Now comes the fun part.  You're in a league (If you're not start here).  You understand the rules and the scoring (If you don't start here).  You understand what type of players (not who, but what type) you will need to put together a winning team.  It's time to start the research.

For me this usually begins in say early June, but I'm a junky like that.  For you, this will probably start at most a month before the season, or at minimum two hours before your draft is set to begin.  So what follows is going to be a wide array of resources that will help you through the Herculian (it only feels that way) task of putting together a winning fantasy football team.

Resources

Gone are the days that magazines provided us diehards with the fantasy insider information that we craved.  Now thanks to the internet we have a plethora of "fantasy experts" just waiting for our fingers to type their website url into our address bar.  Here are a few of the best ones.

ESPN Fantasy Football Homepage - ESPN provides a number of fantasy services such as cheatsheets, draft kits and continual scouting reports.  In my opinion it's the best place for up to the minute news about players.  Particular experts that you may want to pay special attention to are Mathew Berry and Christopher Harris.  Those guys dish out the good advice often and in large quantities.  Also the ESPN Fantasy Focus Football Podcast is a must listen during the season.

FootballGuys.com - This particular website has a lot of subscriber only content.  But don't worry that's not the reason you go to it.  No reason to waste a bunch of money if you're only a beginner anway.  What you want to do here is sign up for their daily email newsletter, which will provide you with daily injury updates, scouting reports and coach's statements that you may have missed out on.   Also like ESPN, their podcast is usually very good.

Ray Flowers - This link isn't so much about the website, as the man in the profile Ray Flowers.  He writes for a number of different sites during the season as well as hosting The Fantasy Drive on XM Radio.  Find and follower this man.  He apparently has no life other than memorizing sports statistics and on any given day may point you to the sleeper pick that wins you your league.

This list could go on and on.  The amount of websites dedicated to fantasy football at this point is overwhelming.  Yes I understand the irony of that statement.  

These are simply the sites I trust to help me prepare for my drafts, determine if my trades opportunites are benificial and alert me to who I should pick up on waivers.

I hope you find them as helpful as I do.