Ask the Expert: Which no-name will come off the bench to help fantasy coaches with title games in Week 17?

Which no-name will come off the bench to help fantasy coaches with title games in Week 17?

In a standard PPR league, I have Tim Tebow ranked 5th, Stephen McGee at 13th and Charlie Whitehurst at 20th …take your pick. Other honorable mentions:

WR: Jerome Simpson 25th, Andre Roberts and Brian Robiskie 45h
TE: Jared Cook TEN 4th


ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly at http://www.fantasyindex.com/ with answers to a new question posted Thursday morning.

Sam Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips, Fantasy Football Basics and Fantasy Football Almanac 2010, all available at his website, http://www.ffguidebook.com/, at all major bookstores, and at http://www.amazon.com/. He is a 20-year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 top players) in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC).


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Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How to" Guide for Beginners available ($10.95) at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428634

Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

FFGuidebook.com Week 16 Results

My week in review:

Week 16 Results: Wins are in BOLD

Fantasy Index Expert Auction-Draft Masters: LOSS 2-9 versus all the other teams this week. Fell to 10th place overall. Out for the season --Ryan Grant, DeAngelo Williams and Anthony Gonzalez is not helping!!!

FFPC Pros vs. Joes League #7 - Charles Jefferson's Z-28's: WIN went 7-4 ( we play every team each week), Rapid movement in this no transaction league. Improved to 5th overall.

Local League: Loss to Crestview Crushers in consolation game battle for 3rd place!

FFPC Main Event "Clark W. Griswold" Saturday Online League #21: 8-3 (4th overall in H2H and Total Points) Missed playoffs by 3 pts 1550 to 1547. Finished 5th in Toilet Bowl competition out of 208 entrants.
FPC Satellitte Sunday 09.05.7: 6-5 Finished 6th of 1065 teams in Toilet Bowl.

Overall 1-2. For the season, 56-39-1 (.608 Winning percentage)

Fantasy Football Tips: 201 Ways to Win through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting ($10.95 on sale 10% off for $9.85) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428669

Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How to" Guide for Beginners available ($10.95) at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428634

Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95, now 10% off at $17.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

Ask the Expert: Which backup QB currently playing in the last month do you see with fantasy potential in 2011?

A slew of backup quarterbacks, young and old, have taken the reins over the past month. Which if any of these players (Rex Grossman, John Skelton, Tim Tebow, Jimmy Clausen, or another of your choice) will have fantasy relevance in 2011?

I am not buying the Tim Tebow era in Denver stuff. Kyle Orton has a contract through 2011 and the Broncos could end up with the #1 draft pick as well, so Andrew Luck could be throwing to Brandon Lloyd next year. Instead you have to narrow your choices to QBs with a good chance to start in 2011. Therefore John Skelton and Jimmy Clausen
are the two front runners with Skelton the slight edge in long term potential and Clausen the winner in short term fantasy potential. Whichever team has the best running game should be the key.

ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly at http://www.fantasyindex.com/ with answers to a new question posted Thursday morning.

Sam Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips, Fantasy Football Basics and Fantasy Football Almanac 2010, all available at his website, http://www.ffguidebook.com/, at all major bookstores, and at http://www.amazon.com/. He is a 20-year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 top players) in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC).


Fantasy Football Tips: 201 Ways to Win through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428669

Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How to" Guide for Beginners available ($10.95) at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428634

Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

FFGuidebook.com Week 15 Results

My week in review:

Down to four major fantasy football leagues with H2H for me this year:

Three are Expert leagues. Two of those Expert leagues are associated with my rankings, projections and mock drafts in Fantasy Football Index magazine and Fantasy Football Pro Forecast magazine. The other is the now annual FFPC Pro's vs Joes Challenge. The Fantasy Index Expert Auction and FFPC Pro's vs Joes are also Draft Masters format so draft and forget.

The other H2H league is my local league where we started the playoffs in week 14

I also have a team in the Fantasy Football Players Championship Main Event, and two in the FootballGuys Players Championship but they are no longer playing H2H. Instead they are in the Toilet League competitions.

Week 15 Results: Wins are in BOLD

Let me just cut to the chase. I lost in every fricking league! Am I bitter that AP was a late scratch to the last game of the week or that Vernon Davis (and SF for that matter) did not seem to show up on Thurs night. Nooooooooooooooo. But I digress.

Fantasy Index Expert Auction-Draft Masters: LOSS 3-8 versus all the other teams this week. Fell to 8th place overall. Out for the season --Ryan Grant, DeAngelo Williams and Anthony Gonzalez is not helping!!!

FFPC Pros vs. Joes League #7 - Charles Jefferson's Z-28's: LOSS went 2-9 ( we play every team each week), Rapid movement in this no transaction league. Dropped to 6th overall.

Fantasy Football Pro Forecast Expert League-Loss in first round of playoffs as #1 Seed with a 11-3 record

Local League: Loss to Cruisers 132-113 as V Davis and an injured Knowshon Moreno torpedoed any hopes of a Championship this year

FFPC Main Event "Clark W. Griswold" Saturday Online League #21: 8-3 (4th overall in H2H and Total Points) Missed playoffs by 3 pts 1550 to 1547. Scored 138 and 3rd in Toilet Bowl competition out of 208 entrants. 23 points off of first place

FPC Satellitte Sunday 09.05.7: 6-5 Scored 188 this week , now 3rd of 1065 teams in Toilet Bowl.

FPC Satellite Tuesday 09.07.10h: 5-6 in Toilet Bowl

Just to add some salt to those wounds IF i had made the playoffs in the FFPC Main Event and FPC I would have made the championship round with both teams and....going into the last week I would be 3rd in the FFPC and 9th at FFPC. Oh well. Easy come easy go

Overall 0-4. For the season, 55-37-1 (.609 Winning percentage)

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Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How to" Guide for Beginners available ($10.95) at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428634

Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95, now 10% off at $17.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

Fantasy Football Basics reviewed by Midwest Book Review-"Fantasy Football Basics is a must for anyone"

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FOREST, VA. – November 21, 2010 – Extra Point Press is pleased to announce that the November 2010 issue of the Midwest Book Review online book review magazine, "Small Press Bookwatch", features Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate How-To Guide for Beginners. The review appears in the Sports Shelf section of the book review magazine. This review also appears in the Cengage Learning, Gale interactive CD-ROM series "Book Review Index" (published four times yearly for academic, corporate, and public library systems); as well as such book review databases as LexisNexis and Goliath; and will be archived on the Midwest Book review website at www.midwestbookreview.com for five years. This review is also posted on amazon.com as well.

Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How-To" Guide for Beginners (ISBN 978-0-9824286-3-4, $10.95), is a 160-page straightforward and informative "How-To" guide book. Expertly organized, it is an easy way to learn how to play fantasy football and includes everything you need to play. This guide is a must for anyone who wants to get involved in fantasy football. Fantasy Football Basics is the single source for beginners preparing for the fantasy football season and a book every beginner will enjoy.

The Midwest Book Review, established in 1976, is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. The Midwest Book Review accepts no financial donations from authors or publishers in exchange for their services, in order to avoid any conflict of interest issues.

Review: "Fantasy football is a fun way to make the Sunday game all the more enticing to watch. Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate How-To Guide for Beginners explains the many details of fantasy football and how to get involved and play well. A knowledge of real football is needed to excel, and Sam Hendricks explains the concept well so that they can get a leg up on their competitors. Fantasy Football Basics is a must for anyone who wants to spice up their football fandom."

Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How-To" Guide for Beginners includes explanations of NFL and fantasy football rules, draft tips, vital resources, and much more! It answers the age old questions of why play fantasy football? Where do I start? How do I pick the right league? And most important, how do I score points and who do I start each week? The foreword was written by Emil Kadlec, co-founder of the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) and owner of Fantasy Sports Publications.

Other books by Sam Hendricks include Fantasy Football Guidebook: Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football (ISBN 978-0-9824286-0-3), Fantasy Football Tips: 201 Ways to Win through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting (ISBN 978-0-9824286-6-5) and Fantasy Football Almanac 2010 (ISBN 978-0-9824286-1-0), all published by Extra Point Press. Sam's next book, Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-To" Guide for Novices was published in October 2010. Sam Hendricks' books make excellent Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, or New Year's gifts!

Sam’s rankings, projections and “expert” analysis appear in numerous fantasy football magazines including this year’s Fantasy Football Pro Forecast 2010 and Fantasy Football Index 2010. Sam is a 19-year fantasy football veteran who has teams in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). He has a .725 winning percentage at the WCOFF. He is also an expert at the “Ask the Expert” column at www.fantasyindex.com and a member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association (FSWA). In recent years Sam finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 players) in the Fantasy Football Players Championship.

Fantasy Football Guidebook: Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football (ISBN 978-0-9824286-0-3), Fantasy Football Tips (ISBN 978-0-9824286-6-5), Fantasy Football Almanac 2010 (ISBN 978-0-9824286-1-0) and Fantasy Football Basics (ISBN 978-0-9824286-3-4) are available from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble (bn.com). More information can be found at the official websites: www.FFGuidebook.com, www.ExtraPointPress.com and www.xppress.com.




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Fantasy Index Magazine Ask the Expert: What lesser player is a strong candidate to put up above-average numbers in the fantasy playoffs?

What lesser player is a strong candidate to put up above-average numbers in the fantasy playoffs?

At WR I expect Deion Branch, Davone Bess and Earl Bennett to be surprises for the fantasy playoffs. Each has come on recently in games where the opponent is not a top defense. They should produce better than expected points the next 2 weeks. On the RB side, BenJarvus Green-Ellis continues to excel with NE, but getting the right starter in SF between Brian Westbrook or Anthony Dixon could also prove beneficial.

ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly at http://www.fantasyindex.com/ with answers to a new question posted Thursday morning.

Sam Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips, Fantasy Football Basics and Fantasy Football Almanac 2010, all available at his website, http://www.ffguidebook.com/, at all major bookstores, and at http://www.amazon.com/. He is a 20-year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 top players) in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC).


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Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

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FFGuidebook.com Week 14 Results

My week in review:

Down to four major fantasy football leagues for me this year:

Three are Expert leagues. Two of those Expert leagues are associated with my rankings, projections and mock drafts in Fantasy Football Index magazine and Fantasy Football Pro Forecast magazine. The other is the now annual FFPC Pro's vs Joes Challenge. The Fantasy Index Expert Auction and FFPC Pro's vs Joes are also Draft Masters format so draft and forget.

The other H2H league is my local league where we started the playoffs this week

I also have a team in the Fantasy Football Players Championship Main Event, and two in the FootballGuys Players Championship but they are no longer playing H2H. Instead they are in the Toilet League competitions.

Week 14 Results: Wins are in BOLD

Fantasy Index Expert Auction-Draft Masters: WIN 7-4 versus all the other teams this week. Improved to 7th place overall. Out for the season --Ryan Grant, DeAngelo Williams and Anthony Gonzalez is not helping!!!

FFPC Pros vs. Joes League #7 - Charles Jefferson's Z-28's: WIN went 7-4 ( we play every team each week), Rapid movement in this no transaction league.) Dropped to 5th overall despite beating more teams. Did not score as well as the team behind me.

Fantasy Football Pro Forecast Expert League-Win, 11-3 record (14 week season) I am the #1 seed going into the 2 week playoffs.

Local League: Win...defeated Yellowfins to advance to the 2nd round of the playoffs!

FFPC Main Event "Clark W. Griswold" Saturday Online League #21: 8-3 (4th overall in H2H and Total Points) Missed palyoffs by 3 pts 1550 to 1547. Scored 165 and 4th in Toilet Bowl competition out of 208 entrants.

FPC Satellitte Sunday 09.05.7: 6-5 Scored 197 this week , now 30th of 1065 teams in Toilet Bowl.

FPC Satellite Tuesday 09.07.10h: 5-6 in Toilet Bowl



Overall 4-0. For the season, 55-33-1 (.629 Winning percentage)

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Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How to" Guide for Beginners available ($10.95) at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428634

Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95, now 10% off at $17.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

Fantasy Football Tips named a Finalist in the Best Books 2010 Awards

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FOREST, VA. – November 28, 2010 – Fantasy Football Tips: 201 Ways to Win through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting, written by Sam Hendricks, is a finalist in the Sports category of the Best Books 2010 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News. USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the finalists of THE “BEST BOOKS” 2010 AWARDS (BBA) on October 26, 2010.

There are more than 500 finalists in over 140 categories covering print and audio books. Awards are presented for titles published in 2010 and late 2009. Jeff Keen, President and CEO of USABookNews.com, said this year’s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries, which were then narrowed down to more than 500 finalists. Finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Penguin/Putnam, Rodale, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Moody Publishers, American Cancer Society, and Sourcebooks. In addition, hundreds of independent titles contributed to this year’s outstanding NBBA competition.

Fantasy Football Tips (ISBN 978-0-9824286-6-5, $10.95), is a 166-page tip book on how to win your league every year! It includes chapters on picking the right league, draft strategies, roster management, high stakes leagues and a special foreword from David Gerczak, co-founder of the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) and 2008 $100,000 NFFC Champion. Other books by Sam Hendricks include Fantasy Football Guidebook: Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football (ISBN 978-1-60264-020-7), Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How-To" Guide for Beginners (ISBN 978-0-9824286-3-4), Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate “How-to” Guide (ISBN 978-0982428696) and the annual publication Fantasy Football Almanac.

Sam’s rankings, projections and “expert” analysis appear in numerous fantasy football magazines this football season, including this year’s Fantasy Football Pro Forecast 2010 and Fantasy Football Index 2010. Sam is also an expert in Fantasy Index’s weekly online “Ask the Expert” column at www.fantasyindex.com.

Sam is a 19-year fantasy football veteran who has teams in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). He has a .725 winning percentage at the WCOFF. He is also a member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association (FSWA). In recent years Sam finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 players) in the Fantasy Football Players Championship.

Sam Hendricks' books make excellent Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, or New Year's gifts! Extra Point Press publishes Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips, Fantasy Football Basics, Fantasy Baseball for Beginners and the annual Fantasy Football Almanac. Fantasy Football Tips, Sam’s second book, was #1 on Amazon.com’s ranked sales listing during the months of October and November 2010.

Fantasy Football Tips: 201 Ways to Win through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting (ISBN 978-0-9824286-6-5), Fantasy Football Guidebook: Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football (ISBN 978-1-60264-020-7), Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How-To" Guide For Beginners (ISBN 978-0-9824286-3-4), Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate “How-to” Guide (ISBN 978-0982428696) and Fantasy Football Almanac 2011 are available from ExtraPointPress.com, Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble (bn.com). More information can be found at the official websites, www.FFGuidebook.com, www.ffalmanac.com, www.ExtraPointPress.com, www.xppress.com, and www.sam-hendricks.com.

Ask the Expert: Assuming he returns to Philadelphia, how early should Michael Vick be drafted (overall) next season?

I predict 30 passing TDs, 8 INTs, 4400 yards passing; add in another 900 rushing yards and 10 rushing TDs and you have 482 fantasy points. That is 30 points per game. 8+ points more than the other top 3 QBs. Draft him in the latter part of the 1st round after the top 7 or 8 RBs, but no higher due to the higher potential for injury due to his scrambling.


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Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

My week in review:

Down to four major fantasy football leagues for me this year:

Three are Expert leagues. Two of those Expert leagues are associated with my rankings, projections and mock drafts in Fantasy Football Index magazine and Fantasy Football Pro Forecast magazine. The other is the now annual FFPC Pro's vs Joes Challenge. The Fantasy Index Expert Auction and FFPC Pro's vs Joes are also Draft Masters format so draft and forget.

The other H2H league is my local league where we start the playoffs this week

I also have a team in the Fantasy Football Players Championship Main Event, and two in the FootballGuys Players Championship but they are no longer playing H2H. Instead they are in the Toilet League competitions.

Week 13 Results: Wins are in BOLD

Fantasy Index Expert Auction-Draft Masters: Loss 5-6 versus all the other teams this week. Dropped to 9th place overall. Out for the season --Ryan Grant, DeAngelo Williams and Anthony Gonzalez is not helping!!!

FFPC Pros vs. Joes League #7 - Charles Jefferson's Z-28's: Loss, went 2-9 ( we play every team each week), Rapid movement in this no transaction league.) Dropped to 4th overall

Fantasy Football Pro Forecast Expert League-Win, 10-3 record (14 week season) I have secured the #1 seed regardless of how I do this week.

Local League: Win...now 9-3-1 clinched playoffs and #2 seed

FFPC Main Event "Clark W. Griswold" Saturday Online League #21: 8-3 (4th overall in H2H and Total Points) Missed palyoffs by 3 pts 1550 to 1547. Scored 191 and 4th in Toilet Bowl competition out of 208 entrants.

FPC Satellitte Sunday 09.05.7: 6-5 now in Toilet Bowl.

FPC Satellite Tuesday 09.07.10h: 5-6 in Toilet Bowl



Overall 2-2. For the season, 51-33-1 (.612 Winning percentage)

Fantasy Football Tips: 201 Ways to Win through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting ($10.95 on sale 10% off for $9.85) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428669

Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How to" Guide for Beginners available ($10.95) at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428634

Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95, now 10% off at $17.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

Extra Point Press and Sam Hendricks have 3 books in the Top 10 Bestsellers list at Amazon.com

#2 Fantasy Football Guidebook: Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football
-2nd edition
#3 Fantasy Football Tips: 201 Ways to Win Through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting
#10 Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide for Beginners



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Fantasy Football Basics: The Ultimate "How to" Guide for Beginners available ($10.95) at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428634

Fantasy Football Guidebook (2nd Edition): Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football ($19.95) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982428650

Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

Week 13 update

Percy Harvin (WR) and ALL PRO Guard Steve Hutchinson are out for MIN
Austin Collie should play
Antonio Gates is going to try so he is a GTD

Weather could be a factor in:
PIT @ BAL high winds 24-30 MPH
NO @ CIN snow showers an

Fantasy Playoff rant for FFGuidebook.com

I know everyone has experienced this feeling but it is still tough.

FFGuidebook.com missed the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) Main Event playoffs by 3 points!!!!

It is a team that I know had a good chance of winning the $100,000 this year. Here is my starting roster:

Drew Brees, Peyton Hillis, MJD, Darren McFadden, Mike Goodson, Brandon Lloyd, Santonio Holmes, Derrick Mason, Mike Sims Walker, Jason Witten, Bironas/Longwell, New Orleans Def

FFPC Main Event "Clark W. Griswold" Saturday Online League #21

W L T PCT PF PA STREAK
Chamlian Tigers 8 3 0 0.727 1633.40 1510.70 Lost 1
Deep Threat 8 3 0 0.727 1628.20 1430.30 Won 3
BossmanReIGN 8 3 0 0.727 1611.65 1367.40 Won 1
FFGuidebook.com 8 3 0 0.727 1547.00 1373.55 Won 5
Nighthawk Services 8 3 0 0.727 1499.95 1326.35 Won 4
The L-Man 6 5 0 0.545 1550.25 1453.80 Lost 4
The Expendables 5 6 0 0.455 1458.70 1460.90 Won 2
Ministry of Pain 5 6 0 0.455 1329.10 1486.20 Lost 1
Stallions 3 8 0 0.273 1418.50 1474.80 Lost 6
Cheech & Chong 3 8 0 0.273 1413.05 1556.30 Lost 2
Woodland Critters 2 9 0 0.182 1241.70 1558.00 Lost 4
The Bald Eagle 2 9 0 0.182 1208.25 1541.45 Won 1

In the FFPC (http://www.theffpc.com/) 4 of 12 teams make the playoffs.

Seed 1) the team with the best regular season record Chamlian Tigers

Seed 2) the remaining team with the highest point total during the regular season Deep Threat

Seed 3) the remaining team with the best regular season record BossmanReIGN

Seed 4) the remaining team with the highest point total during the regular season The L-Man

Here is my sorrow. I missed the #4 seed by 3.8 points as L-Man took it with 1550.8 vs my 1547.0.

I was 4th in the league in H2H and 5th in Total Points. Arg!

So I do not make the playoffs.

But the following week (week 12) my team scores 191.6 and would have beat any of the playoff teams and won $1500 and advanced to the FFPC League Championship game playing for another $3500 this week and a chance to compete against over 60 other teams for the $100,000 FFPC Championship.

Am I bitter? Heck No! I knew the rules when I paid my money and I just did not get it done to make the playoffs. I needed to win another game or score more points in one of those 11 games.

Woulda coulda shoulda.

The Key to Happiness is good health and a bad memory. LOL

Enjoy the week 13 games

Don't forget the holidays will be here before you know it. Get a fantasy football or baseball book as a gift now before it is too late for it to arrive in time to wrap and give.

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Week 13 Player health status

Lets look at the early health status of players:

OUT
Owen Daniels
Frank Gore-for the season
DeMaryius Thomas-DEN WR
Vincent Jackson
Mike Sims Walker
MB3
L Betts
Joe Nedney

Not Expected To Play
Colt McCoy
J Addai
Pierre Thomas
Austin Collie
Kenny Britt (he is getting closer)

Game Time Decisions
AP
Percy Harvin
Ryan Torrain
P Thomas

Questionable
Mike Williams (SEA)
Reggie Wayne (Exp to Play)
Ben Rothlisberger
Mike Tolbert
Mike Hart
Santana Moss
Macolm Floyd
Brandon Marshall
Kevin Walter
A Gates
Z Miller (OAK)
J Carlson


Watch Mike Goodson CAR RB he missed a lot of PT due to new baby-expect J Stewart to be the better RB Sunday

Watch Maurce Morris DET RB score more than J. Best thanks to pass catches

Watch Nick Folk, NYJ K has missed 50% of last 10 FGA. CIN released their kicker and signed Clint Stitser

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Ask the Expert: Has the production of undrafted fantasy players like Steve Johnson made you more or less likely to focus on WR early in the draft?

A lot of no-name, or at least lightly regarded, wide receivers are having big seasons. Has the production of undrafted fantasy players like Brandon Lloyd and Steve Johnson made you more or less likely to focus on the position in early rounds of drafts next year?

I always advocate in my books that the best draft strategy is to stockpile RBs and WRs early (and often) while waiting on QB. Usually this means drafting something like 4 RBs, 3 WRs and a top TE with the first 8 picks (depending on what falls to you of course). Typically this results in a RB-WR-WR-RB or RB-WR-RB-WR start. You still need to focus on WR early in the draft, but as seen in the numbers mentioned a strong RB base is more important. Why? You can get good WRs and QBs off the waiver wire. But few RBs and top TEs are there.

ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly at http://www.fantasyindex.com/ with answers to a new question posted Thursday morning.

Sam Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips, Fantasy Football Basics and Fantasy Football Almanac 2010, all available at his website, http://www.ffguidebook.com/, at all major bookstores, and at http://www.amazon.com/. He is a 20-year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 top players) in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC).






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Fantasy Baseball for Beginners: The Ultimate "How-to" Guide ($10.95) www.amazon.com/dp/0982428693

FFGuidebook.com Week 12 Results

My week in review:

Seven major fantasy football leagues for me this year:

Three are Expert leagues. Two of those Expert leagues are associated with my rankings, projections and mock drafts in Fantasy Football Index magazine and Fantasy Football Pro Forecast magazine. The other is the now annual FFPC Pro's vs Joes Challenge. The Fantasy Index Expert Auction and FFPC Pro's vs Joes are also Draft Masters format so draft and forget.

Of the four remaining money leagues, one is the Fantasy Football Players Championship Main Event, two are FootballGuys Players Championship teams and the last is my local league.

Week 12 Results: Wins are in BOLD

Fantasy Index Expert Auction-Draft Masters: Loss 0-11 versus all the other teams this week. Dropped to 8th place overall. Out for the season --Ryan Grant, DeAngelo Williams and Anthony Gonzalez is not helping!!!

FFPC Pros vs. Joes League #7 - Charles Jefferson's Z-28's: Loss, went 4-7 ( we play every team each week), Rapid movement in this no transaction league.) Dropped to 3rd overall

Fantasy Football Pro Forecast Expert League-Win, 9-3 record (14 week season)

Local League: Win...now 8-3-1 clinched playoffs

FFPC Main Event "Clark W. Griswold" Saturday Online League #21: 8-3 (4th overall in H2H and Total Points) Missed palyoffs by 3 pts 1550 to 1547. Scored 191 and leads Toilet Bowl competition out of 208 entrants.

FPC Satellitte Sunday 09.05.7: 6-5 now in Toilet Bowl.

FPC Satellite Tuesday 09.07.10h: 5-6 in Toilet Bowl



Overall 2-2. For the season, 49-31-1 (.617 Winning percentage)

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