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It's a glorious day here - the weather is spectacular, it's a Friday, we've got a weekend full of football coming, and best of all it's my son's 1st birthday. He gave us all a little gift by sleeping in until the heavenly hour of 7:30. Yes, that's heavenly. And now it's already nap time again, though I just went in to check on him since he was quietly resting in his crib for a good 15 minutes (or so I thought) before suddenly getting riled up - it appears as though he spent that quiet time figuring out how to wiggle out of his blanket and take his pants off. Ahh, pants free. The dude is learning so many important life skills. Start/sit links continue: Fifth Down's Week 4 in Fantasy Football: Favorable and Unfavorable Matchups CBSSports.com's Week 4 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em The Hazean's Start & Sit, Week 4: Win a Fantasy Football T-shirt Ask the Commish's Sit or Start The Talented Mr. Roto's Opening up the ol' hatebag

Rumor has it last night was a wild one in the land of baseball . Not gonna lie, I'm not a huge baseball fan but my husband was flipping through the various games last night until we called it a night at the early we-have-a-baby-and-still-desperately-need-sleep 10:00 hour (hey, I'm pleased I made it that long)...but that was far before the drama finally unfolded at 1 AM. Hope those of you who watched it enjoyed the craziness and those who play fantasy baseball ended the season with a championship! Onto the bigger, badder, and better sport: football. First up, please head on over to FantasyPros.com's weekly start/sit challenge to represent FFLibrarian and demonstrate just how brilliant you all are when it comes to fantasy start/sit decisions. I've got plenty of start/sit links for you today and then some: Start/sit action for Week 4: LestersLegends.com's Start/Sit Week 4 Not Just a Game's Automatic/Don't Do It RotoExperts' Hot Freaks Roto Arcade

Our son turns 1 in a few days. One whole year. Unreal how fast it flew. We're now all stocked up on birthday presents and I felt some odd, rabid desire to buy my son any tiny thing he could possibly want while wandering the aisles of Toys R Us. Consumerism at its best worst, eh? Don't worry, I reigned myself in and decided a 1-year-old doesn't need a $200 car. I'm also fully aware that the boxes and wrapping paper will likely bring him the most joy of all - I tell you the giggles that come out of that boy when bubble wrap is involved would melt your heart a thousand times. So a couple of items before we get to today's linkage. First up, Pickemfirst is offering FFLibrarian readers a 20% discount on their Pro product that I gushed over a few weeks ago. Head on over for a season-long sub for $9. Also, a little update on the weekly accuracy challenge with FantasyPros.com . Friends, I bombed this week with my start/sit accuracy (probably because I was too busy res

You know it's going to be a good day when you're going to the pediatrician not once but twice. I know, I know, I'm sounding like a broken record these days with all my talk about sick babies, but hey it's 10 AM and we've already knocked off one trip to the doc for the day and have one sinus infection diagnosed. Later today we just go back to chat with a nutritionist to talk about ways to help beef up our lean little dude since he's tipping the scales at roughly the 1st percentile for weight. Now since this is all stuff that meant absolutely nothing to me pre-baby, I think it's time to carry on and head straight to today's football linkage. We've come to know and love FantasyPros.com for all of the awesome consensus material they bring us and this week they're trying a new feature - in Consensus Waiver Wire Rankings they asked a handful of pros to rank a group of potential waiver wire grabs at each position based on their value for the remainder

Below you'll find the consensus start/sit list for Week 3. Just a recap for newcomers: each week I go through all of the start/sit links that I provide on this site and tally up which players have the most start or sit votes and slap the consensus label on 'em. The following guys are listed in no particular order. QB Start: Matt Hasselbeck, Cam Newton, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Rex Grossman Sit: Eli Manning, Jay Cutler, Kyle Orton RB Start: Daniel Thomas, Ben Tate, Ryan Mathews, Fred Jackson Sit: Thomas Jones, Felix Jones, Joseph Addai, Steven Jackson, Beanie Wells, DeAngelo Williams, Cedric Benson, Tim Hightower WR Start: David Nelson, Mike Sims-Walker, Nate Washington, A.J. Green, Deion Branch Sit: Denarius Moore, Dwayne Bowe, Reggie Wayne TE Start: Evan Moore, Fred Davis Sit: Lance Kendricks DST Start: Cardinals, Chargers Sit: Texans, Bears K Start: John Kasay, Nick Novak Sit: David Akers

Greetings to the good state of South Carolina. We've cruised our way through Greenville to Columbia to Charleston, probably leaving a trail of baby-fied crumbs, half-eaten food, and gnawed-on straws and coffee lids in our wake. We're doing a little regrouping before wedding festivities begin and scads of my husband's relatives arrive on the scene. Fortunately that leaves a little time for posting, too, so let's get right to today's links: Get these guys on your radar - Roto Arcade's Deep Posts: Seven lightly owned fantasy options, for the watch list . Razzball.com's The Fantasy Football Backup Plan: Week 3 is for those of you who have landed in a place called "general suckery" and perhaps found the first article I linked to extremely helpful. Though the TEs in particular here, not too shabby. Razzball.com's Week 3 Rankings and don't forget their IDP Rankings for the week, too. Start/sit action: ProFootballWeekly.com's Start or

Before we get to the meat and potatoes today I'd like to actually put out a request to fantasy football content providers: I'm in search of some freely available rest-of-season rankings. I look for these every year but pretty much the only destination seems to be Yahoo's Shuffle Up & Deal rankings, which are great and should come out in a few weeks. But if you've learned anything about me from reading this site, you know I like having lots of articles/rankings/whatever to read. So if anyone knows of other free rest-of-season rankings, please leave a comment for us all with the details. Otherwise, experts, start ponying up those rest-of-season rankings and you're sure to have more readers. Many thanks again for participating in the FantasyPros.com weekly accuracy challenge that pits you fine readers against readers of other sites/forums. We came in 7th again as you'll see here though our consensus win percentage and points put us on top. Time to get rollin

Tomorrow we are hopping in the car and driving to Charleston for a family wedding. Actually let's scratch that and say that tomorrow we will be lugging bags (including a tiny pair of baby pinstripe pants that I somehow managed to hem; looks like a blind monkey got hold of the needle and thread though...), a pack n play, a ridiculous quantity of snacks and toys, and we will slowly make our way out of town at a time that meshes best with our son's nap schedule. But coming along with us will be my laptop, so never fear, posts will happen over the next few days - they might just come at odd times. Off to the races, my friends: Waiver wire suggestions: Before you start dropping dudes like flies, take a look at Athlon Sports' When do you drop a player? which includes suggestions on players you'll want to keep and drop at this point in the season. Or scope out their IDP Waiver Wire advice . USA Today's Waiver wire targets could make difference Fake Team's Waive

My husband and I play in 3 fantasy football leagues together and without fail, no matter how awesome or typically dominating my team is, I inevitably lose to him a disproportionate amount of the time. It's unfortunate for me and (I assume) pretty awesome for him. This past week was no different and largely thanks to Dustin Keller's solid points, I fell short of defeating him. Again. I will triumph one of these days... Lots of waiver advice out there so let's jump in: Waiver linkage: Fantasy Football Fools' Give me Denarius Moore like this, Week 2 Waiver Wire Athlon Sports' Waiver Wire Week 3 ProFootballWeekly.com's Fantasy Ticker: Week 3 ProFootballFocus.com's Waiver Wire - Week 3 The Hazean's Sneaky Waiver Wire Adds After Week 2 FantasySharks.com's IDP Waiver Wire: Week 3 KFFL.com's waiver wire advice comes to us position-by-position - QB: Week 3 Razzball.com's Week 3 Waivering Wire Pyromaniacs.com's Pickups and Drops  - Afte

Wow, the injuries came pouring in yesterday, which means I'm sure plenty of you are scrambling for a back-up plan today. Let's jump right into today's game recaps and waiver wire suggestions - there will be plenty more to come tomorrow, too: Hands down one of the best summaries of the games each week comes from Roto Arcade's Sunday Scene - great place to go for injury news and fantasy insights of the week. Another spot for an overview of important news from yesterday is Razzball.com's JC Superstar, why have you forsaken me? Or the injury update from Rotoworld's Injuries: Jamaal is closed. And in case you need someone to replace the gap left by Charles, Athlon Sports' Jamaal Charles Out For Year, Here's Five Guys to Save Your Fantasy Season should be of some help though note that few are actually RBs. Lots of waiver news for you if you need some injury replacements: The Hazean's Waiver Wire Adds After Week 2 Not Just a Game's Post Week 2

Here is your list of Week 2 consensus start/sit suggestions. For those new to this feature, each week I go through the start/sit articles that are linked here on the blog and tally up the number of start or sit votes that each player gets. Take a look at this list to help aid in some last minute lineup decisions - note that players are listed in no particular order. QB Start: Rex Grossman, Matt Schaub, Matthew Stafford, Ben Roethlisberger, Jay Cutler Sit: Matt Cassel, Cam Newton (absolutely everyone wants you to sit Newton), Matt Ryan, Donovan McNabb RB Start: Peyton Hillis, Cedric Benson, James Starks Sit: DeAngelo Williams, Mark Ingram, Marshawn Lynch, Maurice Jones-Drew, Chris Johnson, Knowshon Moreno WR Start: Santonio Holmes, Santana Moss, Mario Manningham, Robert Meachem Sit: Chad Ochocinco, Mike Thomas, Dwayne Bowe, Steve Smith CAR (though he also had several "start" votes, so really take your pick; this one could really go either way) TE Start: Owe

Shortly after I pressed "publish" on my post here yesterday, I got the dreaded call from daycare informing me that my son was running a fever and could I come get him. Again? Seriously, this baby is sick again? Last night I became convinced that I spawned some crazy version of a human that can't live for more than 2 weeks without acquiring some sort of unseemly germ or un-daycare worthy fever...and then this morning (seemingly refreshed despite the wakeups that our son peppered into the night hours), I remembered that this is probably just the status of all babies. They have tiny little hands and goobery little mouths and both are all over the place, so it's a wonder that our son is ever healthy at all. And frankly, the little dude seems just fine other than his head warmth, plus now that we live near in-laws, we've got some help here today letting me get some real library work and not-so-real FFL work done...so I really can't complain. But if we've got a

It's a cool, damp day here in Tennessee and I for one am psyched to break out the ol' fall wardrobe. Perhaps this doesn't ring true with the mostly male audience here, but this chick loves a day when you can break into clothes that have gone unworn for months and bust out the jeans and sweaters. One thing I'm not going to love about the fall though? Being in charge of raking of my own leaves for the first time in my adult life. Have I mentioned that we're trying to mow our lawn entirely with a trimmer to avoid buying a lawn mower? Yeah, that's how into our lawn we are. Anyway, lawn maintenance aside, the Week 2 start/sit challenge with FantasyPros.com is up and running. I'd love it if you all would go to this link and make 10 of the more challenging start/sit choices of the week to show just how smart FFLibrarian readers are. Once again we'll be up against a bunch of other readers/forums (note that FantasyPros.com has tweaked their scoring system sli

So last week I asked you all to represent the FFLibrarian site in FantasyPros.com's weekly start/sit accuracy challenge, and wow, did you ever respond. Over 1100 of you participated (the most of any of the sites involved!) and I'm just floored by your participation. Our accuracy as a group tied for 7th with a 60% accuracy rate. Not too shabby but obviously we can do better. I'll have the link up for the Week 2 challenge as soon as its available and I hope even more of you will join in. Check out the results here - and you can also scope out how the various experts did on these exact same questions using the Pros tab. Note that as a group we would have come in as the 10th most accurate among the expert pros. Nice work, team. Now onto today's linkage: Start/sit for Week 2: FFToolbox.com's Week 2: Start 'Em and Sit 'Em   FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench - Week 2 Roto Arcade's Flames: Don't Laugh, Grossman is start worthy in Week 2 FFManiaxs&

Ugh. I'm watching the Broncos v Oakland game on DVR right now (couldn't quite make it past the 1st quarter last night) and it's just not pretty. Sad for this Broncos fan. At least fantasy football worked out a bit better for me than real football this week, but like many of you, I could always use some roster tweaks. So let's head on over to the slew of waiver wire links that are cropping up around fantasyland: Waiver wire chit chat: If you were also an early-to-bed type like me and need a little MNF wrap-up along with waiver advice, then head on over to Razzball.com's Monday Night Recap and Waivering Wire Twofer! Rotoprofessor.com's Week 1 Aftermath: Cam Newton, Cadillac Williams and more Pigskin Addiction's Waiver Wire Week #1 The Hazean's Sneaky Week 1 Waiver Wire Adds ProFootballFocus.com's Waiver Wire - Week 2 ProFootballWeekly.com's Fantasy Ticker: Week Two Athlon Sports' Waiver Wire Week 2 IDP waiver wire links: FantasySh

Gotta love a Monday night with two games, baby, two games! And of course my beloved Broncos are playing which makes it that much sweeter. Now yesterday I was looking forward to a full day of pretty much just football. Yeah those of you with kids are already laughing since you know how delusional that is. Last fall our little dude was so little that he basically slept, ate, or was otherwise immobile during games. Not so this year since he's now walking and climbing stairs, not to mention constantly attacking the trash can, fridge, dishwasher, doors, cabinets, basically anything that can be opened or closed. It's non-stop madness in our house so football (mostly the RedZone channel) came with a heavy, heavy dose of baby monitoring. And painting. Yup, babies and painting - great combo, eh? As many of you know, we've been in our new house for about a month now and after weeks of having paint samples up on the walls, we're slowly starting to paint the house. This of course

Happy weekend and welcome to the first consensus start/sit list of the 2011 season. For those who are new to the blog this season, this consensus start/sit is not my own list on who to start or sit, but instead is a tally from all these great links you've read throughout the week. I go through each of these start/sit sites and record which players got the most votes as a start or sit. It's basically a consensus from the experts on which players you should start or sit, outside of the obvious studs and duds. It goes without saying I'm sure, but as always take into account your own team makeup and scoring system when making these decisions. Without further ado, your Week 1 consensus start/sit players listed in no particular order.  QB Start: Kyle Orton, Matthew Stafford, Josh Freeman Sit: Sam Bradford, Joe Flacco, Jay Cutler RB Start: DeAngelo Williams, Beanie Wells, Tim Hightower Sit: Michael Turner, Felix Jones, Marshawn Lynch WR Start: Santonio Holme

What a bang to start the 2011 season. There's going to be lots of love for Randall Cobb on the fantasy scene after last night's game ( should you grab him off waivers? ) and there was already plenty of love for Cobb here in Knoxville, which is right around the corner from Cobb's hometown. I love this time of year; stars appear and the waiver clamoring begins! Just a reminder to head on over to FantasyPros.com's 10 start/sit questions to represent the FFLibrarian - show what you've learned here with all these awesome links and demonstrate your great fantasy knowledge. The link will be up until Sunday's games start and I'll be reporting back with how we all do compared to other sites out there! Plenty of start/sit links for you all today and remember that I should have my consensus start/sit advice up by tomorrow at the latest. Start/sit links: Athlon Sports' Week 1 Start or Sit The Hazean's Start & Sit , Week 1: No Peyton Manning, No Arian

I have so much awesome fantasy football material for you guys today, it's off the hook. Okay, I've never actually used the phrase "off the hook" - sound natural or what? If a librarian can't pull it off, who can? Let's start with something I'm really excited about...I mentioned this a few weeks ago but the guys at FantasyPros.com are creating a season-long accuracy competition between various FF site readers (and experts!) based on how well you can nail some tough start/sit questions. So I'm asking you guys to head to this link and answer 10 questions sometime between now and Sunday morning, showing off your fantasy acumen. I'll be linking to different start/sit questions from FantasyPros.com every week and it should only take a few minutes of your time. Put your fantasy thinking cap on and make me proud! Next up, lots of giveaways today. I'm giving away 5 more Pickemfirst Pro subscriptions (see my post from yesterday if you don't know

Tomorrow. Tomorrow is the big day! I got a little giddy last night looking at all of the start/sit links that are pouring in...I absolutely adore this time of year and I hope you all do as well. Tomorrow is a full day for me - I'm actually doing nothing but posting on here and gathering submissions/rankings from sites participating in our preseason accuracy challenge. And baking banana bread due to an overflux of bananas in our house. But that's neither here nor there: mostly I'll be fantasy footballing. Can't wait. First up, if you're not using Pickemfirst , you're missing out. I've gushed over this free product before and I'll do it again - after you've installed their handy tool and easily set it up to access your team/league rosters, if you're reading one of these waiver wire articles or injury news, a little icon will appear letting you know whether or not that player is available in your league. It's nothing short of awesome. Se

It has been raining alllllll day long here in Tennessee. Raining like I've never seen it rain in my life. Our new old house has shown us it has a few small weaknesses to water/flooding, but fortunately nothing too bad. I've also spent a great long weekend with lots of family around and a good chunk of college football. Add in the anticipation of Week 1 games being just 3 days off and life is very good, my friends. I know I've got one last draft tomorrow night but I'm guessing many of you have wrapped up your draft already and are looking for some Week 1 advice. Let's see what we've got out there: I've got a linkfest over to Roto Arcade with 3 articles worth your read: The Peyton Manning disaster is outlined in their Totally unconfirmed report (updated): Peyton Manning may need additional surgery . While ruminating over the Peyton situation, keep in mind how often a Colts player listed as doubtful has played. Basically never ( per Aaron Schatz of Footbal

Oh readers, I'm rolling into the long weekend with a gigantic ol' cold. Hit me like a ton of bricks this morning when I woke up and I've just been sniffling and sneezing my way through the day, trying to get these links up but losing focus in between glasses of Emergen-C, tea, and OJ. So much liquid to consume, so little time. But this is a huge drafting weekend and I know you're all looking for that extra edge for draft day, so let's get right to it: With nearly all the preseason games in the books, it's a great time to take a look at some of the players who have been the talk of the fantasy town...but perhaps aren't worth it in Beware the Preseason Hype . Some more guys that come with major red flags are listed in FantasyAlarm.com's 2011 Fantasy Football Busts . Overlook the fact that they initially have Hillis down as a Bronco. Just 1 Bronco per bust list, please.  It's also time for Matthew Berry's annual ten lists of 10 . If you haven&#

I realized recently that I haven't done nearly enough promotion of my annual accuracy contest that I run in conjunction with the FSTA and a site called The Most Credible . As you all probably know by now, for several years I've been comparing experts' preseason positional rankings with end-of-the-season rankings, and I crown one site the most accurate for the season. The reigning champ are the Bruno Boys for preseason rankings and Draft Sharks for preseason projections. This contest is open to all in the fantasy football industry who publish positional rankings - all sites have to do is just submit their rankings to me as outlined in the contest link above, so encourage your favorite sites to participate! To the linkage: Speaking of rankings, take a look at the FF Geek Blog's 2011 Preseason fantasy football rankings , which are divided up by position. There's been much hoopla over the Arian Foster situation - catch up here with Roto Arcade's review of it