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I’ve added up the points (over 4.3 million of them). And James Serra is the winner of the 2009 Fantasy Football Index Experts Poll.
Serra, of First Place Sports Software, has been part of the Experts Poll panel since 1996, the longest run of anyone. And this is his second title. He last won in 1999, and he’s also finished 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th during his 14-year run.
Serra won both the defense and tight end categories, and he held onto that lead with respectable finishes at all of the positions – kicker (4th), wide receiver (6th), running back (8th) and quarterback (8th).
Christopher Harris of ESPN is the runnerup in this year’s poll. Harris won at both kicker and running back and was 2nd at quarterback, but was done in by finishing 10th at defenses and last at tight end.
Scott Pianowski of Yahoo! Sports finished in 3rd, followed by Rick Hawes (Fanball) and David Dorey (The Huddle).
By finishing first, Serra gets his choice of draft position in the mock draft competition held in the 2010 issue of Fantasy Football Index. If Serra wants to choose first (in a sine-wave draft format), he has the option; or he can move down to enhance his draft slot in the second round.
The top 11 finishers (out of 20) earn spots in that league. So joining the top five are Pretzel May, Chris Liss, Alan Satterlee, Kevin Marshall, Louis Tranquilli and Nathan Zegura. That 12-team league will also include a Fantasy Football Index reader that will be named later.
The Fantasy Index picks aren't included in these results. Out of fairness to the competition, we stay in the administrator role. (Most notably, our picks aren't locked into the same deadline, which usually is around May 20.) But if you plug in our magazine picks, which are printed in early June, we would have come in right in the middle this year with 216,818 points – ahead of 10 and behind 10 of the 20-man field.
EXPERTS POLL: OVERALL STANDINGS (final)
Points
219,854 James Serra
219,198 Christopher Harris
219,051 Scott Pianowski
217,707 Rick Hawes
217,398 David Dorey
217,380 Pretzel May
217,328 Chris Liss
217,188 Alan Satterlee
217,096 Kevin Marshall
217,076 Louis Tranquilli
216,670 Nathan Zegura
216,560 Sam Hendricks
216,259 Bob Henry
215,902 Michael Nazarek
215,183 Scott Endsley
214,697 Jeffrey Kamys
214,446 Colin Darlington
214,261 Cory Bonini
213,955 Bo Mitchell
210,446 Lenny Pappano
—Ian Allan
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