We’re callin’ this week’s edition the ‘Cheese and Whine’ Edition (note the spelling). These two things dominated the weekend of NFL and also happened to be some of my favorite holiday foods. Let me explain:

Cheese (Meaning #1) – The Green Bay Packers. How impressive was the performance of Aaron Rodgers and company this week? They absolutely thrashed a Giants team that is one of the better teams in the NFC. Yes, they were at home. Yes, the Giants are a tad nicked up. But all excuses aside (again with the whine) this was an eye-opening performance. As we count down to the end of the ever-popular ex-Packers QB, can we take a second to recognize the new one? (Read More)

‘Twas the week before Christmas in the NFL,

 with games so competitive, not even a grinder could tell;

 What teams would win?,
 what heroes would arise
What stars would falter and be a grinder’s demise?;

 Screen passes and dumb punts determine our fate,

 While QBs lead drives that could change things so late; But as you hold your breath and wonder who the winner will be, please open your ears and learn this lesson from me; Remember that this game of ours is all in good fun,

 Especially for ‘KC’ who just BANKED A TON. (Read More)

2010 is coming to a close, and so are our BETA Rankings. That’s right! You’ve given us your feedback and we’ve implemented it. We have some big updates coming to the site throughout 2011, starting with our brand spanking new (and improved) Rankings system. I’m excited to unveil them to the community…in a couple weeks! Until then, here are the updated Top 25 Daily Fantasy Grinders according to the BETA Rankings.

The big news in this update is that PrimeTime420 was able to recapture 2nd Place from GeneralV after a 120 point week. Etoppsfan continues his stranglehold on first, while headChopper and his neon avatar held onto 4th place. Meanwhile, Sirus XM and ESPN Radio Host, TonyCincotta held onto 5th place in the rankings. (Read More)

Cal and Vegasmike just Rocked this week’s tourneys boys. 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the $109 tourney. Excellent work my friends. Cal makes up for his lackluster performance in Vegas with a 3rd place cash. Vegasmike can plan a trip with the huge money he made. Over $2K in the big contest alone. Impressive. What’s the secret guys? (Read More)

Now that the Rankings have cracked well over 100 Grinders, we’re going to focus on doing a weekly Top 25 update. This number will adjust as our community grows. Since College Football is coming to a close, this will give you something to look forward to on your Sunday evenings to replace the BCS rankings updates. (Read More)

He started with a $100 deposit at the beginning of the Baseball season, and since then turned that into well over $25,000 and an FFFC Championship without ever needing to re-deposit; meet Joe Vance ladies and gentlemen. Joe, a.k.a. GeneralV, used to be just a regular fantasy sports Grinder like most of us here. Then something clicked with him this October in the midst of NFL season, and also right around the birth of his first daughter. Since this epiphany, which Joe would not let on much about, he’s been a fantasy beast. Most of us would be satisfied with a 65% win-rate in heads up contests; try a 92% win-rate on for size. Joe told us that he has a “92% win rate on DraftStreet” and that “he can’t stand that the games in progress on [DraftStreet] count as losses until they complete, and thus take away from that win rate.” Must be tough Joe. Oh, and that’s not even just Heads Up contests he’s talking about. Joe, estimates that between “30-35%” of his wins are for contests with 3 or more players in them, the types of contests “he prefers”. (Read More)

After 10 weeks of taking shots, the 10 finalists have all arrived in Las Vegas and are squared off to compete for the $25,000 Grand Prize and title of 1st Annual FFFC Champion. If it were ever in doubt that RotoGrinders served as home for debate amongst talented, Fantasy Experts – doubt no more. Four of the 10 finalists in the FFFC wound up being members of our community, and we are proud of them all! Best of luck to the RotoGrinders in the FFFC finals today! Let’s finish 1-2-3…then 4…then 10% of one of those prizes. Let’s meet them! (Read More)

This week over $25,000 was awarded in “Guaranteed Prize Pool” contests across the daily fantasy sites! That’s a boatload of cash, and all this on the heels of the $40,000 Guaranteed FFFC Finale this weekend in Vegas. You may have noticed these large guaranteed contests quickly growing in popularity in Daily Fantasy Sports, and if you’re smart you’ve played in them as well. For one low buy in you’ve got the shot at hundreds in winnings, and on SportsGeek you’ve got a shot at thousands! This article will take a look at all the tournaments with a $1000 Guarantee or greater. (Read More)

Since mid-November the biggest mover by a large margin was GeneralV, who had an absolutely monster two-week stretch (with a lot to do with his Week 9 FFFC victory)! Over the last two weeks RotoGrinders has V tracked at over $13,000 in winnings, which includes the $5,000 FFFC prize package. GeneralV had an estimated $8,000 in winnings 2 weeks ago (including the $5k package), and over $5,000 this past week alone. The past 2 weeks’ winnings were good enough for V one spot to #3 in the rankings, and put him just 86 points back, and in striking distance, of grabbing the #2 spot. (Read More)

After a brief fall down to the #12 spot, TonyCincotta was our biggest Top 10 gainer this week grabbing 189 points, which was good enough to get him back up to the #8 Overall spot. headChopper had the second biggest week in the Top 10 with 143 point gain, but GeneralV was able to again put up solid numbers and hold off HC for the #3 spot, keeping the Top 7 the same as they were last week. Tony C’s big jump to #8 managed to push TeamKC to 9th place and SClements21 to 10th. The prestigious #1 spot is still held onto by etoppsfan, but PrimeTime420 is firmly within striking distance still, only 184 points back. E-Topps finally cooled off his monster streak, putting up his first sub-100 point week since joining the RotoGrinders Rankings. (Read More)