Todd Zola - Fantasy Sports Pioneer

By Emil Kadlec
Emil Kadlec

Todd Zola began playing fantasy sports in 1988 and not long after that he joined Jason Grey at mastersball.com - writing mainly about fantasy baseball. He worked part-time for many years including at fantasybaseball.com and later relaunched mastersball.com in 2008.

He merged with creativesports in 2010 with Lawr Michaels. He finally achieved full-time status in 2013. He's worked for many major sites including ESPN, major league baseball, Sports Illustrated, baseball HQ, fantasy alarm and rotowire.

He received a Masters degree in chemistry and worked a significant part of his life in the biotech industry.

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