Just for a comparision, the top players in baseball, hockey and basketball this year are (Rotisserie is listed first, Head to Head second):
Takashi Saito (LAD - RP) 35.2
Carlos Beltrán (NYM - OF) 32.2
Kevin Martin (Sac - SG) 66.8
Rasheed Wallace (Det - PF) 18.0
Jean-Sebastien Giguere (Anh - G) 44.2
Teemu Selanne (Anh - RW) 22.6
I love playing fantasy football but I find it to be the most frustrating out of all the fantasy sports.
If Ayn Rand played fantasy football, she would be livid over these suggestions. 
Remember, now there’s a thursday game from here on out. Adjust your rosters.
Top scores this week:
Isotopes 113.24
Chitwood’s Penance 112.30
PurpleHelmedWarriors 108.62
Tazmanian Devils 106.10
Taz has been lucky to not be matched up against the 1-3 people that outscore him every week. He’s gonna be undefeated, looks like.
I’ll post the overall scores when I’m feeling less lazy (have to format them)
Thanks for the reminder.
Oh, goody. For the second week in a row, I get to start the defense that’s going up against Cleveland. evil laugh
Commish, if you happen to be around and don’t mind, Og has 2 players that are out, and Roy Williams and Chris Cooley might give him a chance. No big deal, though, just a heads up.
Despite a great week by Reggie Bush (and me finally choosing the right person in my weekly Bush / Jacobs cointoss), it looks like I’ll fall about 50 points short of that coveted 6th playoff spot. Ah well, it was a good season.
Poor Zone Blitz, started 4-2, and then went on a 6 game losing streak - often the results of unlucky matchups. He can at least put a win on his last game of the season - he trails by exactly 3 points, and he needs Reggie Brown and the Carolina defense to spot him 3.01, plus cover whatever Steve Smith can do.
Chitwood was projected for 109.5 points - and he only has 54.04 with only a TE to play. And yet, still, he happened to be playing against someone who put up 45.
Bush… sorry about the Grossman thing (-4.64) He was good when I traded him! For that matter, though, neither of us made out all that well. Maroney didn’t have a game like the Cincinatti game again this season, and you did get Terry Glenn who has been pretty good.
It’s kind of sad that in your last week you got absolutely stomped by… Reggie Bush. I assume that’s who your name comes from… I’d have figured you’d have drafted him 
LaDainian only put up 31.2 points this week… his lowest score of the year?
I slapped around Steven Jackson to lock up the #3 seed.
OK, it’s playoff time, and this is how I think it’s going to work out (assuming I have the tiebreakers right):
#1 - Tazmanian Devils (13-0)
Bye
#4 - Last Place-Kiros (7-6)
#5 - The Gridbirds (7-6)
#3 - Exploding Pancakes (8-5)
#6 - Isotopes (6-7)
#2 - Chitwood’s Penance
Bye
If I have the tiebreakers for the playoffs right (I think it’s total points and not head-to-head matchup) Isotopes will beat Court Jesters out for the last playoff spot by 1.06 points.
It’s a bit more than that - 34.08 points. This spread is also known as the Eli Manning week 11-12 suckage differential.
Damn it. Last night, the listing said that I was playing Last Place Kiros, but today it updated and I’m playing Isotopes. Great, despite being the worst seed, he has the highest projected score and some cupcake matchups. I’m gonna end up losing in the first round. This sucks.
Only 2 games this week.
I really don’t have a good feeling about this. Isotopes has a good matchup across the board - doesn’t face one decent defense.
Romo v NO - NO’s defense can’t stop him, and he’s gonna need to score to keep up, so a 30+ point day is very possible.
Chad Johnson v Oak. Oh come on. Oakland’s defense isn’t THAT bad, and Cinci won’t have to score a ton of points to win… that’s the only positive.
Lee Evans v NYJ. Guy put up 40+ points the other week, has been getting a ton of passes, and is against a crappy defense.
Dunn v TB. Why is he only projected to get 11 points, I wonder? Productive runner, imploding defense.
Todd Heap v KC. Pretty standard.
Ahman Green v SF. Yeah, that vaunted SF run defense…
And as Isotopes has awesome matchups, I have pretty terrible ones:
Peyton Manning, Harrison, and Addai at Jax. I’m not positive I want to start any of them. In the dome in their earlier meeting, Manning put up 219 and 1 TD. That’s not gonna cut it for me this week. Harrison had a decent day at 94 yards. Addai barely had anything, but he wasn’t as big a part of the offense at that stage. Still, Jacksonville’s D is good. Ugh.
I may start Jones-Drew instead of Addai, who had 135 combined yards and a TD in their first meeting.
I’m giving serious consideration to Vince Young v Hou or Jeff Garcia v Was instead of Peyton Manning. I’m paranoid that if I sit Manning for one game, he’s gonna put up 35 points…
Vince Young has put up respectable fantasy numbers, and Hou is an ideal matchup. Garcia put up 300+ yards and 3 TDs last week - I know Was sucks in general, how’s their pass defense?
TJ Houshmanzada v Oak - great, except that he didn’t practice Monday, didn’t say why.
Willie Parker at Cle. I actually don’t like this matchup. In the last 2 weeks, Cleveland has held Rudi Johnson to 64 yards in a blowout, and Larry Johnson to 110 on 28 carries or so. Now holding an RB to 110 yards isn’t usually considered an accomplishment, but holding LJ to 150 when he has plenty of carries is pretty good. The Cleveland run defense has been playing the best they’ve played in at least 2 years. I can’t imagine not starting Willie, but I really don’t like the matchup.
I feel like Braylon Edwards can have a big day. He put up 130 on the Steelers a few weeks ago. We’re going to have backup Derrick Anderson starting. He looked good in relief, but who knows how he’ll be. I think it’s entirely possible Braylon Puts up 100/1 or better.
Maroney isn’t much of an option with injury concern, and against Mia.
Stallworth is worth consideration - he had 100+ and a TD.
Overall, though, this sucks. Some of my worst matchups of the year against some of Isotopes’ best. I’m going to be very annoyed if I end up losing in the first round, because I actually have pretty favorable matchup in the last 2 weeks.
Can I ask for opinions? I keep flip flopping. Or is that inappropriate?
Who would you start?
QB options:
Manning at Jax (career average vs Jax is 261 yards, 2 TD, .5 ints per game. His last 4 games have averaged 256 yards, 1.25 td, and 1.25 ints per game.
Jeff Garcia at Was (2 full starts this year have been 140/2/0 and 312/3/0)
Vince Young at Hou ( inconsistent numbers, but decent with rushing numbers… and he’s against Houton)
Trent Green vs Bal.
RB options (pick 2)
Parker vs Cle (Cleveland defense held Rudi Johnson to 64, Larry Johnson to 110 on 28 carries)
Addai at Jax (not much in their first meeting, but he’s a bigger part of the offense now)
Deuce McAlister at Dallas (how’s their rush defense?)
Maurice Jones-Drew vs Indy (had a big game last time, but not getting a ton of carries)
Maroney at Mia (seems like the worst option)
WR options (pick 2)
Houshmanzadeh vs Oak (best option, but missed practice on Monday for an undisclosed reason)
Harrison at Jax
Braylon Edwards at Pit (who put up 130/1 a few weeks ago against them and could do well again)
Donte Stallworth at Was (put up 100+/1 last week)
You should not be entertaining the idea of benching Manning or Harrison. Seriously. I would go:
Manning
Drew
Parker
Harrison
Houshmandzadeh
I originally was going to say Stallworth as the second receiver, but that would be getting cute. I guess that McAllister would be a bit of a safer play than Maurice Drew, but I figure they’re both splitting touches, and the Saints will look to throw, while the Jags will want to pound it.
Keep in mind, however, that I’ve spent all season telling everyone how poorly I’ve been managing my personnel.
I’m debating whether to start Rivers or Delhomme. Delhomme’s got a bad thumb and has been mediocre all year, but Rivers is going up against Denver’s defense and LT has been doing all the scoring for them anyway.
Ronnie Brown’s still out, so I’m stuck with Corey Dillon as a second RB.
Denver’s defense has been lacking since somewhere around week 6. Also, the Giants boards linked to a NC cite (some local rag) that Delhomme’s thumb injury is a torn ligament, not a sprain. Since it’s his throwing hand, the posters are half expecting Weinke to get the start. (And with the Giants’ tendency to transform backup QBs into probowlers, this is actually being received as bad news.)
Fair warning: I am dead last in 2 of the 3 fantasy leagues I’m in.
What he said. Go with what brung ya, or something. As bad as you might feel if you lose because Manning only puts up 15-20 points and Young goes crazy on the Texans… you would feel a LOT worse if your first round draft pick put up 40 on your bench while VY went for 10 in your lineup. And the second scenario is probably more likely than the first.
Sometimes you just have to play the odds and try not to get screwed by luck TOO badly 
FWIW, the projected scores of both Garcia and Young are marginally higher.
I think Garcia’s got some fight left in him, and might open up a can of whoop-ass on Washington. In his brief stint in Cleveland, he’s the best QB the Browns had since the return, even with his little girl arm.
I really want to give MJD a try, but…
His last 4 games in reverse order:
Mia. 5 carries, 46 yards, td.
Buf. 8 carries, 78 yards, td. 5 rec, 47 yards.
NYG. 9 carries, 45 yards, td. 2 rec, 16 yards.
Hou. 3 rush, 11 yards, td. 4 recs, 56 yards.
So even though he’s been very productive on few carries and catches, they still haven’t upped the number he’s getting. I feel like MJD will do better than Addai against their respective opponent’s defenses - but Addai may end up getting 20-25 carries to MJD’s 5-10.
Last time against Indy, though, MJD had 13 rush for 103, and 4 recs for 32 yards and a td.
And McAlister is still in the running. Despite Bush having his big breakout game, McAlister actually had his most carries of the year (I think), 26. He had 20 the previous week. It seems like they’re finally giving him more than 12 carries a game. How is Dallas’ run defense?
Interesting. Yahoo updates the projected numbers pretty regularly, it looks like.
For the first time, I’ve dropped behind.
Playing the last seed is supposed to be a reward for doing well in the regular season, but as it stands, the last seed has the highest projected score out of all of us.
As it is, 2 teams are 20 points lower than the others, and yet each matchup is less than a point of projected difference. It could very well be 2 90 vs 70 matches, rather than the 90 vs 90, 70 vs 70 we’ve got going on now.
I know the world will taunt me if I end up losing today - my team would have outscored the remaining teams and won the championship, if only I didn’t get knocked out by the 6th seed…
Oh, fantasy football, you test my loyalties. I need Willie Parker to have a big game tonight, but as a Cleveland fan, I want Willie Parker to be stopped in the backfield 22 times for -65 yards.
I guess I can settle on a happy middle. Cleveland wins 35-28, with Parker getting 4 TDs.
Oh, if anyone is curious, Taz’s projected score is 111.92, and Chitwood’s is 93.31.
That is, unless yahoo misplaced a decimal. It says Tomlinson is projected at 25.13 points, but they may mean 251.3
I was only projected at 70ish because Chester Taylor was downgraded to doubtful yesterday and they moved his projection to zero this morning, and I haven’t switched it up yet.
On the one hand, I knew I was stocking backup RBs for a reason… on the other hand, I REALLY wish I could take advantage of Taylor @Det. Ah, well. Cedric Houston, please try not to suck too much.