Get ready for Week 8 prep

I love my neighborhood - I think it's just beautiful. I felt this way as soon as laid eyes on it when we were apartment hunting this summer. There's just such an abundance of character between the brownstones, old apartment buildings, churches, banks, and even the court buildings. Now I'll be the first to admit that I didn't think anything in New York City could possibly top my Boulder foothills, and while Boulder still takes the cake, my Brooklyn 'hood is awesome in a totally different way. I was walking around in the cool drizzle here yesterday thinking about how absolutely lovely the changing leaves are, even on a soggy day...and it occurred to me: this is it. This is how autumn was meant to be.

And what makes autumn even better? Football. So let's get to today's links:

In yesterday's comments, reader Brian reminded me that I've been neglecting FantasyPros911 - and what an oversight! Thanks for the nudge, Brian, since it's definitely worth your time to check out some of their gems. Today I'm particularly enamored with their Week 8 IDP Fantasy Football Rankings: Top 225. Who else ranks that many IDPers?? You can break it down by position as well.
Another by request item - a few weeks ago a reader asked for an analysis on fantasy points per target and since I like to play with just about any football stat available, I pulled something together for my weekly Bruno Boys article. Take a look to see which WRs aren't quite living up to their potential but might have a little something more to give in the second half of the season.
Scope out Ultimate Fantasy Football Strategy's Team by Team Projections for Week 8 - you'll see some nice charts with projected fantasy points based on matchups.
The NY Times' Fifth Down blog has their weekly matchups advice ready to go (including a few favorite links for the week from yours truly) - great place to go if you're looking for start/sit feedback.
The Hazean's Six Big Fantasy Names to Sell is full of good stuff. I have to admit I don't agree with the idea of trading away some of these guys, particularly Greg Jennings and Steve Smith (CAR), but I love reading the Hazean's thoughts.
ProFootballWeekly.com's Ten most intriguing players of Week Eight hit the nail on the head with Miles Austin. Will he keep it going? I say yes, indeed!
A handful of start/sit and rankings links are up:

FFGoat's Start em, Sit em, and Sleepers Week 8
Junkyard Jake's Sleepers/Creepers
Mr. Fantasy's Week 8 Rankings (link goes to RBs)
12StepDrop's Contentious Starts and Sits: Week 8
FFToolbox's Week 8: Sit Em
FFXtreme's Start and Bench Advice: Week 8
Fantasy Joe's Studs, Duds, and sleepers: Colts' Collie to fill injury void
Ask the Commish's Sit or Start for Week 8
FFToday's Position Projections for Week 8 (link goes to QBs)

Will you all be tuning in to watch The League tonight? I'm headed to a concert so I've got it set to DVR - I'm intrigued, I admit it, despite this far less than awesome review.

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

Anonymous said…

Trade DeSean Jackson and Chester Taylor for Boldin and McCoy?

10:59 AM

Fantasy Football First said…

Check out "5 Up and 5 Down" from www.fantasy-football-first.com .

Thank You.

11:21 AM

Just pointing out that I went to the first recommended site
http://fantasypros911.com/fantasy-football-week-8-rb-rankings.html
and was confused by Ryan Grant being so highly ranked. He has not had an amazing season (although I played him last week with success) but this week he plays Minnesota. I do NOT think he will earn the 4th most fantasy points for a RB this week. Made me stop reading their site.

5:27 PM

Funny the next site I visit, NY Times writes this:
Ryan Grant vs. Minnesota - Grant had 51 yards in their first meeting, and the Vikings are the fourth worst matchup for running backs.
http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/week-8-in-fantasy-football-matchups/

5:45 PM

Can't afford to have Jennings and Forte to roll over and play dead anymore. They have had their shots at a few cupcakes and not produced. It may be that limp-along Rodgers finally gets some contacts so he can see down-field but then some DL-man will run over him and he'll lose em. I cut both of em.

As for DeSean for LeSean and Taylor for Boldin ... why? Are you heavy in RBs and light on WRs? If so then do what you need to do.

9:00 PM

Jason Keller said…

I like the matchup of Grant vs Minny at home. The guy above says "He has not had an amazing season" but Grant is averaging 13 points per game. Those are pretty decent numbers. Is he worth the 4th overall, maybe not, but you can't argue that he's not in the top 10. SO if he's no. 4 or no. 10 the difference is probably a point or so. I like the site Librarian, especially the IDP since my leagues carries 6 defensive players. Thanks for the link and all the hard work finding the sites. Makes things a lot easier.

10:01 PM

Corey (FFGoat) said…

Thanks for the mention as always!

4:15 PM

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