Tag: RSO

  • Reality Sports Online Auction

    Reality Sports Online Auction

    Learn more about Reality Sports Online’s excellent league format as Waldman profiles his RSO Writer’s League draft and auction. In the early 2000’s, I started a geeked-out fantasy league. It was an IDP dynasty league with a salary cap, contracts and fluctuating market values based on weekly performance. Drop a player and his current value was factored…

  • @RealitySportsOn (Reality Sports Online) Writers’ League: The Free Agent Auction

    @RealitySportsOn (Reality Sports Online) Writers’ League: The Free Agent Auction

    Waldman profiles his auction plan and execution from this week’s RSO Writers’ League free agent auction. My favorite fantasy drafts are auctions. It’s the one format where you get to target the players you value the most rather than hope that they fall to you.  Free agent auctions offer a different twist. The limitations of an…

  • RSO Writers League Rookie Draft In Progress

    RSO Writers League Rookie Draft In Progress

    I’ll continue updating this post and add commentary as I have time. For now, here’s how the draft is progressing after three rounds. Round Selection Overall Team 1 1 1 Matt Harmon Amari Cooper 1 2 2 Matt Papson Todd Gurley 1 3 3 Ryan McDowell Melvin Gordon 1 4 4 Jim Day Jameis Winston 1 5 5 Matt…

  • 2015 Reality Sports Online Writers League: Pre-Draft Prep

    2015 Reality Sports Online Writers League: Pre-Draft Prep

    What is Reality Sports Online? I’ve been running a fantasy league filled with writers for Reality Sports Online since 2013. RSO is the industry award-winning brainchild of Matt Papson and Stephen Wendell, former employees of the Philadelphia Eagles. They drew upon their legal and salary cap experience to develop a fantasy site that uses realistic NFL…

  • RSO Journal: My Draft, Auction Prep, and Results

    RSO Journal: My Draft, Auction Prep, and Results

    The RSO Writers League held its auction this weekend. Here’s a look at my strategy and execution for a free agent auction in this unique and fantastic format that you should try.  In case you haven’t heard of RSO’s site and leagues, here’s the quick rundown: It’s a contract-keeper-hybrid-auction league site that two former employees…

  • RSO Journal: Writers’ League Rookie Draft Analysis – The First Seven Teams

    RSO Journal: Writers’ League Rookie Draft Analysis – The First Seven Teams

    In case you haven’t heard of RSO’s site and leagues, here’s the quick rundown: It’s a contract-keeper-hybrid-auction league site that two former employees of the Philadelphia Eagles. One of the owners was a former capologist with the Eagles. The pair developed and earned industry awards for its auction application that uses realistic NFL salaries in…

  • RSO Writers League Journal: Tagging & Rookie Draft Order

    RSO Writers League Journal: Tagging & Rookie Draft Order

    A pre-draft trade for Alfred Morris involving a first-round pick, a team franchising a kicker, and Waldman trying to explain his madness? Learn more about the fascinating decisions for RSO leagues. I’ll be writing monthly about events in the Reality Sports Online Writers League that I’m running with the likes of Sigmund Bloom, Mike Clay,…

  • Reality Sports Online Writers’ League Update

    Reality Sports Online Writers’ League Update

    Reality Sports Online Writers’ League Update: November is almost over and it’s time to provide an RSO update on the 14-team league I started with some of the best fantasy writers I know and enjoy competing against. With the playoffs three weeks away, all but one team is still technically alive. Here’s a quick rundown…

  • RSO Writers’ League Diary: 2013, Week 5

    RSO Writers’ League Diary: 2013, Week 5

    Week 5 is in the books and my squad is 2-3 and fourth overall in points scored, including a 163-point weekend without Calvin Johnson and a month-long lack of an RB2, thanks to a Steven Jackson injury. STANDINGS Team W L Pts Waiver Grinders Jim Day 5 0 775 14 Bryan Fontaine 3 2 739…

  • RSO Writers’ League Diary Preseason Week 3

    RSO Writers’ League Diary Preseason Week 3

    Every month I’ll be writing something about the start-up keeper-contract-salary-auction league I’m running at Reality Sports Online. You can read more about RSO’s excellent league format here. And if you want to start a league with your friends or join a league as an individual, you can earn a 20 percent discount when you use…