Fantasy Football Librarian

Training camp time! Preseason games begin in just 10 days! And apparently my son is learning how to count in Spanish (kudos, preschool teachers, kudos)! Happiness and awesomeness all around. Let's get right to today's links: Every year, Matthew Berry posts his 100 facts before you draft article around training camp time - read on to see the 2013 facts in A Hundred Little Lies . If you're big on the QBBC strategy (quarterback by committee), then you'll want to take a look at 4for4.com's The Quarterback by Committee (QBBC) Matrix to help you make some decisions come draft day. Pyromaniac.com's PPR: A Breakdown Strategy by Position - a lot to take in and the formatting (for me) isn't helping, but some interesting nuggets here. More on the strategy front - SI looks at Going RB/RB at the top as part of their draft strategies series. A few links with auction values for those of you in auction leagues: TheFakeFootball's 2013 Non-PPR Auction Values -...

Happy Friday! You've come to the right place for a little almost-weekend fantasy football reading. I've been on the road a bit, including a trip back to my hometown of Arlington, Virginia, to visit with friends and family. Somehow the summer is moving ahead on fast forward for me, so apologies for the slowness here. That should just be my refrain here, huh? Onto a bunch of quality links - some of which I've been gathering for a few weeks now, but really, in the preseason I feel like most content doesn't become outdated until we hit August. So read on and enjoy! I'll start off with the always-excellent Who Has the Most Accurate Draft Rankings? post from FantasyPros.com. I think most of you know I run an accuracy competition (I hope to get the multi-year analysis update up soon to include 2013) and I strongly encourage you to check out FantasyPros.com's results as well. Great stuff. ProFootballFocus.com's An Introduction to oTD, a replacement for redzone...

Greetings from Boston, where I'm visiting my 3-week-old nephew and enjoying some sweltering heat. The baby is highly enjoyable; not so much for the 95 degree temps here.  A few more cheat sheets/draft kits are being published or updated: FFToolbox.com's 2013 Cheatsheets include positional rankings, a top 200 overall, and note the defensive rankings, too. Matthew Berry's Draft Day Manifesto 2013 Forensic Fantasy's 2013 Cheatsheet is up on google docs. I'm a pretty big fan of ProFootballFocus and what they put together on the fantasy front. If this is your first year in a dynasty league - or you're just looking to improve your dynasty game - get some tips from Dynasty Fantasy Football League Tips and Strategies .  Another site I'm high on is 4for4.com as you're sure to notice this summer. Love their love for IDPs - their IDP Rankings link here goes to LBs but DBs, DLs and overall rankings are also available.  This time of year is full of playe...

Whoa. A lot of time has gone by since my last post. I'll be upfront here: my normal schedule of posting probably won't happen this year but I promise to do my best. And at least start updating far more often now that we're approaching July and your draft prep needs are likely increasing. All is well in my world - in fact, all is going really well. I'm about 6 months pregnant with another little boy and due at the end of September. Some of you may remember the pregnancy heartbreak that my family experienced last summer and you'll know what joy this brings me. Joy and moments of panic, but I'm being treated with kid gloves by all the doctors and nurses and so far, this baby looks as healthy as can be. All else is going well in our family - we're not moving any time soon for a change of pace and our son is thriving. What could be better? I have plenty of tales of him doing crazy/weird/exciting/unwelcome/dazzling things over the past 6 months but basically li...

Greetings! It has been a long, quiet winter here on FFLibrarian and now I feel like a bear coming out of hibernation; or at least how I imagine that might go. Spring is in full bloom here in Tennessee and it seems like the time is right to finally emerge from the longest break I have ever taken from FFLibrarian. Life is good here in my world and I hope this update finds you all well, too. I really appreciate you guys hanging in here and coming back for the latest and greatest on the 2013 season. Baseball has begun, the Masters is right around the corner, and NFL Draft prep is in full swing. So let's get to it and see what's spinning around the fantasy football world these days. Roto Arcade takes a look at the speculation of Carson Palmer heading to Arizona in Rapid React: Water in desert, Fitz set to land Palmer . Draft Sharks - they're putting up some quality material for free on their blog , so take advantage, friends. Lots of news items but also plenty of analysis a...

I've been in mourning over the Broncos' loss a few weekends ago, so I'm finally coming out of my shell to let you all know that the 2012 FFLibrarian/FSTA Rankings Accuracy Challenge results are here! For those who are new to this contest, I've been running it for 6 years now and I compare experts' preseason rankings to how things shook out at the end of the season and use this analysis to determine which site is the most accurate of all. King of the fantasy football hill. The results were presented at the FSTA Winter Conference last night and posted on the NYTimes' Fifth Down blog early this morning: Fantasy Football Accuracy Rankings for 2012 . This link will give you the top 15 overall sites and then the top 10 at each position. This year I included the average ranking across the 4 positions to give you a sense of how closely the sites all line up for the most part. The top 2 sites though clearly had a bit of a lead on the rest of the field and on that note....

Greetings and happy 2013. We've had a lot of travel and holiday fun in our home with a hearty dose of great fantasy football season endings. My sister, a fantasy football newbie, made it to her league's championship game but did lose by a mere 4 points; not too shabby for someone brand new to FF though, eh? Also a huge thanks to the Fantasy Football Nerd for running his annual league which donates $500 to the league winner's charity of choice. I ended up winning the league so Joe at FFN made an extremely generous donation to the Healing Hearts Fund here at a local hospital in Knoxville, which provides support for families who are coping with the loss of a baby. For those interested, my team dominated the season thanks to a combo of Doug Martin, Jamaal Charles, Julio Jones, and the Bears DST, among other gems. In other good news, I spent a chunk of yesterday watching and celebrating as my Northwestern Wildcats finally won their first bowl game sine 1949. Go Cats! Go Big T...