January 26th, 2011

2010 FSWA Award Winners

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Now that I’m finally able to see through the tears that coincidentally arrived after someone else beat me out for fantasy football writer of the year, it’s time to pass along the full list of winners.

We’ll have more about the Fantasy Sports Writers Association awards — including historical data — over the next few days, but here are the folks who grabbed trophies Tuesday night in Las Vegas (in bold):

FOOTBALL WRITER of the YEAR
Ladd Biro, The Sporting News
Dave Richard, CBS Sports
Matt Schauf, RapidDraft.com

BEST FOOTBALL SERIES
Ryan Bonini, KFFL
Michael Fabiano, NFL.com
Mike Gilbert, RotoExperts

BEST WEB FOOTBALL ARTICLE
Andy Behrens, Yahoo! Sports
Christopher Harris, ESPN
Tim McCullough, RotoExperts

BEST PRINT FOOTBALL ARTICLE
Andy Behrens, Yahoo! Sports
Cory Bonini, KFFL
Matt Waldman, Football Guys

BEST FOOTBALL MAGAZINE
Football CheatSheets
Football Diehards
Sports Illustrated

BASEBALL WRITER of the YEAR
Tristan Cockcroft, ESPN
David Regan, RotoWire
Derek VanRiper, RotoWire

BEST BASEBALL SERIES
Matt Lutovsky, The Sporting News
David Regan, RotoWire
Chris Ryan, RotoExperts

BEST WEB BASEBALL ARTICLE
Tristan Cockcroft, ESPN
David Regan, RotoWire
Derek VanRiper, RotoWire

BEST PRINT BASEBALL ARTICLE
Brent Hershey, Baseball HQ
Chris Liss, RotoWire
Jeff Stotts, RotoWire

BEST BASEBALL MAGAZINE
RotoWire
Sporting News
Yahoo! Sports

BASKETBALL WRITER of the YEAR
Carson Cistulli, RotoWire
Shannon McKeown, RotoWire
Brian McKitish, ESPN

HOCKEY WRITER of the YEAR
Evan Berofsky, RotoWire
Jan Levine, RotoWire
Janet Eagleson, RotoWire

RACING WRITER of the YEAR
Adam Ansell, RotoExperts
C.J. Radune, RotoWire
Mark Taylor, RotoWire

COLLEGE SPORTS WRITER of the YEAR
Brad Evans, Yahoo! Sports
Chris Morgan, RotoWire
Jesse Siegel, RotoWire

GOLF WRITER of the YEAR
John McNamara, RotoWorld
Scott Pianowski, Yahoo! Sports
Greg Vara, RotoWire

NEWCOMER of the YEAR
Jake Ciely, RotoExperts
Mario Puig, RotoWire
Lane Rizzardini, Bruno Boys Fantasy Football

BEST HUMOR ARTICLE
Andy Behrens, Yahoo! Sports
John Paulsen, Bulls-Eye
Chris Ryan, RotoExperts

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2010 FSTA Award Winners

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Back home from the latest Fantasy Sports Trade Association winter conference, we’ll have material over the next few days covering some of the stuff learned.

At the end of a Wednesday gobbled up by travel and family time, though, we’ll pass along the winners of the most recent set of FSTA awards (in bold):

MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCT OR SERVICE
Grid Iron Fantasy Sports — VuFantasyFootball.com
World Fantasy Games — RapidDraft Fantasy Football Weekly app
RotoWorld — Draftmaster software; Season PassOnline Fantasy Draft Guides
Fantasy Football Crystal Ball
Head2Head Sports — Injury/Bye Protection
RotoExperts.com — Fantasy Grinder
RotoWire.com — Fantasy Football Draft Kit (mobile)
FantasyPros
LeagueSafe
NFL.com — Fantasy Football 2010

MOST INNOVATIVE CONTEST
RotoExperts.com — Upset Challenge
World Fantasy Games — RapidDraft
Athlon — Pro+College Fantasy Football
NFL.com — Fantasy Playoff Challenge

MOST OUTSTANDING AD
NFL.com — TV spot
MyFantasyLeague.com — print ad
RapidDraft.com (World Fantasy Games) — Week 17 Twitter mock draft
ESPN — campaigns for fantasy baseball, Tournament Challenge and fantasy football
FootballDiehards.com — print-Web promotion

MOST OUTSTANDING CONTEST
NFL.com
FanDuel
CBSSports.com — Free Fantasy Football
World Fantasy Games
Fanball.com — Diamond Challenge Fantasy Baseball
WCOFF

MOST UNIQUE/OUTSTANDING LIVE EVENT or CONTEST
Baseball HQ — First Pitch Forums
WCOFF
NFL.com — Fantasy Live webcast
Head2Head — The Draft 2010
FanDuel — Fantasy Football Championship
RapidDraft.com (WFG) — RapidDraft Weekly

UNIQUE AD
NFL.com — “Dots” TV spot
FootballDiehards.com — print-Web promotion
RapidDraft.com (WFG) — Twitter mock draft

MOST VALUABLE CONTENT
Fantasy Sherpa
CBSSports.com
RotoWorld
ESPN
RotoExperts
Baseball HQ
RotoWire
The Huddle
XML Team
RapidDraft News (WFG)
NFL.com
FFSpin.com
FFToolbox.com
GodfatherofFantasySports.com (Charlie Wiegert’s blog)

MOST VALUABLE TOOL
RotoLab
NFL.com — Bloomberg Decision Maker; NFL.com Fantasy Tour
FantasyPros
Competitive Sports Analysis — scoutPRO
Fantasy Football Crystal Ball
RotoExperts.com
RapidDraft.com — Fantasy Football Weekly app
CBSSports.com — Fantasy Football Commissioner
RTSports.com — online draft room
Fantistics — Fantasy Draft Assistance Tool: Baseball; Football
RotoWorld — DraftMaster
MyFantasyLeague.com
Advanced Sports Media — Draft Analyzer

ROOKIE of the YEAR
FFSpin.com
FaGames
NFL.com — Fantasy Football 2010
FantasyPros
Competitive Sports Analysis
Gridiron Fantasy Sports — VuFantasyFootball.com
Joe Namath (World Fantasy Games)

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