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 series Football Outsiders Almanac (and its predecessor, Pro Football Prospectus). 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.

DAVID GARDNER was raised in Tampa on a steady diet of boring defense from the Buccaneers and the Gators' "Fun 'n' Gun." He learned to love both. Now a student at UF, David is a die-hard Gators fan and just hopes for the best for the Bucs. In addition to editing college football content on Football Outsiders, David writes for Gator Country Magazine and its Web site, GatorCountry.com, covering everything from football to women's soccer. He has also written articles for several Florida newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times and the Gainesville Sun.

MIKE KURTZ spent years as a Pittsburgh fan in the vast football wastes of Northeastern Ohio, with only his family as support, before moving to Chicago to heckle Rex Grossman. Deep in his heart a baseball guy among the three sports, he became an obsessive football fan in an attempt to make the hurting stop, with surprising success. Despite a somewhat notorious dislike of college football, Mike attended The Ohio State University. There he studied many things, was handed some paper, and then went to law school in Chicago. When he is not practicing law or editing the NFL content on Football Outsiders, Mike plays trombone in the CBA symphony orchestra and works as a high school football official.

TIM GERHEIM is Assistant Editor Emeritus. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Texas Law School, he brings a Houston viewpoint to FO despite the fact that he now lives in Washington DC. Tim still occasionally contributes to Extra Points and Audibles at the Line.

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, then went to SI.com, and returned to FO in 2008. (He also still writes his Under the Knife column daily for our buddies at Baseball Prospectus.) Will 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.

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, and you'll find his weekly game previews at the New York Times Fifth Down Blog.

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 column Cover-3 and compiling Audibles at the Line each Monday. He also writes for the Washington Post and the Yahoo! Sports "Shutdown Corner" blog, and previously wrote for the New York Sun. As of the beginning of 2009, he has also taken over as editor of Scout.com's Falcon Insider website.

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.

TOM GOWER has been a fan of the Tennessee Titans since they were the Oilers and he was growing up in Houston. He has remained a fan of the franchise in subsequent stints in North Dakota, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Japan, Maryland, Ohio, and back to Illinois. With degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago Law School, he currently considers himself the most over-educated member of the FO staff. (Clearly, recent football success was not a priority in school selection.) Tom currently maintains Residual Prolixity (despite its name, a football blog) and contributes to Total Titans and Hoya Prospectus. His contributions to each week's "Audibles at the Line" should not be considered legal advice.

FO Salary Cap Analyst J.I. HALSELL spent two seasons as the Salary Cap Analyst for the Washington Redskins, where he played a role in every player contract negotiation to occur during that period. Before that, he worked for two years for the NFL's labor relations department, the Management Council, where he was responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Salary Cap and review & approval of all player contracts. Halsell is a native of Clinton, Maryland, graduated from Clark Atlanta University, and received his MBA from the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. In addition to his contributions to FootballOutsiders.com, Halsell educates fans on the Salary Cap and Contracts via SalaryCap101.com.

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.

SEAN McCORMICK is the proud owner of the lone Richard Todd jersey still in existence. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. When not teaching high school in Brooklyn, New York, he also indulges his inner masochist as a contributing writer for TheJetsBlog.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 assistant editor, and now explores the upset of the week in the ESPN column Any Given Sunday. 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.

ROBERT WEINTRAUB grew up in suburban New York, and thus has no earthly reason for his lifelong fanaticism for the Cincinnati Bengals, other than conjectured cosmic payback for some transgression in a past life. But he bleeds Bengal Orange, which is appropriate, for he also frequently hemorrhages Orange thanks to his alma mater, Syracuse, and the team's tragicomic attempt at football adequacy. As FO's new college football writer, Robert hopes something good can finally come from his SU fandom -- a shield to any accusations of bias in assessing the national landscape. He now lives in Atlanta, the epicenter of college football hyper-allegiance, so maintaining plausible deniability when writing about Georgia and Florida and Alabama is crucial. When not watching games in his ancient Boomer Esiason jersey, Robert contributes regularly to Slate, ESPN.com, The Guardian, and the late and lamented Play (the New York Times Sports Magazine). Robert is also a TV producer, so will likely have something to say about the coverage of games on a weekly basis.

Boston-native 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. He recently moved to Minneapolis, where his new office overlooks the Metrodome. In his off-hours, Bill coordinates the Football Outsiders Game Charting Project. 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.

ELIAS HOLMAN, head of the Milwaukee Web programming firm Distance Software, 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.

Atlanta-based BENJY ROSE was the original Creative Director and programmer for Football Outsiders; he still contributes graphic design to the site when not devoted to his job as proprietor of design agency B:COMPLEX Creative, his hobby playing keyboards in a classic/modern rock band, and his responsibilities as husband, 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. On Sundays during the season, Benjy can be found wearing his Kelly Green classic Al Toon #88 jersey and laughing at his son's obsession with Jerricho Cotchery.

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.