July Bracket Field About To Be Set
July 28th, 2009 | by admin |With just a few days left in July, the FFOC is close to announcing the field for the first of our 2009 playoff brackets. Last season the field for the July Bracket was slightly over 500 teams. As of yesterday, the field for 2009 was 1210 teams, spread over 121 leagues. With 4 days left to go, I easily see the field passing 1300 teams, with a outside shot of reaching 1500.
This may be where some of you complain that you will not have the same odds of winning what was easily the Open’s smallest playoff bracket of 2008. The bright side however is that it is a solid sign that the Open Championship is growing, which can only mean great things for all fantasy football players in the future.
One of the more interesting sub plots from last years July Bracket is that its winner, Eric Hefley not only finished 4th over all in the Las Vegas Bracket – but he was also the Open Championship’s pointts leader going into the final weekend in Las Vegas.
Something that some players don’t realize is that if you know you’re stuff, drafting in July can actually provide with you with certain advantages that you otherwise would not have once the first few weeks of NFL training camps have passed. You can get tremendous value on certain players who may not be high on other people’s draft boards quite yet. There can be some real late round gems when you draft in July.
There is still time to register and draft a team before the month ends, so don’t hesitate if you want to take a shot at the $5,000 prize up for grabs in the July bracket. It could be this team that takes off for you and makes you fantasy football’s NEXT MILLIONAIRE!
Talk soon,
Stan
Stan Misthios is the founder of the Fantasy Football Open Championship. He is an avid player himself, but does not compete in The Open due to the obvious conflict of interest – which he sees as a huge PLUS for The Open’s thousands of other competitors because like most fantasy footballers, Stan assumes that he would win the Ivory Jacket every year. A loyal fan of the Silver and Black, Stan’s fantasy team in his home league is called the Just Win Babies, and the team’s logo is a picture of Al Davis shaking hands with the dark lord himself, Darth Vader.
By Don on Jul 28, 2009
and i hope its me who wins it last year…i also had some very strong teams in the July bracket last year and hope to again this year. I know i have a bunch of very solid teams so far….all i want to know is when is the JUNE bracket coming Stan and im not even kidding???
I was in some early Satellite leagues, many actually in other contests as far back as May 1, so why not here? Even is its just Q Schools but id rather see both Q’s and a whole new JUNE Bracket….what ya say?