Fantasy football is played by more than 50 million Americans – and we’re all experts. Of course, my expertise usually costs me money while the genuinely smart analysts earn the big bucks.

As the 2024 season kicks off, we find ourselves drifting, while drafting, in a sea of advice. On YouTube alone, there are now more than 600 channels offering tips and tricks. For my new book, “Inside Fantasy Football: America’s Favorite Non-Contact Sport,” I examined the question we all wrestle with: Whose advice should I trust?

FantasyPros has been charting the accuracy of prognosticators since 2009, when it determined that Yahoo’s Andy Behrens was the season’s most accurate NFL ranker. “I’m glad someone runs an accuracy competition,” Behrens told me.........

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