Fantasy Football Librarian

I do love this time of year. Training camp is rolling, real news starts developing, football dramas are unfolding. You could fill your day with fantasy football prep. So why not start here? I've got a couple of pit stops for you if you're looking for training camp tidbits. Lots of good stuff here: Fantasy Guru's John Hansen updates his blog periodically - always a great place to scope out and right now he's got a helpful piece up for those needing news and updates from around the league: Thoughts from the first few days of camp . Rotoworld reviews some of the biggest position battles and how they seem to be shaking out thus far in Training Camp Battles . Speaking of the latest news, this Roto Arcade article on Mike Wallace and his contract situation is now a few days old but I think it still holds as of Monday morning in terms of being accurate. Could be very interesting if Wallace does indeed get traded.  Those of you in IDP leagues might find the following ar...

Training camp has arrived and it's time to ramp things up. And watch the Olympics. Love it. I'm back from vacation and ready to get some Friday links out for you: Here are a slew of updated/new rankings: Athlon Sports' Top 250 list TheDynastyGuy's Dynasty RB Rankings (for PPR) Fantasy Knuckleheads' Running Back Rankings includes brief player notes LestersLegends.com's WR Rankings FantasyPhenoms.com's RB rankings - lists up to the top 70 RBs CBSSports.com has been posting their suggestions of how to draft from each draft spot - they're at the 6th spot now but you can see all of the pick-by-pick strategies listed on this page as well.  SI has an interesting spin here - they took a look back at 2011 to see which players saw their stats suffer due to pass interference penalties. The Ravens lead the charge here - click here for the full details: Pass interference penalties hide number of underrated fantasy stars . I've got a few articles t...

Happy almost Friday. We're heading north to Boston to spend several days with my sister and her family. Should be awesome though she's got a 1-year-old so it should be 5 days of kiddo chaos. Speaking of chaos, send good vibes our way for a manageable plane flight with our active and spirited. I probably won't be around much for the next week or so, my apologies. In the meantime, while I'm gallivanting around Boston, remember that Fantasy Rundown does a good job of gathering daily links right here . Can Rotoworld's Mike Clay do the impossible? He takes a stab at Predicting Missed Games for all offensive skill positions.  CBSSports.com continues their review of what to do with each pick in a 12-team league draft - take a look at Strategies for second overall . For the most part I've seen a lot of sleeper talk and positivity regarding Greg Little so it's very interesting to see Fantasy Douche's Greg Little Comparables ; far from a Little lovefest. Ble...

I've heard from a bunch of you lately that are wondering when the multi-year accuracy results are coming out and here's the glitch: the laptop that holds the cleaned-up data files and the Stata program I use to run the analysis is dead. After exhausting our attempts to revive it, we took it to a computer guy this weekend and the hard drive is essentially gone. For a sizable chunk of money we can send it to a special facility to get the data off the hard drive but we've decided we'd rather put those funds into a new computer...essentially what this means is that I've had to re-clean up the data (done!) and now I just need to rely upon the kindness of my husband (and his ability to create some free time in his schedule) to run all of the numbers on his work computer since that's the only other place we have Stata. I've considered doing it all in Excel but I think that introduces the possibility of human error as I monkey with cut and paste to get it all up and...

Some news from the FFLibrarian household: we're commencing renovations on our house in a few weeks. As you guys might remember, we bought an awesome, old (I mean old ) house when we moved to Knoxville last year and there are certainly many quirks to be worked out. Biggest of all? The nearly 15 degree difference between the upstairs and downstairs. Or maybe the super ancient shower that elicited a "wow, haven't seen anything like this before" from our plumber. Anyway, we're finally working out some of the kinks, which should make for an interesting August and September (and perhaps longer...) especially for someone like me who typically works from home. Nothing goes with conference calls and football posts like a little construction noise. The Fifth Down has a nice, lengthy piece that looks at the various values and pitfalls you may find during your draft this year - Fantasy Football Draft Guide: How to Outsmart the Competition . Let's take a look at a few mo...

I have a love/hate relationship with summer. The hate mostly revolves around the heat and humidity, which thankfully are headed down a bit here in Tennessee for a few days. And mosquitoes. My sweet flesh doesn't exactly withstand bugs very well. But the love list is much longer and probably is made up largely of fruits that are in season this time of year. Seriously, I know this makes me sound like a crazy lady who loves talking about weather and produce (kind of true), but my love for peaches knows no bounds. Plus today I procured a quart of blackberries and was waltzing around like I'd won my fantasy league. Anyway, moving on from one delicious topic to another: cheat sheets. So one of my favorite site, FantasyPros.com, has created an awesome new site called Cheat Sheet Wizard . It combines the coolness of their customizable consensus rankings with the ability to easily make a cheat sheet, participate in mocks using your cheat sheet, etc. The best part though? It syncs with...

Hiyoooo, I'm back for some Friday fun. Read on if you need a fantasy football fix for the weekend: FantasySharks.com has something for your IDPers - a top 25 IDP Rankings: Cornerbacks . Or scope out their DT rankings here . I'm enjoying Draft Shark' Shark Bites as one of my frequent pit stops for news and analysis. The Pigskin Guy has a top 35 listing of Wide Receivers (PPR) for dynasty leagues - plus 9 rookie WRs you'll want to watch in the future. CBSSports.com is mocking away - see their latest CBS staff mock draft to see how things fell into place. Kind of intrigued with the idea of running a mock moving backwards from the ninth round - scope out how it goes in Rotoworld's Maximize Your Starting Lineup . Speaking of Rotoworld, if you been around this blog for long enough you've probably picked up on the fact that I'm just not a Philip Rivers fan and not much can change my mind on that. So I obviously really enjoyed Evan Silva's piece, Has P...

Here's hoping you all had a nice 4th of July. We spent a good chunk of time at the pool where a friend pointed out she had never seen our son laugh like he does in the water. Sounds like we've got a little dolphin on our hands. I encountered a small hitch in my accuracy analysis so let's just say that I'll have something up in the next few weeks, though I hope it will be long before then. I should probably stop making promises about its delivery date and jump right to today's links: Take a look at a couple of new rankings: Matthew Berry's Top 200 which includes a notation with positional rankings as well Gridiron-Guru's Rankings with projections - this link goes to QBs Razzball.com's Top 20 wide receivers I've got several strategy type articles for you guys: FantasySharks.com takes a look at 2 different drafting strategies for those drafting from the 8th pick spot, and which players you might want to target for the first six rounds in P...