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Happy Friday - and it truly is a happy day now that I've seen Reggie Wayne come back to life. I'll be meeting my opponent in the Buffalo Wild Wings league, Scott Engel, on live "tv" today - Scott joins up with ubatv to do a show called Fantasy Playbook every Friday afternoon. The show films in a studio in Manhattan so today I'll be heading over there to be a guest on Fantasy Playbook, which will also be streaming live if you don't have access to ubatv. Check it out from 2-3 today (or watch in from the archives if you're say gainfully employed and unable to watch a show at work) for discussion on Week 15 matchups. (Post show update: I mistakenly made a bunch of start/sit calls thinking that Pittsburgh is playing Chicago this week - my apologies! This is what happens to me at the end of a long season I suppose...)

I've got a lot going on today, so I've got a slightly abbreviated post today. I should be back with the consensus start/sit by Saturday afternoon.

First up, this time of year you need to be bringing your best and knowing the latest on injuries can make all the difference. If you haven't put Stephania Bell's injury blog on your weekly radar, then please do so for these last few weeks - well worth the time.
Another great read for the week (even for those of you no longer playing in your fantasy leagues), is the Fifth Down's Week 15 NFL Matchups penned by Football Outsiders' Mike Tanier. I probably say this every week but it's one of my top articles.
Those done with fantasy leagues may also find solace in the fine analysis of Advanced NFL Stats' Are Teams Going For It More in 2009?
There are still plenty of start/sit links out there:

CBSSports.com's Week 15 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em
Talented Mr. Roto's The Super-Early Top 25 Love/Hate
Bruno Boys' Start Ems
Yahoo's Roto Arcade - Flames/Lames: Campbell will surely taste mmm, mmm good
Fantasy Football Fools' Week 15 Hot Hands and Cold Shoulders: Who's Going to Win Me My Championship
The Hazean's complete start/sit up is ready in Week 15 Start & Sit.
12StepDrop's Contentious Starts and Sits: Week 15
IDPers, heads up - scope out FantasySharks.com's The Hive for quality advice.

Read up on the best and and worst of this week's passing matchups in a game-by-game analysis from Razzball's Air to the Fantasy Football Throne - good stuff and from the comments section it's clear that they answer start/sit questions ASAP.
For one final set of rankings advice, check out one of the best - Rotoworld's Week 15 Rankings.

Labor Day FF links

Happy long weekend! Here's hoping most of you are free to enjoy the 3-day weekend and the relaxation and fun that comes with it. I spent my Sunday participating in 3 fantasy football drafts scattered throughout the day and night, but I think I've finally wrapped up my drafts for the year. So like many of you I'm now turning my attention to the Week 1 games! But before we get to some player rankings and prep for Week 1, I want to make sure that all you experts out there are aware of the upcoming deadline for the annual accuracy contest that I run with the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. I compare preseason positional rankings from experts to the final outcome of the fantasy season to see which site had the most accurate preseason rankings, and this year's deadline is fast approaching: September 9th by kickoff. Check out the info on the FSTA site for more details and be sure to e-mail me your submissions. Now, onto Week 1! First up, let's get to some of this

2010 Week 2 consensus start/sit

Greetings and happy weekend. I've got this week's consensus start/sit for you which is a tally of all the start/sit votes that players received in the various start/sit articles that I linked to earlier in the week. So while these aren't my personal recommendations, I do think knowing what the consensus is could be of help when making lineup decisions...so enjoy! Note: the players are listed in no particular order. QB Start: Michael Vick, Kyle Orton, Matt Ryan, Jason Campbell Sit: David Garrard, Alex Smith, Jay Cutler, Vince Young, Carson Palmer RB Start: LeSean McCoy, Darren McFadden, Ahmad Bradshaw, Brandon Jackson Sit: Tim Hightower, C.J. Spiller, Beanie Wells, Ronnie Brown WR Start: Santana Moss, Legedu Naanee, Malcolm Floyd, Mike Williams (TB), Dez Bryant Sit: Randy Moss, Michael Crabtree TE Start: Chris Cooley, Todd Heap, John Carlson, Jermichael Finley Sit: Jermaine Gresham, Owen Daniels, Tony Scheffler, Jeremy Shockey, Bo Scaife Kicker Start: La

A hiatus

Update: It is with a very heavy heart that I tell you all that yesterday, August 30th, I delivered our stillborn daughter, Caroline Mary. This has been an almost surreal and definitely heartbreaking experience and I appreciate the support in each and every one of your notes. Caroline will be honored and loved always. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your thoughts and prayers - they mean the world to our family. I have been a very poor blogger this month and feel I owe you all an explanation, particularly as this is crunch time for draft prep. I hope this is not too personal of a look into my life since I know most of you are just here for the football. I am nearly 18 weeks pregnant and we have learned that our baby (a little girl!) has triploidy, a chromosomal abnormality that means she has three copies of every chromosome instead of the normal two. The doctors have explained that it's a completely random occurrence and fairly rare that she has made it this far along, but tha

chewhitey said…

Top Fantasy Football's Start-Sit Rankings have a little something extra this week - the holiday adornments on this page are unreal - who knew you could make a start/sit column so festive.

THIS LINK HAS A VIRUS! THANKS!! GOOD WORK!

1:44 PM

Fantasy Football Librarian said…

Thanks chewhitey, had not picked up on that. Link is removed, my apologies.

4:11 PM

Anonymous said…

Sarah,
Can you recommend a site where they give start/sit advice or even rankings for DEF/Special Teams?
Not IDP, just the whole Defense.

9:40 PM

Fantasy Knuckleheads said…

chewhitey, and all librarian readers

Top-fantasy-football.com was hacked around 11am - I removed the hack around 3pm

The hack tried to install a virus however unless you run some old version of IE should have been fine

I have taken steps to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Kurt
http://top-fantasy-football.com

9:54 PM

FFLibrarian, yours is the only FF bookmark in my browser. Thanks for the good work. I have a pressing roster question, and I value your opinion.

I'm in a TD-heavy league (6 pts per TD, 1 pt per 20 yds rush/rec, no PPR). Through shrewd drafting and a blockbuster trade, I've ended up with Johnson, Rice, Benson, Moreno, and Wells as my RBs. I can play 3 of those 5 this week. Johnson is a no-brainer. I'm inclined toward Moreno, especially if Buckhalter's ailments keep him away from the ball. I don't know if I'm willing to gamble on Wells in the playoffs. So, essentially, I'm stuck between Rice and Benson. At the risk of sounding heartless, I wonder if there's any research out there on how teams fare, traditionally, in the wake of a team-wide tragedy. Part of me thinks they'll play with extra heart, but part of me fears that the distraction will be detrimental to performance. If anyone can pull out stats on this, you can!

Thanks for your good work!

Jeremy from St. Louis

10:48 PM

Jeremy,
You play Johnson, Wells and Rice and don't look back.

10:57 PM

John, a good place to start is a site like Fantasy Football Nerd that uses as aggregate approach: http://www.fantasyfootballnerd.com/sitStart.php?getPosition=DEF&getWeek=15&ppr=.

Jeremy,
I'd go Johnson, Rice, and Moreno. I understand the Wells love but Moreno will get more carries than Wells with Buckhalter out - I know Hightower didn't have a ton of action last week but he's still around and certainly still a presence. I'd just feel more comfortable with Moreno.

10:18 PM

Thanks for the feedback! I originally decided Johnson, Rice, and Moreno (and Campbell over Romo), and since benching Romo didn't blow up on me, I think I'll stick with my gut on the RB's, too.

J in STL

8:23 AM

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