Drafting for a Fantasy Football Keeper League

Now you can find player ranks just about anywhere. From Yahoo, to ESPN, to Sportsline, to the NFL, everyone seems to have their top 100 players to draft list out already. Those list will change over the next couple of months with training camps just opening up over the last week… but even now, there is a serious shortage of keeper draft lists out there.

I used to buy fantasy football magazines every year, and they were always out dated by training camp… they also never had good keeper draft lists or strategies, and I pretty much gave up on them. Now everyone has a list, but still good keep draft lists are very hard to find. Unless you what to pay for one or make your own, you are kinda out of luck.

And don’t think that you can use a regular fantasy football cheat sheet to draft for a keeper leagues.. I mean, I guess you can, but you’ll be at a big disadvantage, kinda like using a standard cheat sheet for a league that changes the whole scoring structure.

Anyway, the most notable change in keeper leagues happens with the first draft pick. Ladainian Tomlinson is the number one pick on everyone re-draft league board this year, but he shouldn’t be number 1 for a keeper. LT is 29 years old, and if you have the number pick in this years draft, you want a guy who could put up big numbers from at least 3 years… and that is why you should take  Adrian Peterson, who is only 23. Sure he isn’t as proven as LT, but he could make a huge impact on your team not only this year, but in 2009, 2010, etc as well. Running backs hit a wall at 30, so LT is probably the best guy for this year, but not for the future…

BTW, if you can trade LT for Peterson now, I would do it.

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Football trades and Anonymous

So I finally got that Imus quote off the front page. This site has to rank better soon because of this. I figure it was stuck in a Google dup. content filter.

Aside form that, Jeremy Shockey was traded! Good riddance, you silly pain in the ass. I hope you go to New Orleans and wine as much there as you did in New York… even when your team was winning the Super Bowl. You suck.

Jason Taylor was also traded by Miami to the Washington Redskins yesterday. It’s a good trade for the Skins, but Miami is going to miss this guy. the Dolphins suck year after year, and I know Taylor wasn’t happy there, but trading for a few draft picks isn’t helping your cause. You need help and fans this year… I mean, you’ve been rebuilding for about 10 years now.

So I just learned about the fight between Anonymous and Scientology, and I think it’s hilarious. There are some funny pictures and descriptions about some of the protests across the World, and I have to admit some of the stuff they did in London made me laugh out loud. See picture below…

I must be really behind the times, because this things seems (seemed?) big, and I’m just learning of it now. Not like I would join in, but I think of myself as relatively internet savvy… I have a damn blog!… and I had no idea that this was happening… anyway, I kinda hope that this fight continues because it’s funny. I really don’t think that an unorganized group of internet nerds can keep this going for very long though. But hey, you never know.

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Drunk

So I don’t have this site bookmakred, amd all i od is search fo rhtis site to get here… Anyway, I’m still number 3 in yahoo for be the nfl super bowl. BS! Bet USA beats me? Fuck them. this site is the best… and I’m drunk.

 I haer Eureopea vacation on, and its great. I havenlt seeen this movie in years, and I can;t type rght. OK too drunk to blog. Time to go….

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Fantasy football league website reviews

Yahoo – One of the the best pay fantasy football league options. Their free leagues are good too, but you can’t customize certain things in the free leagues. One of the big differences is the inability to change the waiver wire options which aren’t very good in the free format. In the free leagues, players can be added off the wire all day Sunday including during games. This enables someone who is sitting home watching the Giants (or any other team) see if someone gets injured, let’s say the starting running back. That person can go and grab the backup off the free agency list immediately (regardless of the wavier wire order), giving them a nice advantage over everyone else in the league. Most people don’t like this option, because they don’t want to spend every Sunday with their computer to be competitive. In my opinion, this is the best pay out there.

Fleaflicker – Probably the best free fantasy football website. This site only does fantasy football, and offers great options like Yahoo. It’s also free because they make their money from paid advertising on the site. They also offer a free tour, so check out the website if your interested.

Sportsline – Not my favorite. Sportsline has great fantasy write ups for each player, that are constantly updated. This is great for tracking player information, and good for fantasy advice when you are setting your line up. Sportsline doesn’t really have any problems, but it just isn’t as user friendly as yahoo. Sportsline fantasy football leagues also don’t track results year to year, which is kind of stupid.

ESPN – Decent fantasy football leagues, but not as good as the three sites listed above.

NFL – Decent fantasy football leagues, but probably the worst site listed on this page.

Now there are a lot of other sites that offer fantasy football leagues both for a cost and for free, but the 5 listed above are probably the most not worthy. I’ve played leagues in all 5 over the years, and I have to say the you can’t really go wrong with any of them, but Yahoo and Fleaflicker are probably the best.

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Another slow sports day…

These days around the MBL All-Star game are some of the slowest sports day’s of the year. Nothing to watch, nothing to bet, almost nothing to do…

Football news: The Vikings are talking to Brett Favre and the Packers don’t like it. Apparently, Green Bay thinks that Minny was “tampering” with their all-star, retired/unretired quarterback by trying to negotiate with his agent for Favre to go play with the Vikings. The Vikings are denying this, and now it’s back in Green Bay’s court to provide evidence. Anyway, these teams are hated rivals, so I really doubt that Favre would have gone to Minnesota, but you never know.

Politics? BJ Lawson is running for congress in North Carolina, and the only reason I care is because he is a big advocate for internet freedom (which is great for online gamblers). Over the last couple of days, more and more internet gambling sites have been picking up on him, so I felt like I should mention him here. If you interested, check out the posts at the Online Sports Bettor and Gambling911.

Nothing too exciting tonight going on in the baseball world, and nothing much new in Super Bowl news either… The Cowboys want to win, blah, blah, blah… I’ll let know when something really happens.

So I’ll probably be back tomorrow. I’m still trying to get that quote off my homepage, so I’ll be writing.

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Late games going too late

I live on the East Coast, I’m a regular working guy and I was trying to watch the All Star game to the end, and just couldn’t do it. Of course, it going 15 innings was a part of the problem, but it started so damn late. Like all the Monday night football games, and even the Super Bowl is starting later now. This East coaster hates it! F the west coast, they need to start games earlier.

Anyway, the AL won the game last night. I should bet the sports bettor’s pick, but I couldn’t resist the odds on the NL. You have to figure that 2 teams of All Stars match up pretty good, so why not take the odds on the underdog. Well, I did and they matched up really well, but I still lost… Damn National League. Why do I have to be a Braves fan? Always the brides maid.

Anyway, another day of posting and I figure that I’m another day closer to getting off of google’s filter. I’m scared of that thing and all blogs should be. Don’t quote anything or your homepage with disappear!

Yahoo hasn’t been too kind to this site either recently. I used to rank number 1 for – bet the nfl super bowl – in it’s search. Now I’m number 2, and off the front page for simply – bet the super bowl. Anyway, I’m sure that I’ll make a come back my the big game, or at least, I’ll try. Hey, working hard is what matters, right? Anyway, I really regret deleting half this site a few months ago. Anyway, new content is new content. You can’t live with regrets, so I just have to do my best to get this site back up there and move up.

So good luck with all your baseball and NFL futures betting. I’ll be back soon.

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203 days left until the Super Bowl

And this site has disappeared from google of the phrase – bet the nfl super bowl. Are you kidding me?!?!?

I figure that it’s google’s duplicate content tool working over time, if you look at my last 6th and 8th posted which are currently still on my homepage, I quoted a few items from some news sites. I think that google probably picked those up and flagged my site as having duplicate content… And that’s incredible. Out of hundreds of words typed on this page, google is smart enough to pick up 10 or 20 or 50 in a row and know that these exact same words are on another page somewhere on the internet.

Google then determines that the other page was the author of these words, then decides that I stole these words, and they penalize my site by removing it from the search results. At least I think that this is how it works.

Anyway, I’m really glad that I learned this now, still over 200 days from the Super Bowl, so I’ll be sure not to quote anything on this site again! I bet that if you have a website, you won’t either.

Sometimes these search engine are brutal. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the Homerun Derby, bet on the American League tomorrow and thank me later.

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Updated All Star Odds

I’m currently watching the All Star Homerun Derby… and I have the odds of the 2008 MLB All Star Game!

The odds are from BoDog.

National League All Stars +1½ (-155) +125
American League All Stars -1½ (+135) -145

The over under is 10 runs.

Personally, I think that the American League is a great bet. They haven’t lost in 10 years, and they have a lot of quality closers on the roster. I would bet them either on the run line or the money line… I think that I’m going to bet the money line though… I don’t mind paying a little more for a run and a half.

Away, I’m going to go and watch the rest of the Homerun Derby. No football talk today!

Good Luck and thanks for stopping by!

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MLB All-Star Betting

So the MBL All-Star Game is a “Super Bowl like event”. At least that’s what MBL is trying to do in NYC this week. With the All-Star FanFest, Homerun Derby, the parade, and all the other events that are planned in New York this week above and beyond the All-Star Game, baseball has really trying to turn this into a week long celebration of America’s favorite past time. All I think they’re doing it. This event is great of the game and great for NYC.

So after all the hype around the All-Star game, I had to look at betting it online. I usually just bet football and the Super Bowl online, but what the hell, I can put a bet on one of baseball’s most exciting week. Unfortunately no odds are posted yet for this game since the teams haven’t been finalized yet. If you want to bet this game, I would look for the betting lines to come out tomorrow or the next day.

The American League will be heavily favored, and they should be. With the closer talent that they are bring to the All-Star game, I’m expecting them not to give up a single run for the 5th inning on. So basically, the AL has 4 or 5 more innings of at bats to score runs, and they shouldn’t have much of a problem.

Betting stats show that the American League has dominated the All-Star game recently. In the last 10 games, thay are 9-0-1 with the only All-Star game tie in history in 02.

4 of the last 6 All-Star games betting results have gone over the total, 14 runs in 02, 13 in 03, 13 in 04 and 12 in 05. The 06 game ended 3-2 and last year score was 5-4.

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Eli Manning hasn’t changed

Payton Manning has said that his brother’s Super Bowl wins last year hasn’t changed him. Interesting. Lets take a quick look at Eli’s last year…

Eli Manning won a Super Bowl, the biggest game in the NFL. This is a major accomplishment and something that he will always be known for. His football career and legacy has already been made as he will always be a Super Bowl winning quarterback. How will this effect his confidence next year? I think it goes up. His press will be better, and even though he says that he doesn’t read his own press (and that’s a great thing), other people do and often judge him on what they read. So his press will be better, he’ll get more respect from reporters and fans, and he already has 1 ring to fall back on.

Eli Manning got married this offseason. That’s right. The guy was single, won the Super Bowl, and still married his college sweatheart. You’ve got to respect that… I think. Either he is really smart, and they are happy for the rest of their lives. OR he is a complete idiot, they be divorced in 10 years, and Eli missed out on some great pussy getting years. Especially this summer.

He won the Super Bowl! He can walk into any bar in NYC and get laid in a matter of minutes. Well, I hope he’s happy, and yeah, I guess he didn’t change in this respect.

Eli also visited the White House (with the rest of the Giants), golfed at St. Andrews and went to Louisiana this week to take part in the same football camp his family has hosted for 13 years. Yeah, not much change there either…

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