Rank-o-rama

I absolutely love it when I have a full slate of articles to share with you guys - seriously, my browser is chock full of excellent analyses and pretty much everything you need to get psyched about the 2011 season (for those interested, at the time this post is published, there still isn't a deal yet...). Let's dive right in to today's links without further ado:

• Rankings, oh rankings - love 'em:
• When Yahoo is polishing up the rankings, you know the season can't be far behind - Big Board Top 100. If it's their positional rankings you seek, head here for their Preseason QB rankings (from there you can link to other positions as well).
• LestersLegends.com's 2011 Fantasy Football RB Rankings
• Razzball.com's 2011 Top 10 Fantasy Football Quarterbacks
• You all know I love stats, probably more than your average fantasy footballer and I'm sure I sometimes get carried away with stories that the stats tell. Rotoworld's When the stats deceive is a nice reality check - take a look for fluky stats/trends that might cause you to overdraft or underdraft a player.
• Jay Clemons has taken his fantasy talents to the National Football Post - check out his classic smorgasbord style of fantasy info in These Ten Commandments. Speaking of smorgasbord (and this is a complete aside from fantasy sports), those of you who happen to live in NYC ought to make a point of cruising by Smorgasburg, which we hit up in Williamsburg last weekend for some tastiness from local food vendors. I wasn't sure I was painfully cool enough to hang with the Williamsburg hipsters (cruising around with a baby is an automatic knock on that front), but the food offerings were great and the crowd was entertaining.
• A couple of free agent reads for you:
• FootballOutsiders.com's Bill Barnwell writes about Free Agents You Meet in Hell on Grantland.
• For more of a fantasy take on free agency, take a look at Roto Arcade's Traveling Band: DeAngelo leads list of potential NFL movers.
• Footballguys.com's Matt Waldman never disappoints with his weekly Gut Check article - read up on this week's Dangerous Plays - Running Backs for a look at 5 guys whose risk outweighs the reward at their current ADP. 
• We'll wrap things up with a draft strategy piece from 4For4.com - Assessing early round risk - which analyzes the strategy behind drafting a QB early.