What Does ESPN's Talented Mr. Roto Do All Day? Now We Know.

Do you ever wonder what ESPN fantasy uber-god Matthew "The Talented Mr. Roto" Berry does with his day? Yeah, me neither. But if you do, check out this post from the 10/9 fantasy football e-newsletter that ESPN sends out.

In one of my recent "Love/Hate" columns, I mentioned that I was discontinuing a few things in my weekly schedule—most notably my flex rankings on Friday—because of time constraints and other factors. (Eric Karabell does Friday's flex rankings now and does an excellent job with them.) Well, I quickly got the following e-mail: TJ: "Someone seems to be getting a little too big for his britches, no? 'From now on, I'm not doing this or this or this …' Suck it up. It's your job." TMR: Ha, ha. If you only knew, TJ. There are only so many hours in the day, and I try to maximize 'em. I've been asked so often about my weekly schedule and where to find me, I might as well lay it out for everyone. You'll note that I already work seven days a week. But no complaints -- I have the best job in the world. With that, here's what I do every week from October to the end of the NFL season (it's even busier in September):

Monday

• "Fantasy Focus: Football" podcast with Nate Ravitz
• "Fantasy Focus: Football" online video show
• Write "Talented Mr. Roto" column for Tuesday
• Research, write and shoot "GMC Sierra Pickups" video

Tuesday

• "Fantasy Focus: Football" podcast
• "Fantasy Focus: Football" online video show
• ESPN the Mag/Sirius radio show (floating)
• Research, write and shoot "Fantasy versus Reality" video segment with Jeremy Green
• Research, write and shoot "Field Passes" for SportsCenter
• Research, write and shoot "NFL Live," which airs at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN
• Rank 200-plus players for our weekly rankings
• Write article for ESPN The Mag (every other week)

Wednesday

• "Fantasy Focus: Football" podcast
• Research, write and shoot "NFL Live" (airs at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN)
• Write ESPN.com article ("Love/Hate") for Thursday
• Weekly ESPN staff fantasy meeting
• Write/discuss my portion of "Called Out," the rankings reaction piece from Tristan Cockcroft
• Occasionally get so sick of Brendan Roberts bugging me to write something for this newsletter that I do it

Thursday

• "Fantasy Focus: Football" podcast
• Research, write and shoot "NFL Live"
• ESPN.com chat

Friday

• "Fantasy Focus: Football" podcast
• "Fantasy Focus: Football" video show
• Update and re-rank 200-plus players for weekly rankings
• Research and write up "Flex Plays, Guys to Buy and Sell" for "Fantasy Football Now," our Sunday morning pregame show, airing noon to 1 p.m. ET on ESPN.com
• Research and write script for "Sunday Countdown" so they can pull video. This airs Sunday mornings, a little after noon ET, on ESPN.
• Go on ESPN Radio in Los Angeles.

Saturday

• Research, write and prep for "Fantasy Football Now"

Sunday

• Research, write and shoot "Fantasy Essay," which runs in the first 10 minutes of "Fantasy Football Now" while I am on live on "Sunday Countdown"
• Shoot "Sunday Countdown"
• Shoot "Fantasy Football Now"
• While watching the games, write weekly wrap-up column, known as "The TRUM," for ESPN.com.

Monday

• Do it all over again.

And, of course, like every job, there are nonscheduled things that come up everyday. For instance, one day last week I had an hour-long production meeting about a fantasy basketball preview show we shot the next day. That, of course, meant that I spent much of the previous evening and into the night researching for the following day's 8:30 a.m. ET shoot. And there are always e-mails. And meetings with sales, or marketing, or games, or management, or business development, or doing interviews and PR for ESPN, and so on. Busy, but fun. Indeed I have the best job in the world. Exhausted yet? Catch Matthew Berry, the Talented Mr. Roto, across the various platforms each week at ESPN Fantasy.

So there you go...a day in the life of a full-time fantasy sports expert. I'd give you my schedule, but it goes kinda like this: sleep, eat, porn, sleep, gym, mow lawns, more porn, TV, sleep.

Josh Nason started Small White Ball in 2007 and is the main contributor of content for the site. A long-time writer, his work can also be read at sites like RopesRingandCage.com, EmailMarketingGuy.com and others. He also does radio appearances and was on TV once, albeit for a lame public television game show. He can be reached at [e-mail].