Week 9 Updates

Ryam Moats will start for Hou but expect Slaton to get half of the carries off the bench

Kolby Smith activated by KC but look for J Charles and D Savage to have most of the carries today

Who is out?

L Moore is out so look for D Henderson to half more action as will R Meachem

J Finley is out at TE for GB again so the other guy Havner ? get his chances at TDs again

Kevin Curtis is out-big surprise so Maclin and Celek get upward ticks

M Muhammed-CAR-WR so Dwayne Jarrett aw heck who is kidding who nobody gets an upgrade cause Jake Delhomme is struggling

Game Time Decisions

A Boldin-I expect him to play

A Bryant-?

Questionable
Brian Westbrook- I expect him to play cause he made Wed and Th practices, but he took Friday off. Maybe just to rest

J Stewart-?

T Heap- he is back to his old self Todd "Questionable" Heap-he'll play

R White- he will play

Kevin Smith-he will play

Devin Hester-yes

Pierre Garcon-He better play

Watch closer

A Rodgers DNP Thurs

L McCoy reportedly had the flu on Wed.

D Driver missed some practice time

Fantasy Football Index Magazine "Ask the Expert" Question for the week: Who gets your vote for Fantasy MVP so far?

Either Peyton Manning or Drew Brees. Both have led their teams to an undefeated 7-0 start. I give the nod to Peyton because even though Brees has scored more fantasy points (172 to 169), Manning has been more consistent. Peyton has roughly a 23-point FP average with a low of 17 and high of 33. Brees on the other hand has two ten point games and a 40-point game; too much feast or famine for my taste. Winner so far: Peyton Manning and his 2227 yards, 15 TDs and 4 INTs. Honorable mention goes to Brett Favre and his league leading 16 TDs to three INTs while leading Minnesota to a 6-1 record.

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

Sam Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Almanac 2009, all available at his website, http://www.ffguidebook.com/ , at all major bookstores, and at http://www.amazon.com/. He is a 19-year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th overall in the 2008 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC).

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FFGuidebook.com back in the Top 10 Overall at the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC)

Thanks to a strong showing from Tim Hightower, Steven Jackson and Chris Johnson, FFGuidebook.com climbed back into the Top 10 Overall (Out of 228 teams) at the Fantasy Football Players Championship (theFFPC.com).

The three RBs scored 85 points to propel FFGuidebook.com to a 167 point Week 8 finish.

From the FFPC results page:

FFPC Week 8 Results
Props to Brett Favre for playing like a champion even at the ago of 40. Love him or hate him, he is one heck of a football player.
His baby must be sleeping through the night as Russ Steele managed to get his team back to the top of the FFPC Main Event Leaderboard in a fairly low scoring fantasy week. Russ holds a less than 3 point advantage over our top scoring team for the week, RFL’ers, owned by Mike Grimm and Jack Guydish. Mike and Jack are getting a little cocky, and figured they could dominate the entire field with just 9 players this week. Way to go, guys! Nimrods checks in at 3rd, and Manny DeJesus and Weston Pleinis are near the top at 4th and 5th respectively.
With three weeks to go in the FFPC Main Event regular season, we have some very tight races. There are six teams within 44 points of each in the Gale Sayers league. The Joe Montana league has 9 teams within 2 games of the lead and 6 of them have records of 4 and 4. League after league has some fierce battles going on for the four playoff spots. The bye weeks are winding down, with just four teams on bye this week and two on bye in week ten. Here's our top ten overall:
1 - Leonidas' Revenge - Russ Steele - 1248.8
2 - RFL'ers - Mike Grimm - 1245.9
3 - Nimrods - Kip Lockwood - 1237.8
4 - SHOW ME YOUR TD'S - Manny De Jesus - 1234.6
5 - Westonio United - Weston Pleinis - 1219.8
6 - Rex Kwon Do - Brett Ford - 1201.3
7 - Stallions - Craig Katz - 1196.15
8 - MORE FIERCE! - Jeffrey Schmitz - 1189.3
9 - FFGuidebook.com - Sam Hendricks - 1187.2
10 - Michigan Fanatics - Mark Peraino - 1182.2


The FFPC Overall Leaderboard can be found using the link below:

http://mflbid.com/ffpc/2009/





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Sam Hendricks, Author of Fantasy Football Guidebook and Fantasy Football Tips appearing tonight on Football Reporters Online

Tonight I am a guest on Football Reporters Online (F.R.O.) available at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Football-Reporters on BlogTalkRadio

Football Reporters Online discuss all Football Topics from the NFL, CFL, UFL Arena, All levels of College Football(FBS and FCS) Plus High School scouting and recruiting, as well as developmental leagues like the CDFL and Regional Combines. They also "tackle" the Tough Issues facing the game today.

I will be on from 9-9:30 PM EST.

Tune in for this Special "Fantasy Football" episode.

Callers to the show can reach them at 646) 200-3472

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How did FFGuidebook.com do in Week 8?

How did we do in Week 8? Look at all leagues and results.

Recap: Won in the Main Event at FFPC moving to 6-2 and advancing to 1st place, and stayed in 1st place there in Total Points.Overall did not do too well in the Expert Leagues but did well in the money leagues, DraftMasters leagues lost some ground but moved back into 3rd in the Fantasy Football Index Magazine Auction league.

Leagues This weeks Result/Overall Ranking (W/L or TP)
BOLD = improvement
Fantasy Football Players Championship“Joe Montana”Main Event League #10 Win 6-2 /1st(1st in TP/9th of 228)

FFPC $125 Satellite League #27 Loss /1st place

Local Lakenheath League Win 7-1 /First Place

Rapid Draft FantasyFootballTips Win 5-2-1 /2nd

Rapid Draft FFGuidebook.com Win 7-1 /1st

Fantasy Sports Magazine Expert League 2 Loss 2-6/ 11th

Fantasy Draftbook.com Expert League Loss 4-4/ 6th (I scored enough to move up on someone else who lost in front of me and has the same record-go figure!)

FFPC Pros vs Joe’s DraftExperts (Draftmasters) Loss 7th

Fantasy Index Expert Auction (Draftmasters) Win 3rd

FFPC 77 DraftExperts (Draftmasters) Loss 6th
-------------------------------------------------5-5 (50-29-1 overall)

NOTE in DraftMaster/Expert leagues that are not H2H a win is defined as beating half of the opponents scores for the week.



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Is it just me or is the wait between the end of MNF and the Sunday start driving you crazy?

Every week the wait between the final snap of Monday Night Football and the first kickoff on Sunday at 1 PM EST seems like it is getting longer and longer.......

Anyone else have these same feelings of time stretching endlessly and slowly during the week days?

I need my fantasy football fix in quicker intervals.

I am fully into the season now with position battles in the leagues, player injuries and suspensions making me pull my hair out (what is left of it after Larry Johnsons little surprise).

I cannot wait until Sunday morning comes and football games return me to a calm only fantasy football can bestow.

How do I fill the cravings of more football sooner?

I NEED THURSDAY GAMES and I need them now!



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I hate the 6 team Week 8 Byes

PIT, NE, CIN and WAS are critical players lost
TB and KC not so much. (okay maybe Dwayne Bowe)

I was forced to add Bulger to replace Big Ben and Palmer in most of my leagues.
Fingers crossed for a big Rams day passing against the Detroit secondary.

Week 10 has some weak sisters on byes as well.
STL, CLE, OAK and BUF all take a seat but MIN and NYJ are not playing too so AP owners beware!


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