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This morning marks the start of a fantasy football industry mock draft that I'm involved in - I just grabbed Michael Turner with the 4 th overall pick but feel free to follow along with the mock draft on FFToolbox's site, Experts Mock Draft Results . I'll be interested to hear your commentary on my team once it's complete (could take a little while) and what you think some of the best and worst draft picks are. The mock draft is being run by MyFantasyLeague .com which is also the same great site that is going to host a FFLibrarian league this fall. There will be room for up to 96 teams, divided into multiple conferences. If you're not up for adding another league to your FF dossier, no problem - I'll be doing weekly contests, too, with 365 FantasySports .com . More on both contests to come... The Hazean has a few thoughts on QBs that might be flying under the radar this year - I'm kind of digging the QB options this year. Lots of guys who have potentia

I was at the gym yesterday watching the first half of the U.S. vs Brazil final with a cohort of big soccer fans. Strangers until yesterday we all rejoiced with the U.S.'s first half goals as if we were lifelong buds. I love how sports brings people together, bridging across the treadmills and ellipticals . Must say I am kind of glad I ducked out of there at halftime or else I'd have observed my new best friends' dismay at Brazil's second half dominance. Moving on to the other football: Hatty Waiver Wire Guru has some thoughts up on the Top Underrated by Position . Scope it out as the top piece for now in the articles section (sorry, no direct link to the article available). I love a good article on a totally random position that does actually have fantasy value in one way or another...enter FFToolbox's Top 10 Punters . Niiiice . I'm seeing some trends in wisdom of the crowds stuff again this season - I think a lot of us are aware of ADP (average draft position)

I should be wearing a white glove today in honor of the King of Pop. I fall in the category of Michael Jackson fans who just love the guy's music despite how increasingly bizarre he got with time. There's nothing like a little Billie Jean, Bad, Man in the Mirror or Thriller (this list could go on for some time...) to make every day a little better; seriously, if a coworker was having a rough day I would lead them to a little Thriller on youtube and I swear it was a magical short-term cure for the work blues. Another cure for the work blues? Fantasy football links. And I won't let you down today my friends - it's Friday, no one really wants to be at work on a summertime Friday, so let me help you escape for a few moments... A couple of solid articles from FFXtreme - if you're wondering whether or not you should consider drafting Ronnie Brown, take a look at their Ronnie Brown a Must-Own in 2009 ? Do you agree that Brown will finish as a top 8 back this season? And

First and foremost, happy birthday to my brother-in-law today! I was contemplating getting him a Fantasy Football Librarian t-shirt for his birthday but that seemed a bit self-serving to give him a shirt that would just advertise my blog...sorry, Brian. If you really want one (or a mug - I mean who doesn't need a frosted beer mug emblazoned with the FFLibrarian URL?), let me know and I'll make that birthday wish a reality. I'm back in Colorado after a whirlwind tour of New York City and am very excited to say I now have a home to call my own in NYC come August 1st. Well in Brooklyn Heights to be specific. And frankly the apartment is awesome. I didn't think that was going to be possible; perhaps that's the beauty of Brooklyn? Now to the beauty of fantasy football: FantasySharks.com have a nice rookie RB overview in Rookie Running Backs of 09: Who's #1, Sleepers, Dynasty Ranks, Rookie of the Year . This Denver fan is hoping the hype on Moreno is accurate...speak

My feet feel like they might fall off; I've now pounded the pavement out there for the past 3 days or so, drinking in all that NYC has to offer (not literally, though I am excited to seek out some tasty New York brews - any suggestions?) and searching for the best apartment out there. I don't want to get my hopes up but I think we might have found a gem. In fact, it feels like merely typing that sentence might jinx our chances so I'll leave it at that...onto football links. Want to catch training camp with your favorite team this summer? Scope out FantasyPros 911 for the training camp schedule of most NFL teams . Check out FantasyFootballStarters ' Advice on Kurt Warner: Handcuff Matt Leinart to him for rare QB handcuff advice. Only advised if you really have room to carry 3 QBs on your roster. Rotoworld is going through a series of minicamp reviews and this week's focus is on the AFC West (catch up on others: AFC East and AFC South ). FFToolbox has a nice R

I'm gearing up for a full day of apartment hunting in NYC, so this will be a quick post with just a couple of links - hopefully I'll be able to do the same tomorrow (when the apartment searching continues...)! The CBS Sports guys do a good job of presenting both sides of some big fantasy questions in Faceoffs : The best place for Plax is...? Also addressed here: Brandon Marshall, Brett Favre , and Randy Moss vs Calvin Johnson. Bruno Boys' 2009 Fantasy Tight Ends - Best of the Rest . If you're not one to spring for Witten or Gates come draft day, then take a look at some of the other guys that might bring you fantasy success this year on the TE front. Some high-risk/high-reward receivers for the year are noted in Rotoworld's Ten Boom-or-Bust wide receivers . Looking for some recent mock draft results? The FFXtreme staff just posted the results of their latest non-PPR 6-round mock - interesting stuff. If you play in a PPR league, I recommend taking a look at KFF

Tomorrow we head east for a good friend's wedding in NJ and then we'll try to get a kickstart on our new life in New York City by finding an apartment. Wish me luck; should be a kind of intense next week or so though I promise to do my best at getting posts up. BUT if I'm rather quiet I highly recommend you check out some of the sites you see on the right under Football Links - quality stuff over there like KFFL , Bruno Boys , Rotoworld and FFToday . To today's links... Another great site, FFToolbox (I should add that to my links section now that I think about it...) has their annual offensive line ranking up - hooray! FantasySharks . com's The Receiver Riddle of 2009 goes over the "draft 2 WRs in the first 2 rounds" technique but also supplies a few WRs outside of the top 15 that might be worth your time. I'm glad to see Rotoworld doesn't think losing BMarsh would be a total disaster for the Broncos - I guess it's just hard for me t

Last weekend while I was home in Virginia, I was all girly -ed up, ready to attend a baby shower when I apparently lost focus of how to walk down stairs, you know, the simple task of putting one foot in front of the other...and I fell down our cement front steps. I think I did a few pirouettes, hit my head on the hand railing, and finally landed in the bushes with my feet pointed towards the sidewalk. I have no clue how this happened but distinctly remember having the time to tell myself, "this can't possibly be happening right now; but is the iPhone okay?" as I was careening towards the ground. I pulled myself up and hobbled to the front door covered in leaves - my mom reverted into supermom mode as she opened the door to find me holding my head with one hand and keeping my skirt away from my two bloodied legs with the other hand. It wasn't pretty. But what I found most impressive of all is that my mind had time to worry about my iPhone before my own limbs. I think t

Tonight I think I'm headed to my second Rockies game of the season - off to see them take on the TB Rays with some friends who are in town. This is assuming that Denver avoids basically an 8 th day in a row of extreme weather (tornado, hail, the works). This coming weekend I'm heading to NYC for a good friend's wedding and then to apartment shop since we're moving to New York in August. Anyone in NYC know of a soon-to-be-available 1 bedroom apartment? We could be neighbors who talk about fantasy football 24/7. It would be rad. So onto today's football links... If you are thinking of paying money for fantasy football advice, let me steer you towards one of my favorite sites: The Huddle. They are awesome. I particularly love John Tuvey's advice but really they're all an incredibly talented bunch and their recently released draft kit is quite frankly, worth the money. BUT for those less inclined to shell out some dough, no problemo . Lots of free draft kits

I had a great time in Arlington, VA, with family and friends this weekend as expected...though I've had a ridiculous number of people send me this Arlington rap (same guy did a fantasy football rap , too, among many, many other things). Not exactly the Arlington that I grew up in, but certainly what it has become... Anyway, back to the issue at hand - fantasy football. Hopefully you all aren't getting sick of offensive line analysis since I've got lots more to link to today and in the weeks to come. If you haven't seen the Rotoworld Draft Magazine yet, go look for it at your local bookstore - I've got an article on o-lines and some Bold Predictions for the 2009 season in the magazine. But in the meantime, here are some more o-line briefs from Ultimate Fantasy Football Strategy: the Houston Texans and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . Also on the o-line front, Fifth Down has done a comparison of the Giants and Jets in Who Has the Best O-Line? Giants or Jets? For a futur

I'm heading home to the east coast tonight to spend some quality time with family and friends and to attend my oldest and dearest friend's baby shower. Between this quick trip back to Virginia and a longer trip next week to New York, I've got a lot of travel on my plate. So the posts here might be a little more sporadic than usual but I think I'll still be able to get you to some quality links. Ultimate Fantasy Football Strategy has two more offensive line reports up and ready for your review: the New Orleans Saints and the Carolina Panthers . FoxSports.com has their NFL's top 99 player rankings for '09 up - keep in mind that this isn't a fantasy-focused list but I really like the inclusion of players from all sides of the ball. The Fifth Down links to Cold, Hard Football Facts.com's case for the value of passing yards per attempt . FantasyPros911 took at look ADP (average draft position) data from mockdraftcentral.com as of June 10 to pull together th

Happy day - it's my anniversary (thanks to my wonderful husband for 3 spectacular years) and I got out of jury duty for that murder trial. Everything is coming up Sara! I also have finally made some progress on making FFLibrarian schwag . I know, I was talking about this months ago but the FFNerd's site pointed me in the direction of Zazzle , which I think will be a great online seller. I've got a few products up but if any of you creative types out there have something awesome for an FFLibrarian t-shirt, let me know and you will receive massive amounts of appreciation and credit. I'll be adding a direct link to the FFLibrarian gear over on the right side in a few days... The FFLibrarian t-shirt timing is actually perfectly aligned with an e-mail I got from Art of the Fan about the FF gear they make. If you're looking to reward your 2009 season champ with a shirt or would perhaps like to express what a FF genius you are , then take a look at their stuff. M

Despite the odds, I survived my root canal yesterday fairly unscathed (the flat screen above my head turned to ESPN's NFL Live made things a lot more bearable). Before the endodontist started the process he asked if I wanted to see all of the tools and know exactly what he was going to do and I told him yes, too much information was far better than too little. Kind of my theory on this blog, really. I might throw a bunch of links at you but I say it's better to have too many links, too many details to keep track of than to be in the dark on the latest fantasy musings. So let's get right to today's links: Michael Turner has been a hot commodity in every mock draft I've seen or participated in - so read up on why the FantasyHulks think he's overvalued . Love seeing analysis that varies from the masses. Speaking of the masses, Football Outsiders has been playing around with the Wisdom of Crowds theory by gathering and tweeting collective intelligence from their

Bear with me, I have a few comments to make on the unfortunateness of being 30 and then will get right to football. Remember last week when I talked about how much I loved going to the dentist? Well no more. This afternoon I am off to get a root canal; fortunately I am in no pain whatsoever but apparently there's nothing like ringing in a new decade with a root canal. Sweet. And that jury duty I had last week? Oh yeah, it's not over yet. It's for a murder trial here in Boulder and I head back for the voir dire process tomorrow. I'm hoping to slide out of that one since it will otherwise entail 3-5 weeks of sitting on a jury, and time is just not a luxury I have these days. Frankly it feels like being an adult is way overrated right now. But I had an awesome birthday and that's certainly worth a lot! Onto football...the season is getting closer, sites are revving back up, I'm starting to get 2009 roster questions (which are taking me awhile to respond to - sorr

Today is my 30 th birthday and I had grand visions of providing you all with 30 links to celebrate. Right now that seems a bit ambitious since the sun is shining and a trail near our house is calling my name... Earlier this week CBS Sports put up an article about players you might want to grab in late rounds if you've go the roster room - Don't waste those final-round picks in '09 . Seems to me that some of these guys might be better dynasty bets as it might take time for them to evolve - but the whole idea behind late-round picks is that you take a gamble, go with your gut, and there are some interesting options on this list. More thoughts on Westbrook's falling fantasy value from Rotoworld . The season for draft magazines is starting - Football Jabber has selected the FootballGuys . com's free mag as his top choice . Though I'll put a plug in for Rotoworld's magazine, too, since I had a chance to contribute to it! Pigskin Addiction has a top 100 list u

Okay I'm rolling out to jury duty in just a few minutes so my apologies for a lack of commentary on the links below - but some links are better than no links, eh?! Brian Westbrook needs surgery on his right ankle . Not good, not good at all. For a little more analysis than just the straight up news, take a look at FootballDiehards . com's It's Official: Surgery for Westbrook . Or the ever clever Matt Schauf's Don't take Westbrook out of draft plans . Ooh, this kind of article makes me salivate: The Ultimate Guide to NFL Defense from Footballguys .com - great stuff with a lot of helpful IDP info. Fantasy Sharks' thoughts on being a homer when it comes to fantasy football drafting - When (and when not) To Be a Homer . Customizable cheat sheets from FFToolbox . Also from FFToolbox , 2009 fantasy football auction values for those who play in auction leagues. For Fantasy Football Cafe's opinions on which young receivers you might want to target this year, re

Greetings fantasy fans. It's a cold, wet, windy day here in Boulder, which made getting out of bed and into work a particularly challenging feat. So let's get the day started off right with some fantasy football links. Despite owning Aaron Rodgers on two of my fantasy football teams last year, I somehow managed to overlook the fact that he apparently was the #2 QB in '08. A fact that has not eluded the fantasy superstars at KFFL or now Bruno Boys. I must've been wrapped up in my growing Matt Ryan lovefest . So take a look at A Sneak Peak at Bruno Boys Cavigs 2009 Top 10 QBs for further thoughts on QBs . Or if it's sleeper QBs that you're really interested in, see Fantasy Football Starters for their article on 2009 fantasy football sleepers: Quarterbacks . To help get your mind focused on some of the best dynasty grabs of 2009 and beyond, try reading FFToday's An Eye on the Future . Definitely some names worth keeping track of as the summer unfolds. Whe

Happy June. Busy times here in the library and beyond - I've got all sorts of fun stuff happening this week: consultations with movers, a visit to the dentist, jury duty and a 30 th birthday (here's hoping I don't spend my birthday serving out my civic duty). Okay so everything except the birthday could qualify as legitimately un-fun , but to be honest, I love going to the dentist. Yeah, I said it: I love the dentist. Anyway, it's a busy week and I'll do my best to squeeze in the fantasy football when possible. Let's get right to today's links: I'll be the first to admit, this Fifth Down article on Arizona's Surprisingly Efficient Run Blocking was a little unexpected. I pegged the Arizona o-line as needing some serious help so it's interesting to see that really most of the line was pretty decent...a reminder that one cog in the system can throw things off. KFFL has a ranking devised specifically for those of you playing in standard Yahoo! Spo