Fantasy Football Tips

[Ade Jimoh Fan Club]

I know there are some fantasy football nuts out there besides myself. My question to the forum is: what websites do you use that you find to be the most helpful in your research, especially in who to start/bench each week and injury updates?

I'm talking about free sites - not those millions of websites where you have to pay $$ every month or for the season just to access their sites.

I know there are some gems out there - so please share them with us.

Right now, I use three sites - but know that there are more out there:

New Blogger

Player Updates

Bench/Start

[MTK]

I was going to suggest fanball but I see you already have it

[joecrisp]

Yahoo! is nice too, since they pool all the updates from fanball, STATS Inc, and KFFL, which are some of the top fantasy update sites. That's one of the things I really like about doing our leagues with Yahoo!.

[FRPLG]

The sites you listed are as good as any I have found. Each year I play the more and more I rely mainly on my own tools mainly with just the internet sites augmenting them. What kind of tools do you use to draft? Do you just buy a magazine and use their list or do you put together you own list with some type of analytical work involved? By the way I'd love to get a good discussion going on how everyone drafts and makes decisions. I bet we get 100 different ways and it is always good to hear what others are doing.

[Daseal]

I always make my own list, but I do buy a magazine more for depth charts, schedules, etc for the season. Helps if you're in a crunch to get that information quickly.

[MTK]

I buy one mag, Fantasy Football Index. I read the thing cover to cover and I receive the daily fanball updates to stay on top of injuries, position battles, etc. That's about the extent of my draft prep, I don't really make a list anymore, but in my head I know what I like to do and I pretty much go from the gut. That can be good and bad.

[Ade Jimoh Fan Club]

These are the pillars of my draft theory:

Pillar 1: Draft RB's early - no shit!
Pillar 2: I always draft at least one Redskin and never a Cowboy - I don't care if Ladanian gets traded to Dallas and I have the first pick. (by the way, this habit of drafting redskins has hurt me in the past few years).
Pillar 3: Draft a sleeper in Round 5 or 6.
Pillar 4: Pick one rookie - only one!
Pillar 5: Never draft a WR if he's the only draftable WR on his team.
Pillar 6: Never draft a player with a girl's name (exception - Shannon Sharpe).

[backrow]

Originally Posted by Ade Jimoh Fan Club

These are the pillars of my draft theory:

Pillar 1: Draft RB's early - no s*#%^!
Pillar 2: I always draft at least one Redskin and never a Cowboy - I don't care if Ladanian gets traded to Dallas and I have the first pick. (by the way, this habit of drafting redskins has hurt me in the past few years).
Pillar 3: Draft a sleeper in Round 5 or 6.
Pillar 4: Pick one rookie - only one!
Pillar 5: Never draft a WR if he's the only draftable WR on his team.
Pillar 6: Never draft a player with a girl's name (exception - Shannon Sharpe).

I'm not sure I understand why on pillars 2-6.

I will only take a Dallas "D", after last year. No other 'roids, and I exclude all druggies like QC & R. Williams.
Why one Rook?
Why not the WR if he is the only draftable WR on his team?
There are a lot of girls names. Sean Salisbury, Shaun King, Ade Jimoh, etc.
HeHateme, Adelwale Ogunleye!

[Ade Jimoh Fan Club]

Originally Posted by backrow

I'm not sure I understand why on pillars 2-6.

I will only take a Dallas "D", after last year. No other 'roids, and I exclude all druggies like QC & R. Williams.
Why one Rook?
Why not the WR if he is the only draftable WR on his team?
There are a lot of girls names. Sean Salisbury, Shaun King, Ade Jimoh, etc.
HeHateme, Adelwale Ogunleye!

These are all judgement calls that I make - Rules of Engagement. I think it's fun to pick a rookie - but not a good idea to have more than one on your team. If there's not another good WR on the team, your #1 stud will suffer (example: Moulds w/o Price). I would not have recommended Chambers, but now that Booker's in town - he'd be a decent grab. On the girl-name thing, that's just good business - name one super stud who has a chick's name!

[im4skins]

Originally Posted by Ade Jimoh Fan Club

These are all judgement calls that I make - Rules of Engagement. I think it's fun to pick a rookie - but not a good idea to have more than one on your team. If there's not another good WR on the team, your #1 stud will suffer (example: Moulds w/o Price). I would not have recommended Chambers, but now that Booker's in town - he'd be a decent grab. On the girl-name thing, that's just good business - name one super stud who has a chick's name!

Gale Sayers was pretty decent, and thats kinda feminine. Same with Terry, as in Terry Baldshaw.

[FRPLG]

Fantasy Football Index is absolutely the mag to go with. No even a close race. I have used it the last three years and I always finish top three. Sorta makes me the Eagles of fantasy footbal since I have never won a Superbowl in any of my leagues. I have finished 1st in three leagues and lost in the playofffs each time.

[FRPLG]

Does anyone here do projections??? How do you go about it? I do some but I am always looking to improve my methods.

[MTK]

I keep my heart out of FF. I'll take 'Skins as long as they are worthy, and I won't shy away from taking Cowboys.

One year I took a bunch of Skins and it actually paid off. It was in '99 and I drafted BJ, Davis and Westbrook all as backups. I also took E. James as a rookie and with him and Davis I cruised to the league title. BJ and Westbrook also worked out very well too.

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[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I keep my heart out of FF. I'll take 'Skins as long as they are worthy, and I won't shy away from taking Cowboys.

One year I took a bunch of Skins and it actually paid off. It was in '99 and I drafted BJ, Davis and Westbrook all as backups. I also took E. James as a rookie and with him and Davis I cruised to the league title. BJ and Westbrook also worked out very well too.

I keep my heart out when it comes to picking Redskins. But I can never bring myself to start a player if his team is going up against the Redskins that week-unless my season is on the line.

I'm usually against picking many players from the same team, but it paid off for me a couple of years ago when, in an autodraft, I got Holmes, T. Green and Gonzo