We go back to our bookshelves for this week’s Fantasy Book Review here on Fantasy Ethos. I am happy to announce that today’s review is the second edition of the Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football by Sam Hendricks.

There is something intriguing about getting fantasy football advice from a guy who flew and trained other pilots on flying the F-15. In the Fantasy Football Guidebook, Sam Hendricks opens his vast knowledge of playing fantasy football to the masses. Hendrick’s tome on fantasy football is a massive 375 pages that takes players from high-level topics to nitty-gritty details.

Knowing Hendricks’ background as a pilot helps put the massiveness of this book into perspective–Hendricks prepares the fantasy player for every conceivable and inconceivable case a fantasy player may encounter. Treating the reader as if he is responsbile for guaranteeing the well being of a $30 million fighter jet, Hendricks gets fantasy football players accustomed to the numerous scenarios that may play out in a league and advises him on how to navigate through them to their league titles.

In the Fantasy Football Guidebook, Hendricks spends countless pages discussing various draft strategies, auction strategies, position-by-position strategies, and league set-ups. However, the real gold in this book is the cerebral aspect of the book. Hendricks gets into the mind of fantasy players and discusses on how you can use one drafter’s tendencies to your advantage and how to handle the psychological game that fantasy football is. The Fantasy Football Guidebook is a great book to learn to take a much more strategic and disciplined approached to fantasy football.

The Fantasy Football Guidebook is a must read for any fantasy player looking to compete in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) as Hendricks has dedicated ten pages on preparing for this one particular high stakes league. He goes into special strategies for this draft on what to expect and how to vary your play accordingly.

Overall, if you read this book and do not consider yourself a better fantasy football player after reading it, read it again, you clearly were not paying attention.

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What are your thoughts about the Fantasy Football Guidebook?