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Week 14 consensus start/sit

Gotta be quick, so I've just got your consensus start/sit today, no links. Remember the consensus is drawn from all the different start/sit articles that I link to during the week - I've pulled out the guys with the most votes, listed in no particular order.

QB
Start: Donovan McNabb, Joe Flacco, Tony Romo, Matt Schaub
Sit: Eli Manning, Jay Cutler, Matt Cassel

RB
Start: Quinton Ganther, Jamaal Charles, Thomas Jones, Fred Jackson
Sit: Brandon Jacobs, Kevin Smith, Matt Forte, Cedric Benson

WR 
Start: Terrell Owens, Derrick Mason, Robert Meachem, Roddy White, Davone Bess
Sit: T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Antonio Bryant, Chris Chambers, Devin Hester, Bernard Berrian

TE
Start: Kevin Boss, Jermichael Finley, Brent Celek
Sit: Kellen Winslow, Greg Olsen, Fred Davis

D/ST
Start: Titans, Bills, Jets
Sit: no consensus

Kicker
Start: Billy Cundiff, Jay Feely, Josh Scobee
Sit: Robbie Gould
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Anonymous said…
Who would you start at 2nd RB and Flex? Standard scoring, but 2 pts per 10 over 100 yds

M Barber, P Thomas, Q Ganther, T Hightower or Maroney

Flex - All of the above plus Garrard and Hassleback

Thanks to all that answer
2:11 PM
Todd said…
Thx for putting this together Ms. Librarian!

Question: Has anyone ever gone back and rated how the consensus sit/starts have done? In other words, how many of the consensus sits were actually correct, incorrect, or maybe somewhere in between - same thing for the starts.

If I had to guess, I'd say they didn't have a fantastic record, but since you've been doing this for the past few years, we should have solid data at this point.
11:46 PM
Anonymous said…
AHHH! FFL you are my hero. Your consensus Start/Sit confirmed my thoughts. I have Kevin Smith and Quinton Gaither. I wasn't sure who to start. Was planning on starting QG, but was nervous about starting a virtual unknown, but the Baltimore D scares me with a nicked up Smith.

Needing a Victory in Arlington
10:54 AM
Fantasy Football Librarian said…
Hi Anon - I'd go with Thomas as your RB2...flex I think you have to go with a QB. Do they get that 2 pts per 10 over 100 yards for their passing yards? If so, I think you've gotta go QB and I'd lean towards Hasselbeck.

Todd - I have thought about this a lot, how "right" is the consensus each week? But I have had a hard time determining what could be concerned a successful start. A certain number of fantasy points? Ultimately I'd love to look at this but just haven't really wrapped my mind around the best way to do the analysis.

Needing a Victory in Arlington - always glad to help. Good luck with Ganther!
11:41 AM
Todd said…
Oh, I'd say some simple mean/median/range figures should suffice. I could do the analysis, no problem - I work as a data analyst & statistician. The hard part for me would be the data collection, tying historical numbers for the appropriate player/week, all in a "computer-ready" format, like in a spreadsheet or something where each row represented a player, week, whether it was a sit or a start, and the stats for that player in that week.

Fortunately, I notice you've tagged them over the past couple years, so it would be easy to isolate those posts. But it seems like a mostly manual effort to put the data together into a usable format.
12:38 AM
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