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Rankings, Waiver Wire, Start Sit, Trades, Tools & more, all customized to your teams and players saving you time and money to help you dominate your league.

Our Mission

"To give you the best user experience delivered directly to your inbox every morning. Learn from the best, customize your experience, and dominate your league by reading every morning for just five minutes"

Meet our Team

Matthew
Matthew Berry
Founder

Universally regarded as one of the leading voices in fantasy football, Matthew Berry, aka “The Talented Mr. Roto,” is the world's most followed fantasy football analyst. Named the 2013 Marketer of the Year by the Academy of Marketing Science for his role in fueling the national growth of fantasy football, Berry is a NY Times Best Seller for his book “Fantasy Life.”

Known for his famous “Love/Hate” column - one of the most wide read columns in all of sports, Berry is also a Sports Emmy Award winner for his work while at ESPN, where he spent 15 years as their Sr. Fantasy Football Analyst. Berry recently left ESPN to join NBC Sports, where he appears regularly across NBC & Peacock platforms including Football Night in America, Sunday Night Football and the Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry. He is a Fantasy Sports Gaming Association Hall - of - Famer.
Eliot
Eliot Crist
CEO

Eliot is the CEO of Fantasy Life, formerly the COO of FTN, and the CPO of TQE prior to that. Eliot has a strong background as both a content creator and product innovator in the fantasy and gaming space. Seen on CBS and heard on Sirius XM, Eliot has been playing fantasy football for over 16 years and betting on the NFL for 11 years. He brings a passion for football, entertainment, tools, and data as the team lead that will be reflective in the entire Fantasy Life experience.
Jordan
Jordan Fiegleman
Chief Content Officer

Jordan is the Chief Content Officer of Fantasy Life and formerly the Media Director of Line Movement. Jordan curates the Fantasy Life Newsletter, and develops our content strategies across platforms while managing our content team. Jordan's background is in written & video content strategy, SEO, and brand & talent development. In the past 5 years, Jordan has worked with some of the largest companies and creators in the Fantasy and Sports Betting industry to help modernize their processes and how they approach content creation.
Peter
Peter Overzet
Creative Lead

Peter Overzet is the creative lead for Fantasy Life and voice of the newsletter, as well as a podcast host and comedian. He streams a variety of fantasy football shows on his YouTube channel covering best ball, DFS, and high stakes season-long. He is also known on Twitter as a thought leader, influencer, deposit king, and aspiring engagement farmer.
Kendall
Kendall Valenzuela
Sr. Analyst and Director of Social Media

Kendall Valenzuela is a Sr. Analyst and Director of Social Media for Fantasy Life. She started her career as a digital host and social media manager at Sports Radio 104.3 The Fan in Denver before working for Pro Football Focus. She is a huge fan of all things sports betting, analytics and Seattle sports.
Dwain
Dwain McFarland
Director of Analytics & Lead Fantasy Analyst

Dwain is the Lead Fantasy Analyst and Director of Analytics of Fantasy Life. He is best known for the Utilization Report, which led to his first full-time role in the industry at Pro Football Focus. Dwain’s experience and background have helped him craft a unique voice in the fantasy football community. He has placed highly in multiple national season-long contests, including three top-five finishes at the FFPC. Before beginning his fantasy career in 2018, Dwain led product strategy and data and analytics teams for one of the largest healthcare improvement companies in the nation.
Ian
Ian Hartitz
Senior Fantasy Analyst

Ian is a senior fantasy analyst at Fantasy Life and he truly believes every day is a great day to be great. He's spent time with Action Network, NBC Sports and Pro Football Focus over the years, writing and podcasting about all things fantasy football along the way. Ian's process relies on a mix of film analysis and data study; whatever is needed to get the job done (job done). There's no reason fun can't be had along the way — we do live on a rock floating around a ball of fire after all. Outside of football, Ian enjoys MMA, his dachshund Lilly and candles.
James
James Kozack
Head of Sales

James joined Fantasy Life as Head of Sales to lead revenue operations. Prior to joining Fantasy Life, James held the role of EVP Strategic Partnerships at sports marketing agency Talon Partnerships & Events, where he worked with an A-List roster of emerging brands and athletes. With 20+ years of experience in media and sports, James has held senior sales roles for some of the most exciting brands in the marketplace, including Combate Americas, Broadbeam Media, Estrella Media, NFL Network & Turner Broadcasting. James graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S in Economics.
Nick
Nick Concklin
Creative Director

Nick is the Creative Director of Fantasy Life, and formerly the Creative Director of Line Movement. With over 12 years of experience as a graphic designer and 5 years as a design director specializing in the Music, Sports, Publishing, and SaaS industries, Nick is helping bring to life the next era of Fantasy Life.
Joe
Joe Metz
Ad Sales and Affiliate Account Manager

Joe is the Ad Sales and Affiliate Account Manager for Fantasy Life, formerly an Operations Manager of Partnerships at FTN. Joe has an extensive sales background, both in the sports industry and outside of it, including nearly four years with the Milwaukee Bucks. He also brings in an extensive history of providing written, video, and audio content across Fantasy, DFS, and sports betting platforms. With a passion for combining his sales success with the fantasy and betting community, Joe will be growing Fantasy Life’s current client relationships while pursuing new business opportunities.

Fantasy Life Contributors

Amanda
Amanda

Cooterdoodle won the very first fantasy football league she ever played in. Rumor has it she reminds people of this fact to this day. Above winning, she takes pride in trash talking her fantasy football opponents. You can find her running the Fantasy Life social media accounts, creating Petite Pods, contributing articles to the Smack Zone for Trophy Smack, and generally being an advocate for serious issues on Twitter. #milkfirst
Marcas
Marcas Grant

Marcas Grant is a man of leisure who funds his mediocre lifestyle writing and talking about fantasy football for the NFL and Fantasy Life. He also owns a working Atari 2600.
Chris
Chris Allen

Chris Allen is a Fantasy Analyst and Content Coordinator at Fantasy Life, but he’s also a mechanical engineer by trade that leverages his analytical background to study the various components of fantasy football. From how weather impacts results to draft strategy, Chris uses a 'process over results' approach to deliver actionable analysis on multiple platforms for any fantasy football format.
Sam
Sam Wallace

Sam Wallace has contributed to Dynasty Football Factory, RotoViz, FTN, and the Fantasy Life Newsletter with a primary focus being on dynasty fantasy football. He has a Masters Degree in Educational Administration and Curriculum and is currently a high school teacher. When not writing about fantasy football (or teaching), he loves spending time with his beautiful wife and two wonderful children.
Rob
Rob Waziak

Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Rob Waziak ("Waz") is a fantasy football analyst who competes in draft and season-long expert rankings competitions, consistently finishing at or near the top of industry-wide rankings accuracy leaderboards since 2017. A 20+ year fantasy football veteran, he has experience playing (and winning) multiple league formats. Waz holds a Master's in Information Technology and Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology and works as an IT Manager in Chicago. Go Bills.
Jonathan
Jonathan Fuller

Jonathan Fuller is an editor for Fantasy Life as well as a contributing writer for Spike Week. He is the type of person who drafts best ball teams in March and competes in a 96 team dynasty/devy league. He spends more time than he would care to admit listening to fantasy football podcasts and discussing strategy on Discord and Twitter. Outside of fantasy football Jonathan works in the wealth management industry and enjoys following the other football ⚽️ as well as spending quality time with his wife and their puppy.
Linda
Linda Godfrey

Linda started creating fantasy football content in an effort to stop annoying her friends and family with fantasy football chatter. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work. While she thoroughly enjoys the kicker position, her competitive nature is what keeps her coming back. She might actually hate losing more than she likes winning. Linda contributes weekly kicker tiers to the newsletter and enjoys all things redraft. When she’s not doing a waiver wire deep dive or sweating over start sit decisions you can find her dancing with her daughter or escaping into a book.
Jake
Jake Trowbridge

Jake graduated from UW-Madison with a degree in Journalism, which he does not use. When he’s not contributing the silliest kinds of video content for Fantasy Life, he’s co-hosting the BallBlast and Drinking & Talking Fantasy Football podcasts. He is best known on Twitter for his celebrity impressions and song parodies. Jake prefers to look on the sillier side of fantasy football. His best fantasy football advice: Don’t drink and trade.
Geoff
Geoff Ulrich

Geoff Ulrich is a writer and content provider who works in the daily fantasy and gambling space for DraftKings and other operators. He loves the quest of finding the next batch of underrated breakout players for his season long and best ball teams and then proudly watching them become mainstream stars. An inquisitive person by nature, you can often find him on twitter (@thefantasygrind) tilting his latest bet or going over his favorite plays for the upcoming NFL or Golf slate.
Sam
Sam Holt

Sam Holt grew up in the Ventura County area of Southern California. A lifelong sports fan, Sam started playing fantasy football in college and loved it so much that she started writing and podcasting for multiple fantasy sites. When Sam isn’t dialed in on fantasy sports, she’s a graphic designer and artist. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration from CSULB in 2010. She loves drawing and painting digitally as well as in traditional mediums. Blending her love of football and art skills has been an exciting new chapter for her.
Matthew
Matthew Ramos

Matt is from Southern California but now resides in Nashville, TN. He was a collegiate volleyball player who has a passion for all sports. The twitter handle @sommbets5 stems from him also being a certified sommelier. In his spare time he is either on the golf course, passionately cheering for the dodgers, or live betting whatever sport is on tv that day.
Matt
Matt LaMarca

Matt LaMarca has worked full-time in the sports betting and DFS industry since 2018, with his work appearing on sites like The Action Network, DraftKings, Awesemo, and Props.com. He has a proven record as a bettor thanks to his analytic approach focused on line movement, public betting percentages, and trends. He specializes in the NFL and NBA sides, but he’s also had success in MLB, college football, and the player prop market. Matt is also an avid Mets fan who hopes to be alive for the team’s next World Series, whenever that may be.
Meng
Meng Song

Meng is an editor at Fantasy Life, dynasty football lead at Fantrax, co-host of the #SmashAccept podcast, and co-host of the Fantasy Football Addicts podcast. He's a huge Tom Brady fan and loves fantasy football, whether it's redraft, dynasty, DFS, or best ball.
Sarah
Sarah Schmitz

Sarah is originally from Virginia and now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She has a degree in writing and communications from James Madison University and contributes at Fantasy Life as a written content editor. Sarah grew up loving football but didn’t give fantasy football a try until later—but once she did, it was full speed ahead and no looking back. Outside of following sports, Sarah enjoys reading, traveling, spending time outdoors, and insisting to anyone who will listen that Midwest summers do make the winters worth it, really.
fantasylife

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive space for all our employees and extending this culture of inclusion into our work. At Fantasy Life, diversity and inclusion (D&I) are integral to our mission. We believe that our workforce should reflect the vast diversity of the communities we serve, and that diverse voices should be elevated and intentionally integrated into our work.

We embrace difference and diversity of identity, experience, and thought, and actively strive for inclusive behavior across our company and our work. By promoting these values, we aim to create a positive work experience that encourages sense of belonging.

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