Today marks the one year anniversary of RotoRob.com. While we bandied about several ideas for ways to celebrate the milestone, I thought I’d just keep it low key and acknowledge the hard work of the team in making this a significant event.

So thanks are in order for:

Tim E., for his great design work and overall belief that the site will one day afford me to live in a lawnchair, being hand-fed Twinkies by scantilly-clad 18-year-old girls (or, failing that, actually make a few cents); the RotoWidow, for her constant support, occasional witticisms on the site and maintenance of the operation from behind the scenes; Mike, for his hockey brilliance; Andy, for his flexibility and pigskin knowledge; James, for his fantasy insights and his flow of ideas; Derek, for providing a football Ying to Andy’s Yan; and Tim M., for his Eastern influences and endless nuggets of information.

And of course, thanks to all our readers for making this site grow way bigger and faster than my little brain could have conceived.

Now, back to our regular programming…

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