Comments on Fantasy Football Librarian: Waiver words of wisdom for Week 9

Hello all- Thanks for the post and kudos, Sara. I...

2009-11-03T23:27:29.405-05:00

Hello all-

Thanks for the post and kudos, Sara. I've heard great things about what you do as well.

Our site did go down today due to a big spike in traffic, but we've made the necessary adjustments with our hosting provider and shouldn’t have any issues in the future. As you can see from the sources that we track, we have a huge database full of projections and accuracy algorithms. Thanks for your patience though.

Sounds like everyone has a lot of questions around our methodology which we're happy to answer. As for Start & Sit and Waiver Wire accuracy, we use a similar type of methodology as with our Player Rankings where we look at a source's projections and then compare those projections to how the NFL player actually did based on a standard scoring model. With Waiver Wire, we analyze how the source's NFL player projections performed over a 3 week period (as opposed to Player Ranking and Start & Sit which is just for 1 week).

As for FantasyCows.com, I've never heard of them either and I don't see anywhere that we list that we track them? There have been several sources that we started tracking (we've actually been tracking sources since 2007) that have gone defunct and we try to weed those out as we find them.

We have a FAQ section on our Website that tries to address all of these questions, but feel free to ping us with whatever you have.

Good luck to everyone in Week 9!
-Lisa Ross, Co-Founder of FantasyXPERT.com

FantasyExpert gives me an error message "Tooltip S...

2009-11-03T21:13:17.588-05:00

FantasyExpert gives me an error message "Tooltip Script Error Message: wz_tooltip.js must be included INSIDE the body section, immediately after the opening body tag."

That's not a good sign for an expert site.

It's a neat idea but do they tell you how accurate they are or just the sources? I ask because I see a site called FantasyCows.com (which I hadn't heard of before), but if they're using them like they say they are, that site only has weekly rankings up to Week 3. I'd also be curious to know how they manage to take all these different formats and convert them into one. There just aren't any specific details. Maybe I just need to wait until later in the week when the Week 9 information is available.

Thanks for the FF Points per target article on BB,...

2009-11-03T14:50:01.452-05:00

Thanks for the FF Points per target article on BB, enjoyed it. As for Chambers, you couldn't imagine a fantasy start for him, guess the GM couldn't imagine any more real starts for him.

Thanks, Kevin

I think we crashed the FantasyXPERT.com website :(...

2009-11-03T12:18:31.829-05:00

I think we crashed the FantasyXPERT.com website :(