Listen to the FFLibrarian on Westwood One tonight!

Hello friends, it's a lovely day in Colorado and I've got several reasons to be supremely happy today: 1. Week 3 games are one day closer 2. I will be salivating over my very own iPhone in the next few hours and 3. early release day from work thanks to the Colorado v. West Virginia game. 4. I'll be on the radio tonight (more about that below). What could be better?

Let's take a look at some fantasy links:

The FFGoat has some quality Start 'em Sit'em advice for Week 3 up for your review.
Fantasy Football, etc is a new blog for me and I'm liking their Bump 'em Up and Bump 'em Down pieces - take a look at those Week 3 columns if you get a chance.
Another site that isn't new to me but that I had sort of forgotten about since last season is DR U Fantasy Football. The site has a new look since I was last on there but I see it's the same old excellent content. So check out their FF Rankings - Week 3 Running Backs (they have other positions as well) for a tiered approach to start and sit advice. Unique - haven't really seen tiers for start/sit anywhere else...
If you absolutely are at a loss for starters this week, take a look at some suggestions from the FFGeek Blog's Desperation is a Stinky Cologne: Week 3.
FFToolbox has their Week 3: Busts of the Week up - why must Braylon Edwards suck right now? Seriously, what's the deal? Does he just need to warm up to the season without any camp time this summer or is this shoulder injury really problematic? Unclear but Edwards has had success against the Ravens in the past (in the past 4 games he has been averaging more than 90 yards per game plus 3 total TDs) so I'm hoping he'll look sharp this week.
The RotoExperts' Start and Sit: Week Three is up with their usual great advice.
FFToday's Gut Check is one of my favorite weekly reads as I'm sure I've mentioned before - this week's Underrated Stats is of particular interest to me as Matt looks at some interesting stats including sacks taken, first down percentage, fumbles, targets/target efficiency. Good, good stuff.

Finally, as I mentioned above, I'm taking myself to a new media, baby - radio. Westwood One/CBS Radio has a segment called Fantasy Forecast that many of you might have heard before. It airs throughout the weekend (starting tonight) and they asked me to provide a little fantasy insight for QBs this week. I believe that you can find the hour-long show (of which I'm a very small segment) here at this Westwood One site after it has aired for the first time at 10 PM eastern time tonight. Once I've heard it I'll try and clarify just how far into it my segment is, though why not just listen to the full hour broadcast? I'm looking forward to seeing if I sound like a doofus or not. Let's hope for the latter.

Back on the fantasy wagon

With my library conferences behind me (for a few weeks at least), I can now concentrate on fantasy football again. If you happen to be a librarian and are interested in how my co-presenter and I tied together fantasy football and information literacy, check out my co-presenter’s blog . Though I imagine most of you would much rather catch up on the following football news and thoughts for the week: I remain a bit dazed and confused by my certainty last summer that Cedric Benson was going to rock my RB2 world in 2007. Didn’t happen and now he’s moved onto ankle surgery, alleged intoxication and resisting arrest on boats. Awesome. You can practically taste Matt Forte’s value skyrocketing here. In fact, wondering about rookie RBs in general? Well then check out FF Xtreme’s The Day After: Ranking the Rookie Running Backs . I love reading articles or stats that challenge my preconceived notions – The Fifth Down’s Chad the Completion Percentage Machine does just that. No offense to thos

Streaming Defenses - Week 16

Don't know about you all, but in our house this week is just chock full of events, visiting with family, and getting organized for our upcoming time off over the holidays. Lots of scrambling going on around here and attempts to install some sense of gratitude in my boys. What am I grateful for this season? Many things but let's start with Bob. Bob has been my fantasy football rock, coming back week after week to post. Hats off to you, Bob, and thank you for your diligent work and research. So here he is with this year's final streaming defense post. Well it’s the last week of the Fantasy Football Playoffs in most leagues, and my last post of the season. I hope you all found these posts useful. And if I failed you, you have to murder a lot more experts before you get to me. I myself have had a terrible playoff season. I’m out of all but one of my leagues due to the weird games the last two weeks. Between weather that didn’t materialize to normally consistent players co

Start/Sit Week 4 and a smattering of rankings

It's been awhile, my fantasy football friends. I have lofty intentions of getting several posts up here each week, but life is busy and I will do my best. So in the intervening 6 years since I've posted regularly on here, our family added another child (now there are 3!), moved back to Boulder for a sabbatical year and then returned to Knoxville, and we have basically been chugging along like many of the rest of you. My two boys (who turn 12 and 9 soon) are in a fantasy football league for the first time this year with their buddies, which ostensibly is the just the dads (and mom!) playing one another of course. But my oldest is taking it super seriously and what kind of Fantasy Football Librarian would I be if I didn't step up my game for him? So I'm back - and am interested in the fantasy landscape - lots of the same awesome sites out there, but many new ones as well. I'll try to incorporate a mix. Please be sure to let me know if my 2006 ways aren't working i

Bobbert said…

Quick startem sitem question for you, Patrick Crayton vs David Patten. The Saints game is gunna be a shootout so i'm leaning tward Patten.

Also just wanted to let you know Brandon Marshal is in trouble again, this time for battery. He is also threatening to kill me in two of my leagues =(

Why must you do this to me Brandon Marshal... why...

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/FantasySourceBlitz/entry/view/12659/charges_filed_against_marshall

--Alex

8:33 PM

Anonymous said…

Another start-'em question for you. I start two RBs. I've already got Chris Johnson penciled in. For the other spot, who do you think will do better: Joseph Addai, Earnest Graham, or (wait for it) Jerious Norwood?

9:39 PM

GO BUFFS!!!

11:56 PM

Very exciting! I was just telling someone the other day how I love Westwood One. Radio takes on added importance when you don't have cable. Can't wait to hear it.

-Brian

10:23 AM

tkadlec said…

Just wanted to let you know that I too feel your pain with Braylon. Heck, he only has .75 more points on the year in my PPR league than Courtney Taylor! I'm also waiting on SJax to get a few more touches.

If it wasn't for my personal all-time favorite fantasy player, Westbrook, I'd have an 0-2 start and be looking quite shabby right now.

11:28 AM

Fantasy Football Librarian said…

ajc, I'd go with Patten over Crayton exactly for the reason you mentioned - it'll be a high scoring, high throwing affair in Denver.

And as I said in my post today, don't sweat the Marshall news. I didn't even mention it yesterday because I think this is just isn't a huge deal for fantasy owners.

anon, Addai has less than 2.5 yards per carry so far and he's never done very well against Jax. Graham has been doing pretty well so far but the Chicago run D is certainly more stout than what he's faced so far...so I'm going to go with Norwood. I think you already thought he might be the best option and I'm going to go ahead and say Norwood against KC might just be a beautiful thing.

Go Buffs, go radio and go Braylon...

1:13 PM

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