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2011 Results: Accuracy in Preseason Rankings

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:42:00 +0000

I've been remiss in getting this post up, my apologies. I've been busy with the usual: toddler, work, and more toddler. And of course there's the gray cloud of Just-One-More-Game-Left-This-Season hanging over my head...congrats, Pats and Giants fans. We had our son decked out in a tiny Welker jersey that my Patriots-loving sister sent our way so I guess I'm pulling for the Patriots. Mostly though I'm just hoping for an entertaining game.

Last week I posted the results to the 2011 preseason rankings accuracy contest that I run each year - take a look at the write up on The Fifth Down: Fantasy Football Accuracy Rankings for 2011. There were 46 sites that participated this year and I have them all list below in alphabetical order:

4for4.com
Ask the Commish
Bruno Boys
CBSSports - Dave Richard
CBSSports - Jamey Eisenberg
Cheatsheetwarroom
Draft Analyzer
Draft Sharks
ESPN
FantasyFootball.com
Fantasy Football Nerd
Fantasy Football Sherpa
Fantasy Football Starters
Fantasy Football Trader
FantasySharks.com
Fantasy Shrink
Fantasy Think Tank
FastPoint Games
FF Guidebook
FFCalculator (ADP)
FFGeekBlog
FFManiaxs
FFToday.com
FFToolbox
FootballGuys
FootballOutsiders
FOX Sports
Hatty Waiver Wire Guru
The Huddle
Junkyard Jake
KFFL
NFL.com
NFLSoup.com
Pigskin Addiction
Power Play Fantasy Sports
ProFootballFocus.com
Pyromaniacs
Razzball.com
Real Time Sports
RotoProfessor
Rotoworld
SI
StocksJocks
USA Today
XML Team Solutions
Yahoo

The winner across all 4 positions looked at (QB, RB, WR and TE) was John Paulsen at The Fantasy Shrink. You can also find John on Twitter - @4for4_John. The top site at each position is as follows:

QB:
Fantasy Football Maniaxs

RB:
CBSSports.com (Jamey Eisenberg's rankings)

WR:
ESPN

TE:
The Fantasy Shrink

You can find the top 15 sites overall and top 10 at each position on the Fifth Down article. I'll be adding this year's results together with other past results to build upon the aggregate results spreadsheet I started a few years - and that is one chock full document, my friends. Definitely something you'll want to get your hands on before Draft Day 2012. I'm exploring new options of how to deliver this info to you all since I know many of you are very curious about which expert has the best advice, so stay tuned on that front.

On a similar note, if you haven't seen the FantasyPros.com results for their own accuracy competition, I highly recommend swinging by Fantasy Football Expert Accuracy Scores. FantasyPros.com takes a look at weekly start/sit recommendations rather than preseason rankings and if you combine these two assessments, I think you have a ton of advice in terms of the experts you'll want to focus on in the future. Good stuff.

Advice for Conference Championship week

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:25:00 +0000

Welcome to Conference Championship Week, my friends. I've been extremely busy over the past several days doing number crunching for my 5th annual rankings analysis. Every September I join forces with the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) and put out a call to fantasy football experts inviting them to submit their preseason positional rankings. I then compare the experts' rankings to the actual fantasy rankings at the end of the season and determine which expert was the most accurate.

The results of the contest will be posted here with all sorts of detail on the top sites at each position and overall across the 4 offensive skill positions. There were 46 sites that participated this year and most of my favorites were included, so it's been a really fun contest to run yet again. The winner was announced at the FSTA conference late today and news will be flying around on Twitter I'm guessing. But come on back here for the details later in the week - stay tuned!

In the meantime, I've got a handful of links for those of you that are playing playoffs fantasy football. And by the way, kudos to the overall leader in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge, Amuk. Also, this past week's top player in our challenge was Lethal Arsenal. Keep up the good work!

Conference championship week info:

LestersLegends.com's Conference Championships Fantasy RB Rankings
If you're in need of a playoffs QB now, as tempting as it is, maybe taking Brady isn't the smart way out? Think about your playoffs strategy with NFL.com's Time to take a chance on Flacco or Smith?
FFToolbox.com's Week 20 Who to Start Rankings/Projections
ProFootballFocus.com's Championship Week Projections

Or turn your mind toward 2012 and CBSSports.com's Top 12 RBs for 2012 - I'm interested in your thoughts about Jamaal Charles at #10. Too low for such a potential stud who could be back to 100%? Too high for a guy coming off a big injury? Or just right? I'm still trying to decide (and probably will take the next 6-7 months to firm up my opinion) but I'm not sure I'd let him sit there until the 10th pick came along...

Divisional Round advice plus 2012 thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:11:00 +0000

Earlier this week I flew to New York City for a meeting at work - I still work for a museum library up there even though I'm now living in Knoxville. It was surprisingly awesome to be back and I was a bit taken aback by how much I missed the city. But it also left me with zero spare time for blogging - and you all know how eager I was to write and celebrate the Broncos' victory last week. I won't blab on and on about it, don't worry, but I was truly impressed with the caliber of play from several guys and am excited to see what they pull together this weekend.

I've got a handful of divisional round links for you as well as a few items on 2012. Read on:

Divisional round advice:

ProFootballFocus.com's Here Comes Stevan Ridley
FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Division Weekend
Or more projections at ProFootballFocus.com - Divisional Playoffs - Projections/Rankings
FFToday.com's updated positional Playoff Fantasy Rankings
For IDP advice this weekend and beyond, scope out one of the following:

FantasySharks.com's IDP Cheatsheet: Divisional Round
ProFootballFocus.com's IDP Fantasy Football Players to Target on Divisional Weekend
CBSSports.com's Under the radar: They're not stars but could play key role in playoffs

2012 thoughts:

NFL.com's Three and out: Turner has bust written all over him
FantasyFootballXtreme.com's 2012 Fantasy Football Rankings & Cheat Sheets Updated - redraft rankings, dynasty rankings, PPR rankings, etc.
Matthew Berry's First look at 2012 fantasy football ranks
FantasySharks.com's Early 2012 rankings
CBSSports.com's Top 12 QBs for 2012

For those playing in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge, it's great to have all 300+ of you around for the fun, and in particular, kudos to the top 3 teams so far: Casanovanauts, Tones, and Katphiche!

Pulling for a Broncos victory

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:59:00 +0000

My husband is out of town for an economics conference in Chicago this weekend and just realized that he'll be flying home during the end of the games on Sunday. Sad for him. I'm planning on putting my son to bed for the night by 4:30 on Sunday so that I don't miss a second of what I assume will be a brilliant Broncos victory. Kidding, kidding, my son wouldn't go for that...and perhaps a Broncos victory isn't in the cards. But we shall see! A Bronco fan can hope, can't she?!

A few more rankings and musings for the playoffs:

Pyromaniac.com's Player Rankings for Playoffs Week 1
TOFantasySports' Wild Card QB Rankings
NFL.com has a series that goes through the debates you might be having at who to start at each position - this link reviews the conundrum of who else to start at WR in the AFC other than Welker.
ProFootballFocus.com's The Playoff Predictor gives advice on who to start at each position be it this week or in the weeks beyond.

I can't get enough of seasonal analysis, especially comparing how players did at season's end to how they were predicted to do. Razzball.com examines this year's QBs in 2011 Quarterback ADP vs Reality and reminds us all yet again what a great grab Cam Newton was...and how on target Brady's ADP was.
If you truly can't get enough of analyzing football data then you'll want to head on over to Advanced NFL's 2011 Regular Season Play-by-Play Data.
In a look ahead to 2012, FFToolbox.com is rolling out their 2012 NFL Mock Drafts Database. Not fantasy mocks, mind you, but in the offseason this will seem like a juicy steak for the fantasy-starved.
In Free agents on the move, CBSSports.com reviews some of the key free agents and what the most likely scenario will be for the 2012 season for each player, including a note on their 2012 fantasy value.

Time to bring in a pro

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:56:00 +0000

After living in our new house for 5 months and only managing to paint 1 of the 6 rooms that needs a new coat of paint, we finally decided it was time to bring in a professional. For the past few days a dude has been here painting (and cutting us an awesome deal) - since I have been at home with our son (who is now finally feeling back to normal again) and also work from home, I've been immersed in paint fumes...let's hope those fumes aren't forcing me to make crazy lineup decisions for the Wild Card weekend games in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge. Fortunately the experts are out there with advice to help us through this weekend and beyond.

For projections, scope out FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Wildcard Weekend
Those of you who play in uber leagues with IDPers will appreciate ProFootballFocus.com's 2011 Playoffs IDP Rankings.
The Football Outsiders crew reviews a recent FO staff 8-round draft for the playoffs in Scramble for the Ball: Playoff Fantasy Draft.
Or see what FFToday writer Doug Orth has pulled together for his 5 leagues in the postseason in Road to the Super Bowl. This is full of some good analysis behind his picks for those who appreciate the detail.
Finally, if it's 2012 that you really care about then you'll want to take a look at Rotoworld's Final Target Watch article with a summary of all the targets and touches throughout the 2011 (and 2010) season. I love this sort of summary that looks at trends over the course of the season but also the past several years. Good food for thought.

Wild Card Round prep

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:32:00 +0000

Happy postseason to you all. Glad to have you here and I'm assuming you're all playing in some sort of playoff fantasy league since you just can't get enough of this great game. If you need a playoffs league to play in, join the 250+ of us playing in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge (e-mail me if you'd rather have an invitation e-mailed to you).

We've had a sick baby on our hands for the past few days and things took a turn for the worse this morning with multiple rounds of baby puke. So we're on the slow recovery train here and I haven't had a ton of time for blogging - hopefully this link dump will make up for my absence over the past few days.

First up, these articles offer up a little advice on how to approach a playoff league:

CBSSports.com's Up for a challenge? offers up a potential lineup for Wild Card weekend
NFL.com's Rodgers, Brees could lead you to Super Bowl XLVII! outlines some of the rules for the NFL.com playoff game, which is the host of the FFLibrarian version so it might behoove you to scope it out pre-game time.

All sorts of playoff rankings:

FFToolbox.com's Week #18 Who to Start Rankings
Roto Arcade's Shuffle Up for the Playoffs: Second Season Cheat Sheet
Razzball.com's Playoff Fantasy Football Rankings
ProFootballWeekly.com's Second season is for redemption (video starts immediately)
ProFootballFocus.com's Playoff Player Rankings - or if you've got IDPs in your playoff league, check out their Wild Card Playoffs - IDP Rankings/Projections.
LestersLegends.com's Wild Card Round Fantasy WR Rankings

Consensus start/sit for Week 17

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Welcome to the final week of fantasy football and thus the final installment of the consensus start/sit picks for the 2011 season. Hope you all found this feature helpful. There were far fewer start/sit articles out there this week so the following list is based on a more limited pool of sites. Good luck to those of you still playing!

Oh and Happy New Year to all!

QB
Start: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Philip Rivers
Sit: Aaron Rodgers, Matt Moore, Andy Dalton, Joe Flacco

RB
Start: Khalil Bell, Ryan Mathews, Rashard Mendenhall, C.J. Spiller
Sit: Arian Foster, Shonn Greene, Cedric Benson

WR
Start: Steve Johnson, Malcom Floyd
Sit: Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall

TE
Start: Brandon Pettigrew, Brent Celek
Sit: no consensus

DST
Start: Falcons, Dolphins
Sit: Cowboys, Bengals

Kicker
Start: Alex Henery, Robbie Gould
Sit: Graham Gano

Help for Week 17 lineups

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:29:00 +0000

Today a close friend from college is driving through Knoxville with her family en route back to their home in Athens, Georgia, and they'll be making an overnight pit stop at our place. I couldn't be more excited since it has been too long since I last saw her (and have yet to meet her son who is about my son's age) - plus, how often does someone come through Knoxville? Pretty much never. When we were living in NYC I got pretty spoiled with the number of visitors we had - Knoxville isn't exactly the same hub of activity. Plus we've got family coming to town this weekend so we've got fun times ahead - hope you all do, too. An early Happy New Year's to everyone!

In the meantime, on to today's links:

Start/sit suggestions for Week 17:

Fifth Down's Week 17 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups
Matthew Berry's Love, Hate and a torn sleeve
CBSSports.com's Week 17 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em
NFL.com's Rivers, Mathews have attractive Week 17 matchups

ProFootballWeekly.com's So long to 2011; hello to 2012 does a good job of reviewing some of the early news items for the 2012 season, with an eye on players to focus on next year (note, a video starts up immediately on this page).
Or scope out the next article in Roto Arcade's Exit Interview series - this time with a look at WRs including some of next year's rookies that you'll want to keep an eye on as well as sleepers for 2012.

With an eye toward 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:33:00 +0000

I kind of love this week between Christmas and New Year's Day - things are a little bit more mellow, lots of family and friends around, college football is on almost non-stop, and there's always the feeling that change is impending. I dig it. What I don't like is the end of the standard fantasy football season and I'm sure you all feel the same way. Just a reminder that I'll keep blogging throughout the off-season with plenty of info for the 2012 season.

I also hope that you're all planning on playing in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge this year - this link should help you set up a login or you can just e-mail me for an invitation.

Finally, those of you who have been participating in the weekly accuracy start/sit challenge run by FantasyPros.com should be pleased to know that we came in 4th place - check out the results here. Many, many thanks to those of you that played each week. Meanwhile if you want to see how the experts did, scope out the results which have one of my favorites, Chet Gresham of Razzball fame, coming out on top.

But I know there are plenty of you out there looking for Week 17 help, so read on:

First things first, CBSSports.com's Who's in and who's out does a great job zeroing in on which players we can expect to see in action this weekend. For more on that front, Rotoworld's Who Can You Trust and Roto Arcade's Playing Hard or Hardly Playing: Deciphering Week 17 offer similar helpful advice.
Start/sit for Week 17:

FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench List
FFToolbox.com's Week 17: Sit 'em
FantasyFootballXtreme.com's Week 17 Start 'em and Sit 'em Advice

A few waiver links for IDPers:

FantasySharks.com's IDP Waiver Wire: Week 17
ProFootballFocus.com's IDP Waiver Wire - Week 17
Or take a look at FFToday's IDP Notes: Week 17

NFL.com's Foster big 2011 could lead to bigger things in 2012 is a quick look ahead at next year.
Or for more on 2012, scope out Roto Arcade's Exit Interview: RBs' ongoing decline leaves many questions; it's part of a series that will focus on each position - plenty more of this type of prognostication to come.
A few rankings for Week 17:

ESPN's Week 17 Rankings: Quarterbacks
The Fantasy Shrink's Week 17 Fantasy Football Rankings
As always, swinging by Fantasy Rundown will give you the rankings mother lode for Week 17

Get your Week 17 prep here!

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:42:00 +0000

Welcome to the post-Christmas chaos. We've had a busy 36 hours or so in our family - we celebrated Christmas with my family in DC and then hopped on a mostly empty plane back to Knoxville to spend the rest of the holiday with my husband's family. Sadly once we got to Knoxville our poor niece and sister-in-law got the pukes and our various plans for dinner, presents, etc got mostly postponed until tonight. So we're doing Christmas part 2 tonight. Fortunately we'll have an interesting Saints vs Falcons game to keep us entertained if the puking returns. Fingers crossed that they both feel better stat (what's sadder than a puking baby AND a puking mom?) and that the rest of us remain puke-free...there's lots of baby slobber going around so frankly we'll be lucky to get out of this week unscathed.

Anyway, I'm pretty certain I'm about to have a 2011 fantasy championship under my belt this year and hope you all are facing equally good news. But if your league carries into Week 17, have no fear, the links are here:

First up though, some Week 16 game recaps and injury updates:

Rotoworld's Au revoir, AP
FootballOutsiders' Audibles at the Line: Week 17
Razzball.com's Tony Romo Splits With Fantasy Owners

Week 17 waiver wire links:

FootballDocs' Waiver Wire Advice NFL Week 17
Bruno Boys' Pick Them Up
Bleacher Report's Which Week 16 Heroes Are Worth Picking Up
FFManiaxs' Week 17 Waiver Wire

If you lost the championship this week, don't worry, there's a place for you here, too. Roto Arcade's Runner-up rant: Five terrible ways that fantasy titles were lost is where you can turn for solace and a soft touch.

By the way, many of you are participants in the gigantic FFLibrarian League and I will be crowning a winner tonight in that league. Stay tuned for a hearty pat on the back to that savvy owner. Also, another reminder that I'd love to have you join the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge. Shoot me an e-mail if you'd like an invitation but that link should work just fine. So far there are 119 of us playing - looking forward to it!

Cultivating champions here at FFLibrarian

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Today marks the start of Christmas celebrations in our house since one batch of family members is rotating out to see the rest of their family later today; so let the first wave of present opening begin! I've got our son down now for what I hope will be a long, long nap (thanks, 5:45 AM wake-up call) to be followed with an afternoon of wrapping paper and boxes to keep him entertained. Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season so far...now onto the remaining essential links for this championship week. And no worries for those of you who carry on to Week 17, I carry on, too, and will be here with plenty of links next week.

Week 16 start/sit (should have the consensus list up by tonight, I hope):

Fantasy Football Nerd's Where to Put 'Em
Fifth Down's Week 16 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups
Matthew Berry's Love/Hate (how can I not link to something that has a little extra love for fantasy-football-loving wives?)
FakeTeams' Week 16 Start 'Em Sit 'Em
RotoExperts' Hold em or Fold em
BrunoBoys' Start ems
TOFantasySports' Play em or Lay em

For rankings this week I'm just going to send you on over to FantasyRundown.com since they really have the bulk of the key rankings for Week 16 already fleshed out for you by position. Awesome, no?

Back on the FF scene

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:09:00 +0000

Greetings football friends - thanks for bearing with me this week. We headed up to the DC area on Tuesday to spend some pre-Christmas time with my family and things have been a bit busy. My 92-year-old grandma arrived yesterday and we have a complicated family plus a couple of babies here - so four generations of mostly good times have been keeping me busy. Definitely didn't mean to leave you all hanging in your time of playoffs need, so let's get right down to it with a few quick notes to start things off.

First up, don't forget that this is a funky week with a game tonight, most games on Saturday, and two more on Sunday and Monday nights. Love having the NFL on during so many days of the week but it certainly keeps you on your fantasy toes.

Next up, this is our final week to prove our fantasy worth in the FantasyPros.com weekly start/sit accuracy challenge. I'd love it if you took a few minutes to answer these 10 start/sit questions and represent for FFLibrarian.com.

Finally, remember to join the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge again this year - looks like there are 75 of us playing already and just to let you know, I've got a prize ready to go for the winner of the challenge. Should be a good time.

And now on to the meat and potatoes:

Start/sit suggestions:

Roto Arcade's Flames: "Jingle Bell Rock," Bears RB could put trophy under tree and Lames: Ho, ho, no! Eli to play Grinch in battle for Big Apple
CBSSports.com's Week 16 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em
NFL.com's Ryan can lead fantasy owners to a league championship
FFXtreme's Week 16: Start and Bench 2011
FFToolbox.com's Week 16: Sit 'Em
FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench Week 16

Week 16 rankings and projections:

ESPN's Week 16 Rankings
The Fantasy Shrink's Week 16 Fantasy Football Rankings
Fleaflicker.com's Projections for Week 16 at flex spot
Razzball.com's Week 16 Fantasy Football Rankings
AthlonSports' FF Rankings: Week 16
FakeTeams' Week 16 Running Back Rankings
FantasySharks.com has both your IDP Cheatsheet and Player Projections
KFFL.com's RB - Week 16 has your PPR needs covered

I'll be back tomorrow (I hope!) with more start/sit and rankings advice. Enjoy tonight's game!

Misdialing in Week 15

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:44:00 +0000

One of our son's favorite toys is our home phone - we have a land line since I work from home and need it for conference calls, and it's a good thing we do since he loves that thing. Obsessed would be putting it mildly. But until this morning he's never actually called anyone other than our voicemail - he's dialed a ton of numbers, he's just never hit the crucial "talk" button to pull it all together. But this morning he managed to get it on speaker so that my husband and I both heard the recorded voice that suddenly came on: "Hello there, I can offer you a massage..." is roughly all we heard before we could get to the phone, and we just both stood there stunned and cracking up that oh yes, my friends, our son called some sort of phone sex line. What are the chances?

Probably about as small as the chances that the Packers would lose to the Chiefs and the Colts would finally tally a win - though of all the unlikely things I guess I should've seen Drew Brees and his 5 TD, 400+ yards performance coming. I mean seriously Brees? Knocked me out of the championship game for sure.

I'm still alive in another league (pending total chaos tonight in the MNF game) so I'm all about reviewing the waiver wire this week just in case there's still something out there. And of course I've got your Week 15 recaps, too, so read on:

Week 15 game reviews:

FootballOutsiders' Audibles at the Line: Week 15
Roto Arcade's Sunday Scene, Week 15
Razzball.com's Playoffs?! Yes, shut up!

Week 16 waiver wire links:

Bruno Boys' Pick Them Up
2MugsFF's Hot Garbage Waiver Wire Week 16
FootballDocs' Waiver Wire Advice

Good luck to anyone whose Week 15 success rides on tonight's game!

Week 15 consensus picks

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:40:00 +0000

The season is winding down and with it, our consensus start/sit lists are starting to reach their expiration date...but don't worry, we've still got a few more weeks of consensus wisdom to read up on. As usual I went through this weeks start/sit list and tallied up below are the players with the most start or sit votes.

Good luck in the playoffs and hope you all enjoy watching the Broncos beat the Pats!

QB
Start: Matt Stafford, Tim Tebow, Rex Grossman
Sit: Alex Smith, Ben Roethlisberger, Carson Palmer (he also got several start votes though), Michael Vick

RB
Start: Chris Johnson, Beanie Wells, Cedric Benson, Felix Jones
Sit: Rashard Mendenhall, Ryan Mathews, DeAngelo Williams, C.J. Spiller

WR
Start: Demaryius Thomas, Jabar Gaffney, Santana Moss (gotta love a 2-Skins start list...)
Sit: Anquan Boldin, Michael Crabtree, Vincent Jackson

TE
Start: Owen Daniels, Jake Ballard, Jermichael Finley, Anthony Fasano
Sit: Jermaine Gresham, Heath Miller, Dustin Keller, Vernon Davis

DST
Start: Lions, Bengals, Cardinals
Sit: Broncos, Chargers

Kicker
Start: John Kasay, Stephen Gostkowski
Sit: Billy Cundiff

Join the 2012 FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge!

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:01:00 +0000

It's a big week for those still in the 2011 FF season and most of this post will cater to you all, don't worry, but I know many FF players have seen an end to their season already. Perhaps you're still lurking around the site even though you're out of the playoffs? Glad to have you and keep in mind that I'll be posting throughout the offseason with advice and thoughts for the 2012 season so I hope you'll stick around. But that's jumping way ahead...so I'll just jump a little ahead instead to the NFL playoffs, which are only a few weeks away. I'm running the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge through NFL.com again this year and I hope you'll join me (if that link doesn't work for you, e-mail me and I'll send you an invitation). I'm working on a prize for the challenge winner, too, if that sweetens the deal at all.

But now back to Week 15 prep. Have at it:

Week 15 start/sit links:

NFL.com's CJ2K can lead you to fantasy championships
The Hazean's Start & Sit, Week 15: Fantasy Playoff Advice
Kind of a big sit list really (for the duration of the playoffs) - FantasyPros.com's Who will disappoint in Week 15?
Fantasy Football Nerd's Week 15 Where to Put 'Em
ProFootballWeekly.com's Start or Sit: Week 15 (video starts up right away)
TheFootballGirl's Startability Index Week 15

Week 15 rankings:

The Fantasy Douche's Week 15 RB Rankings
FakeTeams' Week 15 Wide Receiver Rankings
WalterFootball.com's Week 15 Fantasy Football Rankings

Getting jolly

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:29:00 +0000

Spotted: one heavily-makeuped woman donning a Santa hat, counting out a huge wad of cash in the car parked next to me in a suburban grocery store parking lot. All I saw were $1 bills though it felt extremely wrong to be staring at her and her cash stack so maybe my quick peeks didn't see the whole story. In fact, would love to know the story there in general. Then on the drive back to my house, in the span of 3 blocks I saw 4 cars with the whole reindeer antlers and rudolph nose on the front of the car and I started muttering to myself about why it seems this whole town is being all cutesy with their holiday car decor....and then I started wondering what happens if you have one of those get-ups and you see another car next to you with it, too, do you smile and wave to acknowledge the bizarro holiday antler club you're in together? Or do you play it cool like you aren't mortified that every other driver on the road had your same Christmas car idea? Right, clearly I was in a jolly mood. So I de-scrooged myself by buying our cats their first ever Christmas stocking. Yeah that's right, I have cats (7 to be exact. Ha. Kidding, just two cats, but you believed it though for a second, right? Crazy football lady might just be crazy cat lady...). And now they have a stocking. Full of awesome cat stuff that I also bought and spent a small fortune on. Apparently I might still be in that less-than-jolly mood...so moving on to today's links.

Start/sit advice:

Matthew Berry's Ya just never know, mate
CBSSports.com's Week 15 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em
RotoExperts.com's Hold 'em or Fold 'em
BrunoBoys' Week 15 Start 'Ems
FootballDocs' Start Sit Advice
Fifth Down's Week 15 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups
Roto Arcade's Lames: Don't expect Lynch to 'Taste the Rainbow' in Chicago
FakeTeams' Week 15 Start 'Em Sit 'Em
TOFantasySports' Play em and Lay em Week 15

Rankings for Week 15:

FantasyAlarm.com's Week 15 Running Back Rankings
Athlon Sports' Fantasy Football Rankings: Week 15
Pyromaniac.com's Player Rankings for Week 15
Razzball.com's Week 15 Fantasy Football Rankings
Fleaflicker's Weekly projections at the flex spot

Finally, there's a Tim Tebow beer coming...love it.

Almost forgot! Don't forget to jump into the FantasyPros.com weekly accuracy challenge to show how dominant FFLibrarian readers are - just answer these quick 10 start/sit questions.

Enjoy tonight's game!

Play smart in Week 15

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:42:00 +0000

Every year my husband's family does a college bowl pool and every year I absolutely tank...as in I perform alongside the family pets whose picks are based on school mascots being a cat, dog, etc. Or I do about as well as my aunt who participated one year and just picked whichever school was in a state that she had lived in or visited before. That's the level of effectiveness I've got going in the bowl pool and it's fairly embarrassing. Though I think I've finally figured out why I do so poorly: I'm just like my aunt, I pick with loyalty. I'm a total sucker for picking teams that I care about. No chance in hell am I picking against my Northwestern Wildcats, my sister's Stanford Cardinal, or my grandma's Michigan Wolverines, just ain't happening. I'm guessing many of you can relate and perhaps have made similar decisions in your fantasy football lives. Now I realize you've made it to the playoffs so you're obviously savvy and probably don't need this reminder, but don't get all emotional with your fantasy football picks now that we've hit Week 15. Be smart, roll with players that have given you consistent points each week, and of course remember to sprinkle in a dose of expert advice. You can't do much better than FantasyPros.com's Bold Predictions for the Fantasy Playoffs, particularly if you've seen an injury bug or have a scrappy team that somehow has made it this far. And of course we have our daily linkage to cover...

Week 15 waiver wire advice:

FakeTeams' Waiver Wire Scoops
Razzball.com's Waivering Wire Week 15
IDPers, we've got ProFootballFocus.com's IDP Waiver Wire Week 15
CBSSports.com's Waiver wire: Recycle your tight ends

Week 15 rankings:

The Fantasy Shrink's Week 15 Fantasy Football Rankings
ProFootballWeekly.com's Week 15 QB Rankings (video starts right away)
FFJungle.com's Week 15 QB FF Player Rankings
NFL.com's Player Rankings: Quarterbacks - Week 15

Or scope out start/sit advice:

FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench: Week 15
FantasyFootballXtreme.com's Week 15 Start 'em and Sit 'em advice
FFToolbox.com's Week 15: Sit 'Em

This week's fantasy football gifts

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:09:00 +0000

Well looks like I might as well just send my entire paycheck straight to Amazon this month. I've been playing the role of online Santa Sara for the past few days since no one in our house enjoys spending time in a mall, much less during the holiday season...and due to my love for Amazon Prime (they totally suckered me in after a free year via Amazon Mom), I've basically been doing all sorts of holiday shopping with just a few clicks here and there. Fortunately it's equally easy to do a little click, click, click for your fantasy football gifts this week. Read on:

Waiver wire suggestions for this all-important Week 15:

FantasySharks.com's Waiver Wire Wonders
KFFL.com's Waiver Wire: WR - Week 15
Fantasy Football Spin's Waiver Wire Wonders - Week 15: Quarterbacks
ProFootballWeekly.com's Fantasy Ticker: Week 15
ProFootballFocus.com's Waiver Wire - Week 15
The Hazean's Week 15 Waiver Wire Adds

A few early start/sit links:

FFManiaxs' Week 15 Start/Sit
FFToolbox.com's Week 15: Start 'Em
Fantasy Football Information's Week 15 Start 'em, Sit 'em

IDP help:

FantasySharks.com's IDP Waiver Wire: Week 15
Monk's Week 15 IDP Waiver Wire Pickups

Can I get a comeback?

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:23:00 +0000

I've held off on gushing over my Broncos a whole lot here since we all know the world has long since maxed out on the Tim Tebow lovefests...but seriously, the comebacks are unbelievable. They're making for incredible 4th quarters/OT and I'm loving it. Next week's matchup with the Patriots should be an interesting battle in our family since my sister and bro-in-law are big Pats fans. Fortunately we won't all be together for the holidays yet; it would just be sad to see their faces when the Broncos win yet again.

I hope you all joined in on FantasyPros.com's Beat the Expert challenge - looks like there are 1800+ of us participating and I'm ranking somewhere in the 400s I believe. My Ray Rice/Shonn Greene combo was pretty solid but my receivers didn't exactly pan out as hoped. Let's see how many of you make $5 by beating my lineup...

Now onto today's links:

Week 14 recaps:

Roto Arcade's Sunday Scene, Week 14
Football Outsiders' Audible at the Line: Week 14
Razzball.com's Week 14: The Good, The Bad, The Injured
Rotoworld's The Morning After: Green Bay's Brass Ring

Early waiver wire links:

Bruno Boys' Pick Them Up
2MugsFF's Hot Garbage Waiver Wire Week 15
Football Docs' Waiver Wire

Week 14 Consensus Start/Sit

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:08:00 +0000

Welcome to Week 14 consensus start/sit list. I've gone through all of this week's start/sit links that I've posted from the industry's top experts and tallied up the players with the most start/sit votes. They're listed below in no particular order.

Good luck in the playoffs!

QB
Start: Carson Palmer, Rex Grossman
Sit: Andy Dalton, Matt Ryan

RB
Start: Michael Turner, Marshawn Lynch, Ryan Mathews, Reggie Bush, Shonn Greene, C.J. Spiller, Roy Helu
Sit: Cedric Benson, Brandon Jacobs, Beanie Wells, Peyton Hillis

WR
Start: Percy Harvin, Anquan Boldin, Michael Crabtree, Santana Moss
Sit: Santonio Holmes, Pierre Garcon, Dwayne Bowe

TE
Start: Dustin Keller, Kellen Winslow, Brent Celek
Sit: Owen Daniels, Greg Olsen, Brandon Pettigrew

DST
Start: Jets, Broncos, Seahawks
Sit: Eagles, Cowboys

Kicker
Start: Jason Hanson, Robbie Gould
Sit: Adam Vinatieri, Neil Rackers

Getting sentimental

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:34:00 +0000

In the upcoming year my mom is moving out of the house that my family has lived in for 35+ years. I was born there, made mud pies there, built innumerable snowmen there, fought repeatedly with my sister there, snuck out of ridiculously tiny windows there, and have spent every Christmas morning there. So this year will be our final Christmas there and I'm feeling fairly sentimental about it, though trying not to let my mom see that too much; I know the move will be hardest on her. But I guess this just makes this year's holiday season that much sweeter, doesn't it?

Speaking of sweet things, how about fantasy playoffs? I hope you all enjoyed last night's game - I only made it until half time or so...I think I'm cursed with a Mike Wallace - Antonio Brown bad decision problem. I essentially can start 1 of them each week (I have both in 2 different leagues) and inevitably have made the wrong decision about which one to start for the past month or so. Here's hoping you started Brown last night. Now onto today's links:

Start/sit advice:

Fake Teams' Week 14 Start 'em Sit 'em
Fantasy Football Nerd's Where to Put 'Em
Matthew Berry's Love/Hate for Week 14
LestersLegends.com's Start/Sit Week 14
Ask the Commish's Sit or Start

Rankings for Week 14:

Rotoworld's Week 14 Rankings
Fantasy Douche's Week 14 WR Rankings
It feels almost silly to be linking out to rankings when you could simply visit Fantasy Rundown for a sweep of the rankings landscape this week. Scope it out, you won't be sorry.

Need a fill-in for Week 14? See who Razzball.com's FF Backup Plan: Week 14 suggests.
Each week I look forward to Evan Silva's matchups review - meaty, full of solid advice, perfect for a crucial playoff performance so scope out this week's Ravens Riding Rice.

Don't forget to submit your lineup for FantasyPros.com's Compete Against the Pros - I'm their featured pro this week, which is amusing to me and I do hope to do that title "pro" proud. See if you can beat me and earn $5 while you're at it.

Can you beat the FFLibrarian?

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:05:00 +0000

This week marks the start of playoffs for many of you and if you aren't playing FF any longer - or even if you are - I have another way for you to get your fantasy fix this week. FantasyPros.com has asked me to be their Featured Pro this week, which is awesome. You can play against me in their weekly salary cap game on FanDuel and if your lineup beats mine, you get $5 in your pocket. Cool, no? For the details, check out this link.

And while we're talking about FantasyPros.com, here's the weekly link to their start/sit accuracy challenge. Keep bringing the fantasy goodness and answer these 10 start/sit questions.

Start/sit links:

The Fifth Down's Week 14 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups
CBSSports.com's Week 14 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em
FootballDocs' Start Sit
Roto Arcade's Lames: Woeful Browns run D could make Ben bust vs. Cleveland

Week 14 rankings/projections:

Rotoworld's Week 14 Rankings
FantasyOmatic.com's Fantasy Playoff Matchup Rankings
Bruno Boys' Week 14 Rankings: Wide Receivers
Fantasty Alarm's Week 14 Running Back Rankings
ESPN's Week 14 Rankings: Quarterbacks
Athlon Sports' Rankings: Week 14

FantasySharks.com has IDP covered with more IDP tips in IDP Cheatsheet: Week 14.
Finally, Fantasy Alarm has some advice for those in dynasty leagues in Improving your Dynasty League at the End of the Season.

Looking for a good sleeper?

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:01:00 +0000

Last night we had friends over for a bourbon tasting party and despite the boisterousness that inevitably developed, our son managed to sleep through the entire thing directly one floor above the fun. Such a good sleeper. But if it's fantasy sleepers that you're in the market for, just read on.

Get your Sleepers for Week 14 from FFToolbox.com - or head on over to KFFL.com's FF sleepers: QB - Week 14 (other positions linked off that article).
Week 14 start/sit links:

Roto Arcade's Flames: Don't laugh, Grossman could go from zero to playoff hero
FFToolbox.com's Week 14: Sit 'Em
PigskinAddiction's Studs and Duds
FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench: Week 14
FantasyFootballXtreme.com's Week 14: Start 'em & Sit 'em advice

Week 14 rankings/projections:

Bruno Boys' Week 14 Rankings: Running Backs
FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Week 14
The Fantasy Shrink's Week 14 Fantasy Football Rankings

Your weekly targets update from Rotoworld is up and ready for your review: Week 14 - Targets and Touches.
More Grossman love for the remainder of the season in Roto Arcade's Shuffle Up and Schedule: Can the matchups elevate Rex Grossman?

Finely tuned playoffs

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:30:00 +0000

I think a congratulations are in order - if you're still here reading the blog then you have likely made it to the playoffs in at least one league. Or if you're out of the running, perhaps you at least know how to finish off a season with class, fighting with all your FF skills finely tuned. We've got plenty of waiver wire links and even a few start/sit bits, so read on:

The Week 14 waiver wire links roll on:

Athlon Sports' Waiver Wire: Week 14 Playoffs
ProFootballFocus.com's Waiver Wire - Week 14
FFGeekBlog's The Wire: Playoff time!
The Hazean's Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds
Razzball.com's Week 14 Waivering Wire
Pyromaniacs.com's Pickups After Week 13
ProFootballWeekly.com's Fantasy Ticker: Week 14

For some IDP suggestions, take a look at FantasySharks.com's IDP Waiver Wire: Week 14 article.
We've got two early start/sit articles up:

FFToolbox.com's Week 14: Start 'Em
FFManiaxs' Week 14 Start/Sit

TOFantasySports has advice for all you playoff-bound folks in Playoff Prep: Weeks 14-17.

Getting festive

noreply@blogger.com (Fantasy Football Librarian) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:42:00 +0000

Yesterday we went Christmas tree shopping and generally started to get our house together in terms of holiday decorations. Our son was transfixed by a blow-up snow globe in the local hardware store (as seen at left) but despite his newfound love, we refrained from becoming blow-up decor people. That said, I remember when I was a kid, my sister used to taunt me because she was lucky enough to be able to see the neighbor's life-sized nativity scene from her bedroom window and I couldn't. Not sure why gigantic, gaudy lawn holiday decorations are of such great appeal to kids but we might have to take our son back to visit the snow globe again real soon.

The other awesomeness that came out of the weekend is that barring some insanity tonight, I somehow might have won all of my matchups this week, which is a pretty solid feeling for this crucial Week 13. I actually played my husband in 2 leagues this week and came away with 2 wins. Again, more awesomeness.

Now time for today's awesome links:

Recaps for Week 13 if, for example, you missed the great win the Broncos pulled out. Again.

Football Outsiders' Audibles at the Line: Week 13
Razzball.com's To Be Blount, You'd Suck
Roto Arcade's Sunday Scene, Week 13: Cam Newton, unfair fantasy weapon

Week 14 waiver sweetness:

The Fake Football's Week 14 Waiver Wire
LestersLegend.com's Get 'em or Don't Sweat 'em Waiver Wire Advice - Week 14
2MugsFF's Hot Garbage Waiver Wire Week 14
Bruno Boys' Week 14 Pick Them Up
Fantasy Knuckleheads' On the Road to the Playoffs
Fantasy Football Freaks' Waiver Wire: 2011 Week 14