Fantasy Football Librarian

The countdown is on - in T minus 6 I'll be in Ft. Lauderdale or Miami or wherever all the Super Bowl festivities are occurring. I'm wondering just how early I can arrive at the game on Sunday - is it inappropriate to show up 12 hours early? Perhaps. Once again I want to be sure to extend an invitation to all of you in South Florida to swing by the Miami Buffalo Wild Wings for the party I'll be co-hosting with Trey Wingo on Friday, Feb 5th. E-mail me if you want more details. With all the chaos of the FSTA conference I forgot to note the leaders in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge - our top 5 players at this time are: 1. People of Walmart (428 points) 2. Titleist432 and ColdOne (tied at 404 points) 4. pink fury (403 points) 5. Planet 10 and MIAMI64 (tied at 402 points) Onto today's links: First up, let's pretend that the Pro Bowl matters - Lester's Legends is keeping us all entertained with his Fantasy Football Out on a Limb 2009, Pro Bowl Edition art...

There are few things about my "job" as the FFLibrarian that I enjoy as much as the annual accuracy challenge, so this week is just a really awesome week for me - I get to share with you all which site had the most accurate preseason rankings for the 2009 season: CBSSports.com. Congrats CBSSports.com! So first things first - head over to the Fifth Down's Rating the Rankings in Fantasy Football to read up on how the challenge works (just a small dose of math) and see which other sites dominated this year. Then come on back here and read up on some of the other details... Okay, now that you've been to the Fifth Down, I want to be sure and alphabetically list all 48 sites that I looked at in the challenge: Accuscore Ask the Commish Bruno Boys CBSSports.com Draft Analyzer Guru Draft Analyzer Ultimate Draft Sharks ESPN Fanhandle FantasyFootball.com Fantasy Football Geek Blog Fantasy Football Maniaxs Fantasy Football Sherpa Fantasy Football Starters Fantas...

Greetings from the Las Vegas airport where I'm waiting on my delayed flight to get back home to New York after another great Fantasy Sports Trade Association conference. The delay would be a bummer but frankly I'm happily working away on a fully charged laptop with free wifi - and listening to the sweet sounds of slot machines. Heavy sarcasm on the "sweet" there...let's just say I'd go crazy if I worked in a casino all day, every day. So I had a wonderful time meeting some of the brilliant fantasy minds behind all of the the links that I send you to - many thanks to the guys (and yes, it was about 98% male, big surprise) that kept me company throughout the conference. I've been toying with coming up with superlatives for all of the folks I hung out with there - Most Entertaining, Biggest Character, Dude I Was Most Excited to Meet, etc - but there were just too many top notch guys there to narrow the field. Also I would be remiss if I didn't note th...

Before I get into today's post I just wanted to extend my thanks to you all for being patient with me while I took some time off - and for all of the kind e-mails and comments that you all sent my way about my grandpa . He was an incredible man, a real contributor to his community, and probably the reason that I love football. And ice cream. But now I am in Las Vegas after a whirlwind week of flying between New York, Michigan, and now Nevada. I'm here for the Fantasy Sports Trade Association conference which begins tomorrow morning. I met a lot of awesome folks in the industry here last year so I'm really looking forward to seeing them - and some new faces! - over the next few days. I'll also be presenting the annual accuracy award that looks at the most accurate preseason rankings for 2009 - the results will be posted on the Fifth Down on Thursday and I will likely blog a lot more about it in the weeks to come here on FFLibrarian. But there have been lots of quali...

I might take a few days off of the blog - my grandpa passed away. There's not enough room on this blog to describe how wonderful of a man he was and I will miss him dearly. For fantasy football help this weekend, be sure to swing by some of the great regulars like Rotoworld , The Hazean , Bruno Boys , and FFToday . They'll be able to provide you with plenty of rankings, projections, and game reviews.

Well the field just keeps getting smaller - we're down to the final four teams and I for one will be excited about any of these clubs making it to the Super Bowl. But if I must pick, I'm pulling for a Colts vs Vikings game; Colts for my husband's sake (they're his team) and Vikings since we've got some connections with them via Buffalo Wild Wings. Meanwhile, I've got a new set of top teams in my FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge (there are 164 of us in the league): The NFL Night Club (256) MIAMI64 (254) KevinGould (254) Titleist432 (253) itsawrap (253) Congrats for the solid 2 week performances - will one of you win my $25 gift card to Amazon courtesy of the Bruno Boys?! So we've got Conference Championship advice already pouring in so let's head right over to today's links: Let's start with rankings: Working Man Sports (a site from one of my favorite Bruno Boys writers, Chris Ziza) has rankings up for this weekend's conference champ...

Just a quick post for you all today - I've got a coffee date with my sister soon (love it when my family is free to meet up on holiday weekdays!) but I have some good news to note: I have a job! Starting next month after I'm back from the Super Bowl trip, I'll be starting a part-time job working as a librarian at an art museum here in NYC. I'm really pleased and am excited that it will still give me plenty of time to work on the blog. Here's to employment! So let's jump right into today's links: If you're looking for a review of yesterday's games (I'm wondering just how much Jets gear I'll see around the city today...) take a look at Football Outsiders' Audibles at the Line: Divisional Round or Razzball's Brett Favre Sings His Way out of Canton . MMQB this week does a nice job of picking up on some of this weekend's games tiny details - including a Revis roundup of course. Sporting News turns an eye on the Thomas Jones/Sho...

Happy almost three-day weekend (and happy MLK Jr's official birthday). I will be celebrating the weekend by putting the finishing touches on my fantasy football accuracy analysis, which I am almost done with. Meanwhile The Big Lead has done an accuracy analysis of their own (love seeing this concept pick up steam) looking at 7 different sites' preseason rankings. Take a look at their results, which were compiled in a relatively similar manner to what I do - I'll be very interested in seeing how similar our end results are when it's all said and done. But let's take a look at today's links to help those of you in playoff leagues like the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge (there are 162 of us!) get your best lineup set: I'm pretty much sold when I see the phrase Abita beer in a post (there's some tasty Abita Amber on tap at the Henry St. Ale House a few blocks away from me), but The Hazean also has some quality football commentary for us in Round Two Star...

Well I've got my Super Bowl tickets, hotel room, and flight down to Miami all set - seriously, could I be more excited? Another huge thanks to Buffalo Wild Wings for this incredible grand prize for winning their All-Star Blogger League . As more details emerge, I'll be sharing them on the BWW league site - so be sure to check back for details and tales from South Florida. In the meantime, I'll be heading to Las Vegas in about 10 days for the Fantasy Sports Trade Association annual conference. I know, I'm living such a charmed life right now. If any of you FF experts out there are going to be in Vegas for the conference and want to grab a drink, let me know ! I've already roped Marc from the Bruno Boys into keeping me company. Moving on to today's links: Speaking of the Bruno Boys, let's start there with their Divisional Round rankings - they've put out their WR and TE rankings . More thoughts on this weekend's games from the FantasySharks.com...

Those who follow college football news can only imagine the upset in our household last night when my husband learned that Lane Kiffin (Univ of Tennessee's coach) is leaving for USC to replace Pete Carroll who accepted the head coaching job with the Seahawks. Kiffin had only been in TN for a year and this rightly has pissed off my Knoxville native husband and likely the vast majority of Vols fans. Dark days here, my friends, dark days. But the good news here in Brooklyn is that I have a library job interview today - I believe this is now my 7th interview of one sort or another since arriving in the city: turned one job down, got turned down by another, and now I'm pulling a Goldilocks and hoping that this one will be just right. Keep your fingers crossed for me! So let's get right to today's links so that I can shift gears and focus like a laser on the library world before my interview: Personally I need to turn things around in my two playoffs leagues so I could ...

I've embraced a major technology change here in 2010, my football friends. I am now a Mac user. For the past few weeks I've been gleefully coming to you from a new macbook and pretty much loving every minute...until this past weekend. I still love my new mac, don't get me wrong, but figuring out how to use iWork's Numbers to the same extent as Excel has been a challenge. I miss Excel and am considering purchasing Office for macs, but have heard negative feedback on that front, too. What's an Excel user to do? I know with time I'll probably discover lots of the same tips and tricks that I know and love in Excel but if anyone can guide me toward resources to speed that process up, I'd appreciate it. Now why was I up to my elbows in spreadsheets this weekend you may ask? The annual accuracy challenge of course! This will be the third year that I've run an analysis to compare the accuracy of preseason positional rankings from FF experts out there (here...

Wow, I was not expecting some of the outcomes that we saw from this weekend's Wild Card games. The Jets win is basically the only one that didn't surprise me - I have no clue how things could look so ugly in New England, the Cowboys are more impressive than I gave them credit for, and seriously, no more Aaron Rodgers?! It only seemed fitting that Rodgers and the Packers would keep rolling and make it to the Super Bowl since Rodgers is much of the reason that I won my Buffalo Wild Wings league and will be at the SB in a few weeks. Seemed like some Super Bowl kismet to me... In the next day or two we should have the results from the first week of the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge to see which of the 150 participants is in the lead. I can already promise you all that it is not me! If you already have a team set up with NFL.com for the playoffs, I think you can still join our challenge for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Amazon, courtesy of the generous Bruno Boys . Let...

Happy Wild Card weekend day! I've got a few quick links for you but mostly I wanted to let anyone having trouble entering the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge know that I've removed the password and made it a public league - I heard from too many of you who were having issues with that. So come on in, join the league, and take a shot at winning the $25 gift card prize for the winner of my challenge. And speaking of playoff leagues, if you're looking for another postseason league, you can jump into 365FantasySports.com's weekly contests . But let's get to today's content... RapidDraft is churning out the matchup analysis, which I'm totally digging - Green Bay Attractive This Weekend and Beyond , Tough Call, but Pats Over Ravens , and Newsflash - Target Teams That Score and Play D .   Fantasy Depth Chart has some rankings for you for this weekend's games.   The Sports Guy has a humorous look at the upcoming games in New rules help define '09 pla...

Happy Friday! I hope you all enjoyed the National Championship game last night - like many of you I'm sure, I definitely thought Texas had a shot as they started to make things more interesting in the 4th quarter. Though all I could think about for awhile there was how impressive Texas' backup QB was and how I couldn't even imagine my Northwestern Wildcats maintaining so much talent on the bench. Man, playing the game at different levels for sure. Anyway, back to the NFL. It's been a few days since I've mentioned how psyched I am to be going to the Super Bowl courtesy of Buffalo Wild Wings , so I thought I'd bring it up again lest you all think I've become blase about such a gigantic coup. Trust me, within about an hour or so of waking up every morning, I gleefully think to myself, "I'm going to the Super Bowl!" But time now for today's links...  Plenty of rankings still being cranked out in FF land: Athlon/Grogan Postseason Player Rank...

I was walking to my local Trader Joe's (man, can I do a post solely dedicated to how much I love that place? Seriously, how is it so cheap and so tasty?) and I passed a denuded Christmas tree. It must have been trash day since there were Christmas trees lining the sidewalks everywhere, ready to be picked up and taken to tree heaven (one of the saddest sights) but I have never once seen a tree stump with all of the branches chopped off and bagged. Why would one do that? Truly, I'm looking for an answer here. Those branches weren't being kept for their aroma, they were being dumped in garbage bags alongside that sad and sorry Christmas tree stump. Who knows - but I think we can all agree that New Yorkers can come up with some of the most inventive and nonsensical solutions. Fortunately, we've got a bevy of very sensible and helpful fantasy football links for you today... The rankings and projections continue today though not with quite the same depth as earlier in the we...

I love this time of year - just when I'm accepting the fact that I've seen the last of my Northwestern Wildcats for the season, we get access to all of the NFL games going on this weekend. As a non-Sunday Ticket gal (not an option for us here), there's little that makes me happier than full-on access to all games; no picking and choosing needed, no being at the mercy of local matchups...love it.  Another thing I love? Playing in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge - keep your fantasy football season going by joining in on the fun (password: librarian). Anyway, it's a bright and sunny morning here in NYC (hey, we'll get above freezing!) and I've got a handful of playoffs articles for you: Playoff rankings are now starting to emerge all over the place - here are some of my faves: KFFL.com's Playoff Rankings Yahoo's Roto Arcade - Eleven Dart Throws: Your Fantasy Playoff Cheatsheet Razzball released the rest of their position rankings with WR, TE, D, ...

I'm getting more and more details about my crazy, awesome trip to the Super Bowl courtesy of my big win in the Buffalo Wild Wings All-Star Blogger League . Sounds like the BWW folks will be treating me very well and are doing what they can to bring me to various parties and events all weekend long - of course in addition to the big game itself. Can't wait. I will be blogging after each event on the league's website , so when the time comes, you'll definitely want to come by the site to read about my Super Bowl weekend exploits! Also if you are in the Miami area or are planning on being there for the SB, you are cordially invited to my big event with ESPN's Trey Wingo at the Miami Buffalo Wild Wings on Friday, February 5th. More details to come but we'll be giving away some really awesome stuff for those that can make it to the Miami BWW. Now don't forget to sign up for the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge (password: librarian) - you can win a trip to the 201...

Awesome news, my fantasy football friends - I won the Buffalo Wild Wings All-Star Blogger League and am gathering details on the incredible prize: a trip to Miami for the Super Bowl. I must admit that last night I was dancing around the house singing We Are the Champions (was considering a Freddy Mercury style onesie for the party I'll be co-hosting with Trey Wingo, until I remembered that JLo already rocked a onesie on the Dick Clark NY's Eve special, and another catsuit might be more than the world can handle). But if you, too, want to head to the Super Bowl, then why not enter the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge ? It's hosted by NFL.com and the winner of their entire NFL.com Playoff Challenge wins a trip to the 2011 Super Bowl. Add in the fact that the Bruno Boys are offering up a $25 gift card to Amazon to the winner of this FFLibrarian challenge, and you have a ton of reasons to participate. Sign up here (password: librarian) or e-mail me for an invitation. So c...

This is it friends! The end of the 2009 regular season, the last chance for fantasy football seasons to be won or lost. But remember, you can keep your season going by joining the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge (password: librarian) - email me if you have any trouble joining the league. Let's get right to this week's consensus start/sits, which frankly, have been all over the board. Remember I take a look at all the expert start/sit articles that I link to throughout the week and list which players have the most start or sit votes for the week. They are listed below in no particular order: QB Start: Jay Cutler, Alex Smith, Ben Roethlisberger Sit: Carson Palmer, Matt Cassel, Peyton Manning RB Start: Knowshon Moreno, Jonathan Stewart, Matt Forte, Frank Gore, Donald Brown Sit: Ricky Williams WR Start: Santonio Holmes, Roddy White, Sidney Rice, Devin Aromashodu Sit: Dwayne Bowe, Chad Ochocinco, Braylon Edwards TE Start: Greg Olsen, Jason Witten Sit: Todd Heap, Dal...

Happy Saturday - or should I say happy palindrome day (01022010). Was that just super number nerdy or what? Well it gets better from here on out since we'll be talking fantasy football numbers, my friends. I'll be honest, I'm a little on edge about my matchup tomorrow in the Buffalo Wild Wings All-Star Blogger league . If I win, I head to Miami to live blog the Super Bowl and throw a party with Trey Wingo of ESPN. How could I not be psyched about that possibility? Keep your fingers crossed for me! So let's take a look at today's links: It's Week 17 and we all know that means questions about the longevity of our studs' playing time - see what the Bruno Boys have to say in How Long Will Your Fantasy Studs Play in Week 17?   I'm sadly far behind in the weekly parlay bets with Fighting Chance Fantasy but this is the last week of a fun season of parlays. Good times! Some start/bench advice for the weekend: FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench List Fan...