tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344251072013-06-18T01:30:49.513-04:00Find all the resources you'll need to dominate your fantasy football leagueFantasy Football Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10710042496167760096noreply@blogger.comBlogger116913FantasyFootballLibrarianhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34425107.post-39370028591396095292013-04-02T13:44:00.001-04:002013-04-02T13:44:31.660-04:002013-04-02T13:44:31.660-04:00Greetings! It has been a long, quiet winter here on FFLibrarian and now I feel like a bear coming out of hibernation; or at least how I imagine that might go. Spring is in full bloom here in Tennessee and it seems like the time is right to finally emerge from the longest break I have ever taken from FFLibrarian. Life is good here in my world and I hope this update finds you all well, too. I really appreciate you guys hanging in here and coming back for the latest and greatest on the 2013 season. <br /> <br /> Baseball has begun, the Masters is right around the corner, and NFL Draft prep is in full swing. So let's get to it and see what's spinning around the fantasy football world these days.<br /> <ul> <li>Roto Arcade takes a look at the speculation of Carson Palmer heading to Arizona in <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/fantasy-roto-arcade/rapid-react-water-desert-fitz-set-land-palmer-182904488--fantasy.html">Rapid React: Water in desert, Fitz set to land Palmer</a>.</li> <li>Draft Sharks - they're putting up some quality material for free on <a href="http://blog.draftsharks.com/index.php/2013/">their blog</a>, so take advantage, friends. Lots of news items but also plenty of analysis as well.</li> <li>A word of caution on taking Adrian Peterson or Arian Foster with the first picks of 2013 (read on to see who the writer would take instead) from 2MugsFF's <a href="http://www.2mugsff.com/content/adrian-peterson-and-arian-foster-must-be-first-fantasy-football-players-drafted-right">Adrian Peterson and Arian Foster Must Be the First Fantasy Football Players Drafted, Right? </a></li> <li>Free agency:</li> <ul> <li>ProFootbalFocus' <a href="https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2013/03/27/ranking-the-five-big-wide-receiver-moves-part-1/">Ranking the Five Big Wide Receiver Moves: Part I</a> takes a look at the biggest WR risers and fallers during free agency.&nbsp;</li> <li>Rotoworld also takes a look at some players who have either gained or lost value during their free agency moves in <a href="http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/42901/59/offseason-stock-report-iii">Offseason Stock Report III</a>. </li> <li>Or the Times' Fifth Down blog has you covered on the best of the remaining free agents in <a href="http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/n-f-l-free-agents-who-are-still-worth-signing/">N.F.L. Free Agents who are still worth signing</a>.</li> </ul> <li>NFL Draft 2013 prep:</li> <ul> <li>Those of you who are serious about analyzing incoming rookies have long known about Matt Waldman's <a href="http://www.footballoutsiders.com/extra-points/2013/matt-waldman-rsp-available-now">Rookie Scouting Profile</a>, an absolute beast of a tome on college players and it's now available for 2013.</li> <li>Razzball's <a href="http://football.razzball.com/pre-2013-nfl-draft-wide-receiver-rankings-i-volunteer-all-of-them-to-the-top-12?">Pre-2013 NFL Draft Wide Receiver Rankings</a> </li> </ul> <li>Finally, you knew there wold be sites with early 2013 rankings out there already didn't you? They've been out since January on some sites but we're starting to see the spring early rankers get their thoughts out before the NFL Draft. For example, see where David Gonos has everyone ranked in <a href="http://davidgonos.com/fantasy/football/2013-fantasy-football-rankings-early-bird-version/">2013 Fantasy Football Rankings - Early Bird Version</a>.</li> </ul> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?a=oNG3KpWn2Lg:0Nj4F0yoHhw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?a=oNG3KpWn2Lg:0Nj4F0yoHhw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FantasyFootballLibrarian/~4/oNG3KpWn2Lg" height="1" width="1"/>Fantasy Football Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10710042496167760096noreply@blogger.com7http://www.fflibrarian.com/2013/04/the-time-has-come-2013-fantasy-football.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34425107.post-20589197129584344432013-01-23T11:37:00.002-05:002013-01-23T11:37:27.924-05:002013-01-23T11:37:27.924-05:00I've been in mourning over the Broncos' loss a few weekends ago, so I'm finally coming out of my shell to let you all know that the 2012 FFLibrarian/FSTA Rankings Accuracy Challenge results are here! For those who are new to this contest, I've been running it for 6 years now and I compare experts' preseason rankings to how things shook out at the end of the season and use this analysis to determine which site is the most accurate of all. King of the fantasy football hill.<br /> <br /> The results were presented at the FSTA Winter Conference last night and posted on the NYTimes' Fifth Down blog early this morning: <a href="http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/fantasy-football-accuracy-rankings-for-2012/">Fantasy Football Accuracy Rankings for 2012</a>. This link will give you the top 15 overall sites and then the top 10 at each position. This year I included the average ranking across the 4 positions to give you a sense of how closely the sites all line up for the most part. The top 2 sites though clearly had a bit of a lead on the rest of the field and on that note... <br /> <br /> Congrats to both <a href="http://rtsports.com/">RealTime Fantasy Sports</a> and <a href="http://ffmagicman.com/">FFMagicMan</a>. Yup, two winning sites. Something unique happened this year: since I run this contest in conjunction with the FSTA, one of the rules is that the official winner must be a member of the FSTA, but I welcome submissions from any site that wants to throw their hat in the ring. FFMagicMan came away with the best accuracy scores (and scored in the top 10 in all 4 positions, something that I've never seen happen before), but is not an FSTA member. So instead the winner is RealTime Fantasy Sports, who also had an amazing performance by coming in the top 10 in 3 of 4 positions. As I've told both sites, this really is a spectacular job considering the hugely talented pool of 61 experts. <br /> <br /> Last summer I finally created a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1811654908">multi-year analysis of these contests</a> and I'll be adding these results in over the winter/spring. I'll post the results when they're available, but it will be well before the 2013 season begins. <br /> <br /> There were 61 participants this year, listed below in alphabetical order:<br /> <style> <!--table {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\."; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";} @page {margin:1.0in .75in 1.0in .75in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in;} td {padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; mso-ignore:padding; color:black; font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif; mso-font-charset:0; mso-number-format:General; text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; border:none; mso-background-source:auto; mso-pattern:auto; mso-protection:locked visible; white-space:nowrap; mso-rotate:0;} .xl63 {border:.5pt solid windowtext;} --> </style> <br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 144px;"> <colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 6144; mso-width-source: userset; width: 144pt;" width="144"></col> </colgroup><tbody> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 144pt;" width="144">4for4</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Absolute QB</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Advanced Sports Logic</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Ask the Commish</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Athlon Sports</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Bruno Boys</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">CBSSports, Dave Richard</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">CBSSports, Jamey Eisenberg</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">CBSSports, Nathan Zegura</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Cheatsheet War Room</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Draft Analyzer</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">DraftCalc</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">DraftSharks</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">Drinkfive.com</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;">edraft</td> </tr> <tr height="15" style="height: 15.0pt;"> <td class="xl63" height="15" style="border-top: none; 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We've had a lot of travel and holiday fun in our home with a hearty dose of great fantasy football season endings. My sister, a fantasy football newbie, made it to her league's championship game but did lose by a mere 4 points; not too shabby for someone brand new to FF though, eh? Also a huge thanks to the Fantasy Football Nerd for running his <a href="http://www.fantasyfootballnerd.com/blog/247/FFN-Experts-League-Championship.html">annual league</a> which donates $500 to the league winner's charity of choice. I ended up winning the league so Joe at FFN made an extremely generous donation to the Healing Hearts Fund here at a local hospital in Knoxville, which provides support for families who are coping with the loss of a baby. For those interested, my team dominated the season thanks to a combo of Doug Martin, Jamaal Charles, Julio Jones, and the Bears DST, among other gems.<br /> <br /> In other good news, I spent a chunk of yesterday watching and celebrating as my Northwestern Wildcats finally won their first bowl game sine 1949. Go Cats! Go Big Ten! <br /> <br /> But moving on to the NFL playoffs. If you've been around for awhile you know that I'm a huge Broncos fan so I'm feeling pretty great about the playoffs this year. I'll also be running my <a href="http://playoffchallenge.fantasy.nfl.com/group/43363/join">FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge through NFL.com</a> again this year. I'd love to have you join in and I'll be thinking of a prize to send to the winner of the challenge - no password needed, <a href="http://playoffchallenge.fantasy.nfl.com/group/43363/join">just click this link</a> and you should be good to go. If you have any trouble joining, just <a href="mailto:fflibrarian@gmail.com">let me know</a>. <br /> <br /> In case you need some links to help you prep for your playoff league, read on - trust me, there's a lot of quality material here:<br /> <ul> <li>Roto Arcade's <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/fantasy-roto-arcade/submitted-derision-fantasy-ranks-2013-playoff-leagues-182204799.html">Submitted for your derision: Fantasy ranks for NFL playoff leagues</a></li> <li>DraftCalc's <a href="http://draftcalc.com/fantasy-football-content/articles/2012-2013-fantasy-football-playoff-rankings/">2012-2013 Fantasy Football Playoff Rankings</a>, which includes auction values</li> <li>FFToolbox.com's <a href="http://www.fftoolbox.com/football/article.cfm?article_id=1297">Playoffs: Top WRs</a></li> <li>LestersLegends.com's <a href="http://lesterslegends.com/201213-wild-card-fantasy-rb-rankings/">2012-2013 Wild Card Round Fantasy Football RB Rankings </a></li> <li>ProFootballFocus.com has their <a href="https://www.profootballfocus.com/data/ffranking/inc/server.php?proj=QB&amp;cat=Wild+Card+2012">projections up for Wild Card Weekend</a>, adjustable by position</li> <li>FFToday.com's <a href="http://fftoday.com/rankings/12_playoff_rankings.html">Playoff Rankings (Full) </a></li> <li>Or get the consensus rankings (from only 8 experts so far, definitely not the same awesomely huge pot from the regular season of course) from FantasyPros.com here: <a href="http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/rankings/qb.php">Week 18 QB Rankings</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>Finally, CBS also runs a playoff challenge and Jamey Eisenberg gives his thoughts on strategy for the league <a href="http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasyfootball/story/21478452/cbssportscom-playoff-challenge-preview">here</a>.</li> </ul> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?a=DfC9Q4h7m8w:-TnkYEBDOuU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?a=DfC9Q4h7m8w:-TnkYEBDOuU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FantasyFootballLibrarian?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FantasyFootballLibrarian/~4/DfC9Q4h7m8w" height="1" width="1"/>Fantasy Football Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10710042496167760096noreply@blogger.com2http://www.fflibrarian.com/2013/01/join-fflibrarians-2013-playoff-challenge.html