It’s the one injury that will destroy just about every fantasy team: the premier ruckman in the game is proppy. (more…)

Dean Laidley is one of many coaches who love to sabotage fantasy hopes by dropping kids too early. (more…)

The fantasy hype machine is louder than ever this pre-season, but some don’t deserve spruiking. (more…)

The AFL has listened to gamblers but continues to ignore fantasy coaches who had their teams ruined. (more…)

The News Limited competitions have opened, giving us our first official glimpse at the fantasy year. (more…)

With a bit more time, I’ve had a chance to get some more information from the 2009 AFL Prospectus on changes to player positions and classifications, some of which has important fantasy implications. (more…)

2009 will be the first full year of the Premium Dream Team private league product from VirtualSports. Having launched halfway through 2008, Premium DT introduced many Australian fantasy footy fans to the private draft league concept for the first time. The FanFooty blog will carry much PDT-focused content in 2009, and we’ll kick things off with a “mock draft”. First, let’s do some number-crunching. (more…)

Of course Ben Cousins is getting all the headlines, and rightfully so with the Tigers jumping into the three-ring circus that Cousins’ life has been for years. However, fantasy coaches sifting through the 81 picks in the 2008 preseason and rookie drafts looking for value may end up taking more notice of other, less infamous players. (more…)

Unfortunately I can’t give you full statistics from the Under 18 championships this year. VFL stats also seem to be thin on the ground. If anyone knows of a freely available source, I’d be much obliged. At least we have some numbers to go on with from the Fantasy Freako newsletter earlier this year. (more…)

Now we’ve gone through the WAFL and SANFL draftee statistics in the previous two posts, time for the main course: the Victorian kids. They’ve mostly been running around playing each other in the TAC Cup this year, and there is plenty of fantasy value to be mined out of this table! (more…)