Fantasy Football Librarian

Greetings, fantasy football friends. I've got the updated average rankings position spreadsheet for you this morning - and plan on being back tonight with some high quality links to help with your draft prep. For some background on the average rankings position spreadsheet, see this post from a few weeks ago . I've added in the Bruno Boys, so there's one more site averaged in here - and remember, this is based on top 100 overall rankings, but I've also divided it up to display within position rankings as well. If I can get my act together this week, I'll add a column to the spreadsheet that shows how much each player has moved since the last spreadsheet a few weeks ago, which is mostly just for my amusement really... But in the meantime, here's the updated version on Google Docs or shoot me an e-mail if you'd like the excel version.

I've got lots of links for you today that I've been culling all weekend. I also want to make sure you all know that my updated average rankings position spreadsheet will be updated later today and I'll either have it up tonight or tomorrow. I wanted to wait until the all-important Week 3 games were finished and I hope that's not too late for most of you with your drafts. Speaking of drafts, I have several this week (including the Buffalo Wild Wings League draft tonight!) and I know that many of you do, too. If you'd like an extra place to draft and try your hand at playing against me in a sense, head on over to RapidDraft.com where my rankings and draft strategies are used for one of their avatars . Plus if you are RapidDraft.com's big winner, there's a $100K grand prize and really, who couldn't use that? Let's get to today's links: First up this morning is a look at drafting strategy from Razzball - Drafting From Positions 5-8 . Having don

All week it has been one gray, soggy day after another here in NYC. No complaints really since it has kept the temperatures nice and cool (feels like fall is finally coming - and fall means football!), but the tides are finally turning and today is supposed to be a beaut. And I'll take it, especially since my mom and aunt are coming in for one final quick visit pre-baby, and showing off the city is done best when the weather is nice. As if I'll be walking for more than 10 minutes at a time these days....which leads me to talking about what you'll see on the blog here this fall. In case you can't tell, the impending birth of our child is pretty much constantly on my mind (he's due now in less than 1 month!) so I thought I'd give you all a little heads up about what's to come here over the next 6 weeks or so - not sure how much it matters to you all, but I want to do my best to convince you that I'll still be around and blogging this fall (perhaps just i

Morning everyone! Let's start the day off right with a little gift courtesy of FantasyFootballXtreme.com. They've given me the thumbs up to give away 5 draft kits to my readers this week...with the potential of more awesomeness to come next week. So if you are not already a FFXtreme subscriber and are one of the first 5 people to e-mail me , I'll put you in touch with FFXtreme so you can start reaping the benefits of their hard work. (Update: wow, you guys are impressive...within 15 minutes I had far more than 5 of you interested in the FFXtreme draft kit, so they have now been spoken for but glad you all are so interested!) If you don't win the draft kit this time around, stay tuned for more giveaways in the future. Or check out FFXtreme's Start/Bench analyzer , which will give you projected stats for the week as well as some handy notes with their fantasy take on that player (note: you do need to be logged in - free! - in order to take full advantage of this fe

I was on the train on my way home from some time spent in Boston to see my sister's new home, and was pleasantly surprised to find a close friend on the train a few rows ahead of me. What a small world. I love random happenstance like that...and there's always a taste of this sort of happy circumstance with fantasy drafts. You can go into drafts as prepared as can be, but there's likely to be some moment where one of your favorite sleepers has landed in your lap at exactly the right value point. And on the flip side, you should be prepared for your fantasy nemesis to snag all your picks right before you...repeatedly. So I highly recommend you mock, mock, mock as your draft day approaches to see upside in players you might not have originally considered. A few mock sites to check out include: Fantasy Football Calculator , Mock Draft Central , or Yahoo . Any other favorites out there? Some other sites to check out today: I say this every season, I think, but some of my fav

This might be another short post since my family is still in town - and this weekend I'll be traveling up to Boston, where my sister just moved last month for my last travels before the FFLibrarian Baby arrives next months. Boston, I'm hoping you'll treat me well with some cool weather... So it might take me a few days to get back to e-mails and such, which some of you might have already figured out! However, I had a journalist contact me who is looking for "a few office workers who take their fantasy football very, very seriously, maybe to the detriment of everything else in their life" for an article he's writing - if you fit the bill, send me an e-mail and I'll put you all in touch. Onto today's links: CBSSports.com's Sleepers, Breakouts and Busts endeavors to make you the guy or girl who just can't make a bad draft pick this year. Read up on reasons to love Bernard Berrian, Matthew Stafford, and Mike Williams this year. The sleepers

I've got family in town right now so today's post is going to be brief - but awesome. So you all probably know that I do an annual accuracy assessment of experts' rankings , comparing how they've ranked players during to preseason to how those players performed at season's end. Many of you have asked if I'll be looking at the accuracy of weekly rankings, and unfortunately it hasn't been something I've been able to do due to the time involved...but now, my friends, there's a site that has filled that gap and is an incredible complement to the season-long accuracy assessment. Last week FantasyPros.com released their accuracy awards for weekly rankings and I for one am extremely excited about this. A big kudos to Andy Behrens from Yahoo for being the #1 overall most accurate expert with his weekly rankings from the 2009 season - for the full list of how the experts did, take a look at FantasyPros.com's Expert Accuracy Rankings - 2009 . Though jus

Now that all of the Week 1 preseason games are in the books, we can start thinking a bit more about how injuries and outstanding players from this week might affect the season. Remember that's a big "might" though there's always something - or should I say someone - interesting that emerges during the preseason. So let's get right to it and read up on today's links: A great first place to start today - The Hazean's Notable Preseason Heroes to Date discusses some dudes you might want to keep an eye on. And of course after last night's NY/NJ teams showdown, you'll want to keep Giants rookie Victor Cruz on your radar as well - see Giants Rookie Cruz Shines With Three Touchdown Catches for more on that front. Roto Arcade's First down: Handoffs galore are in Spiller's immediate future takes a look at some developments from this weekend's games but I'm also on board with the conclusion here that grabbing an elite QB like Aaron Rodge

I'm happily curled up on the couch watching the Broncos vs Bengals game, wondering just how Tim Tebow is going to look tonight. I feel like I can admit to you all that I'm actually watching and enjoying preseason football, something not many can relate to...except perhaps our grocery delivery dude (yeah, I know, we're ridiculous for getting our groceries delivered but it's cheaper and easier than going to the grocery store! Really!) - he told me he felt that many preseason games were actually better than regular season games. Hmm. Not jumping on that bandwagon but I'm still pretty entertained right now. Lots of news though from this weekend's games so let's get tonight's links: And speaking of this weekend's news, let's hit a few of the player injury highlights from FFToolbox: Fitzgerald to be conservative with knee injury and Ryan Grant suffers head injury . Both pretty big names at their position, so stay on top of these news items. Plus b

Greetings, fantasy football fans. Today is a lovely day here in NYC - cooler and far more bearable for those of us who are a mere 6 weeks from delivering a child; plus I'm relishing the fact that my husband is such a smarty pants that he was quoted on NPR this morning; and of course...Preseason Week 1 has officially arrived! I hope you all enjoyed the games last night and are gearing up for 3 more games this evening. To get you all ready for the weekend, let's scope out some links for this fine Friday: Many of you have asked if I'll be expanding the average rankings position spreadsheet that I pull together each year to include PPR rankings. I'll take a look around and see if there are enough Top 100 PPR rankings to create something helpful or not, though one that I would definitely include is CBSSports.com's Our Top 200 for PPR Leagues . Also on the rankings front, Rotoworld continues to tweak the rankings in their draft guide and Shaking up the Rankings on P

It's time for the 2010 Average Rankings Position spreadsheet! I snagged the latest Top 100 rankings from 9 different websites and they're updated as of this evening, August 11th. I'll be conducting an update at the end of August for those of you who have drafts at the end of the month. The sites I looked at all provide their rankings for free on their sites and they include: Ask the Commish, CBSSports.com (note: CBSSports.com is providing 2 different sets of rankings this year), ESPN, FFToolbox, FOX Sports, KFFL, NFL.com, SI, and Yahoo. A few things to note about the spreadsheet: This is just an average of Top 100 players. I'll try and update the spreadsheet this weekend to reflect the ranking within position as well, so look for that update in the Google Docs version of the spreadsheet in the next few days. I tried to ensure that the experts all used the same scoring system (non-PPR) but many sites didn't note their scoring system at all. I pulled a

It was a long day at my real job today, my friends (yes, I do actually have a real librarian job for you newbies to the site), so the thought of all of the fantasy football drafts I've got coming up in a few weeks is certainly perking me up a bit tonight. I've been trying to limit the number of leagues I'm playing in this year without a ton of success and thought I'd mention a few of the more public leagues I'll be part of since they might be worth following as the season starts up. First up, as many of you know, I was the champion of the inaugural Buffalo Wild Wings Fantasy Football Blogger League and I won a trip to the Super Bowl - incredible. Can't say enough awesome stuff about that experience and I'll be back to defend my title this year. There's a BWW site dedicated to the league - right now it's all last year's content - but I recommend scoping it out for blog postings from the other players, who are just as impressive a crew as last yea