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2013 Fantasy Football Position Rankings and Projections Link List

ESPN.com
2013 Position Rankings
Top 300 Overall
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Defense/Special Teams
Kickers

2013 Projections
All Players
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Defense/Special Teams
Kickers
Flex

2013 PPR | TD | IDP | Keeper Rankings
Top 300 Overall PPR-League Rankings
Top 300 Overall TD-Only League Rankings
Top 150 Overall IDP League Rankings
Top 200 Overall Keeper League Rankings


NFL.com
2013 Position Rankings
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Team Defenses
Kickers

2013 PPR League Rankings
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends

2013 Projections
All Offense
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Team Defenses
Kickers

FFToday.com
2013 Position Rankings
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Kickers

2013 Defensive Rankings
Defensive Linemen
Linebackers
Defensive Backs

2013 Projections
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Kickers
Team Defenses
Defensive Linemen
Linebackers
Defensive Backs

CBSSports.com
Top Rankings 
Top 200 Standard League Rankings
Top 200 PPR League Rankings
Positional Dynasty League Rankings

2013 Position Rankings
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends

2013 Projections
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Defense/Special Teams
Kickers


ProFootballrosters.com
2013 Position Rankings
Top 350 Overall Players
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Team Defenses
Kickers

2013 PPR Rankings
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends

2013 Dynasty/Keeper League Rankings
Top 350 Overall Players
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Team Defenses

2013 IDP League Rankings
Top 250+ Overall Defensive Players
Defensive Linemen
Linebackers
Defensive Backs

Yahoo.com
2013 Position Rankings
Top 200 Overall
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Team Defenses
Kickers


AthlonSports.com
2013 Position Rankings
Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends
Defense/Special Teams
Kickers

2013 IDP  League Rankings
Defensive Linemen
Linebackers
Defensive Backs

TheFakeFootball.com
2013 Position Rankings
Top 200 Overall Players
Quarterbacks 
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends

2013 PPR Position Rankings
Top 200 Overall Players
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
Tight Ends

Daily Fantasy First timer ... a few pointers to ponder when getting started.

Rule one goes without saying. Only play with what you can afford to lose.
  Granted no one wants or thinks they are going to lose, just know your risk. If you can not afford it, don't do it.

2. Take advantage of first time deposit bonuses. 
    It is a free kick back of cash. Why would you not want it.  With most daily fantasy sites a deposit bonuses is a pending bonus. Meaning a percentage of the bonus is releases into your account each time you play in a cash game. Until you have fully acquired the bonus.

3. Do yourself a solid and be sure to read the game and scoring rules.  
  Every daily fantasy site offers different structures in which games are played and scored. It is best to know what categories are going to gain or cost you points in order to draft the best scoring team possible. Player performance scores will vary from site to site. For instance on Fanduel a defensive sack is 1 point, on Draftstreet it is .5.

4. When starting out it is a good idea to play couple free games. 
  Familiarize yourself with the process. Get a feel for the player values, having to drafting your team and the actual game scoring.

5. Enter Freerolls.
  They are tournaments you can play for absolutely free and they still offer cash prizes. Depending on what site you decide to play, each one offer various kinds of freerolls.

6. Manage your bankroll.
  Start with a amount your feel comfortable with and remember it is daily fantasy. No reason to go buck wild and put your whole stack at risk on any certain night. Keep your head and play smart. Personally, I do not like to over extend myself. No more than 15% of my bank on any giving night.

7. It is a good idea to start by playing head to head match ups and 50/50 games. 
  While they are not the flashy big prize pool and 1000+ player tournaments, both these games offer the best odds of winning at 50%. They are great starting blocks to help you build your bankroll.

  In a 50/50 game, it is basically a double up in where all you need to do is beat half the field of players. For instance, in a 20 man tournament the top ten positions are in the cash.

   If you choose to take a Head to Head, think about choosing from a open spot in a already posted H2H match. This way you control who you play. Plus some sites offer a bit of background into a player history. Ideally you can research a probable opponent and find out if they have a similar playing history as yourself. Where by if you create your own H2H your opponent is left out of your control. Leaving you open to the possibility of getting your H2H picked up by a more experienced player.

The dreaded 'Game Time Decision'.

What do you do if one of your keys players is a true game time decision. Last thing you want to hear is "We'll see how he warms up, he's a game time decision." Most fantasy or sport related sites are not able to update them last second changes to a player status as if  they will play or not. Leaving most injuries reports unreliable.

If you are determine to have a certain player in your lineup and he is a 50/50 bet on playing, the best bet I found is to hit twidder. Toss the players name into the twidder search feature and watch the feed for incoming tweets. You will have to funnel threw the trash tweets from the respectable ones, but it tends to be a solid option for them very last minute game time calls.

Fantasy Stacking

  It is a strategy where a player creates the bulk of their fantasy line up from a single team’s roster. Usually basing this strategy off a statistical trend. In certain formats like in a salary cap game, it can be beneficial because you have the ability to afford star players by surrounding them with their cheaper priced role players. It does however tend to be a all or nothing play. For when it works the payoff can be huge. The flip side, if your stacked team happens to tank, so do you.

 The strategy itself has been known to be frowned upon by some. More so back in the day when daily fantasy sites had little regulations on mass stacking. It was prominently used in multi-entry salary cap tournaments. Where a player could make multiple entries using a different team to stack each individual entry. Increasing the odds (sometimes as much as x5) that one of his stacked entries will hit.

   In recent years daily fantasy sites have made rules to stop mass stacking by limiting the number of players you can take from one team. Usually it's a maximum of 4.  And also by the rule that your fantasy roster must consist of players from at least 3 different teams.

   What you are looking for is a edge that you feel will lead to outpouring of production from any one team. Then capitalizing off that production by taking multiple players off that team. Could be a baseball team that has proven to have success against a certain starting pitcher. Maybe there also playing in hitter friendly ballpark with favorable weather. It all makes for a ideal set up to stack the lineup.

  Say you are looking at a NHL match up and notice Sidney Crosby has a history of mopping up on a certain team. Instead of just taking Crosby, a stacking strategy would be to handcuff him with his line mates Kunitz and Dupuis. This way if Crosby does score, then it is more than likely one of his line mates will pick up the assist. Or vice verse being if one of his line mates score, then Crosby will pick up a helper. You end up turning one point into 2 , possibly 3. Not to mention all players will be +1 for a even strength goal. The downside being is this strategy can come back in bite you in the ass if the line fail to produce or get scored against.

Fantasy 101

Should go without saying if your playing a daily fantasy game you need to make sure you draft a team that actually takes the field. There is nothing worse than starting a player just to find him hurt or riding the pine. I see it happen more often than it should. Don't end up handicapping yourself before the game even begins. With a little research you can avoid some of these pit falls.

Being MLB is the only sport in full swing out of the big 4, let say we drafted a fantasy baseball team. There are 2 key things you need to manage before the start of your daily game. First, you want to be sure your players are going to be in the starting line up and secondly, the weather.

The weather is pretty self explanatory. If there is no game, you get no points. Last thing you want to do is have a player in your lineup and then have the game called or postponed. If it is predicted to rain cats and dogs all day at Wrigley, it may not be the best idea to have any Cubs or their opponents players in your lineup. Manage the weather risk. It is simple enough to go to weather.com and check the forecast for game time.

Be sure to check the injury reports. There easy to find. MLB, ESPN, USA Today, Yahoo Sports , they all have them, there all the same. The best bet is to just to go to MLB.com and get it straight from the horses mouth. Word of warning. While the IR's are good for finding players on the DL, it can be kind of tricky for them players that are 50 / 50, probable, or a game time decision.

Sometimes the easy road is to checking the lineups cards for the days MLB games. See which players are plug into where on the battering order of the starting line up. There are various sites offer this. My main digs for starting lineup is rotowire.com. It has all you Fantasy baseball needs on one page. Starting lineups, player updates and a 6 hour weather window and radar link for each game.

What is Daily Fantasy?

It is a one day fantasy league. Traditional fantasy games are played over the length of a entire sports season to see who the winner is. A daily game is just the condensed version of it's traditional big brother. You draft, play and hopefully win all in one afternoon.

Where to play, Fanduel. Bottom line, it is the best site for daily fantasy sports. It has all the little bells and whistles. Site itself is simple to navigate, has a clean interface, with easy deposit and withdrawal options, plus top-notch customer service and several promotions. They offer head to head match-ups, to multiplayer tournaments as small as 3 to as big as 1000+ players. They have Fantasy game for:

• MLB
• NFL
• NBA
• NHL
• NCAA basketball
• NCAA Football

But here is the kicker, It is where the action is at. In the last week they paid out in prize money just north of 1.5 million. Seven figures in seven day. With games ranging from free to as high as several hundo. I can get my fix and lock up a match up in a blink of a eye.

Now I will stray from time to time. I'll hit up DraftStreet because they are one of the few sites that offer fantasy PGA. The golf leagues are 4 day tournaments. Draft your team before tee off on Thursdays and that team plays threw the 4 day tournament gaining you points. Concluding with the final round on Sunday to see if you won your league.

Purpose of this blog.....

I dunno. I suck at typing and my grammar is atrocious, so it seemed like the right thing to do. I just felt this overwhelming need to create a blog that no one will probably read. Maybe give out a few pointers I have picked up along my way. At least this way if I forget anything, I can always come back and use my blog as reference.