Fantasy Football Librarian

Thanks to those 500+ of you that participated in the weekly start/sit competition with FantasyPros.com - you smarties locked us into 3rd place overall with an impressive performance last week. The dudes at FP let me know that out of the 3300+ submissions they had last week, only 14 got all of their 9 questions right last week. Hope those 14 were all FFLibrarian readers! Now let's head on over to this week's fantasy brain food: Mid-week start/sit suggestions: Roto Arcade's Flames: Go ahead, fall in love with the PT bruiser all over again Fantasy Football Xtreme's Week 8: Start and Bench 2011 - includes a little trade advice as well Pigskin Addiction's Studs and Duds WalterFootball.com's Start em, Sit em SportsGrumblings.com's The Fire Sale for sneaky starts and a look at those whose value is going up/down FFToolbox.com's Week 8: Sit Em FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench List Week 8 Week 8 rankings/projections: KFFL.com's WR - Week 8 ...

For the past several years I've been running a Monster FFLibrarian League with readers competing against each other in a 6-conference, 72-team league. I've had several questions about whether or not that will be happening again this year and yes, my monster league-lovers, it will. Later today I will send out an e-mail to all of last year's participants to see if you're interested in playing again. You will have until Friday night to let me know if you'd like to play again this year and on Saturday I will open the league up to any newcomers. As with last year, 1 of the 6 conferences will be done in e-mail style (the rest will be live online drafts), hopefully starting next Monday, August 15th. I will also be asking for 6 conference leaders again - if you played in the league last year and are willing to be a conference leader to help with the draft and any questions that come up during the season, please e-mail me ASAP. Without conference leaders I won't be able...

Well we've made it to Knoxville with everyone's sanity still intact (at least I think the cats are still sane; hard to say for sure). We've got lots of activity coming up in our new house over the next few days as our furniture/moving boxes and new appliances are delivered...and drum roll please...as we buy a new car since we were car-less for the past 2 years in NYC. Lots of big purchases; I feel we're singlehandedly shepherding the economy along these days. Let's get right on over to today's fantasy football links: Free agency news continues to roll in, as does the analysis: PFT takes a look at whether or not the Kyle Orton to Miami trade is really over in Conflicting reports emerge on whether Orton-to-Miami deal is dead . Obviously of interest to this Broncos fan... ProFootballFocus.com's Free Agency 2011: Five Days. Five Winners. Five Losers . Roto Arcade's First Read: Hightower traded to Washington, and other RB moves National Football Post...

In a mere 15 days the first preseason game will be here - wahooooooo! I can only assume that you all are as excited as I am that a deal has been reached (as with every ESPN link, turn your volume down since a video starts ASAP). Hallelujah. In other news, I just spent a glorious 2 days in Boston getting to know my 3-week-old niece - and now I'm back home and packing/cleaning like a hurricane since we're heading out of NYC for good on Wednesday. I'll be on the road a fair amount over the next week but since this is such a huge week with FA news and such, I'll do my best to keep the posts coming. There's lots of news a.k.a. rumors about the NFL's timeline this week , but it's looking like full free agency begins at 6 PM on Friday, so gear up, readers. So much good stuff coming your way in a narrow time frame. It's like Christmas squared. It's Draft Day Manifesto time - love him or hate him, head on over to Matthew Berry's early season though...