2010 College Hoops Team Draft

Here are our suggested league guidelines for a college hoops team draft, along with our draft board for this season:

SUGGESTED LEAGUE GUIDELINES

^ A standard serpentine-style draft serves as the best place to begin.

^ The ideal distribution of talent would be as follows: 5 teams drafted by 8 owners, 6 teams drafted by 7 owners, 7 teams drafted by 6 owners or 8 teams drafted by 5 owners.

^ Points should be divided equally between success in the regular season/conference tournaments and in the NCAA tournament.

^ Regular season point distribution should come in the form of a "snapshot" of the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first and third ones released in January, the first and third ones released in February and the first and third ones released in March. On those dates, points would be allocated in the following manner: 1st place (100 points), 2nd place (94 points), 3rd place (91 points), 4th place (88 points), 5th place (85 points), 6th place (78 points), 7th place (75 points), 8th place (72 points), 9th place (68 points), 10th place (65 points), 11th place (58 points), 12th place (55 points), 13th place (52 points), 14th place (48 points), 15th place (45 points), 16th place (40 points), 17th place (36 points), 18th place (32 points), 19th place (28 points), 20th place (25 points), 21th place (22 points), 22nd place (18 points), 23rd place (15 points), 24th place (12 points), 25th place (10 points). Additionally, 90 points are to be awarded to the winner of a regular season conference title and an additional 90 points to the winner of a conference title tournament.

^ The other half of the points, in the form of NCAA tournament points, are to be distributed as follows: 50 points for qualifying for the tournament, 100 points for one of your teams qualifying as a #1, #2, #3, #4 seed in any region, 40 points for qualifying as a #5, #6, #7 or #8 seed in any region, 40 points for winning a first-round tournament game, 75 points for winning a second-round tournament game, 150 points for winning a third-round tournament game, 175 for winning a regional final game, 250 points for winning a national semifinal game and 500 points for winning the national title.

NOTE: Teams are listed along with their ranking in our average of a number of major preseason polls.

TOP TIER

1 Duke (1)

2 Michigan State (2)

3 Kansas State (3)

4 Kansas (5)

5 Ohio State (4)

SECOND TIER

6 Syracuse (10)

7 Villanova (7)

8 Pittsburgh (6)

9 Florida (11)

10 North Carolina (9)

11 Kentucky (13)

12 Missouri (15T)

13 Baylor (14)

14 Temple (20)

15 Gonzaga (12)

16 Memphis (18)

17 Illinois (15T)

18 Purdue (8)

19 Virginia Tech (21)

20 Washington (19)

THIRD TIER
21 Butler (17)

22 San Diego State (29T)

23 Texas (27)

24 Georgetown (22)

25 Wisconsin (24)

26 Tennessee (25)

27 Wichita State (28)

28 Florida State (29T)

FOURTH TIER

29 Richmond (26)

30 BYU (23)

31 Southern Mississippi

32 UTEP

33 Ohio

34 Missouri State

35 New Mexico

36 UCLA

37 Georgia

38 Mississippi State

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XLVI

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XLVI

Welcome to our 110th 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 at FantasyDrafthelp.com.

This week, we bring you our NFL Week 12 preview.

NFL Week 12 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 2010.

^ 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. With a full slate of games, and players drafted in a certain order for a multiplicity of reasons, we especially don’t advocate much juggling for the first two weeks of the season. 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 or available (players listed in their order on our draft board):

QB: Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Matt Schaub, Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Tony Romo

RB: Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Maurice Jones-Drew, Frank Gore, Steven Jackson, Michael Turner, DeAngelo Williams, Rashard Mendenhall, Ryan Mathews, Jamaal Charles, Knowshon Moreno, Shonn Greene, Matt Forte, Beanie Wells, Cedric Benson, Jonathan Stewart, LeSean McCoy, Ronnie Brown

WR: Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Reggie Wayne, Roddy White, Miles Austin, Greg Jennings, DeSean Jackson, Larry Fitzgerald, Brandon Marshall, Anquan Boldin, Marques Colston, Steve Smith (Carolina), Chad Ochocinco, Calvin Johnson, Steve Smith (NY Giants), Dwayne Bowe, Michael Crabtree, Donald Driver, Vincent Jackson

TE:, Antonio Gates, Vernon Davis, Brent Celek, Jason Witten, Tony Gonzalez, Jermichael Finley

^ Here are the players who have been added to the list this season:

QB: none

RB: Arian Foster, LaDainian Tomlinson, Peyton Hillis

WR: Wes Welker, Terrell Owens, Hakeem Nicks

TE: none

^ Here are the players who have been removed from that list this season:

QB: none

RB: Ryan Grant

WR: Pierre Garcon, Mike Wallace

TE: Dallas Clark

^ Links for each game take you to the NFL.com home page for each game, with stats and analysis.

^ All times listed are EDT.

^ Teams listed as “All-In” have a combination of all of the above players and any marginal players reaching a status where QB/RB1/RB2/WR1/WR2/TE all should be played. Teams listed as “All-Out” should have only the above “locks” for their team in a fantasy lineup, with all marginal players being benched.

^ All advice is relative, because there are exceptions to every rule. There are no marginal players who absolutely should be played or benched, but the ones we refer to here should be in the vast majority of circumstances.

^ Of the non-gimme players we like this week, the stronger plays are the ones in all caps.

Week 12

Sun. Nov. 28

Titans at Texans, 1:00 PM All-out on marginal Titans, WR Walter

Buccaneers at Ravens, 1:00 PM WR M Williams, QB Flacco

Jaguars at Giants, 1:00 PM QB Garrard, TE Lewis, QB E Manning

Panthers at Browns, 1:00 PM RB Goodson, all-out on marginal Browns

Steelers at Bills, 1:00 PM All-in on marginal Bills, QB Fitzpatrick, WR S Johnson, WR Evans

Eagles at Bears, 1:00 PM QB Vick, WR Maclin, QB Cutler, WR Knox

Vikings at Redskins, 1:00 PM TE Shiancoe, QB McNabb, WR S Moss

Packers at Falcons, 1:00 PM All-out on marginal Packers, QB Ryan

Chiefs at Seahawks, 4:05 PM QB CASSEL, RB T Jones, QB HASSELBECK

Dolphins at Raiders, 4:05 PM RB R Williams, RB McFadden

Rams at Broncos, 4:15 PM QB Bradford, QB ORTON, WR Lloyd

Chargers at Colts, 8:20 PM RB Tolbert, WR B White

Mon. Nov. 29

49ers at Cardinals, 8:30 PM QB T Smith, WR Breaston

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XLV

Welcome to our 110th 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 at FantasyDrafthelp.com.

This week, we bring you our NFL Week 11 preview.

NFL Week 11 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 2010.

^ 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. With a full slate of games, and players drafted in a certain order for a multiplicity of reasons, we especially don’t advocate much juggling for the first two weeks of the season. 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 or available (players listed in their order on our draft board):

QB: Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Matt Schaub, Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Tony Romo

RB: Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Maurice Jones-Drew, Frank Gore, Steven Jackson, Michael Turner, DeAngelo Williams, Rashard Mendenhall, Ryan Mathews, Jamaal Charles, Knowshon Moreno, Shonn Greene, Matt Forte, Beanie Wells, Cedric Benson, Jonathan Stewart, LeSean McCoy, Ronnie Brown

WR: Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Reggie Wayne, Roddy White, Miles Austin, Greg Jennings, DeSean Jackson, Larry Fitzgerald, Brandon Marshall, Anquan Boldin, Marques Colston, Steve Smith (Carolina), Chad Ochocinco, Calvin Johnson, Steve Smith (NY Giants), Dwayne Bowe, Michael Crabtree, Donald Driver, Vincent Jackson

TE:, Antonio Gates, Vernon Davis, Brent Celek, Jason Witten, Tony Gonzalez, Jermichael Finley

^ Here are the players who have been added to the list this season:

QB: none

RB: Arian Foster, LaDainian Tomlinson

WR: Wes Welker, Terrell Owens, Hakeem Nicks

TE: none

^ Here are the players who have been removed from that list this season:

QB: none

RB: Ryan Grant

WR: Pierre Garcon, Mike Wallace

TE: Dallas Clark

^ Links for each game take you to the NFL.com home page for each game, with stats and analysis.

^ All times listed are EDT.

^ Teams listed as “All-In” have a combination of all of the above players and any marginal players reaching a status where QB/RB1/RB2/WR1/WR2/TE all should be played. Teams listed as “All-Out” should have only the above “locks” for their team in a fantasy lineup, with all marginal players being benched.

^ All advice is relative, because there are exceptions to every rule. There are no marginal players who absolutely should be played or benched, but the ones we refer to here should be in the vast majority of circumstances.

^ Of the non-gimme players we like this week, the stronger plays are the ones in all caps.

Week 11

Sun. Nov. 21

Packers at Vikings, 1:00 PM All-out on marginal Packers, WR Harvin, TE Shiancoe

Redskins at Titans, 1:00 PM QB McNabb, WR S Moss, TE Cooley, QB V Young

Cardinals at Chiefs, 1:00 PM All-out on marginal Cardinals, RB T JONES

Ravens at Panthers, 1:00 PM WR Mason, all-out on marginal Panthers

Bills at Bengals, 1:00 PM QB Fitzpatrick, RB F Jackson, WR Evans, WR S Johnson, QB Palmer

Lions at Cowboys, 1:00 PM RB Best, RB F JONES, WR Bryant

Texans at Jets, 1:00 PM WR Walter, QB SANCHEZ, TE Keller

Raiders at Steelers, 1:00 PM RB McFadden, QB Roethlisberger, WR Wallace,WR Ward

Browns at Jaguars, 1:00 PM QB McCoy, RB HILLIS, QB Garrard

Seahawks at Saints, 4:05 PM QB Hasselbeck, WR Moore

Falcons at Rams, 4:05 PM QB Ryan, QB Bradford

Buccaneers at 49ers, 4:05 PM QB Freeman, RB Blount, all-out on marginal 49ers

Colts at Patriots, 4:15 PM WR Garcon, RB GREEN-ELLIS

Giants at Eagles, 8:20 PM QB E Manning, RB Bradshaw, QB VICK, WR Maclin

Mon. Nov. 22

Broncos at Chargers, 8:30 PM QB Orton, WR Lloyd, all-out on marginal Chargers

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XLIV

Welcome to our 109th 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 at FantasyDrafthelp.com.

This week, we bring you our NFL Week 10 preview.

NFL Week 10 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 2010.

^ 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. With a full slate of games, and players drafted in a certain order for a multiplicity of reasons, we especially don’t advocate much juggling for the first two weeks of the season. 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 or available (players listed in their order on our draft board):

QB: Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Matt Schaub, Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Tony Romo

RB: Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Maurice Jones-Drew, Frank Gore, Steven Jackson, Michael Turner, DeAngelo Williams, Rashard Mendenhall, Ryan Mathews, Jamaal Charles, Knowshon Moreno, Shonn Greene, Matt Forte, Beanie Wells, Cedric Benson, Jonathan Stewart, LeSean McCoy, Ronnie Brown

WR: Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Reggie Wayne, Roddy White, Miles Austin, Greg Jennings, DeSean Jackson, Larry Fitzgerald, Brandon Marshall, Anquan Boldin, Marques Colston, Steve Smith (Carolina), Chad Ochocinco, Calvin Johnson, Steve Smith (NY Giants), Dwayne Bowe, Michael Crabtree, Donald Driver, Vincent Jackson

TE: Antonio Gates, Vernon Davis, Brent Celek, Jason Witten, Tony Gonzalez, Jermichael Finley

^ Here are the players who have been added to the list this season:

QB: none

RB: Arian Foster, LaDainian Tomlinson

WR: Wes Welker, Terrell Owens, Hakeem Nicks

TE: none

^ Here are the players who have been removed from that list this season:

QB: none

RB: Ryan Grant

WR: Pierre Garcon, Mike Wallace

TE: Dallas Clark

^ Links for each game take you to the NFL.com home page for each game, with stats and analysis.

^ All times listed are EDT.

^ Teams listed as “All-In” have a combination of all of the above players and any marginal players reaching a status where QB/RB1/RB2/WR1/WR2/TE all should be played. Teams listed as “All-Out” should have only the above “locks” for their team in a fantasy lineup, with all marginal players being benched.

^ All advice is relative, because there are exceptions to every rule. There are no marginal players who absolutely should be played or benched, but the ones we refer to here should be in the vast majority of circumstances.

^ Of the non-gimme players we like this week, the stronger plays are the ones in all caps.

Sun. Nov. 14

Texans at Jaguars, 1:00 PM WR Walter, TE Lewis

Vikings at Bears, 1:00 PM TE Shiancoe, QB Cutler

Panthers at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM All-out on marginal Panthers, RB BLOUNT, M Williams

Lions at Bills, 1:00 PM RB Best, RB K Smith, QB Fitzpatrick, RB F Jackson, RB Spiller, WR Evans, WR S Johnson

Jets at Browns, 1:00 PM QB Sanchez, WR Holmes, RB Hillis

Titans at Dolphins, 1:00 PM QB V Young, all-out on marginal Dolphins

Bengals at Colts, 1:00 PM QB C Palmer, WR Garcon

Chiefs at Broncos, 4:05 PM QB Cassel, RB T JONES, WR Gaffney, WR LLOYD, WR Royal

Cowboys at Giants, 4:15 PM RB F Jones, WR Bryant, QB E MANNING, RB Bradshaw, RB Jacobs

Seahawks at Cardinals, 4:15 PM RB Lynch, all-out on marginal Cardinals

Rams at 49ers, 4:15 PM All-out on marginal Rams and 49ers

Patriots at Steelers, 8:20 PM TE A Hernandez, QB Roethlisberger, WR Wallace, WR Ward

Mon. Nov. 15

Eagles at Redskins, 8:30 PM QB Vick, WR Maclin, QB McNabb, WR S Moss

Byes: GB, NO, OAK, SD

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XLIII

Welcome to our 108th 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 at FantasyDrafthelp.com.

This week, we bring you our NFL Week 9 preview.

NFL Week 9 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 2010.

^ 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. With a full slate of games, and players drafted in a certain order for a multiplicity of reasons, we especially don’t advocate much juggling for the first two weeks of the season. 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 or available (players listed in their order on our draft board):

QB: Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Matt Schaub, Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Tony Romo

RB: Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Maurice Jones-Drew, Frank Gore, Steven Jackson, Michael Turner, DeAngelo Williams, Rashard Mendenhall, Ryan Mathews, Jamaal Charles, Knowshon Moreno, Shonn Greene, Matt Forte, Beanie Wells, Cedric Benson, Jonathan Stewart, LeSean McCoy, Ronnie Brown

WR: Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Reggie Wayne, Roddy White, Miles Austin, Greg Jennings, DeSean Jackson, Larry Fitzgerald, Brandon Marshall, Anquan Boldin, Marques Colston, Steve Smith (Carolina), Chad Ochocinco, Calvin Johnson, Steve Smith (NY Giants), Dwayne Bowe, Michael Crabtree, Donald Driver, Vincent Jackson

TE: Dallas Clark, Antonio Gates, Vernon Davis, Brent Celek, Jason Witten, Tony Gonzalez, Jermichael Finley

^ Here are the players who have been added to the list this season:

QB: none

RB: Arian Foster, LaDainian Tomlinson

WR: Wes Welker, Terrell Owens, Hakeem Nicks

TE: none

^ Here are the players who have been removed from that list this season:

QB: none

RB: Ryan Grant

WR: Pierre Garcon, Mike Wallace

TE: none

^ Links for each game take you to the NFL.com home page for each game, with stats and analysis.

^ All times listed are EDT.

^ Teams listed as “All-In” have a combination of all of the above players and any marginal players reaching a status where QB/RB1/RB2/WR1/WR2/TE all should be played. Teams listed as “All-Out” should have only the above “locks” for their team in a fantasy lineup, with all marginal players being benched.

^ All advice is relative, because there are exceptions to every rule. There are no marginal players who absolutely should be played or benched, but the ones we refer to here should be in the vast majority of circumstances.

^ Of the non-gimme players we like this week, the stronger plays are the ones in all caps.

Week 9

Sun. Nov. 07

Buccaneers at Falcons, 1:00 PM QB Freeman, QB Ryan, RB Snelling

Saints at Panthers, 1:00 PM All-in on marginal Saints (RB Ivory, WR Meachem, WR Moore, TE Shockey), all-out on marginal Panthers

Bears at Bills, 1:00 PM QB Cutler, WR Knox, QB Fitzpatrick, WR Evans, WR S Johnson

Jets at Lions, 1:00 PM All-in on marginal Jets (QB Sanchez, WR Edwards, WR Holmes, TE Keller), RB Best

Dolphins at Ravens, 1:00 PM WR Bess, QB Flacco

Patriots at Browns, 1:00 PM RB Green-Ellis, TE Hernandez, RB Hillis

Chargers at Texans, 1:00 PM RB Tolbert, all-out on marginal Texans

Cardinals at Vikings, 1:00 PM WR Breaston, TE Shiancoe

Giants at Seahawks, 4:05 PM QB E MANNING, RB Bradshaw, RB Jacobs, WR M Williams

Chiefs at Raiders, 4:15 PM RB T Jones, RB McFadden

Colts at Eagles, 4:15 PM WR GARCON, WR Maclin

Cowboys at Packers, 8:20 PM RB F JONES, RB B Jackson

Mon. Nov. 08

Steelers at Bengals, 8:30 PM QB Roethlisberger, WR Wallace, WR Ward, all-in on marginal Bengals (QB Palmer, TE Gresham)

Byes: DEN, JAC, SF, STL, TEN, WAS