks.com and F.F.T. friend Geoffrey Stein of Mock Draft Central.  More than 200 writers submitted 823 articles for award considerations and we're proud to be affiliated with one left standing at the top.   Take a bow Jeremy!