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Pro Football Prospectus 2008 covers every aspect of the NFL, but of course a large part of the market for the book is the fantasy football audience. We have projections for all the skill players and advice to help people win their leagues.

As you might imagine,pretty much everyone on the staff of FootballOutsiders.com plays fantasy football themselves. Since we all live spread across the country, we don't necessarily play in the same leagues with each other. Most of us still play fantasy football in the same leagues with the same friends we played with before we started writing about the NFL. That can be a little strange.

Tonight is the auction draft for a Boston-area league started by me and my fraternity brothers from Brown, including some of the same folks that helped me start FootballOutsiders.com a few years ago. This league has been going for ten years, basically with the same rules, although the members have changed as various people moved out of the Boston area and other friends, non-Brown folks, replaced them.

I often tell people that while Pro Football Prospectus 2008 can help you win your fantasy leagues because it has the most accurate player projections, it doesn't guarantee anything because there's more to fantasy football than just knowing who the best players will be.

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The beginning of the season is always a pretty crazy time for those of us in the sportswriting business. When you run your own company/website and are trying to promote a book like Pro Football Prospectus 2008, that makes it triple crazy. Just trying to keep track of what I need to write when and who I'm talking to at what time can be difficult.

Today on the docket: a trip down to beautiful Bristol, Connecticut, to appear on ESPN2 "First Take". Usually, doing media is no problem for me.

Few people know this, but before I was a football expert I was actually a modern rock radio DJ. However, television is a different story, mostly because I'm not used to wearing a suit. Hey, I'm an Internet writer. I think today was maybe the third time all year I had worn slacks instead of jeans.

Fitting everything you want to say into a four-minute segment is difficult, but I've learned to summarize our surprising predictions, because that's what really grabs people. This year's surprising predictions include:

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Aaron Schatz is our guest blogger during the week of August 25th. If you have any questions for Aaron Schatz, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some more information about Pro Football Prospectus 2008:

The most authoritative and innovative guide to professional football is back for an all-new season with more cutting-edge statistical analysis, obsessive film study, and trademark humor.

Building on a winning record of accurate predictions, the 2008 annual includes comprehensive coverage of all 32 NFL teams, analysis of off-season personnel changes, and exclusive forecasts for where each team will finish the 2008 season. With statistics for more than 500 skill players along with commentary and KUBIAK projections forecasting their 2008 fantasy football numbers, Pro Football Prospectus is an outstanding and reliable resource for fantasy players, Monday-morning quarterbacks, and die-hard fans everywhere.