Skip to main content

FF advice: rankings, draft strategy, and more!

A week from tomorrow is the big move in my household...though "big" is all relative seeing as our new place is merely half a mile away; not quite the Boulder to NYC move we made last summer. But one of the best parts about this move is that we're switching around our cable tv a bit and will soon have access to the NFL Network. Many of you can understand how happy this makes me (sad but true...) - perhaps all of the packing and moving is worth it if only even for the football upgrade!

I've been a little quiet this week with kind of a lot going on here but I know we're getting to the heart of fantasy football prep season so don't worry, I've got you covered with some high quality links for your Friday afternoon entertainment.
  • More and more sites are cranking out their rankings (or just updating what they've already published) and another set of rankings you might want to scope out is from The Sports Outlaw - take a look here for their standard rankings or here for PPR rankings.
  • SI's Jay Clemons always packs his Fantasy Clicks articles chock full of awesome material. This week's The Search for Tomorrow's Sidney Rice is another great read with a smorgasbord ranging from rankings to schedule analysis to cold weather game thoughts.
  • A little focus on wide receivers now...
  • Or shift your thoughts to QBs with Fox Sports's QB draft strategy: Spend an early pick from Roger Rotter.
  • Those who have read this blog for awhile know that I love what the Football Outsiders do, so I highly recommend scoping out their annual FO Almanac. So much incredible stuff in there and it's available via PDF now (the print copy will be available in about 2 more weeks).
  • Clearly from all of the historical accuracy analysis I do here on FFLibrarian, I'm a fan of looking back a bit to previous seasons to try and inform our thoughts about the future. FFToday's Second-Half Awakenings looks back at 5 players who emerged with surprisingly solid performances at the end of the 2009 season, and examines their potential for 2010.
  • Many of you have asked for recommendations on where to play fantasy football this year and while I promised some thoughts on that front awhile back (I'm so full of promises), I'm having a hard time really believing that my individual experiences with sites are enough to persuade anyone. But I will say that when I play in fairly basic/standard (and free!) leagues, I'm quite pleased with what both CBSSports.com and Yahoo have offered in that realm. Meanwhile for the more complicated leagues, MyFantasyLeague.com offers so many options it's unreal. I polled you, my fine readers, to see which sites you found to be the tops and am going to leave the results of that poll up on the right side here for another week or two to let you know what sites your FF cohorts might like the best. That said, The Hazean has pulled together a nice Where to Play Fantasy Football in 2010 article also has some good suggestions. 
  • Finally, it wouldn't be the brink of fantasy football season without Matthew Berry's Draft Day Manifesto - as usual, an entertaining and thought-provoking read.
Labels:

Comments

Anonymous said…
Regarding the "multi-year accuracy", how did you analyze KFFL? They have a high and low listed for each category.
10:04 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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...
4 comments
Read more

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...
1 comment
Read more

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...
226 comments
Read more