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FF Draft Homework

As I mentioned, I'm part of this two-round mock draft and I'm picking 5th...my pick is coming right up (this Thursday) and I'd like to be as prepared as possible. Only catch here is that I'm flying out of town towards the middle of eastern Ohio on the night of July 4th - and my pick needs to be up on July 5th. I'm confident the timing will work out though and to prepare, I've been searching high and low for lists of top picks. In fact, I have a spreadsheet going of 9 different sites/rankings. Seems like Blogger should let me post an excel spreadsheet but I'm not so sure about that...I'll see what I can do. And in the meantime, here's some of the research on the top picks:

The Huddle's Top 10 rankings for RB...only their Top 10 rankings for each position are free, which is something I really don't care for. What I'd like to know is if this is their full-time job - if so, I suppose it justifies the fee a little more since we all have make a living. In fact, in my dream world I am the Fantasy Football Librarian full-time. But still...the fee thing irks me.

But back to actual football - or at least actual fantasy football:

Top 200 Preseason Fantasy Rankings from ProFantasySports.com

RBs are the heart of the matter in any 2-round draft, so look no further that this: Fabiano brings us a short review of all 32 backfields in A Look at the Most Important Position

And an LJ rumor (that could have massive draft impact; [photo: MSNBC]) is dissected on scout.com this morning - Don't Believe the Hype: LJ to Dallas?

Comments

Anonymous said…
I made my pick for the draft
5:49 PM
Anonymous said…
i made my pick

http://mwcfootball.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/hazean-mock-draft-round-1-pick-3/
5:53 PM
MM said…
OK, here we go: sign into Yahoo! and go to:

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/register/joinprivateleague_league_select?.scrumb=

The League ID is: 136672
Password is: blogger

Draft day is August 19 at 11 a.m.
1:53 PM
MM said…
OK, we are back on track, and it's up to you now!

http://hazeradio.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/hazean-mock-draft-round-1-pick-4/
3:26 PM
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