Fantasy Football Librarian

Here is your list of Week 8 consensus start/sit suggestions. For those new to this feature, each week I go through the start/sit articles that are linked here on the blog and tally up the number of start or sit votes that each player gets. Take a look at this list to help aid in some last minute lineup decisions - note that players are listed in no particular order. Good luck this week! QB Start: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Matt Cassel, Jon Kitna, Matt Stafford Sit: Vince Young, Matt Hasselbeck, Brett Favre RB Start: LeGarrette Blount, Beanie Wells, Thomas Jones, Ryan Torain Sit: Ryan Mathews, Brandon Jackson, Chris Ivory, Cedric Benson WR Start: Dez Bryant, Dwayne Bowe, Pierre Garcon, Mike Williams (SEA) Sit: Mike Sims-Walker, Donald Driver, Michael Crabtree, Danny Amendola, Marques Colston, Wes Welker TE Start: Kellen Winslow, Tony Moeaki, Jason Witten Sit: Marcedes Lewis, Jeremy Shockey, Owen Daniels DSTs Start: Seahawks, Bucs Sit: Saints, Vikings Kickers Start: Ryan ...

I think it's written into baby law somewhere that all newborns shall be dressed up in costume for Halloween, so of course there has been some discussion in our household about the best Halloween costume for our little dude. We went with a prefab football costume (what could be more appropriate, right?) that arrived recently and appears to be made for a freaking 4-year-old not an infant as marketed. We'll see if we can get our dude into it without looking like the droopiest little football, but hey, it's good to know that we now have a costume for him for years to come. I hope you all have fun plans in store for Halloween, though could anything be better than spending the day watching Week 8 games? Didn't think so. So let's get to today's start/sit links and other articles... Start/sit linkage: CBSSports.com's Week 8 Start 'em and Sit 'em Razzball.com's Schmidt, Schmart: Week 8 Fifth Down's Week 8 in Fantasy Football: Matchups and Q&...

Last year during the month of November I conducted a FFLibrarian Readers poll to figure out which websites were your favorites - favorite waiver wire articles, favorite rankings, favorite start/sit, etc. The results from last year are located here . Is this something that you all would be interested in participating in again? Do you find it interesting or useful to see which sites FFLibrarian readers like best? In the meantime, plenty of links for you tonight to help with Week 8 decisions: Start/sit suggestions: NFL.com's Start 'em, Sit 'em: Torain, Roethlisberger should be fantasy treats in Week 8 LestersLegends.com's 2010 Fantasy Football Start/Sit Week 8 Ask The Commish's Sit or Start for Week 8 Roto Arcade's Lames: Brees' nightmare on Bourbon Street to continue vs Steelers Week 8 Rankings/Projections FFToday.com's Quarterback projections: 2010 Week 8 Mr. Fantasy's Week 8 2010 Running Back Rankings Dr U Fantasy Football Guru's Rank...

Greetings and happy mid-week prep for Week 8. Sorry for the quick (and late!) post today - still getting a handle on this whole how-a-newborn-rocks-my-world thing. If you still have some waiver wire needs, no problemo, I've still got more waiver articles for you: Matthew Berry's Replacing Romo and other tragic tales IDP Guru's Week 8 IDP Waiver Wire Pickups CBSSports.com's Waiver Wire: Not enough to go around Start/sit links: FFToolbox.com's Start 'Em and Sit 'Em Roto Arcade's Flames: Frightening Beanie stiff arms await Bucs on Halloween FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench List Week 8 Rankings and Projections for Week 8: Bruno Boys' Week 8 Fantasy Football Rankings: Running Backs NFL.com's 2010 player rankings: Quarterbacks - Week 8 FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Week 8 Football Outsiders' Mike Tanier has a solid article up on Rotoworld that looks at wide receivers who are in a slump and what to do about them. So ...

I feel for you, Tony Romo owners. If you missed the news that Romo broke his left collarbone and could possibly be out for the season, then scope out the injury summary here . Now Romo owners I'd like to tell you a tale of my Week 7 quarterbacks. With Peyton Manning and Matt Schaub on bye and my backup (Vince Young) injured, I had some serious holes at QB this past week. I admitted on here a few days ago that I was starting Josh Freeman in one league but what I didn't admit was that I was starting Ryan Fitzpatrick in another league...against the Ravens. By all accounts, a horrific idea. And yet! Freeman and Fitzpatrick both led me to victory (the latter putting up tremendous stats) and while this might have just been a lucky week for me, I would encourage you to be a little bold and play the QB roulette each week. A little stressful but you never know when a free agent will surprise. As Matt Schauf notes in his RapidReactions article , Fitzpatrick is the only QB to throw for mo...

Ugh. Make that a triple ugh, thanks to the total disaster in Denver last night. I mean the Raiders? 59 points? What's worse: the Broncos losing that massively to the Raiders or leaving Kenny Britt on your bench this past weekend? Fortunately I was never lucky enough to acquire Britt in the first place, so I can at least say I'm safe from that situation. But there's always next week when it come to fantasy football (and now how many of you Britt owners will be sitting him against the Chargers, whose pass defense has been leading the league and giving up only 158.6 YPG?) and to help you focus on what it might take to make your fantasy team awesome in Week 8, read on for the latest links: In case you missed any of the games or are just looking for a nice wrap-up from Week 7, take a look at some of the following good reads: Football Outsiders' Audibles at the Line: Week 7 Monday Morning Quarterback - Week 7 storylines include Favre-Childress feud, Pittsburgh fumble Rot...

Here's your consensus start/sit list for Week 7 - I've tallied up the votes for start and sit recommendations from the experts that I've linked to throughout the week and those players with the most votes are listed below (in no particular order): QB Start: Joe Flacco, Matt Cassel, Kyle Orton, Brett Favre, Jay Cutler Sit: Donovan McNabb, Carson Palmer, Chad Henne RB Start: Marshawn Lynch, Knowshon Moreno, Chris Ivory, Jamaal Charles Sit: Maurice Jones-Drew, Ronnie Brown, Fred Jackson, Brandon Jackson WR Start: Patrick Crayton, Jeremy Maclin, Johnny Knox, Dwayne Bowe, Terrell Owens Sit: Mike Sims-Walker, Deion Branch TE Start: Todd Heap, Aaron Hernandex, Heath Miller, Ben Watson Sit: Marcedes Lewis, Visanthe Shiancoe DSTs Start: Seahawks, Chiefs, Broncos Sit: Chargers Kickers Start: Billy Cundiff Sit: no consensus Good luck!