Last night we had friends over for a bourbon tasting party and despite the boisterousness that inevitably developed, our son managed to sleep through the entire thing directly one floor above the fun. Such a good sleeper. But if it’s fantasy sleepers that you’re in the market for, just read on.

• Get your Sleepers for Week 14 from FFToolbox.com – or head on over to KFFL.com’s FF sleepers: QB – Week 14 (other positions linked off that article).
• Week 14 start/sit links:
• Roto Arcade’s Flames: Don’t laugh, Grossman could go from zero to playoff hero
• FFToolbox.com’s Week 14: Sit ‘Em
• PigskinAddiction’s Studs and Duds
• FantasySharks.com’s Start/Bench: Week 14
• FantasyFootballXtreme.com’s Week 14: Start ‘em & Sit ‘em advice
• Week 14 rankings/projections:
• Bruno Boys’ Week 14 Rankings: Running Backs
• FantasySharks.com’s Player Projections – Week 14
• The Fantasy Shrink’s Week 14 Fantasy Football Rankings
• Your weekly targets update from Rotoworld is up and ready for your review: Week 14 – Targets and Touches. 
• More Grossman love for the remainder of the season in Roto Arcade’s Shuffle Up and Schedule: Can the matchups elevate Rex Grossman?

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In the upcoming year my mom is moving out of the house that my family has lived in for 35+ years. I was born there, made mud pies there, built innumerable snowmen there, fought repeatedly with my sister there, snuck out of ridiculously tiny windows there, and have spent every Christmas morning there. So this year will be our final Christmas there and I’m feeling fairly sentimental about it, though trying not to let my mom see that too much; I know the move will be hardest on her. But I guess this just makes this year’s holiday season that much sweeter, doesn’t it?

Speaking of sweet things, how about fantasy playoffs? I hope you all enjoyed last night’s game – I only made it until half time or so…I think I’m cursed with a Mike Wallace – Antonio Brown bad decision problem. I essentially can start 1 of them each week (I have both in 2 different leagues) and inevitably have made the wrong decision about which one to start for the past month or so. Here’s hoping you started Brown last night. Now onto today’s links:

• Start/sit advice:
• Fake Teams’ Week 14 Start ‘em Sit ‘em
• Fantasy Football Nerd’s Where to Put ‘Em
• Matthew Berry’s Love/Hate for Week 14
• LestersLegends.com’s Start/Sit Week 14
• Ask the Commish’s Sit or Start
• Rankings for Week 14:
• Rotoworld’s Week 14 Rankings
• Fantasy Douche’s Week 14 WR Rankings
• It feels almost silly to be linking out to rankings when you could simply visit Fantasy Rundown for a sweep of the rankings landscape this week. Scope it out, you won’t be sorry. 
• Need a fill-in for Week 14? See who Razzball.com’s FF Backup Plan: Week 14 suggests.
• Each week I look forward to Evan Silva’s matchups review – meaty, full of solid advice, perfect for a crucial playoff performance so scope out this week’s Ravens Riding Rice.

Don’t forget to submit your lineup for FantasyPros.com’s Compete Against the Pros – I’m their featured pro this week, which is amusing to me and I do hope to do that title “pro” proud. See if you can beat me and earn while you’re at it.

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Non PPR

1 QB, 3 WR, 2 RB , 1 TE, 1 K, 1 DEF

Passing TD’s = 4 points

RB and WR TD’s = 6 points

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Welcome to Week 14 consensus start/sit list. I’ve gone through all of this week’s start/sit links that I’ve posted from the industry’s top experts and tallied up the players with the most start/sit votes. They’re listed below in no particular order.

Good luck in the playoffs!

QB
Start: Carson Palmer, Rex Grossman
Sit: Andy Dalton, Matt Ryan

RB
Start: Michael Turner, Marshawn Lynch, Ryan Mathews, Reggie Bush, Shonn Greene, C.J. Spiller, Roy Helu
Sit: Cedric Benson, Brandon Jacobs, Beanie Wells, Peyton Hillis

WR
Start: Percy Harvin, Anquan Boldin, Michael Crabtree, Santana Moss
Sit: Santonio Holmes, Pierre Garcon, Dwayne Bowe


TE
Start: Dustin Keller, Kellen Winslow, Brent Celek
Sit: Owen Daniels, Greg Olsen, Brandon Pettigrew

DST
Start: Jets, Broncos, Seahawks
Sit: Eagles, Cowboys

Kicker
Start: Jason Hanson, Robbie Gould
Sit: Adam Vinatieri, Neil Rackers

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Thanks for bearing with me while I’ve been missing in action here. I wish I had a great excuse but the good news is that I have lots of links for you fantasy baseball fans. That’s right, baseball. I’m not a fantasy baseball player so I may need your help filling in the gaps a bit – if you’ve got a favorite fantasy baseball site, leave the URL in the comments for others to check out. Football fans, never fear – I’d never forget the football links – just skip ahead a bit.

Fantasy Baseball linkage:

• Rankings and projections:
• FanGraphs’ 2012 Projections – this link goes to the ZiPS projections but you can pick from Marcel, ZiPS, Fans, or RotoChamp.
• Fake Teams’ Fantasy Baseball 2012: Final position rankings
• Athlon Sports’ 2012 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: The Big Board – this is great, includes player rankings from 8 sites (including their own rankings) to create a consensus ranking. You guys know how I love consensus rankings…
• And speaking of one-stop shopping for tons of rankings, FantasyRundown does an exemplary job with that (not surprising since they were one of my go-to sites for football rankings, too).
• FantasyAlarm.com’s Positional Player Rankings
• Other draft advice:
• CBSSports.com’s has both Draft Prep: Auction strategies as well as mock drafts to peruse.
• If it’s mock drafts you want, Mock Draft Central is the place to be, though their mocks and ADP info require a login. You can always get some quick info from their blog though, like this post on ADP Trends on the Top 20.
• Matthew Berry’s Draft Day Manifesto 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Rotoworld has plenty of draft strategy for you include a series on players that have changed teams, and what you can expect from them – so far you can scope out New Ballpark, New Pitcher? or New Ballpark, New Hitter?

Now to the fantasy football links for you, too, since football is obviously the best choice when it comes to fantasy sports.

• Need a combine recap? Yeah, me, too. The Fifth Down has us covered with Catching up on Combine; 346-pound man runs like deer.
• CBSSports.com is tackling some offseason analysis with vigor – see their TE tiers for 2012 or WR tiers or QB tiers or RB tiers.
• For those of you wanting to keep up with the latest Peyton Manning news, scope out Manning is hot topic of conversation. Sounds like we’ll all know a lot more by March 8th or so.
• Once again this offseason I feel like ProFootballFocus deserves a reward for their continued commitment to producing articles during the deadest of times. So let’s scope out some of their quality material:
• Projecting How Jamaal Charles, Others Return from ACL Tears
• A couple of dynasty pieces – 2012 Dynasty Wide Receivers on the Rise and their Dynasty Roundtable for the month of February, which discusses guys who could have a big impact in free agency, figuring out how to value rookies, and determining which guys might be major value grabs.

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I am going into a 1QB 2RB 1 RB/WR 3WR 1 TE 1DEF 1 K and 8 Bench players league on ESPN. The RB and WR position throws me off a bit because there are so many. Do you guys have any strategies on how to draft with lots of RB and WR on a team?

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One of our son’s favorite toys is our home phone – we have a land line since I work from home and need it for conference calls, and it’s a good thing we do since he loves that thing. Obsessed would be putting it mildly. But until this morning he’s never actually called anyone other than our voicemail – he’s dialed a ton of numbers, he’s just never hit the crucial “talk” button to pull it all together. But this morning he managed to get it on speaker so that my husband and I both heard the recorded voice that suddenly came on: “Hello there, I can offer you a massage…” is roughly all we heard before we could get to the phone, and we just both stood there stunned and cracking up that oh yes, my friends, our son called some sort of phone sex line. What are the chances?

Probably about as small as the chances that the Packers would lose to the Chiefs and the Colts would finally tally a win – though of all the unlikely things I guess I should’ve seen Drew Brees and his 5 TD, 400+ yards performance coming. I mean seriously Brees? Knocked me out of the championship game for sure.

I’m still alive in another league (pending total chaos tonight in the MNF game) so I’m all about reviewing the waiver wire this week just in case there’s still something out there. And of course I’ve got your Week 15 recaps, too, so read on:

• Week 15 game reviews:
• FootballOutsiders’ Audibles at the Line: Week 15
• Roto Arcade’s Sunday Scene, Week 15
• Razzball.com’s Playoffs?! Yes, shut up!
• Week 16 waiver wire links:
• Bruno Boys’ Pick Them Up
• 2MugsFF’s Hot Garbage Waiver Wire Week 16
• FootballDocs’ Waiver Wire Advice

Good luck to anyone whose Week 15 success rides on tonight’s game!

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Well I had my draft yesterday and went a little different route than most, what do you think of my team based on my strategy/Good, bad, or am I just an idiot for going heavy on the WR’s? Thanks in advance

10 Team H/H League

QB: Jay Cutler
RB: R. Rice
RB: M. Lynch
WR:Andre Johnson
WR:Greg Jennings
WR:T.Owens
TE: J. Witten
KK: M. Crosby
DEF: Pittsburgh DDDD
IDP: Julius Peppers

Bench:
RB’S= R.Mendenahll, D. Sproles, E. James, T. Hightower
WR’S= T. Holt
TE’S = K.Boss

Thanks for your input!!!!!!!!!!!!
no im not drafting with rich or daniel

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What do you think of this Draft Strategy-

I have the 10th pick out of 10 teams. I am looking to take a QB first round. I am not sold on any of the Running Backs that are left for my pick in the 2nd round.

So heres my idea-
Draft another QB. I will most likely end up getting 2 of the 3: Rodgers/Brees/Peyton Manning.

Then I trade one of them for a top 5 Running Back that was taken before me in the 1st round. Cause I figure that at least 2 of the teams that drafted a top RB will be stuck with guys like Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco, or Donnivan McNabb as their starting QB (who are good NFL players but arent fantasy studs). Then I will be able to trade Rodgers/Brees/Peyton Manning for Rice/MJD/Turner.

I would end up with a Top 3 QB and Top 5 RB eventhough the running back wasnt available for me to draft.

What do you think?

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