Fantasy Football Librarian

Okay, stay with me here readers...I'm coming at you fast and furious with a bunch of links thrown up with very little commentary. I've got a sleeping baby on the verge of waking up and an auction draft + a dynasty draft tonight to prep for. Chaos, friend, chaos. For anyone else looking for auction assistance, here are a few links I'm scoping out today: Razzball.com's Non-PPR auction values, tiers, and drafting cheat sheet . Don't forget Doc's auction strategy post that I think I linked to earlier this month, too. If I didn't, I should have. FantasyFanPlay.com's A Fist Full of Dollars FakeTeams.com just posted their wide receiver rankings yesterday - only goes 40 deep but that should get you through the first half of the draft I hope.  I heart tiers: Rotoworld's Quarterback Tiers of Heaven Get target-licious with RotoProfessor.com's Looking for Value From Last Season's Top 20 Targeted Receivers . A few names that stick out for me?...

There's nothing quite like getting a call from your child's daycare while your child is supposedly safely ensconced in the safety of their care...which is precisely what happened to me yesterday morning. After our initial phone pleasantries, I paused, waiting for his teacher to tell me what horrible event had befallen our son. I think for a moment there my heart stopped and I wondered why she sounded so calm when she was clearly about to tell me that our son was hospitalized with a missing head or something equally tragic. But no, it was far more minor: he had caught a virus going around daycare and could I come pick him up. Not a huge deal but after a lengthy visit to the doctor (oh and have I mentioned that our new health insurance doesn't actually kick in for a few more days?) and a long day of missed naps and general grumpiness from all parties involved, I missed my chance to get a post up yesterday, my apologies. But hey, Monday is always a slow day on the fantasy anal...

I've got your updated 2011 Average Rankings Spreadsheet , my friends. Read my post from earlier this month for all the appropriate warnings and remember to use this wisely. I do have a few changes though this time around - I've included Razzball.com and ProFootballFocus.com and dropped FOX since they hadn't updated their rankings since July. July?! No dice. Only the best for you all. I also snagged way more than 100 rankings per your request so there are now a whopping 280 names. I'm sure you may find an error or something bizarre in here, but hopefully those are limited - do let me know if you see something though. I will say that somehow one site ranked kicker Dan Carpenter 103rd overall, which shot him way, way up the average rankings...he does not belong where he is listed. I can say that unequivocally and it's an excellent lesson for why you must use your brain and own opinions here, too. I'm currently adding in bye weeks, which I know is something that ...

As promised, I've been working on an updated average rankings spreadsheet - last night I gathered all of the updated rankings and today I'll be cleaning the names up and plunking it all into Stata, which is the program I use to help the analysis go much more quickly. I hope to have it all wrapped up and ready to be dispersed by tomorrow afternoon...assuming my son's nap schedule allows for a bit of work to be done! But before all that, we have a handful of links: Lots of Matthew Stafford love from the experts out there. Read up on FantasyPros.com's Who Will Break Through in 2011? for five experts' takes on the RB3, WR3, and up-and-coming QB that have the best chance for breaking through into the top 12 at their position this year. ProFootballWeekly.com offers up both Running back sleepers and Running back busts (including a list over overvalued players). Fairly standard suggestions here but it is worth noting that Delone Carter seems to be appearing on more an...

Based on my twitter feed, it seems as though the football world is ablaze with Peyton and Kerry Collins news . Catch up if you haven't already heard and, yes, I'm in the camp that thinks this is not great news but probably thanks to the Peyton-awe that's been drilled into me by my dear Peyton-worshiping husband, I don't think this is worth too much hemming and hawing. By the way, how is Collins only 38? Seems like he ought to have at least a decade on me minimum. Also by the way, Peyton has 5-month-old twins. Dang if that isn't a lot going on in the ol' Manning house. Lots of other stuff going on: A few rankings for you all on this fine Wednesday: The Sports Outlaw's Draft Prep pre-season rankings Razzball.com's Non-PPR 2011 Cheat sheet , printable and all For you, my IDPers, 2011 Redraft IDP Rankings: Defensive Backs from IDP Manor Athlon Sports offers up their Sleepers & Busts, this link goes to Running Backs . Far more sleepers than bu...

There is something alive in our fireplace. We've had a big moving box pressed up against the fireplace ever since we moved in a few weeks ago and discovered that one of our cats could easily jump up in the fireplace and half-disappear. So we've got the moving box all set up as a classy but effective baby and cat gate...and apparently a critter gate now, too, since there's been something fluttering or scratching around in there for a few hours. Being the uber girly girl that I am when it comes to bugs, vermin, or anything else that could appear in our fireplace, I have left whatever is in there to just stay there until my backup (my husband) comes home. Fingers crossed that the possible racket that's about to ensue as we unveil the fireplace critter won't wake our sleeping baby (nothing is more precious in our household than a sleeping baby...except maybe a critter-free fireplace). So that's the kind of fun taking place at the FFLibrarian household tonight. Hop...

Oy. Had my first draft of the season this weekend and all I can think of now are the things I'd do differently. I only had time to do one mock draft beforehand and let me tell you, it takes more than that to get the cobwebs out...even for someone who is constantly reading FF info all offseason. So I can't encourage you enough to swing by either your league hosting site, Mock Draft Central , Fantasy Football Calculator , or any other number of sites for easy mocking. I know you're all busy people but if you can squeeze in a mock or two, you'll be grateful you did come draft day. Anyway, I participated in the FFNerd's awesome Experts League (part of the reason it's so awesome is that the Nerd is making a donation to the league champion's charity of choice) and you can find the results of the draft here . I will note that late in Round 6 there was some chatting during which it was discussed that our flex spot includes QBs. The commish had made this very clea...

Monumental stuff here in the FFLibrarian household: our 10.5-month-old broke out his moves yesterday and started walking. Big time. It's pretty amusing stuff, too, the way he wags his arms as he's walking, finding that sweet spot where he's balanced enough to move forward. I can only assume that he's so excited about football season being just a few weeks off that he's celebrating by toddling around the house. We've got plenty to get today so let's have at it: First up, based on my inbox I can guarantee that many of you have questions about your drafts or keeper leagues, so may I direct you to Rotoworld's Live Chat today at 1 PM eastern with Evan Silva. Evan is pretty awesome, so I promise you'll be getting good advice. National Football Post's The Next Big Thing is full of classic Jay Clemons stuff - a wide array of fantasy musings. Some highlights include a look at the top 7 picks of 2011, a ranking of the top 50 RBs, a look back at Jay...

As you regular readers know, my family just moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, for my husband's new job teaching at the university here. When we came for a house hunting trip, we were in town for about 3 days and made some fast decisions, including making an offer on our great, old, character-laden, 1899-built, beautiful, OLD house. Did I mention it's old? And when we moved in, the neighbors next door told us they thought it had fallen into foreclosure since the previous owner had clearly just let the place go on the outside. The backyard is literally a jungle. Apparently kudzu and Virginia creeper have combined forces and attacked what used to be a normal yard. There's even a gazebo out there that's so covered in vines and leaves that you can barely make it out. Sometimes that's how it is with the fantasy football landscape, too - there are just so many players and so much advice that it's impossible to make out the best plan for attacking your draft. Hence my aver...

This weekend my brother- and sister-in-law came into town along with their daughter who is just a few months younger than our son. So in between the preseason games we had a babyfest of a weekend replete with baby pools, double strollers, and more photos than I thought possible. Ah, how things are so different than just one year ago. Hope you all enjoyed the first preseason games. A couple of summaries for you if you missed anything: WalterFootball.com's NFL Preseason Recap and Fantasy Football Notes: Week 1 Roto Arcade's First Down: Overlooked Hightower one of 10 preseason takeaways MMQB looks back at the weekend games and other musings from training camp in With their even-keeled leaders, the Packers could very well repeat Big congrats to Matthew Berry on his new family - go read the article to find out what major change is en route this fall, or to read his annual preseason Love/Hate article. And yes, you will find far more lovin' this year: More Love than Hate ...

Let the waiting list begin! If you'd like to play in the 2011 FFLibrarian Monster League, please send me an e-mail ASAP. I'll be taking players on a first-come, first-served basis. Just a heads up that MyFantasyLeague.com, which has generously comped our gigantic league on their platform, is having some issues with e-mails getting through to Yahoo accounts right now so if you have a Yahoo e-mail, please send me another account for communications with MFL.com. In the meantime, here are just a few links to get you through the weekend: Once again I'll be running my experts' rankings accuracy contest and will be posting more about that as the deadline approaches (all of you in the FF content provider world are welcome to participate), but in the meantime, check out what Fantasy Pros have done in this realm . They use a different methodology and focus in on specific experts rather than sites in general (so they have multiple rankers from FootballGuys.com for example), b...

Nice to see you again, old friends. Yes, I'm talking to you, preseason games. I know, it's not actual NFL action to most of you...but come on, you can't really hide your excitement can you? ProFootballFocus.com has a nice Preseason Primer with info on tonight's games and what you'll want to look for from each team. I've got tons of material for you today. I was busy yesterday with the 2011 Average Rankings Position Spreadsheet that I posted last night so I have basically two days' worth of content for you now. Let's have at it. Remember Fantasy Pros? The guys who did some awesome weekly accuracy analysis? They've got lots of tricks up their sleeves and I thought I'd send you over to two recent articles from them: Love or Hate? Greene, Bowe, Freeman, and Holmes - one of the awesome things that Fantasy Pros is doing is tracking 50 different experts' rankings for every player and displaying the various rankings on every player's page...

Greetings, fantasy football fans and welcome to the 2011 Average Rankings Position Spreadsheet. Last night I trolled around the web and gathered top 100 overall rankings from 10 sites and have averaged them together into a handy dandy spreadsheet for you. The rankings come from: ESPN, CBSSports.com, NFL.com, SI, FFToolbox.com, Yahoo!, KFFL, FFCalculator (ADP), FOX Sports, and Ask the Commish. I will update these rankings at the end of August for those of you who draft closer to the start of the season. A few things to note before we get to the spreadsheet itself: This is just an average of Top 100 players across all positions. 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 all of these r...

For the past several years I've been running a Monster FFLibrarian League with readers competing against each other in a 6-conference, 72-team league. I've had several questions about whether or not that will be happening again this year and yes, my monster league-lovers, it will. Later today I will send out an e-mail to all of last year's participants to see if you're interested in playing again. You will have until Friday night to let me know if you'd like to play again this year and on Saturday I will open the league up to any newcomers. As with last year, 1 of the 6 conferences will be done in e-mail style (the rest will be live online drafts), hopefully starting next Monday, August 15th. I will also be asking for 6 conference leaders again - if you played in the league last year and are willing to be a conference leader to help with the draft and any questions that come up during the season, please e-mail me ASAP. Without conference leaders I won't be able...

Dropping my son off at a new daycare this morning went like this: "Have a great day, love you, see you in a few hours" with a wave goodbye, then watching the little guy wail like he was losing his fantasy football championship game as I walked away...then finally stopping the already excruciatingly long wave goodbye and turning away, walking out the door. Sometimes it just ain't easy to do the everyday things, eh? Good thing there are fantasy football links to keep our spirits up! I love tiers. Next to offensive line rankings, they're my favorite fantasy football article that I provide. Gotta love a day with both tiers and o-line material. Let's start things off with Razzball.com's 2011 PPR Drafting Tiers . And then jump right over to the o-line action from CBSSports.com - Draft Prep 2011: Setting the lines . If you've been on vacay or just haven't paid an iota of attention to the free agency action out there, swing by the Fifth Down's Fantasy...

I've been lost in a world of unpacking (43 boxes) and replenishing (big trip to Walmart, an experience of superstore gigantic-ness that we hadn't had since prior to our move to NYC a few years ago...for better or for worse). My apologies for the slow posting this week - I'll be back on track soon, I hope. Starting next week I'll be gathering top 100 rankings from a variety of sites as I do every August ( here's 2010 for an example ), and will be putting together my 2011 Average Rankings Position Spreadsheet. I'll have one version up next week and another updated version available at the end of August. As you can see from last year's final spreadsheet, I included the following sites: Bruno Boys, ESPN, FFToolbox.com, CBSSports, FOX Sports, KFFL, NFL.com, SI, Yahoo, and Ask the Commish. If there are any other sites that should be included (that provide Top 100 rankings), please leave a comment with your suggestion. Now let's get right to today's lin...

Well we've made it to Knoxville with everyone's sanity still intact (at least I think the cats are still sane; hard to say for sure). We've got lots of activity coming up in our new house over the next few days as our furniture/moving boxes and new appliances are delivered...and drum roll please...as we buy a new car since we were car-less for the past 2 years in NYC. Lots of big purchases; I feel we're singlehandedly shepherding the economy along these days. Let's get right on over to today's fantasy football links: Free agency news continues to roll in, as does the analysis: PFT takes a look at whether or not the Kyle Orton to Miami trade is really over in Conflicting reports emerge on whether Orton-to-Miami deal is dead . Obviously of interest to this Broncos fan... ProFootballFocus.com's Free Agency 2011: Five Days. Five Winners. Five Losers . Roto Arcade's First Read: Hightower traded to Washington, and other RB moves National Football Post...