Fantasy Sports

FantasyFootball.com offers a variety of premium package options, including a keeper league and a league with customizable scoring. It has many useful analysis tools for paying subscribers, but even free membership includes access to a trade assessor, message boards, daily player news/updates, and weekly radio show podcasts.

ESPN Fantasy Football offers in-depth fantasy football options for free. Potential fantasy owners can join an existing league or create their own with customizable scoring. Other features include a list of the week's most added and dropped players, NFL depth charts, the latest player and injury news and—brand new in 2007—a Crystal Ball link that "makes lineup recommendations based upon your league’s scoring system and roster settings." ESPN Insider subscribers also have access to the blogs of ESPNews regular Eric Karabell and the Talented Mr. Roto, Matthew Berry.

Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football features both free and premium games that are very easy to play, thanks to a great new interface that allows users to simply drag and drop players into (and out of) their starting lineups. The site also has a neat video feature called "Fantasy Football this Week" that airs every Sunday at 12 pm Eastern. The show recommends lineups and keeps viewers up to date on all of the NFL happenings.

Rotoworld.com , in partnership with NBC, offers not only the a free $100,000 Fantasy Challenge but also individual team headlines, fantastic forums, and Gregg Rosenthal's fantasy blog. With near-daily updates, Rosenthal tackles all of the silly questions that make fantasy football so much fun—such as whom you should make your number-three running back, or who you should be your top benchwarmer.

Fox Sports has everything a fantasy football fan could want: a number of different free and premium games, insightful articles and analyses, player projections, polls, headlines, and video.

NFL.com , not surprisingly, has an excellent fantasy section, featuring free and premium games, a ton of original text and video content, and even a real-time Sunday blog by Fantasy Editor Michael Fabiano.

CBS Sports has a wide variety of free and premium fantasy football games. The site also offers video with fantasy analysts, including previews, advice, and a wrap-up show called "Monday Fantasy Huddle."

The Sporting News offers several free and premium fantasy football games for different levels of knowledge and commitment. Subscribe and you’ll get the analysis that supplements TSN’s Fantasy Source Kit.

Fantasy Football Today features some of the best free fantasy football information on the Web. From regularly updated rankings and projections, to stats, articles, and fan forums—Fantasy Football Today has it all.

Footballguys.com scours the Web for fantasy football information and brings it to you for a yearly subscription. It features depth charts, rankings, cheat sheets, a regular podcast, and many links to other outstanding resources.

Fantasy Football Toolbox , in addition to the usual fantasy features such as player rankings and weekly cheat sheets, has a Player Research section that includes unique “Historical Fantasy Stats,” “Contract Year Players,” and “Free Agent Signings Tracker” links. There are independent links for each NFL team and weekly game previews, as well.

Fantasy Football Café allows visitors to comment on the fantasy football scene through articles submitted to the site and community forums.

Fantasy Sharks seems to grow every year—and with good reason. The site offers a wealth of information, and a forum for seemingly every conceivable situation. Concerned about a player's bad haircut? Chances are one of the FantasySharks posters or staff has addressed the situation and made the appropriate adjustments to next week's point projections.

The Dallas Morning News ’ Fantasy Football blog, a product of the Dallas Morning News, offers first-rate analysis of the week's games, as well as links to more in-depth media coverage of specific events.

Pro Football Weekly has commentary, player rankings, suggestions on whom to sit and whom to start, and comprehensive fantasy stats. The site also features the latest rumors and trade talk, as well as a one-hour radio show that provides match-up information and analysis of the upcoming games.

Fantasy Football Goat is the kind of blog site that everyone needs in their "Favorites" folder, if only because it references so many other useful sites.

College Football Fantasy features a premium contest that conducts a player draft from among all 119 Division I-A teams. Fantasy participants draft 16 college athletes and, during the regular season, field 10 players per week: one quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, one kicker, one team defense, and two bonus players. The scoring system is heavily tilted toward scoring, with bonus points awarded for longer touchdown runs and passes.

U-Sports College Fantasy Football provides a great interface for its premium service. Commentary and other bonus features are noticeably absent, however.

CBS Sports College Fantasy Football offers free public and private leagues with player drafts and head-to-head scoring.

ESPN College Football Challenge bases its fantasy game on the performance of teams and not players. Each week, users choose five teams from a single conference and score points based on their teams’ passing, rushing, receiving, kicking, and defense. The site also features a good blog and week-by-week previews.

Onroo lets you draft teams and gain points based on your teams’ wins and losses. Each week, you are allowed to double or triple the score of teams you feel confident about, or bench a team that you doubt.

College Fantasy Football Insider supplies fantasy news and stats, with a helpful Team Index providing news and notes on every major college football team. The site also includes an "Ask the Insider" section as well as weekly player power rankings.

Pro Fantasy Sports features a wide variety of informative articles and player reports that offer some great insights on upcoming games and match-ups.

Rotoworld College Football culls college football headlines from news sources across the country, and analyzes the fantasy impact of each. Take note that there are features on the site, such as a blog and season pass, labeled “football” that take you to NFL-related news.