Compared to Bill James by the New York Times Magazine, AARON SCHATZ is the creator of Football Outsiders and most of the original statistical methods presented on this website, as well as lead writer on the book Pro Football Prospectus 2008. He also writes for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Before Football Outsiders, Aaron spent five years on the radio at WBRU Providence and WKRO Daytona Beach, and three years as the writer and producer of the Lycos 50, the Internet's foremost authority on the people, places, and things that are searched online. He has appeared on a number of TV and radio stations including ESPN, CNN, and NPR, and written for a number of publications including The New Republic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Slate, The American Prospect, and the Boston Phoenix. He lives in Framingham, Massachusetts with his wife Kathryn and daughter Mirinae.

BILL BARNWELL is FO's first homegrown product. After starting as an intern for FO in 2005, Bill worked his way up the ranks, writing Scramble for the Ball with Ian Dembsky in 2006 while seeing his research cited in The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal. After graduating from Northeastern University in 2006, Bill served as the Sports Editor for IGN.com before fulfilling Stephen Merritt's dream and coming back from San Francisco to serve as the FO Managing Editor. He writes Quick Reads and a fantasy matchup column each week for ESPN.com.

VINCE VERHEI was raised to love football by his father, who explained that the players in blue jerseys were the "good guys" and their opponents were the "bad guys." With every Seahawks game effectively turned into another battle between the Super Friends and the Legion of Doom, with the fate of the world presumably at stake, he was hooked. After Al Gore invented the Internet, Verhei spent a lot of time Googling "football stats," and discovered FO shortly after its birth. He worked his way up the chain from commenter to guest writer to game charter to his current position as co-writer of Scramble For the Ball. His essay in the Giants chapter of PFP 2008 was cited by Bill Simmons as one of his favorites (though Simmons also noted the math behind the story "made his head explode"). Verhei is also a writer and podcast host for Figure4Online.com, a Web site covering pro wrestling and mixed martial arts.

He may have started as an award-winning baseball columnist, but like Bo Jackson, WILL CARROLL chose to apply his talents to the gridiron game as well. His weekly football injury column began as Black and Blue Report for Football Outsiders back in 2005. He now writes about football for SI.com -- and, of course, he still writes his Under the Knife column daily for our buddies at Baseball Prospectus. He also returned to Football Outsiders in 2008, bringing the best injury column in the business back to its original home. He drinks too much coffee, writes for too many outlets to list, hangs out with models, is available for weddings and bar mitzvahs, and caused AT&T to re-write their policy on "unlimited text messaging." He lives near Indianapolis.

Web producer RUSSELL LEVINE writes the weekly column Confessions of a Football Junkie and hosts the weekly college football podcast Seventh Day Adventure. He has spent nearly ten years working in sports media and has written for a number of sports sites. A 1994 graduate of the University of Michigan, he once nearly sacrificed his marriage rather than attend a wedding on the day of the Michigan-Notre Dame game. He's also a long time Tampa Bay Bucs fan and has the James Wilder jersey in the closet to prove it. He lives in West Orange, New Jersey with his wife and kids.

MIKE TANIER considers himself America's most prolific NFL ghostwriter after four years as the resident draft guru and features writer for Sports Forecaster, which syndicates to over 20 newspaper websites in the US and Canada. (You can read some examples of that work here.) Mike has also contributed to his hometown Philadelphia Inquirer. Having grown up just two miles from Veterans Stadium, he took his then-13 month old son C.J. to watch the implosion of that legendary concrete slab, hoping that the event might exorcise some Philly sports demons. So far, the demons are covering the spread. When he's not researching obscure football facts or getting traumatized by the Philadelphia Eagles, Mike teaches high school mathematics in southern New Jersey. But his real passions are, in this order: a) family life, b) trying to get his Strat-o-Matic baseball team over the hump, and c) struggling to keep the characters straight on the PBS import show Age of Warriors. His weekly Rundown for FOXSports.com has morphed into the weekly Walkthrough column on FootballOutsiders.com.

BILL CONNELLY, author of the college football column "Varsity Numbers," grew up a numbers and sports nerd in western Oklahoma. His favorite teams growing up were, in no particular order, the Missouri Tigers, Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Portland Trailblazers. Perhaps he should have taken the hint and given up on sports a decade ago. Instead, he spends his time creating massive Excel files full of NCAA play-by-play and attempting to create the perfect, most all-encompassing football statistic ever. He lives in Missouri with his wife and pets, working for his alma mater. You can find more of his material at his blog, Rock M Nation.

Born in Milan, Italy and reared in Denver, DOUG FARRAR fell in love with pro football as a wee lad in 1977, when Broncomania filled the mile-high air, Lyle Alzado was more than a cautionary tale, and Woody Paige wrote books. Though he once dreamed of returning punts like Rick Upchurch, it was the allure of the guitar and pen that took Doug through his adolescent years. A Seattleite since 1985, Doug now holds true allegiance to the Emerald City and all she possesses, including her ever-beleaguered NFL team. He has written for FO since 2006, and his current responsibilities include the weekly Cover-3 article and compiling Audibles at the Line each Monday. He also writes through FO for the Washington Post and Seattle Times, and previously wrote for the New York Sun.

BRIAN FREMEAU contributes the Fremeau Efficiency Index and other drive-based college football stats to Football Outsiders. Officially created in 2002 in an attempt to quantify momentum, FEI's roots actually extend to an early-90s NCAA hoops tournament forecasting project Brian still hopelessly maintains today. Now working for his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame, he spends every home Saturday cheering his beloved Irish from the South end zone, Touchdown Jesus' outstretched arms in the background signaling into the blue-gray sky. Like Charlie Weis and Regis Philbin, Brian never played for Notre Dame, so his eligibility remains intact. He lives in South Bend, Indiana with his wife and daughter, whose birthday falls on Heisman weekend.

NED MACEY has followed the world of sports from his childhood home of Indianapolis to Philadelphia, Detroit, Australia, and beyond. Ned graduated from Haverford College in 2002 following an illustrious college pitching career where he starred predominantly as a middle reliever. He recently graduated from University of Michigan law school and has returned to Naptown, where he prays that Bob Sanders can make it through an entire season without injury. Ned explores the upset of the week in the column Any Given Sunday

BEN RILEY is a San Francisco litigator who spent much of 2007 using what would otherwise be billable hours combing "the Internets" for quotes to put in "This Week in Quotes." He's now graduated to writing Scramble for the Ball with Vince Verhei. Ben is also the creator of a of 32-tab Excel fantasy football spreadsheet that's been described by FO mastermind Aaron Schatz as "[EXPLETIVE] INSANE." Ben's spreadsheet and KUBIAK are currently dating. A diehard Seahawks fan -- yes, there are two on staff -- Ben can be found on Sunday wearing a #8 Matt Hasselbeck jersey that was given to him by his near-perfect girlfriend Nicki, who's from England, drinks beer, and loves football as much as Ben does.

Born a Bostonian, but now a resident of New York City, BILL MOORE is a convertible arbitrageur by day and a frustrated football statistics data miner by night. His dream is to find the equation that links football economics and performance. Bill graduated from sports powerhouse Babson College, which, like Ned Macey's alma mater Haverford, is undefeated in football. Suddenly finding himself with plenty of free time last spring when his company closed, Bill helped organize data for the player comments in our book Pro Football Prospectus 2005. He currently coordinates our newly developed Game Charting Project. On Sundays, Bill can be found wearing his #54 Tedy Bruschi jersey and hoping one of his two daughters will don their out-dated Bledsoe jerseys and join him. Although his probation period of now 10 years is clean, his wife has still not completely forgiven him for kicking a hole in their couch during the 1996 Super Bowl.

Atlanta-based creative director BENJY ROSE is somehow fitting in the time to design and develop Football Outsiders between his regular responsibilities as proprietor of design agency B:COMPLEX Creative, keyboardist for a classic/modern rock band, and his responsibilities as dad to two kids and ignorer of two dogs. Benjy is a rabid Jets fan, and is extremely proud that Abby learned her J-E-T-Ss just after her ABCs. He needs a replacement for his #10 Chad Pennington jersey -- complete with authentic right shoulder tear -- and longs for a #24 Freeman McNeil or #85 Wesley Walker kelly green classic.

ELIAS HOLMAN was the mastermind behind the September 2008 redesign of Football Outsiders. Further bio to come.

As a one-time minor league trainer in the Florida Marlins system, PAT LAVERTY can actually explain the difference between an anterior cruciate ligament, a posterior cruciate ligament, and that other cruciate ligament, you know, the one that starts with "M." Now he works in the computer department at Brown University right across the street from Peter King's favorite Starbucks! His responsibilities at Football Outsiders include programming the new Premium DVOA Database as well as most of our contest code. Pat's jersey of choice is the classic Chicago Bears #9 Jim McMahon.

SEAN McCALL works on the Premium DVOA Database and is the mastermind behind the customizable KUBIAK spreadsheet. Further bio to come.

Web designer and freelance cartoonist JASON BEATTIE awaits the return of the XFL so that he can repeat as XFL fantasy football champion. Let's be honest: an ability to differentiate between Rashaan Salaam and Rashaan Sheehee is impressive. Jason lives with his wife Tara in Thornton, Colorado, and sports a #30 Terrell Davis jersey on game day, though he dreams of someday being able to afford a more modern Cecil Sapp model. He was one of the world's greatest Simpsons experts even before Max Scorpio bought the Denver Broncos for Homer. He is responsible for all of the caricatures of the Outsiders on the site, as well as the weekly cartoon that shows up in Scramble for the Ball. You can see more of his cartooning at his Jason's Comic World website or follow his inane ramblings about Gil Thorp at his blog, This Week in Milford.

DAVID LEWIN is originally from Wayland, Massachusetts, but he now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he attends (and plays football for) Macalester College. Lewin is the creator of the Lewin Career Forecast, our system for projecting the success of rookie quarterbacks. He has also written for 82games.com and spent this past summer as a statistical analyst for an NBA franchise.

SEAN McCORMICK teaches high school in Brooklyn and is the proud owner of the lone Richard Todd jersey still in existence. Further bio to come.