Fantasy Football Librarian

One of the reasons I absolutely love doing this blog is the fact that you all send some of the more interesting and helpful e-mails with your own tips about websites or players. Yesterday I heard from a reader that very wisely pointed out that Joe Webb (Vikings QB) could be a very tricky and clever play for those of you in need of a WR - if he's healthy and starts at QB this week. Yup, you read that right. If you're in a Yahoo league, Webb is eligible at both the QB and WR spots and while he won't put up a tremendous stat line for a QB, he might well be able to top your WR3's numbers and is someone to consider this week if you're in a tight spot. Gotta pull out all the stops when you're in a playoff battle! Other advice for Week 15 as follows... Thursday Night Football thoughts and suggestions: Rotoworld's Thursday Night Matchup: SF @ SD   ProFootballFocus.com's Fantasy: Thursday Night Preview Start/sit links: FFToolbox.com's Start 'em an...

As you parents out there can surely understand, the past few weeks have been like riding a carousel of ever-changing baby-shushing instruments. One week our little dude is perfectly silenced in a swing, the next week our magical tool is bouncing on a balance ball (which let me tell you is more than just a little physically taxing when the bouncing lasts and lasts and lasts), and this week it's rolling around our apartment and hallways in his stroller. What works one week might not work the next...and that's so true in fantasy football, too, my friends: sometimes you've gotta eschew what has worked in the past and just roll with what's hot right now. So for thoughts on who is hot, read on... Start/sit suggestions: Ask The Commish's Sit or Start for Week 10 LestersLegends.com's Start/Sit Week 10 NFL.com's Start 'Em, Sit 'Em: Manning, Charles in line for huge numbers in Week 10 USA Today's Studs and Duds: Redskins' Chris Cooley a smart pla...

Happy last day of summer! I've got plenty of Week 3 material for you this morning and later today I'll be back with an update on the FFLibrarian Monster League , which is made up of 72 awesome readers. I've been promising a grand prize for the winner of the monster league, which I'll announce in my post later along with some links to help you through the afternoon. Today's big item? Rankings. Let's get to it: NFL.com's Week 3 rankings - this link (along with all the others below) will take you to QBs but you can easily navigate to the rest of the positions. This one notes whether or not that player's stock is steady, rising, or falling.  ProFootballWeekly.com's Week 3 QB rankings FFToolbox.com's Week #3 Who to Start Rankings/Projections - includes projected fantasy points and injury notes. Onto other links for the day: For a recap on how things are looking in fantasyland, take a look at FFToday.com's Moving Up, Moving Down for a sen...

Yesterday afternoon shortly after I finished my post, a massive storm came rolling through the NYC area. I live up on the 36th floor with a fair number of windows so I was watching these black clouds grow increasingly menacing and as the rain/hail mix started to hit the windows I realized this was no ordinary storm. If you've been around the blog long enough you know that I love weather stuff - crazy weather stories are right up my alley. But when I turned on the local news and heard them suggesting that Brooklyn viewers (hey that's me!) get themselves into a basement ASAP, I realized that dangerous weather is um, less exciting to actually live through. So I hung out in the bathroom with a laptop and one cat (the other cat had wisely lodged himself deep under our bed when the storm started) until the storm passed just a few minutes later. The wackiest part of this storm was that there was no warning from the weather experts that such a ferocious storm could be en route. This ...

Gotta admit I didn't quite make it to the end of the Chargers v Chiefs game last night (time zone differences and my intense need to sleep - seriously, my 38-weeks-pregnant self could have fallen asleep at Arrowhead even - got in the way) so I was intrigued to see that the Chiefs pulled out a win. I love football, the uncertainties from year-to-year, heck even just week-to-week. I feel like I went super heavy with the waiver wire links yesterday so I will try to focus on some other, more specialized posts. UPDATE: Ryan Grant's season is over; he'll be placed on IR . By request here are some links to a few free trade analyzers - if you have any other favorites, feel free to share in the comments: KFFL.com's Player Trade Analyzer Fantasy Sports Portal's NFL Trade Analyzer For those in dynasty leagues, check out the DynastyGuys' Trade Analyzer but read the instructions page first! Something else that a few of you have requested are links to awesome podc...

Morning everyone! Let's start the day off right with a little gift courtesy of FantasyFootballXtreme.com. They've given me the thumbs up to give away 5 draft kits to my readers this week...with the potential of more awesomeness to come next week. So if you are not already a FFXtreme subscriber and are one of the first 5 people to e-mail me , I'll put you in touch with FFXtreme so you can start reaping the benefits of their hard work. (Update: wow, you guys are impressive...within 15 minutes I had far more than 5 of you interested in the FFXtreme draft kit, so they have now been spoken for but glad you all are so interested!) If you don't win the draft kit this time around, stay tuned for more giveaways in the future. Or check out FFXtreme's Start/Bench analyzer , which will give you projected stats for the week as well as some handy notes with their fantasy take on that player (note: you do need to be logged in - free! - in order to take full advantage of this fe...

It's visiting season here in Brooklyn: friends of ours from our Boulder, CO days swung through NYC during an east coast road trip so we've spent the past few nights happy houring it up with them, and now I've got a good friend from college in town this weekend. It's great to have friends around, gotta love being surrounded by such fun company. Fortunately they all have a great deal of respect for the need to post to FFLibrarian, so I've got a post full of great links for you today: I sound like a broken record when I talk about what Jay Clemons pulls together in SI's latest Fantasy Clicks , but every time I read it I really am impressed that Jay has bundled so much fantasy intensity into one post. I guarantee you'll find value in this sucker with some highlights being: 1) a flow chart of sorts that guide you in your first 5 picks depending on which draft slot you've landed and 2) an in-depth review of drafting from the 6th slot and 3) RB tiers. I'm ...

Wow, I've been quiet on FFLibrarian over the past few days - thanks for your patience, it has been a nutty week. I've ventured to the Brooklyn DMV for a New York license, I've celebrated my 31st birthday, and I've hit the pavement searching (fruitlessly) for a new apartment in NYC. For those who know how "fun" the apartment search in this city can be, you know just what kind of a day we had on Sunday...toss in some crazy heat and a pregnant lady, and man...good times! But on the plus side, many fantasy sites are reawakening from a long offseason slumber this week and I'm seeing all sorts of awesome material out there. Plus in just a few hours I hop on a plane and head to Chicago for the FSTA (Fantasy Sports Trade Association) Summer Conference - you can follow along with the experts drafts tonight, as well as the rest of the conference on my FSTA Conference blog . So without further ado let's get to today's highlights: One of those sites that...

While most of my sports world news today is filled with talk about the need for replay challenges in baseball, there is of course other news...on the fantasy front, The Big Lead has found a buyer in Fantasy Sports Ventures for 7 figures. Yes, 7 figures. Gives hope to all those one-(wo)man shows and small sites that one day they might at least be worth a little more than they imagined...but do note Jason McIntyre's quote here about the sacrifices he made. In other acquisition news, MyFantasyLeague.com (the host of the monster FFLibrarian League) has acquired HomeGrownSports.com . But let's be honest, you're probably not here for the latest fantasy biz news (though if that's your bag, swing by FantasySportsBusiness.com or FantasyEthos for more), you're really here for analysis, rankings, insight. So let's get to it! We've got a couple of resources looking at sleeper or late pick receivers: FFToolbox.com's Super Sleeper Receivers - you...

I'm a few hours into a 4-day weekend and already loving it; the weather has cooled in NYC a bit (particularly nice for those of us who are slacking on installing our AC unit for the season...) and I have next nothing on the docket for this weekend - sounds absolutely awesome since I've been traveling or had visitors for the past 5 weekends. I hope you all are set for equally awesome weekends and safe travels to those on the road. Now if you're looking for a little pick-me-up before the weekend officially starts, then you're in the right place. Let's talk fantasy football: First up, just a few quick player news links: Roethlisberger has been cleared by Goodell for workouts Jeremy Shockey hospitalized after seizure Brandon Stokley still sidelined with shoulder injury Football Outsiders is talking broken tackles from the 2009 season and you might just see their stats creeping up in a whole bunch of places - ESPN, top blogs, and of course FO gives a nice intro on t...

This is the time of year when dormant fantasy football sites start to come alive again - love it. So let's get right to today's links as I feel like there's a lot to cover this morning... FantasyFanPlay.com takes a look at nearly 20 second-year players in their Sophomore Breakouts article - take a look to see which players they think are set for a solid 2010. If it's really rookies that you're interested in, no problem - most sites have some ideas on which rooks to pay attention to this season, including Fantasy Phenoms with 2 different articles - a dissection of AFC teams and NFC teams . Staying with the theme of rookie analysis, Razzball is brings us some thoughts on the Top 10 IDP Rookie Linebackers . FFToolbox is taking a look at something very near and dear to my heart: Offensive Line Research and Analysis . You can play around with their spreadsheet for whatever your o-line needs might be or click on a team name for more details. I'll be writing up so...

The 2010 draft is complete...as is my trip to Boston. So thanks for being patient with my blog silence over the weekend - hope you found some other awesome resources to answer all your fantasy football needs. There are of course a ton of links to get to today so I'm just going to fly through them: I'm seeing a ton of rookie rankings and analysis of course - here are some top reads on that front: Razzball's NFL Draft Fantasy Fallout FFXtreme's 2010 Fantasy Football Rookie Rankings FantasyFanPlay's 2010 Impact Rookies Though before you get too gung ho about any of these guys, swing by a great read by CBSSports.com's Dave Richard (ooh, I love an article that includes a scatter plot) that looks at historically how valuable rookies are in fantasyland: The impact of rookies in fantasy . IDP leagues seem to be growing in popularity each year so I can only imagine how many of you are going to be psyched to read RapidDraft's Draft reaction: First-round IDPs , w...

It's all tulips and baby birds out there, my friends. I'm loving the spring weather and have noticed that it even makes me a little less irritated with slow walkers and ambling cell phone chatters. Nice weather solves all NYC sidewalk ills! Now April also brings us football fans something very special...the NFL draft. We're less than 3 weeks away from the first night of the draft. I know, I'm really excited, too. So without further ado...today's links: First and foremost, the NFL preseason schedule is up ! FantasySharks.com are hoping you might be as excited as I am about the preseason and maybe getting jazzed about FF - so take a look at their 47 Early Tips and Storylines to Having 2010 Success for a taste of what's to come. NFL.com's Michael Fabiano answers questions about a lot of fantasy players this week including Matt Ryan, Adrian Peterson, and Frank Gore - scope out this week's fantasy mailbag, McNabb trade would have major implications in f...

Before I delve into fantasy football today, just have to give a little nod to my Northwestern Wildcats who just got their first 20-win season in school history when they beat Indiana during the first round of the Big Ten tourney. Congrats Cats! Plenty of free agency news out there - let's start with a few news tidbits before getting into the fantasy analysis angle: L.T. has left MN without a deal - he's headed here to the big apple to meet with the Jets. Think I'll see him out and about tomorrow?  ProFootballWeekly highlights some action in Ohio for all 2 of you Browns fans - Changes begin in earnest for Browns at quarterback .  CBSSports.com reports that Antonio Bryant has inked a deal with the Bengals . So now let's jaunt on over to the fantasy view for a few dudes including Bryant: Razzball's Thomas Jones Hates Your Fantasy Team DraftBuddy's Antonio Bryant to Bengals - Fantasy Impact Free agency isn't the only thing going on though - the draft s...

I'm officially in transition time between the Olympics and March Madness - fortunately I have the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference up in Boston this weekend to keep me entertained. I'm heading up on Friday and will stay with an old college roommate, which should be great. A weekend of sports analytics talk from some big names plus time with old friends? Doesn't get much better. Today's links are of course full of looking ahead to the 2010 season...only 5 more months until preseason games start! First off, let's conclude the combine talk with CBSSports.com's Combine wrap-up: Value runners, DT conundrum, diva QBs  and The Hazean's Reactions from the NFL Combine . Sports Buff always provides solid IDP advice so I was pleased to see the IDP Sleepers: NFC North article - lots of details in terms of past and future for these value picks. Meanwhile if you want even more IDP suggestions, try Kilryoz Krystal Ball's 2010 Dynasty IDP Rankings: Defensive...