Fantasy Football Librarian

Okay, let's just act like I haven't been missing in fantasy action for a few months now. I don't know about you all, but things have been happening in our world that have kept my mind off fantasy football: we've had to dig up our backyard to replace our lateral sewer pipes; we went on an awesome family vacation to the beach; our toddler is becoming a little person and desperately wants to be just like his older brother; and our older son is testing my patience with the number of times he can either say the word "poopy" in one sentence or he tells us tales of terribly destructive things happening to people (seriously where does he learn to gleefully say things like, "and then a brick flew right through his eyeball and his head popped off!"). I promise he's also incredibly sweet and kind and brilliant as well. But life has been moving on as it's prone to do and I've let fantasy football slip to the back of my agenda. Here's my attempt...

Welcome to April, fantasy footballers. NFL fans everywhere are counting down the days until the draft at the end of the month, and that means it's time for you, my friends, to start your 2015 fantasy football prep. It's been another quiet offseason here at FFLibrarian but I hope to start ramping things up soon. All is well in my world - my boys are 4.5 and 1.5 and have proven to be delightful little people the majority of the time. My oldest went through a phase of constantly wearing football jerseys last summer and apparently he's busting that fashion statement back out this spring. Seriously, no encouragement on my part but it certainly puts a huge smile on my face to see him showing some football love. My little one, meanwhile, seems to possess a particular fascination with basketball. A very belated congrats to Patriots fans. Over Super Bowl weekend, our family was up in Boston visiting my sister (and of course it snowed. and then snowed again.) and it was fun to en...

Sorry for the total silence here the past week or so - the holidays tend to do that, but probably like many of you, the flu hit our house and I'm still recovering a bit. So far it seems to have just gotten our youngest kiddo - who is totally fine now but whew, rough Christmas day - and me, and I have all my fingers and toes crossed that the other half of our family is staying healthy. Here's hoping you all stayed flu-free and have had a great week of holiday fun. I know Week 17 is almost complete and with that, the 2014 fantasy football season is about over...or is it? Want the fantasy season to just keep rolling? Then come play with me in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge on NFL.com - sign up here or e-mail me if you need an invitation. Hope to have you join in on the fun!

Apologies for the posting delay here - it has been a long week in the FFLibrarian household. Three out of four of us are on antibiotics and yet we miraculously made it through unscathed during our flight up to DC for some pre-Christmas celebrations with my family. I was sure there would be tales of ear infection pain horror coupled with copious use of the barf bags. But we made it without incident and the only side effect seems to be my inability to post here on time. Here's Jen last start/sit post for the season - enjoy! And don't worry, this awesome crew of writers and I will be around here and there this offseason. For starters, I'll likely run another playoffs fantasy group as I've done in the past, so stay tuned for news on that in the next few weeks, not to mention some daily fantasy advice coming your way soon. Ahhh! I hope you are here right now because you are Super Bowl bound! If you’re just here to read my ramblings then, well, that is much appreciated also...

And here's your second post of the night: Mike's waiver wire suggestions for this fantasy super bowl week. If any of you are playing in Week 17 and are interested in getting more links for lineup help next week, leave a comment so that I can pull something together for you! Here we are in the final week (for most people) of fantasy football for 2014. We’ve been through four months of draft research, hand-wringing over starting lineup decisions, waiver wire analysis, frustration and elation. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the process, because we all do this for fun, right?  I hope that you don’t have to go to the waiver wire this week for a starter in your finals, because the wire isn’t pretty this week, but let’s take a closer look at a couple developing situations. DeMarco Murray has led many a fantasy team to the finals this season. It was revealed yesterday that he had surgery for a broken hand. Early reports indicate Murray will play through the injury, but if you...

It's a special Tuesday, I've got two posts for you tonight. First up, Bob's take on defenses that you might want to roll with this week.  Well it’s championship week, and if you’re reading this you’ve made it to the pinnacle, and I hope I’ve helped in some small way. At this point of the season you are probably locked into one of the top defenses and will ride them to the final outcome. But there may be some unlikely teams in the finals due to the disastrous week 15 for QBs. So some of you may not have the best matchup. First let’s look at week 14 stats: Week 15 Top Performers Team Projected Actual Ravens* 23 Ravens 14 23 Bengals 19 Giants 14 11 Bills 18 Packers 12 10 Patriots 18 Vikings 12 6 Chiefs ...