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August 20, 2008^11:00am
Anonymous^0
Fantasy Baseball Sherpa
www.fantasybaseballsherpa.com/
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Hi Rob,

We represent Scott Swanay, founder and president of FantasyBaseballSherpa.com and ultimate baseball geek, and he would love to talk statistics with you on your podcast. Let me tell you Scott's story.

Scott graduated from Harvard with degrees in Computer Science and Applied Math and went on to work as an insurance actuary for 17 years.

In 2004, however, Scott made a career change. He moved from his swanky digs in the Upper East Side to a small apartment in Harlem, which would be the headquarters of his new business, and reinvented himself as The Sherpa, providing customized, data-driven advice for fantasy baseball players.
Scott developed new algorithms for crunching numbers related to player stats by combining his innate mathematical ability with his encyclopedic understanding of baseball. In addition to tweaking traditional predictions methods, Scott has figured out a revolutionary way to quantify Position Scarcity – an elusive but important factor in fantasy baseball predictions.

The Sherpa is an offbeat character with a great sense of humor, as you may have guess from his unusual career path. He is a favorite radio guest on CSRA Sportshour (WGUS-AM) and The Sporting Life (Healthylife.net).

Scott's recently-updated In-Season Player Predictions are now available on his web site. If you are interested, he will send you a password so you can view them for free.

I have added more information about him at the end of this email, and you can also read more of his predictions at his blog, http://fantasybaseballsherpa.com/blog/.

Let me know if you would like to talk to Scott on your podcast and we can arrange it at your convenience.

Best,
Adrianne Jeffries
DM Public Relations
646.785.9594
Scott Swanay is a fully qualified statistical wizard and sports guru. He graduated from Harvard in 1987 with a degree in Applied Math & Computer Science, and worked as an actuary for the next 17 years, holding a series of positions with increasing levels of responsibility. He completed a series of ten rigorous exams to become a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) in 1998.

In 2004, Scott decided to combine his great knowledge of sports with his statistical and analytical expertise, leaving his previous field to pursue his dream full-time.  He spent the next two years developing the database that led to the creation of Fantasy Baseball Sherpa, a sports projecting web-site that stands out in the many, because Scott, the statistical expert, has figured out how to include unique elements into the player predictions (www.fantsaybaseballsherpa.com)

Scott can talk anything baseball, or, for that matter, anything sports. He is up-to-date on all the latest info in the sports world, ranging from who won last night's game, to the current stats of the individual players. 

FantasyBaseballSherpa.com is a service that provides objective, data-driven advice to fantasy baseball league participants. This advice is customized to the specific characteristics of a participant's league (e.g.- type of league, eligible players, roster requirements, scoring categories). The service offers a unique, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-use system that provides a major advantage over the competition.