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I've been remiss in getting this post up, my apologies. I've been busy with the usual: toddler, work, and more toddler. And of course there's the gray cloud of Just-One-More-Game-Left-This-Season hanging over my head...congrats, Pats and Giants fans. We had our son decked out in a tiny Welker jersey that my Patriots-loving sister sent our way so I guess I'm pulling for the Patriots. Mostly though I'm just hoping for an entertaining game. Last week I posted the results to the 2011 preseason rankings accuracy contest that I run each year - take a look at the write up on The Fifth Down: Fantasy Football Accuracy Rankings for 2011 . There were 46 sites that participated this year and I have them all list below in alphabetical order: 4for4.com Ask the Commish Bruno Boys CBSSports - Dave Richard CBSSports - Jamey Eisenberg Cheatsheetwarroom Draft Analyzer Draft Sharks ESPN FantasyFootball.com Fantasy Football Nerd Fantasy Football Sherpa Fantasy Football S...

Welcome to Conference Championship Week, my friends. I've been extremely busy over the past several days doing number crunching for my 5th annual rankings analysis. Every September I join forces with the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) and put out a call to fantasy football experts inviting them to submit their preseason positional rankings. I then compare the experts' rankings to the actual fantasy rankings at the end of the season and determine which expert was the most accurate. The results of the contest will be posted here with all sorts of detail on the top sites at each position and overall across the 4 offensive skill positions. There were 46 sites that participated this year and most of my favorites were included, so it's been a really fun contest to run yet again. The winner was announced at the FSTA conference late today and news will be flying around on Twitter I'm guessing. But come on back here for the details later in the week - stay tuned! In...

Earlier this week I flew to New York City for a meeting at work - I still work for a museum library up there even though I'm now living in Knoxville. It was surprisingly awesome to be back and I was a bit taken aback by how much I missed the city. But it also left me with zero spare time for blogging - and you all know how eager I was to write and celebrate the Broncos' victory last week. I won't blab on and on about it, don't worry, but I was truly impresse d with the caliber of play from several guys and am excited to see what they pull together this weekend. I've got a handful of divisional round links for you as well as a few items on 2012. Read on: Divisional round advice: ProFootballFocus.com's Here Comes Stevan Ridley   FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Division Weekend Or more projections at ProFootballFocus.com - Divisional Playoffs - Projections/Rankings FFToday.com's updated positional Playoff Fantasy Rankings For IDP advice th...

My husband is out of town for an economics conference in Chicago this weekend and just realized that he'll be flying home during the end of the games on Sunday. Sad for him. I'm planning on putting my son to bed for the night by 4:30 on Sunday so that I don't miss a second of what I assume will be a brilliant Broncos victory. Kidding, kidding, my son wouldn't go for that...and perhaps a Broncos victory isn't in the cards. But we shall see! A Bronco fan can hope, can't she?! A few more rankings and musings for the playoffs: Pyromaniac.com's Player Rankings for Playoffs Week 1 TOFantasySports' Wild Card QB Rankings NFL.com has a series that goes through the debates you might be having at who to start at each position - this link reviews the conundrum of who else to start at WR in the AFC other than Welker .  ProFootballFocus.com's The Playoff Predictor gives advice on who to start at each position be it this week or in the weeks beyond. I can...

After living in our new house for 5 months and only managing to paint 1 of the 6 rooms that needs a new coat of paint, we finally decided it was time to bring in a professional. For the past few days a dude has been here painting (and cutting us an awesome deal) - since I have been at home with our son (who is now finally feeling back to normal again) and also work from home, I've been immersed in paint fumes...let's hope those fumes aren't forcing me to make crazy lineup decisions for the Wild Card weekend games in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge . Fortunately the experts are out there with advice to help us through this weekend and beyond. For projections, scope out FantasySharks.com's Player Projections - Wildcard Weekend Those of you who play in uber leagues with IDPers will appreciate ProFootballFocus.com's 2011 Playoffs IDP Rankings . The Football Outsiders crew reviews a recent FO staff 8-round draft for the playoffs in Scramble for the Ball: Playoff Fan...

Happy postseason to you all. Glad to have you here and I'm assuming you're all playing in some sort of playoff fantasy league since you just can't get enough of this great game. If you need a playoffs league to play in, join the 250+ of us playing in the FFLibrarian Playoff Challenge ( e-mail me if you'd rather have an invitation e-mailed to you). We've had a sick baby on our hands for the past few days and things took a turn for the worse this morning with multiple rounds of baby puke. So we're on the slow recovery train here and I haven't had a ton of time for blogging - hopefully this link dump will make up for my absence over the past few days. First up, these articles offer up a little advice on how to approach a playoff league: CBSSports.com's Up for a challenge? offers up a potential lineup for Wild Card weekend NFL.com's Rodgers, Brees could lead you to Super Bowl XLVII! outlines some of the rules for the NFL.com playoff game, which i...

Welcome to the final week of fantasy football and thus the final installment of the consensus start/sit picks for the 2011 season. Hope you all found this feature helpful. There were far fewer start/sit articles out there this week so the following list is based on a more limited pool of sites. Good luck to those of you still playing! Oh and Happy New Year to all! QB Start: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Philip Rivers Sit: Aaron Rodgers, Matt Moore, Andy Dalton, Joe Flacco RB Start: Khalil Bell, Ryan Mathews, Rashard Mendenhall, C.J. Spiller Sit: Arian Foster, Shonn Greene, Cedric Benson WR Start: Steve Johnson, Malcom Floyd Sit: Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall TE Start: Brandon Pettigrew, Brent Celek Sit: no consensus DST Start: Falcons, Dolphins Sit: Cowboys, Bengals Kicker Start: Alex Henery, Robbie Gould Sit: Graham Gano