Fantasy Football Librarian

Greetings. Welcome to the start of college football. I'm psyched for the battle between Northwestern (my alma mater) and Northeastern tomorrow - I'm sure everyone is, right? It's the battle of the North***terns. I need to focus my energy on finding a sports bar with the Big Ten Network by 10 am mountain time tomorrow... But first to the NFL. This Sunday I'm drafting my 4th team - this one is an IDP league. So I've been doing a little IDP research and thought I'd include some of those links here. I also wanted to get some links to tier rankings up as well - scroll down a little further for those. IDP Info Check out FFToday's updated rankings for DLs , DBs , and LBs . I know I've linked to these before but it's nice to have a site with rankings that are actually updated with some frequency and thought it might be worth posting them again. You can adjust the rankings based on several different scoring systems, too. There's also some helpful icon usa...

Last night was my quick draft to build onto my dynasty team and I am quite pleased with the players I got. I was drafting 3rd in 2 rounds of a non-serpentine draft (yes, that means my team performed unacceptably last season) and picked up Calvin Johnson and Greg Olsen. I am quite pleased with that outcome. I was tempted to pick up Brian Leonard, the backup RB in St. Louis but went with Olsen instead. There's always time to pick up Leonard later in the season if he still looks promising. Onto the fantasy smörgåsbord for the week (Blogger just provided me with those awesome diacritics for smörgåsbord - love it): KFFL's ADP (average draft position) rankings - you can also select the ADP by PPR (points per reception) or IDP (individual defensive players) if your league rolls that way. I have an draft including IDPs coming up this weekend so I was interested to note they have the first defender, Shawne Merriman, with an ADP of 77.90. KFFL also has two pretty interesting articles,...

I'm not sure I've ever devoted an entire post to one website but I have to say I can't believe it has taken me this long to really peruse The NFL Minute and all of its fantasy golden nuggets, thus this post pimping The NFL Minute. I'm in a football bloggers fantasy league this year with Tom from The NFL Minute but didn't have a chance to check out his site until recently. I am a big fan - it's full of solid commentary and thought-provoking posts. Not really rankings, cheatsheets, or projections but just some really helpful posts that get you thinking about your season. Just what sort of awesomeness does The NFL Minute provide us with, you ask? Complete Fantasy Football Guide 2007 Bold claims that perhaps LT is not going to be the #1 RB this season and that he'll be dethroned by Steven Jackson What kind of impact will Denver's offseason have on your fantasy team? Just How Good is Joseph Addai? Ted Ginn Jr may land starting role this season in Miami Gree...

Tomorrow night I will be partaking in 2 rounds of a 4-round draft in my keeper/dynasty league. I have been trying to scrounge up some rookie rankings and figure out who exactly I want to be targeting. So here's some keeper info, mostly geared towards those who are only adding rookies now: KeeperFantasyLeagues.com has a substantial list of rankings in their archives - you can find rookie rankings, keeper rankings, or general player rankings. Personally, I'm focusing on the RB rookies and WR rookies . Here's a link to a Rotoworld forum where a fellow drafter ranked his top rookies and others chimed in with their opinions. FFToolbox has an article on 10 players NOT to hang onto in keeper leagues ...not sure I think you should drop them all like hotcakes, considering there's some substantial talent in this group of 10. But perhaps this is a list to revisit at the end of the season - or just to keep in mind when your keeper draft occurs. Fantasy Football Xtreme's 2007...

Kudos to my brother-in-law, Brian, for forwarding me this link of Predicted NFL Standings in 2007 a la Star Wars characters or as Brian called it, Football Preview This Is. Now being born in 1979 into a family of girls, I have to say a good chunk of the Star Wars references are way past me. I was too busy watching ET, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and The Princess Bride in my youth (but yes, I have seen all the Star Wars movies once, for those who are suddenly all up in arms about that). However, regardless of my Star Wars naivete, I'm happy to report that I still find this highly entertaining and think you likely will too. More soon on actual fantasy football info and advice.

Hi fantasy info seekers - notice the new poll over there on the right side? I'm hoping to get a better feel for the kind of information fantasy football fans are looking for. If you have a second, I'd appreciate your vote, or if there's something else entirely that I haven't included in the vote options, leave a comment. I had my second draft this morning and after scrambling through all of my rankings and draft kits, I decided I might post a few more player rankings and cheatsheets here to try and consolidate some of my posts a little more. Remember, you can always check out my previous post that averaged 12 Top 100 rankings out there . But here are the latest rankings from some of my favorites or old standbys: Overall Rankings Fantasy Football Xtreme Top 200 Yahoo's Big(ger) Board 100 Fantasy Football Summary Top 100 ProFantasySports.com's Top 200 SI's Top 200 (also links to positional rankings) Ask The Commish's Top 150 (again, also links to positio...

CBS Sportsline has a nice article on 2nd year QBs Cutler, Leinart, Young, and Jackson (when does Tarvaris Jackson ever get mentioned in the same breath with those other guys?). They include projections for 2007 for these guys as well as some historical stats of how other QBs like Peyton, McNabb, Leftwich, Big Ben, etc performed in their sophomore year. Need some help with those later rounds of the draft? Bruno Boys has you covered with their The Bruno Boys 2007 Fantasy Football Draft: Rounds 11-16 article as well as the rest of the draft in Rounds 6-10 and Rounds 1-5 . Each pick has a sentence of commentary, too, which adds a little something. Check em out. Worried about Donald Driver and where his foot injury might put him in the rankings? Well you're going to have to wait until Monday to find out any further details - not what most who are drafting this weekend wanted to hear, I'm sure. For the latest info, check out SI's Doctors Encouraged by Driver . [photo: packersne...