Fantasy Football Librarian

I'm back. That's right, you were getting used to my sparse posting weren't you? Well happy Friday treat then so I have a whole lot more links and such for you. Jump on it. The start and sit links continue... Athlon Sports' Start or Sit: Week 3 Fantasy Smack Talk's NFL Week 3 Start 'em Going IDP style, we have FantasySharks.com's IDP Studs and Duds for Week 3 as well as ESPN's Fantasy IDP Rankings for Week 3 (includes Top 30 LBs, DLs, and DBs plus commentary)  Or take a turn among the rankings: Bruno Boys' Week 3 Rankings: Quarterbacks (other positions available off this link) The Fake Football's Staff Rankings: Week 3 FootballDocs' RB Weekly Rankings (again, other positions available) A couple of random links: If you've been around for long enough, you guys know I secretly am a Weather Channel fanatic and that I check the local radar far more than your average person, so I find it surprising that it took me this long t...

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...

Today marks the start of Christmas celebrations in our house since one batch of family members is rotating out to see the rest of their family later today; so let the first wave of present opening begin! I've got our son down now for what I hope will be a long, long nap (thanks, 5:45 AM wake-up call) to be followed with an afternoon of wrapping paper and boxes to keep him entertained. Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season so far...now onto the remaining essential links for this championship week. And no worries for those of you who carry on to Week 17, I carry on, too, and will be here with plenty of links next week. Week 16 start/sit (should have the consensus list up by tonight, I hope): Fantasy Football Nerd's Where to Put 'Em Fifth Down's Week 16 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups Matthew Berry's Love/Hate (how can I not link to something that has a little extra love for fantasy-football-loving wives?) FakeTeams' Week 16 ...

Greetings football friends - thanks for bearing with me this week. We headed up to the DC area on Tuesday to spend some pre-Christmas time with my family and things have been a bit busy. My 92-year-old grandma arrived yesterday and we have a complicated family plus a couple of babies here - so four generations of mostly good times have been keeping me busy. Definitely didn't mean to leave you all hanging in your time of playoffs need, so let's get right down to it with a few quick notes to start things off. First up, don't forget that this is a funky week with a game tonight, most games on Saturday, and two more on Sunday and Monday nights. Love having the NFL on during so many days of the week but it certainly keeps you on your fantasy toes. Next up, this is our final week to prove our fantasy worth in the FantasyPros.com weekly start/sit accuracy challenge. I'd love it if you took a few minutes to answer these 10 start/sit questions and represent for FFLibrarian....

It's a big week for those still in the 2011 FF season and most of this post will cater to you all, don't worry, but I know many FF players have seen an end to their season already. Perhaps you're still lurking around the site even though you're out of the playoffs? Glad to have you and keep in mind that I'll be posting throughout the offseason with advice and thoughts for the 2012 season so I hope you'll stick around. But that's jumping way ahead...so I'll just jump a little ahead instead to the NFL playoffs, which are only a few weeks away. I'm running the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge through NFL.com again this year and I hope you'll join me (if that link doesn't work for you, e-mail me and I'll send you an invitation). I'm working on a prize for the challenge winner, too, if that sweetens the deal at all. But now back to Week 15 prep. Have at it: Week 15 start/sit links: NFL.com's CJ2K can lead you to fantasy championship...

Spotted: one heavily-makeuped woman donning a Santa hat, counting out a huge wad of cash in the car parked next to me in a suburban grocery store parking lot. All I saw were $1 bills though it felt extremely wrong to be staring at her and her cash stack so maybe my quick peeks didn't see the whole story. In fact, would love to know the story there in general. Then on the drive back to my house, in the span of 3 blocks I saw 4 cars with the whole reindeer antlers and rudolph nose on the front of the car and I started muttering to myself about why it seems this whole town is being all cutesy with their holiday car decor....and then I started wondering what happens if you have one of those get-ups and you see another car next to you with it, too, do you smile and wave to acknowledge the bizarro holiday antler club you're in together? Or do you play it cool like you aren't mortified that every other driver on the road had your same Christmas car idea? Right, clearly I was in ...

Every year my husband's family does a college bowl pool and every year I absolutely tank...as in I perform alongside the family pets whose picks are based on school mascots being a cat, dog, etc. Or I do about as well as my aunt who participated one year and just picked whichever school was in a state that she had lived in or visited before. That's the level of effectiveness I've got going in the bowl pool and it's fairly embarrassing. Though I think I've finally figured out why I do so poorly: I'm just like my aunt, I pick with loyalty. I'm a total sucker for picking teams that I care about. No chance in hell am I picking against my Northwestern Wildcats, my sister's Stanford Cardinal, or my grandma's Michigan Wolverines, just ain't happening. I'm guessing many of you can relate and perhaps have made similar decisions in your fantasy football lives. Now I realize you've made it to the playoffs so you're obviously savvy and probably d...

In the upcoming year my mom is moving out of the house that my family has lived in for 35+ years. I was born there, made mud pies there, built innumerable snowmen there, fought repeatedly with my sister there, snuck out of ridiculously tiny windows there, and have spent every Christmas morning there. So this year will be our final Christmas there and I'm feeling fairly sentimental about it, though trying not to let my mom see that too much; I know the move will be hardest on her. But I guess this just makes this year's holiday season that much sweeter, doesn't it? Speaking of sweet things, how about fantasy playoffs? I hope you all enjoyed last night's game - I only made it until half time or so...I think I'm cursed with a Mike Wallace - Antonio Brown bad decision problem. I essentially can start 1 of them each week (I have both in 2 different leagues) and inevitably have made the wrong decision about which one to start for the past month or so. Here's hoping ...

This week marks the start of playoffs for many of you and if you aren't playing FF any longer - or even if you are - I have another way for you to get your fantasy fix this week. FantasyPros.com has asked me to be their Featured Pro this week, which is awesome. You can play against me in their weekly salary cap game on FanDuel and if your lineup beats mine, you get $5 in your pocket. Cool, no? For the details, check out this link . And while we're talking about FantasyPros.com, here's the weekly link to their start/sit accuracy challenge. Keep bringing the fantasy goodness and answer these 10 start/sit questions. Start/sit links: The Fifth Down's Week 14 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups CBSSports.com's Week 14 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em FootballDocs' Start Sit Roto Arcade's Lames: Woeful Browns run D could make Ben bust vs. Cleveland Week 14 rankings/projections: Rotoworld's Week 14 Rankings FantasyOmatic.com's Fa...

Last night we had friends over for a bourbon tasting party and despite the boisterousness that inevitably developed, our son managed to sleep through the entire thing directly one floor above the fun. Such a good sleeper. But if it's fantasy sleepers that you're in the market for, just read on. Get your Sleepers for Week 14 from FFToolbox.com - or head on over to KFFL.com's FF sleepers: QB - Week 14 (other positions linked off that article). Week 14 start/sit links: Roto Arcade's Flames: Don't laugh, Grossman could go from zero to playoff hero FFToolbox.com's Week 14: Sit 'Em PigskinAddiction's Studs and Duds FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench: Week 14 FantasyFootballXtreme.com's Week 14: Start 'em & Sit 'em advice Week 14 rankings/projections: Bruno Boys' Week 14 Rankings: Running Backs FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Week 14 The Fantasy Shrink's Week 14 Fantasy Football Rankings Your weekly targets ...

So the whole sit-on-Santa's-lap thing with our son? Didn't go so well. Kind of expected that one but it was still sort of sad to see. Fortunately, after his Santa mishap he went tearing around the event with the energy of a thousand little boys, loving pretty much every minute of it. So overall I'll call that whole outing a success. And now onto the keys to your fantasy success. Scope out these links below for advice: Start/sit suggestions: The Fifth Down's Week 13 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups LestersLegends.com's Start/Sit Week 13 RotoExperts.com's Hold 'em or Fold 'em The Football Girl's Startability Index Week 13 (Start/Sit) Matthew Berry's Love/Hate: Twitter Amnesty ProFootballWeekly.com's Start or sit: week 13 TOFantasySports' Play 'em and Lay 'em Week 13 Week 13 rankings for those in PPR leagues with KFFL.com's Rankings: RB - Week 13 . IDP leaguers will want to scope out FantasyShar...

Today might just go down as a most tremendous day in our son's life. The day was pretty good to begin with since he slept until 8 am (unreal!) but when I realized that our neighbors were getting their driveway repaved, it became an awesome day: so many trucks to go check out, huge wheels to touch, bobcats to track, all sorts of fun for the little guy - and a really nice paving crew...seriously, if you're looking for a friendly city, Knoxville is it. Anyway, now to top things off we're heading out to get my son's photo taken with Santa this afternoon. Let's hope that one goes over as well as the trucks... Now to keep your day awesome, let's get to today's list of links: Start/sit links for Week 13: Roto Arcade's Flames:  Need a win? Call the law offices of BenJarvus Green-Ellis or Lames: Ryan, Turner could walk into hornet's nest in Houston CBSSports.com's Week 13 Start 'em and Sit 'em NFL.com's Blount can lead fantasy owners to...

It's mid-week and you all know what that means - rankings, start/sit and all matters of fantasy goodness. Let's have at it. Week 13 rankings action: The Fantasy Shrink's Week 13 Fantasy Football Rankings Fantasy Football Jungle's Week 13 QB Fantasy Football Player Rankings FantasySharks.com's Player Projections TOFantasySports' Week 13 Running Backs NFL.com's Player rankings Week 13 start/sit links - lots more to come: FFToolbox.com's Week 13: Sit 'Em PigskinAddiction.com's Studs and Duds Week #13 Fantasy Football Xtreme's Week 13: Start and Bench 2011 FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench: Week 13 I love a good target update and Rotoworld's Week 13 - Targets and Touches always does the job. Or scope out Roto Arcade's Target Practice, Week 12: Where's Julio? which has a nice summary chart for the week.

Hope you all enjoyed the games yesterday and most of all had a wonderful Thanksgiving off to celebrate and relax with family and friends. My brother- and sister-in-law are en route with their daughter who is just a few months younger than our son...so the next few days should be full of good, crazy times. Here's the latest on our standings in the FantasyPros.com's Start/Sit Accuracy Challenge - we're in 5th place but it's a tight race my friends. Take a stab at their Week 12 start/sit questions while you're munching on some leftovers today. And then hit up the links below... Week 12 Start/Sit suggestions: BrunoBoys' Start ems LestersLegends.com's Start/Sit Week 12 CBSSports.com's Week 12 Start 'em and Sit 'em NFL.com's Ryan should fly high for fantasy owners in Week 12 The Fifth Down's Week 12 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups   Roto Arcade's Lames: Large helping of stuffing could be in Murray's fut...

What a long day - sorry it has taken me so long to get this post up but between our travels and time with the family (not to mention basking in the glow of the Broncos' victory!), it has been a tightly packed day. Our son was a rockstar on the plane (best 2 toys by the way? The ol' barf bag - unused of course - and a slinky) but somehow in the midst of it I ended up with a fever, so word to the wise that I'm hopefully not in some crazy feverish state and messing up all the links tonight or sending you to wacky sites out there. So let's get right to it and take a look at tonight's start/sit links: Start/sit links: Fantasy Football Nerd's Where to Put Em NFL.com's Palmer should shine against banged-up Vikings CBSSports.com's Week 11 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em The Football Girl's Week 11 Startability Index Fifth Down's Week 11 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups   Matthew Berry's Week 11 Love/Hate (video starts imm...

Tomorrow morning my husband, son, and I are flying up to spend a long weekend with my family in Arlington, Virginia. It's a little pre-Thanksgiving visit that happens to coincides with a conference that my husband is presenting at over the weekend. We haven't flown with my son since he started walking and loving his independence so this should be an interesting flight. I'll try and get my normal posts up but I might be off schedule a bit through Monday. In the meantime, get your thinking caps on and submit your start/sit decisions for FantasyPros.com's weekly challenge . This week if you get all 10 prediction correct, you'll win access to FantasyPros.com's My Playbook - take a look at some screen shots of the sweetness you'd have access to if you win. Now let's dive right in to today's links: Week 11 start/sit: Roto Arcade's Lames: Slow your roll, even an active Vick a risky play in NYC BrunoBoys.net's Week 11 Start ems WalterFootba...

I have an amazing track record with The Itsy Bitsy Spider. I don't know what it is about that tune, but I'd say about 85% of the time it silences our unhappy toddler and lulls him into a far more agreeable state. Yes, it must be sung repeatedly until your mouth might just fail you and no words escape - or perhaps you start trying it in different accents, volumes, and voices until any other adult with you decides the Itsy Bitsy Spider must cease immediately for sanity reasons. But seriously, the thing is a miracle worker. Car freak out? Try the Itsy Bitsy. Hand motions not even needed. Major flopping and rolling during a crucial diaper change moment? Less effective then, but the Itsy Bitsy still often pulls through. Major hats off to the Itsy Bitsy creator. If you're looking for a QB to help pull you through Week 11 in Itsy Bitsy style...well, could be a tough week for that. But I've got a bevy of links here to help you make some lineup decisions. Remember there's ...

This morning at around 4:30 AM we were treated to a lovely beeping every 30 seconds or so from a smoke alarm with a dying battery. Lucky for us our son basically slept right through it, and after a brief debate over what to do (turn on a fan for some white noise, which did absolutely nothing) my husband and I battled through it and eked out a few more hours of sleep. Nothing like early morning snoozes to the soundtrack of a smoke alarm. Now let's fill your day with link after link of fantasy football advice: I've got two links for you (from two of my favorite sites) that go game-by-game with great matchup advice: Rotoworld's Don't Beat Around the Bush Razzball.com's Matchups Week 10 Start/sit links: Fifth Down's Week 10 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups Matthew Berry's Love/Hate for Week 10 CBSSports.com's Week 10 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em RotoExperts.com's Hot Freaks Week 10 sleeper suggestions: RotoProfessor...

Greetings football fans. What a sports week between PSU and Wilson Ramos; feels silly to be thinking fantasy sports but hey, I guess the escape of fantasy sports is part of the appeal, no? So let's continue that escape and talk links and lineup decisions... This week's FantasyPros.com contest is up and going for Week 10 - we fell back a few spots last week and are back to 6th overall among the groups/forums . So let's move back up in the rankings - bring your best with these 10 start/sit questions . Start/sit suggestions for Week 9: Roto Arcade's Lames: Sliding Brady to hit rock bottom against Revis, Jets Fantasy Football Nerd's Where to Put Em NFL.com's Murray should stampede the Bills in fantasy's Week 10 Fantasy Treasure Chest's Week 10 Start 'Em or Sit 'Em TOFantasySports.com's Week 10 Play em or Lay em BrunoBoys' Start Ems FootballDocs' Start Sit Fake Teams' Week 10: Start 'Em Sit 'Em Rankings and project...

It has been a bit of a crazy week here with my family in town - awesome, but also a bit chaotic trying to work with two babies' schedules. Though honestly the chaos was welcome since I won't be seeing my branch of the family over Thanksgiving, so it was great to have a handful of them all come to town for a few days. It's an interesting week coming up on the football scene, too - no bye weeks but it's also our first Thursday night game (since the season kickoff game of course), which I will probably remind you about ad nauseam for the rest of the season since it's crucial to weekly success to get your Thursday night lineup set. Rankings and projections for Week 10: LestersLegends.com's WR Rankings - Week 10 FantasySharks.com's Player Projections Razzball.com's Week 10 Fantasy Football Rankings KFFL.com's FF Rankings: RB - Week 10 Start/sit links for Week 10: Roto Arcade's Flames: Ponder this, rookie to post QB1 numbers at Lambeau FFToo...