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Cory Bonini wins 2015 Experts Poll championship

There was a lot of parity for most of this year’s Experts Poll, with everyone finishing high and low in various categories. And then Cory Bonini took over. Bonini, who writes for USA Today Fantasy Sports, won both the running backs and quarterbacks positions, pulling away from the pack for the overall title.

It’s Bonini’s first experts poll championship. His seven previous attempts all came for the KFFL website. Now he calls the fantasy section of USA Today home. (In his article today, he calls Keshawn Martin his Sleeper Player for the Weekend).

Sam Hendricks of Extra Point Press finished in 2nd, 803 points back. Bryan Hough of Fantasy Titan 101 took 3rd.

Bonini beat everyone by over 1,500 points in the quarterback position, and it looks like Matthew Stafford and Carson Palmer were his two most important picks. Stafford (whom he ranked 4th) didn’t have a great year, but he finished 8th in scoring, which was higher than a lot of the others guys who were getting picked in that range. Coming off a knee surgery, Palmer finished 4th in scoring, so there was a good chunk of value there. About half of the other experts didn’t rank Palmer at all, and he wasn’t higher than 16th on anyone else’s board.

EXPERTS POLL (quarterbacks)
RkAnalystPoints
1.Cory Bonini96,600
2.Micah James95,120
3.Sam Hendricks95,097
4.Bryan Hough94,799
5.David Dorey94,023
6.Pete Owers93,617
7.Paul Charchian93,425
8.Jay Harding93,415
9.Chris Liss93,109
10.Alan Satterlee92,957
11.Scott Sachs92,605
12.Mike Nease92,526
13.Michael Nazarek92,297
14.L.A. Hale92,076
15.Lenny Pappano91,958
16.Tony Holm91,766
17.Scott Pianowski91,720
18.Bob Henry91,584
19.Mike Clay91,155
20.Todd Voorhees91,099

The top 11 finishers win spots in the Mock Draft competition in the 2016 edition of Fantasy Football Index magazine. As the winner of this poll, Bonini gets his choice of draft position in that league.

There were reader qualifiers in this poll (the top two finishers in last year’s Fantasy Index Open) but they didn’t finish in the top 11. Pete Owers finished in 15th place, and Todd Voorhees finished in 19th.

EXPERTS POLL, overall
Rk analystQBRBWRTEPKDefPoints
1.Cory Bonini111818161275,914
2.Sam Hendricks3127696275,111
3.Bryan Hough49416414274,189
4.L.A. Hale148331316273,805
5.Chris Liss915611110273,741
6.Jay Harding871511212273,725
7.Alan Satterlee1042151511273,122
8.David Dorey56178319272,702
9.Paul Charchian72092114272,331
10.Lenny Pappano155125177271,680
11.Scott Pianowski171014759271,483
12.Micah James218120188271,307
13.Michael Nazarek1317114813271,155
14.Bob Henry1811812103271,090
15.Pete Owers6161610718270,838
16.Mike Nease1231013195270,608
17.Tony Holm162517202269,921
18.Mike Clay19141391415268,936
19.Todd Voorhees20131914217267,174
20.Scott Sachs11192019620264,301

—Ian Allan

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