Fantasy Football Librarian

I scoped out all of the start and sit links that I provided this week and put together the below consensus picks, which are listed in no particular order. Remember to always keep the rest of your roster in mind when using this list for lineup decisions. Good luck this week! QB Start: Chad Pennington, Matt Ryan, Brett Favre , Trent Edwards Sit: Matt Cassel , Jason Campbell, Derek Anderson, Jake Delhomme RB Start: Warrick Dunn, Larry Johnson, Thomas Jones, Ronnie Brown, Justin Fargas /Darren McFadden Sit: Steven Jackson, Deuce McAllister , Peyton Hillis , Cedric Benson, Sammy Morris WR Start: Roddy White, Hines Ward, Kevin Walter, Lee Evans, Bernard Berrian , Antonio Bryant Sit: Braylon Edwards, T.J. Houshmandzadeh , Chad Johnson, Plaxico Burress (make sure you've seen the latest news on Plax accidentally shooting himself in the leg ) TE Start: Visanthe Shiancoe , Dustin Keller, Tony Scheffler , Greg Olsen Sit: Kellen Winslow, Chris Cooley, Jeremy Shockey , Vernon Davis Kicker...

Wow, I haven't done very much this morning yet - I can hardly believe we're creeping up on noon here and I'm still in my pajamas, enjoying my morning coffee. I love long weekends. So here's today's start/sit links list. I'm guessing I'll get the consensus start/sit compilation up by tomorrow morning at the latest, so stay tuned for that. SI FanNation's Start 'em, Sit 'em Bruno Boys' Start em & Sit em - Week 13 Ask the Commish's Sit or Start Sports Outlaw's Week 13 Start 'em Sit 'em Junkyard Jake's Bench/Start The Mac Bros' Start or Sit Week 13 Rankings The Talented Mr. Roto's Love/Hate for Week 13 Fighting Chance Fantasy's Who to Start, Who to Sit - Week 13 RotoExperts ' Start and Sit: Week Thirteen CBS' Week 13 Start 'em Sit 'em The Fantasy Football Report's Start'm Sit'm - Week 13 NFL. com's Start 'em Sit 'em And a few other links for this holiday Friday - my ...

Happy Thanksgiving, fantasy footballers! I'm trying to crank out a post quickly so that I can get back in the kitchen and help my husband make stuffing and an apple pie, our two main Thanksgiving contributions. Unless beer counts as a major contribution, but really, Tgiving isn't that much of a beer holiday (interject my husband's comments that every day could be a beer holiday). Anyway, here are a handful of links - sorry for the lack of commentary here, but I will be back with more start/sit links tomorrow! FootballDocs' Start Sit Rotoworld's A Time to Gorge - thoughts specific to the games today with helpful lineup advice. Fantasy Tailgate's Starters and Slackers CBS Sports' Week 13 Fantasy Football Matchups - gives a star rating for fantasy worthy players in each matchup that should help with start or sit questions. Fox's Rotter's Top 10 Moves You Must Make AccuScore's NFL Week 13 Game Previews Fantasy Football Maniaxs' Start/Sit plus an...

It's officially dead on campus today. I didn't see a single human this morning as I was crossing campus to get to the library, but I did see a beautiful fox - he was just trotting down the sidewalk and we both kind of stopped when we saw each other, scoping out the other living creature in an otherwise desolate campus. We stared at each other for several seconds, probably each wondering, "what the heck is that fox/human doing here?" and then carried on with our days. I've seen my fair share of wildlife in Boulder - it's fairly routine to see deer while I'm on a run in my neighborhood - but I've never seen anything more than impossibly large squirrels on campus. Anyway, my desire to actually do work today is exceedingly low and I'd really rather blog about football all day instead. Or get started on that apple pie we're taking to one of our Thanksgiving dinners tomorrow. Yes, we ended up with two Tgiving dinner invitations after my fear of need...

Yesterday I opened my mailbox to find a copy of U.S. Bowler on top addressed to The Holladay Family (that's us). If you had told me 6 months ago - no, no 3 months ago - that we would be the recipients of U.S. Bowler magazine and that I would actually be somewhat interested in the contents ( LeBron James was on the cover and oooh , tips on mastering the mental side of your bowling game), I would have laughed for a long time. I haven't really given a bowling update in awhile but for those interested, I pre -bowled with my team on Saturday since most of them will be out of town for our normal Wednesday league night this week, and I beat my average in 2 of the 3 games. I bowled two strikes in a row and a gutter ball all in the same game so I have some improvements to make still. As for fantasy football, I lost two pretty close games last night and spent most of the evening willing Donald Driver to do more, and Jeremy Shockey to do less. In some leagues I have just one more game...

I just made a roster move that I might live to regret. Though perhaps not...after watching Donovan McNabb's ridiculously awful numbers put my playoffs position in serious danger, I decided to trade him in for what I hope will be an upgrade. I ditched McNabb and Jerious Norwood and grabbed the QB tandem of Tyler Thigpen and Matt Cassel, both of whom were available on the waiver wire (side note: yes, it's ridiculous that both guys were available but it's a 10-person league with a really small bench...but still). Granted, I probably don't need both of those guys, but with Cassel facing the Steelers next week, I thought I'd get a little Thigpen insurance on the side. But scope out their schedules - both Cassel and Thigpen have sweet matchups down the stretch. I made this decision in the aftermath of a stunning and painful Broncos loss to the Raiders. I mean seriously, did I really watch that happen? The RAIDERS? Even Raiders fans out there must recognize the absolute r...

Okay, here we go - the Week 12 consensus start/sit picks are below in no particular order and are based on the many start or sit sites that I've linked to over the past couple of days. QB Start: Kyle Orton, Tony Romo, Eli Manning, Brady Quinn, Aaron Rodgers Sit: Matt Ryan, Donovan McNabb, Philip Rivers, Matt Hasselbeck RB Start: Warrick Dunn, Peyton Hillis, Derrick Ward, Marshawn Lynch Sit: Kevin Smith, Tim Hightower, BenJarvus Green-Ellis/Sammy Morris, Chris Johnson WR Start: Santana Moss, Terrell Owens, Donnie Avery Sit: Chris Chambers, Laveranues Coles, Marques Colston TE Start: Dallas Clark, Bo Scaife, Dustin Keller, Todd Heap, Zach Miller Sit: John Carlson, L.J. Smith, Vernon Davis Kicker Start: Nick Folk, Robbie Gould, Shaun Suisham Sit: Jay Feely, John Kasay D/ST Start: Bears, Bucs, Cowboys Sit: Chargers, Cardinals, Jets I forgot to mention this before it happened, but I was on RotoExperts' Sports Smack radio show tonight - here's a link and I come in around minute ...

As I think I mentioned awhile back, the library that I work in (yes, I seriously am a librarian for those of you who are new to the blog) is under a massive construction project that will transform two floors of the library. There has been a solid amount of chaos, noise, dust, and destruction right outside my office for the past 4 months, but today I am moving to a new office - I will soon be ensconced in a cubicle, though one that has glass walls looking out over the flatiron mountains of Boulder - in fact, here's my new view to the left (thanks to my coworker Alison for the great photo). Beautiful, no? So today is sure to be a busy one since I am somehow the point person in my department for this move. This means I might not get the consensus start/sit list compiled until tonight or tomorrow but don't worry, it will be posted. In the meantime, enjoy the list of start or sit links below and check out my post from yesterday for several others. SI FanNation's Start 'em...

It is 40 degrees colder in Boulder today than it was on Tuesday - I love the wacky weather here but there was a thick layer of ice on our car this morning. Normally this is not a big deal since we take the bus to work but my husband was off to the airport for a conference, so there was some serious ice scrapping going on to get him on the road on time. I'm just glad he's not trying to fly into the Cleveland or Buffalo areas - looks like you guys are getting hit by a pretty big storm today. Anyway, enough talk about weather (though I could certainly keep it up for a long time) - there are lots of links to get to today... First, thanks to Chris for sending this link my way - check out TeamRankings . com's NFL Stats section for some helpful stats details. I particularly like the rushing and passing yards allowed per game options - and being able to compare the season vs the past three games as well as home vs away. Very helpful. Some of you might be seeing the sad end of you...

I just started off my morning by reading Matthew Berry's TMR: Mission Possible , which led to several chuckles, which in turn has put me in a pretty good mood. If you dig Berry's sense of humor, start your morning off right and take a look at his article from last night. So my husband and I don't have any Thanksgiving Day plans yet (other than watching an ungodly amount of football) since we don't travel back east to see family (especially this year with my ridiculous travel schedule) and our other regular fellow Tgiving revelers will all be out of town. Right now it's looking like it'll be a 2-person, 2-cat Thanksgiving at our place...totally fine except my husband is a vegetarian (Boulder finally got to him). Do I make an entire turkey for myself or can we actually celebrate Thanksgiving without any turkey at all?? That seems sacrilegious. Another issue is that I'm not really a turkey leftovers kind of girl - so I can't even claim to enjoy that turkey ...

Judging by my inbox there are a lot of anxious fantasy footballers out there. With the playoffs coming up I know many of you are trying to seal the deal and finalize your spot - or squeak by in a couple of last minute wins to make your way in. So here's to a hearty amount of research this week - I expect to get lots of links up over the next few days. Waiver wire advice abounds - I put a handful of waiver wire links up yesterday but there are several more available today. Let's start with KFFL's Waiver Wire - Week 12 post. The emergence of JJ Arrington is making me nervous as a Hightower owner. I definitely recommended that one of the groomsmen at my sister's wedding start Hightower this week (Steve, here's hoping you didn't listen to me) and he hardly had a great showing at all against a fairly lax Seattle D. Hmpf . More waiver wire suggestions from CBS' Waiver Wire: Head for the Hillis ! I of course appreciate the Broncos love here (hey, a Broncos R...

Greetings from Boston, fantasy footballers. I just spent the weekend in Vermont for my sister's wedding and am headed back to Colorado this afternoon after a brief stop in Beantown. I had an incredible time this weekend - there was a lot of laughter, beer pong (groom and father of the groom made quite a team) and dancing (including a mother of two small children doing the worm on the dance floor). I am a little sad that after all my travels this fall to celebrate various events for the wedding, and yes, even after all my angst over what I would say in my toast, that the wedding has now come and gone. I guess this just means I can focus on fantasy football even more now... I was hanging out with family and then was on the road from Vermont to Boston during much of yesterday's games, so once again I missed some of the games and have been scoping out fantasy stats this morning. One great place for just a quick stats recap is Dr U Fantasy Football Guru's Fantasy Studs/Duds Week...

It's amazing how much earlier in the day my posts would go up if I lived on the east coast. I know, sorry to be Captain Obvious on that one, but I'm in a lovely B&B in Waitsfield, VT, getting this post wrapped up before the wedding festivities begin today, and noticing how ridiculously early my laptop thinks it is (it's still on mountain time). But that comes with a small catch - a handful of my regular start/sit sites haven't posted yet. Don't worry - most have! SI FanNation's Start 'em, Sit 'em NFL. com's Start 'em or Sit 'em for Week 11 CBSSports ' Week 11 Start 'em and Sit 'em Bruno Boys' Start em & Sit em - Week 11 SportingNews . com's The Decider: Week 11 Starts and Sits Ask the Commish's Sit or Start Fantasy Football Maniaxs' Week 11 Start/Sit Sports Outlaw's Week 11 Start 'em Sit 'em Junkyard Jake's Bench/Start The Mac Bros' Start or Sit Week 11 Rankings Fighting Chance Fanta...

Well I performed moderately well at bowling tonight - certainly didn't knock any one's socks off and an old man even kind of made fun of me at one point (though he also high-fived me on multiple occasions), but I feel like I've got my bowling groove back a bit. Should I have called this post "How the FFL got her groove back?" As I mentioned earlier today, I probably won't get a chance to blog tomorrow so here are a few more articles to help you through the FFL Thursday drought. There are a handful of start or sit links that have gone up already: Football Docs' Start Sit FFToolbox's Week 11: Start 'em The Goat's Start 'em Sit 'em and Sleeper Picks Week 11 Fantasy Football Cafe's Who to Start & Sit ProFootballWeekly's Week 11 matchups to exploit or avoid - if you've been wondering when Marshawn Lynch would step up and perform as expected, get ready for a series of solid matchups for Lynch. A couple of projections for the ...

I head back to bowling tonight after taking last week off with that cold I had...can I redeem myself from my recent poor performance on the alley and pull an MJD -like move and bowl the equivalent of 3 TDs ? Or will I remain stuck in my rut much like one Joseph Addai ? Wish me luck tonight. So I'm going to try and post twice today since I will be traveling for almost the entire day tomorrow - fly to Boston and then drive the rental car up to Vermont in time to catch dinner with the family and the Thursday night game. I'm not really sure where the blog posting will fit in, so brace yourselves for a post-free day. But I'll do my best! And another great place to check is the Fantasy Football Daily Planner from Fantasy Sports Central . I think I'm on there every day making sure I've seen everything they link to and they catch a lot of great stuff. Your first dose of links for the day is as follows... FFManiaxs ' Week 11 Waiver Wire article is up for those who haven...

Okay, $100 to whomever can craft the best maid of honor toast for me. Kidding but only sort of. We leave at the crack of dawn on Thursday to make our way to Waitsfield , Vermont, for my sister's wedding and I am running out of time to write my toast here...I think I've gone through 3 or 4 iterations of the toast in my head, none of which seem quite right. So I'll try to stay focused on fantasy football this week but I have all sorts of wedding-related things running through my head right now. I am also kind of excited that I'll actually be in New England when the Patriots and Jets play on Thursday night (subtle reminder to get your lineup set for those guys) - perhaps I can find a local bar to watch the game at that night. Onto today's links: Hatty Waiver Wire Guru's Week 11 video - I'm intrigued by the Ryan Moats suggestion here. Granted, Hatty is just recommending we keep an eye on the guy but I'm just not sold on him nor do I have a bench deep enough...

So I actually had non-football related plans yesterday - can you believe it? A Sunday with social engagements that had nothing to do with football?! Outrageous. The end result of hanging out with friends on a Sunday means that I didn't catch quite a few of the games yesterday. I'm scoping out Football Outsider's Audibles at the Line: Week 10 since it's probably my favorite game recap out there. If you also found yourself doing non-football activities and need an update, check it out. In other fantasy news, if Frank Gore goes for 29 or fewer points tonight I will have triumphed over my nemesis. Couldn't be happier about that but I'm aware that every once in awhile Gore just goes off and puts up crazy numbers. Cardinals defense, please don't let that happen tonight. Onto some waiver wire links and other helpful advice to get your team in top shape for the playoffs: Fantasy Sharks' On the Rise, On the Fall - the Sharks and I both called the Delhomme disas...

I have a buddy in one of my fantasy football leagues that's from Dublin, Ohio, and therefore a major Ohio State fan. I am not an Ohio State fan. At all. So when Joe and I played against each other in FF a few weeks ago we made a little bet that the loser would have to wear the other's teams colors/gear for yesterday's Northwestern v Ohio State game. I soundly defeated him in FF so he showed up at our place yesterday in purple - only to have the Buckeyes pummel my Wildcats. I have to say for the first quarter I had hope that Northwestern might make a game of it; they did not and the end result was a 45-10 loss for Northwestern. Bummer. So I'm licking my wounds this morning and trying to sharpen all of my fantasy teams before go-time. If you are, too, here are some last minute articles that might give you that edge. Rotoworld's Last Minute Decisions: Timmy can save your season KFFL's Sunday Morning Report: Week 10 There are two radio shows this morning to take not...

Below you'll find the players with the most start or sit votes from all of the many start or sit links I've posted this week - names are listed in no particular order: QB Start: Aaron Rodgers, David Garrard, Chad Pennington, Matt Ryan Sit: Sage Rosenfels, Donovan McNabb, Gus Frerotte, Rex Grossman, Ben Roethlisberger RB Start: Maurice Jones-Drew, Tim Hightower, DeAngelo Williams, Thomas Jones Sit: Ryan Grant, Matt Forte, Joseph Addai, Steve Slaton WR Start: Marques Colston, Dwayne Bowe, Matt Jones Sit: Hines Ward, DeSean Jackson, Bernard Berrian TE Start: Tony Gonzalez, Bo Scaife, Marcedes Lewis, Kevin Boss (also had several sit votes as well) Sit: John Carlson, Brent Celek, Vernon Davis Kicker Start: Dan Carpenter, Jeff Reed, Jason Elam Sit: David Akers, Rian Lindell, Robbie Gould D/ST Start: Panthers, Dolphins, Chargers, Cardinals Sit: Bears, Falcons, Giants Finally, a few more links for the day: Fantasy Sports Forum's Trade Deadline Decisions: Planning for the Playoffs ...

This weekend I play my nemesis in one of my fantasy football leagues. Yes, I actually have a nemesis (I still can't decide if I should feel proud or ashamed about that...). And I need to bring my A-game in a serious way. Fortunately Jay Cutler's career-best 447 yards last night have given me a great start. So here's to beating my nemesis! FanNation's Start 'em, Sit 'em The Hazean's Start & Sit: Week 10 Fantasy Football Maniaxs' Week 10 Start/Sit CBSSports ' Week 10 Start 'em and Sit 'em Bruno Boys' Start em & Sit em - Week 10 SportingNews . com's The Decider: Week 10 Starts and Sits Ask the Commish's Sit or Start Sports Outlaw's Week 10 Start 'em Sit 'em Junkyard Jake's Bench/Start The Mac Bros' Start or Sit Week 10 Rankings Fighting Chance Fantasy's Who to Start, Who to Sit The Talented Mr. Roto's Love/Hate for Week 10 Also take a look at my post for the Times' Fifth Down blog, Fantasy ...

As I think I've mentioned before my husband is finishing up his PhD this year so he's spending basically every waking moment (and probably some less than conscious moments, too) working on his job applications and the final chapters of his dissertation. I think each milestone deserves a celebration so after he finished one more chunk of his dissertation last night, we went out to grab some beer at our local liquor store. We walked out with a six-pack and 30 roses. It's highly unclear why but the guys who worked at the liquor store insisted on giving us the flowers (or why there were flowers in a liquor store in the first place - is this common?) but frankly, who am I to say no to roses? Sometimes the most unexpected lovely things happen. Not sure I have a segue from that to fantasy football but I could really stretch it and say go check the start/sit links to find out which players will be the roses to your fantasy weekend. How did that work? Yeah, didn't think so. So I...

Happy the-election-is-finally-over day - and congrats to those that are (gleefully) happy with the results. Now that the election is behind us we can all focus our energy entirely on fantasy football, right? What a relief. All that time you might have spent trying to convince your loved ones or strangers to vote a certain way can now go towards fantasy football research. Teams everywhere are about to get 10 times better. Unless you abhor politics and have just been kicking fantasy butt all along. Anyway, a couple of things before we get into this week's links. This week I'll be doing another Westwood One radio segment that will be airing tomorrow night and then throughout the weekend. I know the last time I was on Westwood One, my buddy the FFGoat woke up one morning in time to hear me talking about QB decisions with Tommy Tighe , which is exactly what I'll be doing again this week. With my awesome congested voice. Which leads me to my second point - I am feeling better....

Silver lining to being sick? More links for you all. I mean there's only so many times I can stand to see repeat coverage of the candidates voting this morning and only so many episodes of House that I can take in during one day. And to top it off, there are just so many more excellent articles to link to today that I'm just going to keep the waiver party going here... FFToday's Through the Wire - I love this waiver wire article. If you limit yourself to just one waiver piece, Through the Wire should be it. Now a guy I didn't see listed here is Derrick Ward and I would love to have Antonio's opinion on that guy since I'm debating between Ward and Norwood for Week 10. Yes, I realize the crappiness of my options, but that's how the fantasy cookie crumbles. Don't discount the rest of the awesome waiver wire articles though, like SportingNews.com's Wire tap: Charles in charge . So I'm going to admit that I'm pretty hesitant about picking up R...

Two amazing fantasy football things happened to me last night: 1. I went 7-0 in my leagues for Week 9 and 2. I beat my husband. I am nearly incapable of beating him - last year was the first time in four years (and three leagues) that I beat him and it was magnificent. For me. So beating him for the second time ever last night was pretty rad. Unfortunately I was just lying on our couch with a fever trying to figure out how many layers of skin I had removed with my constant nose-blowing. It's no fun being sick but at least I had MNF to watch - and today I've got election coverage to keep me entertained (and yes, this DC area native actually finds constant election news entertaining). All I have to say is thank goodness for early voting or else I'd be infecting the town of Boulder with my germs right now. Anyway, moving on from my cold (and you guys are awesome - thank you for the well wishes you've e-mailed my way), let's get to the fantasy links for the day. If you ...

There are few things worse than watching in person as your team's game-winning 77-yard touchdown pass gets called back on a bogus pass-interference call. I understand that every team has their fair share of crappy calls go for and against them and that the Broncos have benefited from bad calls earlier in the season, but seeing Marshall's catch get withdrawn was devastating. The Broncos weren't playing well enough to deserve to win the game whatsoever but it still was a sad, sad play. I should confess at this point that during the game I came down with the start of a cold, which is now completely full-blown to the point that a coworker just told me that I looked far worse than my usual post-football tiredness. Sweet. So I think I'm adding a little dash of cold grumpiness into everything I do this morning, meaning I'm extra frustrated about the Broncos loss. And frankly, I shouldn't be grumpy at all since - get this - I might go 7-0 in my fantasy leagues this week...

In about 30 minutes I'll be live on blogtalkradio with the Fantasy Gridiron guys talking a little bit about the FFLibrarian . I don't think I'll be doing a ton of start or sit advice but if you're free, check out the show which runs from 10 to 11 eastern time. In other Sunday morning news, check out Rotoworld's Last Minute Decisions: Addai on His Way Back or KFFL's Sunday Morning Report to stay hip to the latest fantasy news. I'm off to see the Broncos game later today and am relishing my Northwestern Wildcats' tremendous last second win against Minnesota yesterday. Enjoy the games today!