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Lawr Michaels
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Lawr Michaels is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and researcher who has worked for such corporations as Pacific Bell, Kaiser Permanente, and IBM as a Requirements Analyst, Project Manager, Systems and Operations Analyst, and Technical Writer. He has written about baseball for CBS Sportsline, STATS, Inc., Diamond Libraries, Sandbox.com, Total Baseball Daily, and on the CREATiVESPORTS Fantasy Baseball HotPage. Lawr holds both a BA and MA in English from the California State Univeristy at Hayward. He has written one novel, Dirty Laundry, and is working on a second, Bad to the Bone. A guitarist and singer for several bay area garage bands, Lawr has also written about rock 'n' roll for the past 25 years for various publications.
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John-Paul 'JP' Kastner
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JP Kastner has played Fantasy Baseball since 1985, mostly simulation games such as Strat-O-Matic. Formally a senior technical information technology planer for Kaiser Permanente, JP retired in 2005 to become the primary caregiver for his two children. JP met Lawr on a Southwest flight from to the Arizona Fall League. After the flight landed, Lawr offered him a writing gig. JP did not take up the offer. The next year on another flight to the Arizona Fall League, Lawr again sat next to JP and asked him why he did take up the offer. Surrendering to fate, JP started writing for Lawr that year. He handles the servers, web design and customer relations.
JP's success in Strat-O-Matic is remarkable. In the five years of the Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online Experts League, a league sponsored by The Sporting News, JP has had a winning season in all five years, made the playoffs in four, the World Series in three, and finally won the World Series in 2007.
He made his Tout Wars debut in 2006, playing in the mixed league.
JP and his wife, Jill, have two children, Julia, age 5, and Jacob, age 2.
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Marc Meltzer
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Marc Meltzer , Director of Football Content, just completed his fifth year as the lead Fantasy Football writer for CreativeSports.com and a contributing writer for baseball. Marc’s weekly football contributions include the weekly Hotpage game-by-game previews, the weekly player rankings / projected scoring, and the NFL Mailbag. Marc’s baseball contributions include spring training coverage from Florida, NL East updates, player news, and Florida State League minor league reports. Marc was a major contributor and editor of the Fantasy Football Guide 2002, an Editor of the Fantasy Baseball Guide 2003, and was a major contributor and Senior Editor for the Fantasy Football Guide 2003, 2004, and 2005.
Marc has been an avid fantasy sports player for over 17 years with multiple championships in football, baseball, and basketball and a 2nd place finish in the SportsBuff Experts Football contest in 2002.
In real life, Marc is married with two children and is a software quality engineer with Belcan Engineering in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Marc holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Florida (Go Gators!) and an MBA from Embry-Riddle University.
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