FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume II, Issue XLIX
FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume II, Issue XLIX
Welcome to our 63rd edition of the FDH Fantasy Newsletter, as we continue to bring you weekly fantasy sports updates in addition to our usual content on FantasyDrafthelp.com. Our archive of past editions is available right here on The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog and specific links to past editions are available on the front page of FantasyDrafthelp.com.
In this week's edition:
^ NFL Week 14 Preview
^ NFL Week 14 Best Waiver Wire Pickups
NFL Week 14 Preview
Here’s a few standard preface notes:
^ Notwithstanding the claims of any website to be your “home for Sunday morning injury report news,” nothing beats Google News – nothing. Entering a player name into this search engine trumps any other means of gathering information because it culls the data from an unbelievably wide variety of sources.
^ Especially earlier in the season, it’s always good to refer to a strong baseline of where players should have been drafted – and nothing beats FANTASY FOOTBALL DRAFTOLOGY 2009.
^ Unless there are any injury questions, we never discuss “gimme” players. Such core players should be started week in and week out unless there is any question surrounding their playing status. Winning teams only need to worry about “playing the matchups” with one, two or (at the most, during bye weeks) three spots in the lineup. Some websites promise you a crystal ball for how to manage high-risk, high-reward juggling during the season. We don’t. We play the percentages. That approach may be boring, but it’s highly effective and much more intellectually honest in what we promise you.
^ By the way, here are your core players who should not be benched if healthy
QB: Brady, Brees, P Manning, McNabb, Rivers, Rodgers, Romo, Warner
RB: M Barber, R Brown, Forte, Gore, Grant, S Jackson, Jacobs, C Johnson, Jones-Drew, Peterson, Portis, Slaton, Tomlinson, Turner, Westbrook, D Williams
WR: Boldin, Bowe, Colston, Fitzgerald, Jennings, A Johnson, C Johnson, Houshmandzadeh, V Jackson, Marshall, Moss, Ochocinco, S Smith (Carolina), Wayne, R White
TE: Clark, Gates, Gonzalez, Witten
^ Here are the players added to that list since the start of the year:
RB: Benson
WR: Burleson, Driver, S Smith (NY Giants)
TE: H Miller, V Davis
^ And here are the players who were on our list, but have been removed from it:
RB: Lynch
WR: Owens, R Williams
^ Links for each game take you to the CBS Sports home page for each game, with stats, analysis and even video previews.
^ All times listed are EDT.
^ Of the non-gimme players we like this week, the stronger plays are the ones in all caps.
Week 14
Sunday, Dec. 13
New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m. All-in on marginal Saints except questionable RB Bell, all-out on marginal Falcons
Detroit at Baltimore, 1 p.m. RB Smith, QB Flacco, RB RICE, WR Mason, TE Heap
Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m. All-in on marginal Packers, TE Olsen
Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m. QB Hasselbeck, QB SCHAUB, WR Walter
Denver at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. QB Orton, RB Moreno, WR Addai
Miami at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. QB Henne, QB Garrard
Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m. WR Evans, RB Charles
Cincinnati at Minnesota, 1 p.m. QB Palmer, all-in on marginal Vikings with Berrian and Rice as the WRs)
Carolina at New England, 1 p.m. All-out on marginal Panthers, RB MARONEY, WR WELKER
N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. RB JONES, WR Cotchery, TE Keller, TE Winslow
St. Louis at Tennessee, 1 p.m. All-out on marginal Rams, WR Britt
Washington at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. RB Cartright, WR Moss, TE Miller
San Diego at Dallas, 4:15 p.m. All-out on marginal Chargers, WR Austin
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m. RB McCoy, WR Jackson, WR Maclin, TE Celek, WR Manningham
Monday, Dec. 14
Arizona at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m. QB Warner, WR Crabtree
NFL Week 14 Best Waiver Wire Pickups
NOTE: We only recommend plausible pickups; our threshold is 40% or less ownership in CBSSports.com leagues. As such, players may show up on our list multiple weeks if they fall below that percentage and if we still believe in their upside potential.
1 Devin Thomas
2 Bruce Gradkowski
3 Evan Moore
4 Louis Murphy
5 Chad Henne
Welcome to our 63rd edition of the FDH Fantasy Newsletter, as we continue to bring you weekly fantasy sports updates in addition to our usual content on FantasyDrafthelp.com. Our archive of past editions is available right here on The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog and specific links to past editions are available on the front page of FantasyDrafthelp.com.
In this week's edition:
^ NFL Week 14 Preview
^ NFL Week 14 Best Waiver Wire Pickups
NFL Week 14 Preview
Here’s a few standard preface notes:
^ Notwithstanding the claims of any website to be your “home for Sunday morning injury report news,” nothing beats Google News – nothing. Entering a player name into this search engine trumps any other means of gathering information because it culls the data from an unbelievably wide variety of sources.
^ Especially earlier in the season, it’s always good to refer to a strong baseline of where players should have been drafted – and nothing beats FANTASY FOOTBALL DRAFTOLOGY 2009.
^ Unless there are any injury questions, we never discuss “gimme” players. Such core players should be started week in and week out unless there is any question surrounding their playing status. Winning teams only need to worry about “playing the matchups” with one, two or (at the most, during bye weeks) three spots in the lineup. Some websites promise you a crystal ball for how to manage high-risk, high-reward juggling during the season. We don’t. We play the percentages. That approach may be boring, but it’s highly effective and much more intellectually honest in what we promise you.
^ By the way, here are your core players who should not be benched if healthy
QB: Brady, Brees, P Manning, McNabb, Rivers, Rodgers, Romo, Warner
RB: M Barber, R Brown, Forte, Gore, Grant, S Jackson, Jacobs, C Johnson, Jones-Drew, Peterson, Portis, Slaton, Tomlinson, Turner, Westbrook, D Williams
WR: Boldin, Bowe, Colston, Fitzgerald, Jennings, A Johnson, C Johnson, Houshmandzadeh, V Jackson, Marshall, Moss, Ochocinco, S Smith (Carolina), Wayne, R White
TE: Clark, Gates, Gonzalez, Witten
^ Here are the players added to that list since the start of the year:
RB: Benson
WR: Burleson, Driver, S Smith (NY Giants)
TE: H Miller, V Davis
^ And here are the players who were on our list, but have been removed from it:
RB: Lynch
WR: Owens, R Williams
^ Links for each game take you to the CBS Sports home page for each game, with stats, analysis and even video previews.
^ All times listed are EDT.
^ Of the non-gimme players we like this week, the stronger plays are the ones in all caps.
Week 14
Sunday, Dec. 13
New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m. All-in on marginal Saints except questionable RB Bell, all-out on marginal Falcons
Detroit at Baltimore, 1 p.m. RB Smith, QB Flacco, RB RICE, WR Mason, TE Heap
Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m. All-in on marginal Packers, TE Olsen
Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m. QB Hasselbeck, QB SCHAUB, WR Walter
Denver at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. QB Orton, RB Moreno, WR Addai
Miami at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. QB Henne, QB Garrard
Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m. WR Evans, RB Charles
Cincinnati at Minnesota, 1 p.m. QB Palmer, all-in on marginal Vikings with Berrian and Rice as the WRs)
Carolina at New England, 1 p.m. All-out on marginal Panthers, RB MARONEY, WR WELKER
N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. RB JONES, WR Cotchery, TE Keller, TE Winslow
St. Louis at Tennessee, 1 p.m. All-out on marginal Rams, WR Britt
Washington at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. RB Cartright, WR Moss, TE Miller
San Diego at Dallas, 4:15 p.m. All-out on marginal Chargers, WR Austin
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m. RB McCoy, WR Jackson, WR Maclin, TE Celek, WR Manningham
Monday, Dec. 14
Arizona at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m. QB Warner, WR Crabtree
NFL Week 14 Best Waiver Wire Pickups
NOTE: We only recommend plausible pickups; our threshold is 40% or less ownership in CBSSports.com leagues. As such, players may show up on our list multiple weeks if they fall below that percentage and if we still believe in their upside potential.
1 Devin Thomas
2 Bruce Gradkowski
3 Evan Moore
4 Louis Murphy
5 Chad Henne
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