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The Reviews Are In:
"Mike's detailed research provides not only useful and original
information for fantasy players, but insight into trends and performances that
appeal to regular fans who don't play fantasy. Flair and humor are niftily
mixed with his numbers. We plan to keep Mike's column for the long run."
--Tom Arenberg, Sports Editor, The Birmingham (Alabama) News
"Way beyond the usual. I highly recommend Michael's clean, tightly
written columns to sports editors looking to attract younger readers."
--Tom Batzold, Sports Editor, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY)
"An editor's dream."
--Charlie Miller, Sports Editor, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
"Entertaining, informative, concise -- that's a combination that
works very well for us and, more important, for our readers."
--Vin Sylvia, Sports Editor, the Manchester Union Leader
"Understands the fantasy game, but also provides interesting information for the regular fan."
--Joe Palmquist, Sports Editor, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
"Smartly done (in the Providence Journal). We wonder why more newspapers don't follow suit."
--Boston Sports Media
"I see we're both very deep at the wife position! You write well, and meld fantasy and gambling beautifully -- what more could a guy ask for?"
--Nick Bakay, actor/writer/comedian/ESPN personality
"The best football writer in America."
--Steve Moyer, president, Baseball Info Solutions
"Most knowledgeable and entertaining. Michael
has the ability to think
quickly on his feet when faced with a variety of questions from fans. He adds insight, humor, and genuine passion."
--Julie Scott, Producer, AM 700 ESPN Radio
"Always engaging, Michael digs up and puts into context deeper measures of player performance."
--Chris Liss, managing editor, Rotowire Football Guide
"Highly recommended to sports editors looking to hook fantasy football fanatics."
--Gary Silvers, Executive Sports Editor, Bucks County Courier Times (PA)
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 NFL fanatics play fantasy football, handicap games and maintain their childhood passion for their favorite team. But most fall into multiple categories and all share common interests. Michael's lively, provocative nationally syndicated Football By The Numbers column reaches them all, satisfying existing subscribers while attracting the new, younger, wealthier ones demanded by newspaper advertisers. 2006 coverage examined how to best measure QB arm strength, which unit typically has the edge when the top offense faces the top defense, whether success in running helps you pass and vice versa, whether first or third is the most important down in football, and debunked many other time-honored NFL myths while acknowledging where running really matters: in the red zone. Of course, the red zone isn't what we think, as merely getting there proves to be more decisive than actual red-zone outcomes
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 Michael's in-season baseball coverage remains focused on the statistical analysis that's of interest to all baseball fans. Insightful, clear and always entertaining, Michael's column last year introduced many readers to fielding independent pitching, the ballparks that provide the best enviornments for hitters and pitchers, the lack of science behind the steroid debate, better measurements of defensive efficiency, using modern stats to handicap pennant races, the economic factors behind the American League's interleague superiority, the strategic utility of the stolen base and the simple math that proves how closers are poorly leveraged by big-league managers. Each column seamlessly transitions into "Buy, Sell, Hold" recommendations on individual players, serving the entire community of baseball fans.
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EXPANDED FANTASY-CENTRIC ONLINE CONTENT
In addition to the print syndicated Football and Baseball By The Numbers columns described above, Meadowlands Media Group offers various, fantasy-centric pieces so that newspaper clients can provide expanded coverage online that's superior to anything availble on various pay fantasy sites. These syndicated pieces include weekly players rankings with pithy player commentary as well as the weekly fantasy "Stock Watch," which covers the American and National leagues separately, as many fantasy baseball participants use players from either the junior or senior circuit (but not from both).
TEAM BIOS
Michael Salfino
analyzes and predicts player performance for nearly two million readers in a weekly syndicated column published nationwide for a roster of newspaper clients including:
The Boston Herald, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, The Birmingham News, The Grand Rapids Press, The Tacoma News
Tribune, The Press Democrat
(Santa Rosa, CA), The Bucks County Courier Times, The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, The Argus Leader (South Dakota), The Manchester Union Leader and the West Central (Minnesota) Tribune. His work is also regularly featured on Sportsnet New York, he's analyzed the Mets and Yankees for the New York Sun and his NFL Breakfast Table with Scott Pianowski has been featured on Yahoo! Michael is a frequent NFL analyst on ESPN
radio in various markets and is heard weekly on XM Radio Channel 143 with Chris Liss on the RotoWire Fantasy Football Hour. Mike's writing has also been featured in national consumer magazines, including Psychology Today.
Scott Pianowski has been a print and web journalist for the past 20 years. His fantasy work has appeared in several outlets, including various newspapers and newspaper websites via the syndication of his Fantasy Football Matchup Meter, Yahoo.com (featured weekly baseball writer in 2006), FantasyGuru.com (baseball editor for three years), and Rotowire.com (staffer for five years; senior football writer for three years). Pianowski also provided weekly player rankings for USA Today's Sports Weekly for two years, is a contributing editor to Lindy's Fantasy Baseball Magazine and a frequent, featured guest expert on XM Satellite and ESPN Radio. Prior to moving to the web, Pianowski was a newspaper reporter for the Providence Journal, Woonsocket Call and Lowell Sun.
MORE MARKETING AND COST INFO FOR EDITORS
If you represent a newspaper
that wants a cost-effective way to provide premium content to the 37 million
people who play fantasy sports (as estimated in '06 Reuters article),
e-mail us today. Michael's
clients are best positioned to attract the typical fantasy player, who is age
37 with a BA and an annual income of 80K. In fact, the New York Times says that
fantasy players are 40 percent more likely to earn $100K annually than other computer
users. That's why advertisers such as Best Buy, Ford, Jeep and Reebok are specifically
targeting them.
The cost for all syndicated
content is well within every newspaper's budget, providing content your readers can't find in competiting newspapers and freeing up staff resources for local sports coverage.
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