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Good morning and welcome back after a nice, long holiday weekend. Hope everyone had safe and easy travels - and good times with family and friends. I'm guessing each and every one of you is psyched about tonight's game. I mean what a great MNF game tonight! My husband and I are meeting up with my sister (who is a big Pats fan) to watch the first half of the game together tonight. I think we've found a bar in the West Village, but if there are any NYCers out there who have suggestions on good Patriots bars, please let me know! I'll find out later today if we left enough comments on the Buffalo Wild Wings All-Star Blogger League website to qualify for the $50 gift card this week. It's looking like it might be a close week so I'll just remind you all that the blogger who has the most comments on that site wins a $50 gift card to BWW, which I'll disperse at random to one of you wonderful commenters. So get commenting on my post today for your chance to win 5...

My husband and I are enjoying a pretty entertaining college game right now - Tennessee Vols vs Kentucky Wildcats - and while my husband, who grew up in Knoxville, would like the Vols to be thoroughly dominating, I'm at least pulling for an exciting game. But we're at halftime now which gives me a chance to post some weekend links and the consensus start/sit for Week 12 of course. Links first! If you're trying to make some tricky lineup decisions, take a look at Fantasy Football Trader's positional rankings for the week - link goes to RBs. Or maybe cruise on over to Ultimate Fantasy Football Strategy's Week 12 Projections - heads up for those in PPR leagues since these projections are catered to those of you in leagues with 1 point per reception. More projections are also available at The Fantasy Football Report - check out their WR projections . I was a pilgrim for Halloween one year. Yes, seriously. In retrospect it seems like such an odd choice for my 7-ye...

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, full of family, friends, and football. Yesterday morning we woke up kind of early to see the Thanksgiving Day parade - despite the crowds it was still a pretty good time and definitely something I think we had to do as NYCers. I was digging the Snoopy balloon the most, I think, though Kermit was a classic. Meanwhile the children near us didn't recognize the smurf balloon. What kind of generation are we raising that doesn't know what a smurf is? Amazing. Anyway, we ran home to get the turkey in the oven and all the other tasty treats going. We had just one friend join us and thankfully she did put up with the copious amounts of football we watched. Which of course leads me to my Broncos winning against the Giants last night - the Broncos defense was looking tremendous again, particularly the secondary, and I'm psyched to see how the rest of the season plays out. With so much going on yesterday, I took a break from all things FFL...

This morning my husband and I are taking a ferry to Jersey to see one of my closest friends who is up in the area for Thanksgiving. So looking forward to seeing her and her 3-month-old whom I'm extremely prone to spoiling. Since we won't be spending the Thanksgiving weekend with family, today is kind of like my mini Tgiving surrounded by good friends. Safe travels to those of you on the road today! Some quick links: The Talented Mr. Roto combines waiver wire pickups and love/hate into one article of fantasy goodness in The all-in-one Week 12 column . IDPers if you're looking for some plug-ins for this week, take a look at what the IDP Guru recommends in Waiver Wire Pickups: Week 12 . For more IDP info, Numbers & Guts' IDP Wednesday is full of helpful details as always. Lots of start/sit links: Rapid Draft - mostly a focus on the Thursday games with a few other nuggets added in FFManiaxs' Week 12 Start/Sit Hatty Waiver Wire Guru's Studs, Starts, S...

Well our fridge is loaded up with Thanksgiving goodies. There are only going to be 3 or 4 of us at our Thanksgiving dinner but we went a little overboard - you'd think we were feeding an army. I'm also not convinced that our dinner guests enjoy football as much as we do...sounds like our guests are about to get a crash course in how to love the NFL, eh? Okay, so onto today's links! The waiver wire love is strong, my friends. So start clicking... FFGeekBlog's The Wire - Week 12: Bottom of the Barrel FFToolbox's Week 12: Pickups of the week   Hatty Waiver Wire Guru's weekly video with waiver advice   Pyromaniac.com's Scanning the Waiver Wire Fighting Chance Fantasy's On the Radar - Week 12   KFFL.com's Waiver Wire by position (links to QB) FOX Sports' Top 10 waiver claims for Week 12   NFL.com's Cartwright, Boss will be hot names on the Week 12 waiver wire FantasyPros911.com's Waiver Wire: Week Twelve Pickups 12StepDrop.co...

Good morning fantasy footballers! I'm back from a weekend trip to Virginia to spend time with family and friends and am ready to roll for this short, fun Thanksgiving week. When working on the blog here I often think about how I can give back to the community in a larger, grander way than can fit into the scope of fantasy football. And I think I've found a way. The holidays are a time to celebrate health and happiness - and December has been a month of good and bad health discoveries for my loved ones; one year a friend successfully finished his chemo treatments in December, and another year a friend discovered he had leukemia. My parents each have dear friends struggling with cancer treatments right now and I know every single one of you likely has a similar story. So this holiday season, from today through the end of December, I will be donating all proceeds from the FFLibrarian store to the American Cancer Society - so buy your loved ones all the FFLibrarian t-shirts, mu...

Greetings from Northern Virginia - I only have time to get up the consensus picks and a quick link or two before I hang out with my mom; my apologies but moms come first. Link love first: If you'd like to see me hopefully turn around my sinking ship with Fighting Chance Fantasy's Five Game Parlay , well, good luck to you. Here's hoping it's not another stinker of a week for me... With so many injuries and doubtful starts out there, it doesn't hurt to remind you all to check out some of the top news feeds before plugging your players in each week. Two of my favorites are Rotoworld and KFFL.com . Looking for a real sleeper? See what Rotoworld has to say about Brandon Gibson . Finally, IDPers if you're in the market for some start/sit advice on your IDP players, see what FFManiaxs have to say. Those playing my weekly contest with 365FantasySports.com should know that you can always email David at 365 and ask for more points if you'd like to keep playing...

Did you all know that the Panthers are the only team that has never defeated the Dolphins? Wow. Perhaps those of you who live in a land where your cable company and the NFL Network can agree upon viewing terms did know that, perhaps heard your announcers talk of this stat. But since I can't stand to "watch" the game on NFL.com (there's no watching, it's like an extended painful halftime where every once in a while you're taken to a brief clip of the game), I ended up bailing on most of the game. In the future I'm thinking of switching to Westwood One's broadcast of Thursday Night games. So I'm headed home to Arlington, Virginia, this afternoon via the fancy wifi bus. It's cheap, it's relatively fast, and it's got wifi and plug ins. What could be better? So I'll probably try and catch up on emails and such this afternoon but might not have a ton of time to answer any other start/sit or trade questions this weekend since I'll be...

First up, this past week has been a busy one for me so I fell off the wagon with my weekly contest with 365FantasySports.com . But we're back up and rolling - feel free to join us, it's free to participate and you can jump in or out any time. For details, start here and use password book11 when prompted. Here are a few afternoon links for you... The start/sit links are still rolling out, trying to make it before the Thurs Night game begins...drum roll please.... FFNerd's Where to Put 'Em Fantasy Phenoms' Early Week 11 Starts and Sits CBSSports.com's Week 11 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em Yahoo's Roto Arcade Flames/Lames: Steve Slaton, come on up for the rising FFToolbox's Week 11: Sit 'Em Hatty Waiver Wire Guru's handy doc has studs, starts, sleepers, and bench suggestions for the week. I linked out to Fantasy Depth Chart last week for the first time - I'm still digging the target perspective offered here in this week's NFC ...

I am a rockstar. Okay, not really, the closest I've ever come to rocking an instrument was the recorder back in 3rd grade. But I was living like a rockstar last night, somehow hanging out with my husband's old college buddies until 3 AM. As someone who is frequently in bed by 11 most Wednesday nights, this was a rare occurrence. When we left the bar though there were still plenty of others going strong on a Wednesday night; I mean, who are these people?! How do so many folks have schedules that allow them to be out and about like that in the wee hours of a Wednesday night turned to Thursday morning? Well it's New York City, friends, it's New York City. So big surprise, I'm running late today with my post. Good thing I have a lot of awesome material to make up for the slowness of my morning post. I'm digging Fantasy Football Report's Matchup Charts by position - you can get a player by player look at opposing defenses overall rankings, rush defense ranki...

I'm alive and well, having survived yesterday's interview. As with all things in academia, particularly around the holidays, it will be awhile before I learn more about the job. But I just want to say a quick thanks to all who e-mailed or left a comment, wishing me luck yesterday. I'm truly one lucky blogger to have such a great readers. Since I'm just lounging around this morning, avoiding anything that could possibly be considered mentally tasking, I caught this fun little library news tidbit: remember kids, it's never too late to make good on those overdue library books . Probably better not to wait 51 years, but hey, better late than never. Finally, who wants to win a $50 gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings? Here's the deal - the BWW All-Star Blogger League is running a weekly contest from now until the end of the FF season where the league blogger who has the most comments on their posts for the week on the BWW All-Start Blogger League site, will win a $50...

Gotta be quick this morning - that interview at Library B that I mentioned a few weeks ago? It's today and will last a solid 8ish hours when it's all said and done. Cross your fingers for me! Waiver wire articles: FFToolbox's Week 11: Pickups of the Week Hatty Waiver Wire Guru's Week 11 video - all about RBs FantasyPros911.com's Waiver Wire: Week Eleven NFL.com's RBs Forsett, Snelling will be popular names on fantasy's waiver wire Fighting Chance Fantasy's On the Radar - and don't forget to catch their podcast on Tues nights! Pyromaniac's Scanning the Waiver Wire 12StepDrop's Pickups: Week 11   FFManiaxs' Week 11 Waiver Wire NFL.com's waiver wire video (starts immediately) Other good stuff: Always enjoy Rotoworld's Beyond the Box Score - a look at 5 interesting games from Sunday. Another link that I always scope out is SI's Fantasy Clicks - great review of the weekend's games and chock full of interest...

The only thing more amazing than the finish to the Colts vs Pats game ? Randy Moss's beard. A quick shot of him sans helmet last night showed an impressive beard that caused my husband to muse, "is there any evidence that Randy Moss and Jesus are not one in the same?" which of course caused me to crack up (not intended to offend anyone, fyi...). Anyway, what an amazing game - let's get it all out there: yes, I was pulling for the Colts (my husband is a Knoxville, TN native and thus a huge Peyton fan) but I personally felt that the 4th and 2 call was incredibly ballsy and incredibly good. Would I have done it? Hell no, not a chance, but that's just one of the many reasons that Belichick is the evil mastermind of New England and I am not. And keep in mind that if it had worked there would be a parade in Boston this morning honoring Belichick's genius. Now what we can all hope for is an equally entertaining rematch for the AFC Championship game. If you'd like...

Just finished up a little Skype session with a really good friend and her 3-month-old baby - seriously, God bless the creators of Skype, it's awesome. So I've got a few more start/sit links for you before I get to the consensus start/sit list for Week 10. Bruno Boys' Week 10 Sit Ems Rotoholics' Starters and Sitters - Week 10 The Hazean's Start & Sit Fantasy Joe's Studs, duds and sleepers Fantasy Phenoms' Early Week 10 Starts and Sits Hatty Waiver Wire Guru's Studs, Starts, Sleepers and Bench Time for the consensus picks - I've gone through all of this week's start/sit links from experts and tallied up those players with the most start/sit votes.   QB Start: Ben Roethlisberger, Mark Sanchez, Matt Hasselbeck, Brett Favre Sit: Kyle Orton, Carson Palmer, David Garrard, Donovan McNabb RB Start: Ricky Williams, Ronnie Brown, Jamaal Charles, Pierre Thomas Sit: Julius Jones, Kevin Smith, LaDainian Tomlinson   WR Start: Steve Smit...

I'm meeting some of my buddies from Sports Data Hub this morning - they're from Colorado, which is where we originally met, and they're out here in the big apple enjoying a Sports Media & Technology conference. Should be good to talk shop with them a bit. This morning's post might be a bit light on commentary but I'll be back later with more links and the consensus start/sit picks for the week. So jumping right in, let's get to the morning linkage... Of course we'll start things off with the start/sit articles: Matthew Berry's Love/Hate: Sharing the misery FFXtreme's Week 10 Start & Bench Advice RotoExperts' Dear Diary: Sit/Start Junkyard Jake's Sleepers/Creepers Bruno Boys' Start Em CBSSports.com's Start 'em & Sit 'em video (starts right away) Yahoo/Roto Arcade's Flames/Lames: Mark Sanchez, lady wrangler, dancing machine (with a headline like that, how can you not click on it?) FootballDocs...

Can't. Stay. Away. Oh yeah, double post. So much to link to today, but truth be told I must keep my fingers moving before they go numb in this frigidaire of an apartment I live in...just saw a penguin waddle by. Kidding, not that bad. But I'm seriously considering fingerless gloves in my own apartment. Onto the pre-game links... I've got a quality Thursday night matchup link to bring you first. Rotoworld's Evan Silva does a great job with a look at the Bears vs 49ers matchup tonight - gotta say, knowing what the Cardinals were able to do against the Bears secondary gives me pause over benching Crabtree. I'm stuck starting Alex Smith in my deepest league so here's hoping something works out with that passing game... Fantasy Football Fools has a nice Thursday Night Football is for Lovers title for his start/sit advice this week. The native Virginian in me digs that play on my state's tourism logo.    A little more start/sit help from Fighting Chance Fan...

My grandfather has always been one to immediately ask about the weather when we talk on the phone. I used to chalk this up as an endearing old man question but turns out, I think he really wants to know - and strangely enough, so do I. Yes, I actually want to hear about his weather in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I think he might have passed along an odd weather gene, which regular readers here might have picked up on long ago. I talk about my weather with some regularity, which might just make me an old lady weather librarian type but hey, I eventually get to the fantasy football, right? And today is no exception...time for my weather rant. When I started telling people that I was moving from Boulder to NYC one of the first things I inevitably heard was, oh you are going to miss the sunshine. I laughed and thought, sure but I've lived through fun weather before like the cold, frosty winds of Chicago and the oppressive humidity of Washington, DC. Lack of sunshine? That will be a piece...

Well I've got a good thing going in the Buffalo Wild Wings All-Star Blogger League - I'm sitting at 8-1, 2 games ahead of the next best team. Sweet! I'm getting to the point where I'm doing so well in the league that I'll be sorely disappointed if I don't win the big grand prize Super Bowl trip to Miami. I know, I know, it's bad to set myself up for this but I can't help it! I want to win! Anyway, I recommend you scope out the BWW league site - lots of experts (like RotoExperts, Fantasy Guru, The Sports Outlaw and others) are posting throughout the week with great advice or even just links back to the start/sit and waiver wire advice on their own sites. Good stuff. Speaking of good stuff, let's get to today's articles: There were some interesting little nuggets of info in the Bruno Boys' Carrots or Karats? article this week - Turner has had a rushing TD every week since week one?! Wow, hadn't noticed that since I don't own him a...

One of the really weird things that I discovered after moving to NYC? Sara Gore . Now those that know me are well aware that Gore is my maiden name, making me Sara Gore. Turns out I'm far from the only one. This is hardly a complete surprise since I grew up outside of DC playing soccer against Al Gore's daughter who happens to be my age and named Sarah. The sidelines would cheer for Sara(h) Gore thoroughly confusing all Sara(h) Gores on the field since how does the other team know my name and why are they cheering for me?? (note: when your name is Sara(h) and you're a child of the 80s, you get called by your full name since there are so many freaking Sara(h)s running around out there). So I was used to this existence of another Sara(h) Gore and even when we mistakenly received a wedding present for her, we clarified the situation, and I chuckled over still having this name twin. But things got creepy with the whole name twin thing upon moving to NYC since there's yet a...

Oh my friends, it will be close to 70 degrees here in NYC today - I've got a long walk around the neighborhood in my future today...in my Broncos gear!! You can all imagine just how excited I am about tonight's Monday Night Football game. Should be a good one and I've got my fingers crossed for a big win in Denver... Lots to get to today: Let's start off with the fact that yesterday's Battle of the Bays went to Tampa Bay. Unreal. Did anyone see that coming? Ryan from Fighting Chance Fantasy sure didn't, which means it's time for him to fulfill his end of the brussels sprouts bargain (he'll be enjoying his sprout with bacon thanks to a reader's suggestion here on FFLibrarian). You can also scan my parlay picks for this week and see how, um, not good I am at this. Take a look at this week's MMQB: Let the hype begin - ahh, the Colts-Pats game is coming and there's some excitement in my family (my Colts-loving husband vs my Pats-loving sis...

I don't normally post on the weekends very often but my friends we have a momentous occasion on our hands: my Northwestern Wildcats beat the #4 ranked Iowa Hawkeyes . Now if you're not a college football fan, just humor me on this one. It was unbelievable; a beautiful, beautiful thing. There's lots of yammering on about Iowa's QB Stanzi getting injured and going out for the game and hey, read between the lines, that's why Northwestern won...but no word at all on the fact that Northwestern's starting QB played through an injured hamstring (injured last week against Penn State, whom we were beating for awhile), was replaced by our backup QB who then got injured himself, forcing the starting QB to come back in - not exactly an ideal situation. But the 'Cats can clearly bring it when needed with or without our starting QB. Fan freaking tastic. Now that I'm done thoroughly gloating and ensuring that Iowa alum Andy Behrens from Yahoo/Roto Arcade will never li...

Before we get to the consensus start/sit picks for Week 9, a quick glimpse at a few gems out there: My buddies at FFGeekBlog are offering up a $50 gift card to NFL.com if you can guess the top fantasy QB this week. Check out their site for more details. The Hazean takes an interesting look at the top 12 fantasy players at each position now that we're at the midpoint of the NFL season. Scope out Roger Rotter's Top 10 sleepers for Week 9 - I'm seeing Hasselbeck and Crabtree all over the start lists this week. Always a good read, take a look at FFToday's Inside the Matchup for some hints on what to expect from the running and passing games from a fantasy standpoint.  Okay, consensus time. Keep in mind that I've gone through all of the sites that I link to with start/sit advice during the week and have tallied up those players with the most start/sit votes, or the most consensus from the experts. So here they are, listed at random: QB Start: Matt Hasselbeck...

Greetings fantasy footballers and happy Friday! I feel like I should be part of the Yankees Ticker Tape Parade in Manhattan right now if for no other reason than how often can you participate in a parade?? This is exactly the logic I'll be using when I tromp around the Macy's Day Parade on Thanksgiving. Who knew my parade options would increase exponentially upon moving to NYC? Considering I'm still in my pajamas (hey, what's the rush?) and thoroughly enjoying my morning coffee, the whole parade thing might get tabled for now. There are football links to get to! Wondering if there are some guys you should target as the playoffs creep closer? The Hazean looks at Six Small(er) Fantasy Names to Buy - or scope out Rotoworld's Looking Ahead: Best Playoffs Schedules .  Ultimate Fantasy Football Strategy has a handy little Team by Team Projections chart for Week 9. IDPers, you'll want to scope out SI.com's Eight in the Box: IDP Report . I'll probably g...

Well my husband is off at a conference and my sister is froufing around in Cali for a wedding - that means the quantity of friends I have in the city has just been reduced by about 50% - which frankly benefits you all since I'm hanging out writing another post tonight. I know, I need to get more friends. Funny how hard making friends can be when you work from home on fantasy football and basically hang out with cats all day (they're adorable cats, but still, they don't talk back)...all kidding aside though, it's kind of nice to have a quiet weekend after we had so many folks in town for the marathon last weekend. Anyway, a quick housekeeping note first before I get into the rest of tonight's post. So I've updated the 1st Annual FFLibrarian Readers' Choice survey  - despite my efforts to be as thorough as possible, I missed a few sites that I feel belong in the survey. Plus some of the additions are sites that have seen a massive number of write-in votes, t...

Congrats Yankees fans! I'll be honest, I was pulling for the Phillies since I was hoping for another championship for my sister's friend Eric Bruntlett , but I can put that aside and be happy for my new hometown team. You guys all know my heart is really with football anyway... So speaking of which, let's jaunt on over to today's football articles: My weekly article with the Bruno Boys is up - I'm looking at some players who have sweet playoffs matchups, but not the top guys, more like your borderline/bubble players. But to be honest, wait an hour or so to check it out. One of the graphics/charts was accidentally left out so there's going to be some tweaking needed... In the meantime, check out my recommended reading in the Fifth Down's Week 9 in Fantasy Football Matchups - lots of good advice from the Sablich Bros, too, so definitely swing by the comments section if you've got a question about your lineup. I don't know what it is but I love r...