Fantasy Football Librarian

Earlier this week I celebrated my 33rd birthday and in a few days I'll be celebrating my 6th wedding anniversary. It occurred to me that I've been married for about as long as I've been doing this blog (which I started in September 2006). Coincidence? Possibly, though I do have my husband to thank for getting me into the fantasy football world in the first place. So perhaps we'll be cheers-ing both ourselves and FFLibrarian this weekend. With candy and iron of course, the traditional 6th year anniversary gifts. For starters, Yahoo's First Down: Shoddy Roddy, Martin mystique, and Lions unleashed...sort of is a nice recap of some recent news items. This time of year you can access a lot of quality material on FootballGuys.com for free...it is absolutely worth your time to peruse FBG while you can. Take a look at their Redraft Quarterback Rankings for starters - you can manipulate the rankings as you please and note that there is commentary on some of the players wh...

Thanks for bearing with me while I've been missing in action here. I wish I had a great excuse but the good news is that I have lots of links for you fantasy baseball fans. That's right, baseball. I'm not a fantasy baseball player so I may need your help filling in the gaps a bit - if you've got a favorite fantasy baseball site, leave the URL in the comments for others to check out. Football fans, never fear - I'd never forget the football links - just skip ahead a bit. Fantasy Baseball linkage: Rankings and projections: FanGraphs' 2012 Projections - this link goes to the ZiPS projections but you can pick from Marcel, ZiPS, Fans, or RotoChamp. Fake Teams' Fantasy Baseball 2012: Final position rankings Athlon Sports' 2012 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: The Big Board - this is great, includes player rankings from 8 sites (including their own rankings) to create a consensus ranking. You guys know how I love consensus rankings... And speaking of one-sto...

Earlier this week I flew to New York City for a meeting at work - I still work for a museum library up there even though I'm now living in Knoxville. It was surprisingly awesome to be back and I was a bit taken aback by how much I missed the city. But it also left me with zero spare time for blogging - and you all know how eager I was to write and celebrate the Broncos' victory last week. I won't blab on and on about it, don't worry, but I was truly impresse d with the caliber of play from several guys and am excited to see what they pull together this weekend. I've got a handful of divisional round links for you as well as a few items on 2012. Read on: Divisional round advice: ProFootballFocus.com's Here Comes Stevan Ridley   FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Division Weekend Or more projections at ProFootballFocus.com - Divisional Playoffs - Projections/Rankings FFToday.com's updated positional Playoff Fantasy Rankings For IDP advice th...

Today a close friend from college is driving through Knoxville with her family en route back to their home in Athens, Georgia, and they'll be making an overnight pit stop at our place. I couldn't be more excited since it has been too long since I last saw her (and have yet to meet her son who is about my son's age) - plus, how often does someone come through Knoxville? Pretty much never. When we were living in NYC I got pretty spoiled with the number of visitors we had - Knoxville isn't exactly the same hub of activity. Plus we've got family coming to town this weekend so we've got fun times ahead - hope you all do, too. An early Happy New Year's to everyone! In the meantime, on to today's links: Start/sit suggestions for Week 17: Fifth Down's Week 17 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups Matthew Berry's Love, Hate and a torn sleeve CBSSports.com's Week 17 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em NFL.com's Rivers, Mathews h...

I kind of love this week between Christmas and New Year's Day - things are a little bit more mellow, lots of family and friends around, college football is on almost non-stop, and there's always the feeling that change is impending. I dig it. What I don't like is the end of the standard fantasy football season and I'm sure you all feel the same way. Just a reminder that I'll keep blogging throughout the off-season with plenty of info for the 2012 season. I also hope that you're all planning on playing in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge this year - this link should help you set up a login or you can just e-mail me for an invitation. Finally, those of you who have been participating in the weekly accuracy start/sit challenge run by FantasyPros.com should be pleased to know that we came in 4th place - check out the results here . Many, many thanks to those of you that played each week. Meanwhile if you want to see how the experts did, scope out the results ...

I know, you're thinking to yourself: what, another FFLibrarian post? Oh yeah. Happy Friday. This one focuses primarily on some resources for 2012 since I know many might be staring down the end of their fantasy season as Week 13 comes to a close.  But first off, I nearly forgot to send you all the weekly FantasyPros.com start/sit questions for their weekly accuracy challenge. It's nip and tuck as usual so I could use all of your great fantasy brains here. And now onto the 2012 links: Hawk Fantasy Sports is the author of some solid keeper info - check out 2012 Fantasy Football: RB Keeper Rankings - Top 100 . Or scope out Hawk's advice up on Y ahoo - 2012 Fantasy Football: Hidden Gem Keeper League Players for 2012 . Dynasty League Football has two articles of interest - both their 2012 Stock Market Report: Risers and their Fallers. To finish things off, DraftSharks have some 2012 Fantasy Football Ranking Tips to help guide you during the (gulp) offseason. Can it po...