Week 15 Fantasy Football Position Rankings

Position Rankings are up.

Running late, so not a ton of time to write. Let me know if I'm missing someone or you have any questions about the rankings.

As always, this post is going to act as an Advice Time, so hit me with your best shot.

Week 15 Quarterback Rankings

1.     Drew Brees

2.     Aaron Rodgers

3.     Tom Brady

4.     Eli Manning

5.     Tony Romo

6.     Cam Newton

7.     Matthew Stafford

8.     Philip Rivers

9.     Michael Vick

10. Tim Tebow

11. Matt Ryan

12. Rex Grossman

13. Matt Moore

14. Ben Roethlisberger

15. Joe Flacco

16. Mark Sanchez

17. Andy Dalton

18. Jake Locker

19. T.J. Yates

20. Ryan Fitzpatrick

21. Carson Palmer

22. Josh Freeman

23. Christian Ponder

24. Alex Smith

25. Sam Bradford

Week 15 Running Back Rankings

1.     Arian Foster

2.     Maurice Jones-Drew

3.     Ray Rice

4.     LeSean McCoy

5.     Adrian Peterson

6.     Chris Johnson

7.     Michael Bush

8.     Marshawn Lynch

9.     Felix Jones

10. Cedric Benson

11. Roy Helu

12. Reggie Bush

13. Willis McGahee

14. Shonn Greene

15. Michael Turner

16. Darren Sproles

17. LeGarrette Blount

18. Ryan Mathews

19. Steven Jackson

20. Ahmad Bradshaw

21. Frank Gore

22. Beanie Wells

23. Rashard Mendenhall

24. Marion Barber

25. Brandon Jacobs

26. Donald Brown

27. BenJarvus Green-Ellis

28. Ben Tate

29. DeAngelo Williams

30. Ryan Grant

31. C.J. Spiller

32. Mike Tolbert

33. Peyton Hillis

34. Jonathan Stewart

35. Kahlil Bell

36. Maurice Morris

37. Pierre Thomas

38. Kendall Hunter

39. Chris Ivory

40. LaDainian Tomlinson

41. Dexter McCluster

42. Montario Hardesty

43. Daniel Thomas

44. Brandon Saine

45. Toby Gerhart

46. LaRod Stephens-Howling

47. Sammy Morris

48. Jackie Battle

49. Thomas Jones

50. D.J. Ware

Week 15 Wide Receiver Rankings

1.     Wes Welker

2.     Hakeem Nicks

3.     Jordy Nelson

4.     Calvin Johnson

5.     Roddy White

6.     Larry Fitzgerald

7.     A.J. Green

8.     Marques Colston

9.     Steve Smith

10. Victor Cruz

11. Percy Harvin

12. Mike Wallace

13. Brandon Marshall

14. Laurent Robinson

15. Andre Johnson

16. Antonio Brown

17. Miles Austin

18. Brandon Lloyd

19. Vincent Jackson

20. Dez Bryant

21. Steve Johnson

22. Julio Jones

23. Santana Moss

24. DeSean Jackson

25. Dwayne Bowe

26. Mario Manningham

27. Mike Williams

28. Anquan Boldin

29. Santonio Holmes

30. James Jones

31. Nate Washington

32. Michael Crabtree

33. Pierre Garcon

34. Darrius Heyward-Bey

35. Jabar Gaffney

36. Demaryius Thomas

37. Damian Williams

38. Donald Driver

39. Johnny Knox

40. Golden Tate

41. Eric Decker

42. Malcom Floyd

43. Torrey Smith

44. Plaxico Burress

45. Doug Baldwin

46. Lance Moore

47. Reggie Wayne

48. Deion Branch

49. Titus Young

50. Nate Burleson

Week 15 Tight End Rankings

1.     Rob Gronkowski

2.     Antonio Gates

3.     Jimmy Graham

4.     Jermichael Finley

5.     Tony Gonzalez

6.     Jason Witten

7.     Owen Daniels

8.     Brandon Pettigrew

9.     Vernon Davis

10. Aaron Hernandez

11. Brent Celek

12. Jermaine Gresham

13. Kellen Winslow

14. Jake Ballard

15. Greg Olsen

16. Dustin Keller

17. Anthony Fasano

18. Dallas Clark

19. Marcedes Lewis

20. Visanthe Shiancoe

21. Ed Dickson

22. Jared Cook

23. Evan Moore

24. Heath Miller

25. Lance Kendricks

Week 15 Kicker Rankings

1.     John Kasay

2.     David Akers

3.     Dan Bailey

4.     Sebastian Janikowski

5.     Mason Crosby

6.     Billy Cundiff

7.     Stephen Gostkowski

8.     Jason Hanson

9.     Nick Novak

10. Neil Rackers

11. Mike Nugent

12. Matt Prater

13. Robbie Gould

14. Rob Bironas

15. Nick Folk

16. Connor Barth

17. Alex Henery

18. Lawrence Tynes

19. Dan Carpenter

20. Matt Bryant

Week 15 Defense Rankings

1.     Chicago Bears

2.     Cincinnati Bengals

3.     San Francisco 49ers

4.     Detroit Lions

5.     Green Bay Packers

6.     Pittsburgh Steelers

7.     Baltimore Ravens

8.     Arizona Cardinals

9.     Dallas Cowboys

10. New York Jets

11. Houston Texans

12. Tennessee Titans

13. Seattle Seahawks

14. Atlanta Falcons

15. Miami Dolphins

16. Philadelphia Eagles

17. New York Giants

18. New Orleans Saints

19. Jacksonville Jaguars

20. Cleveland Browns

Week 15 Sleepers and Pickups

And the playoffs keep rolling along. Awkward week last week. Lots of stars putting up pretty awful performances. A handful of no-names came out of nowhere.

Overall, the pick-ups here are pretty simple. When we get into the playoffs, I am far less likely to count on sleepers, so I don’t have any pickups for that either.

Basically, if you want to get anyone off of free agency, you are looking for great matchups, or injury fill-ins.

Biggest injury of the week has to go to DeMarco Murray. Felix Jones filled in and had a decent day. But I think that, for the most part, that we because the Giants did not game plan for him. The Cowboys have another good matchup though as they face the Bucs, who just gave up four touchdowns to Maurice Jones-Drew.

If Felix is still floating in free agency, I think he is a must add. He will be a great play for the next two weeks, facing the poor run defenses of Tampa Bay and Philadelphia. He will also be working with fullback Fiammetta, who has been largely credited with Murray’s success. The Cowboys just signed ex-Patriot Sammy Morris to the team. He could get some runs, and steal the goal line work, but I would not add him unless you are in a mind-blowingly deep league.

Wanna Play Me?

Hey guys,

So, I've been using a site for the past few weeks and I've been having a great time with it. It's called FanDuel.

Basically, you go there, deposit a few bucks and play one-on-one matchups or enter 5-10 man leagues that last for that weekend of Football. You can enter free leagues, or wager anywhere from $1 to way way more.

You have a $60K bank and fill up positions based on who you think is going to kill it that particular week.

Enter your players, watch the games, they tabulate your score, and if you win the matchup, you win the bet and the money.

Anyways... If you follow this link http://www.fanduel.com/?invitedby=godhateslosers&cnl=da and deposit 10 dollars, then we should each get some free money and we can play against each other.

So, follow the link, log in, deposit, and search for me (my screenname is godhateslosers, obviously.) and challenge me to a game of one-on-one. (I will play a few money games, but I'm very poor, so we might have to play free. Sorry)

You got what it takes to beat me at my own game?

Week 14 Fantasy Football Pick'em and Predictions

For the past few weeks I've been picking up the pace. Been basing my picks a lot on the Thursday night game actually. Seahawks beat the Eagles last week, I picked a handful of upsets and they paid off.

This Thursday, the Steelers barely escaped the Browns of all teams. This could point to another week of upsets if I'm going off the same strategy, but I'm not feeling very upsetty this week.

I'm normally scared when they look straightforward, but the only big gun I can see going down is the Patriots of all teams. Redskins passing game and emergence of Helu might be enough. And Brady and the Pats (mostly the secondary) only got past the un-undefeated Colts by seven.

Here's the picks.

	Jordan	Andrew	MGLS
Record (LW) (Total):	(9-7)(115-77)	(12-4)(120-72)	(10-6)(103-89)
Browns vs. Steelers	Steelers	Steelers	Browns
Falcons vs. Panthers	Falcons	Panthers	Falcons
Texans vs. Bengals	Bengals	Bengals	Texans
Vikings vs. Lions	Lions	Lions	Vikings
Saints vs. Titans	Saints	Saints	Saints
Colts vs. Ravens	Ravens	Ravens	Ravens
Chiefs vs. Jets	Jets	Jets	Chiefs
Eagles vs. Dolphins	Eagles	Dolphins	Dolphins
Patriots vs. Redskins	Patriots	Redskins	Patriots
Bucs vs. Jaguars	Jaguars	Bucs	Jaguars
Bears vs. Broncos	Broncos	Broncos	Broncos
49ers vs. Cardinals	49ers	49ers	49ers
Bills vs. Chargers	Chargers	Chargers	Chargers
Raiders vs. Packers	Packers	Packers	Packers
Giants vs. Cowboys	Cowboys	Cowboys	Cowboys
Rams vs. Seahawks	Seahawks	Seahawks	Seahawks
Survival Pick	Eliminated	Eliminated	Eliminated

Week 14 Fantasy Football Position Rankings

Ah, my favorite time of week. Time to get started on the position rankings. Hope everyone made it into their playoffs and are not going at it for the chance to be the champion.

My strategy in the playoffs doesn’t change much from the regular season. But for those of you who have spent the last few weeks making big gambles to get off the bubble and into the playoffs, now is the time too cool down a bit and focus on consistency.

A home run here and there is a good thing. But I’d rather start a guy who is guaranteed to get me 8 points a week than go for the guy that could end up with either 15 or zero.

Matt Forte, Adrian Peterson and Andre Johnson are the biggest names out. But we are likely to see the return of Jeremy Maclin and Miles Austin. Keep an eye out, because there are a lot of questionable and probables out there.

Any questions for GHL... you know what to do.

Week 14 Fantasy Quarterback Rankings

1.       Aaron Rodgers

2.       Drew Brees

3.       Matthew Stafford

4.       Tom Brady

5.       Cam Newton

6.       Eli Manning

7.       Tony Romo

8.       Michael Vick

9.       Tim Tebow

10.   Philip Rivers

11.   Rex Grossman

12.   Matt Ryan

13.   Ben Roethlisberger

14.   Carson Palmer

15.   Mark Sanchez

16.   Joe Flacco

17.   Matt Moore

18.   Alex Smith

19.   Ryan Fitzpatrick

20.   Kevin Kolb

21.   Matt Hasselbeck

22.   Josh Freeman

23.   T.J. Yates

24.   Andy Dalton

25.   Christian Ponder

Week 14 Fantasy Running Back Rankings

1.       Ray Rice

2.       Maurice Jones-Drew

3.       Arian Foster

4.       Michael Turner

5.       Marshawn Lynch

6.       Rashard Mendenhall

7.       Chris Johnson

8.       LeSean McCoy

9.       Ryan Matthews

10.   Frank Gore

11.   DeMarco Murray

12.   Reggie Bush

13.   Roy Helu

14.   Michael Bush

15.   Stephen Jackson

16.   Shonn Greene

17.   Willis McGahee

18.   Ahmad Bradshaw

19.   LeGarrette Blount

20.   BenJarvus Green-Ellis

21.   C.J. Spiller

22.   Marion Barber

23.   Darren Sproles

24.   Toby Gerhart

25.   Cedric Benson

26.   Beanie Wells

27.   Mark Ingram

28.   Peyton Hillis

29.   Maurice Morris

30.   DeAngelo Williams

31.   Mike Tolbert

32.   Donald Brown

33.   Jonathan Stewart

34.   Dexter McCluster

35.   Ben Tate

36.   Ryan Grant

37.   Brandon Jacobs

38.   Isaac Redman

39.   Ricky Williams

40.   Daniel Thomas

41.   Pierre Thomas

42.   Joseph Addai

43.   Brandon Saine

44.   Felix Jones

45.   Kahlil Ball

46.   Jackie Battle

47.   Montario Hardesty

48.   Thomas Jones

49.   Kendall Hunter

50.   Joe McKnight

Week 14 Fantasy Wide Receiver Rankings

1.       Greg Jennings

2.       Wes Welker

3.       Calvin Johnson

4.       Steve Smith

5.       Larry Fitzgerald

6.       Hakeem Nicks

7.       Roddy White

8.       Brandon Marshall

9.       Dez Bryant

10.   Jordy Nelson

11.   Mike Wallace

12.   Victor Cruz

13.   Vincent Jackson

14.   Jeremy Maclin

15.   Marques Colston

16.   Percy Harvin

17.   A.J. Green

18.   Miles Austin

19.   Santana Moss

20.   DeSean Jackson

21.   Brandon Lloyd

22.   Anquan Boldin

23.   Steve Johnson

24.   Antonio Brown

25.   Santonio Holmes

26.   Julio Jones

27.   Mike Williams

28.   Dwayne Bowe

29.   Laurent Robinson

30.   Nate Washington

31.   Pierre Garcon

32.   Michael Crabtree

33.   Eric Decker

34.   Malcom Floyd

35.   Plaxico Burress

36.   Denarius Moore

37.   Lance Moore

38.   Devin Aromashodu

39.   Deion Branch

40.   Golden Tate

41.   Jabar Gaffney

42.   Johnny Knox

43.   Nate Burleson

44.   Torrey Smith

45.   Reggie Wayne

46.   Kevin Walter

47.   Damian Williams

48.   Doug Baldwin

49.   Greg Little

50.   Darrius Heyward-Bey

Week 14 Fantasy Tight End Rankings

1.       Jimmy Graham

2.       Rob Gronkowski

3.       Jason Witten

4.       Antonio Gates

5.       Jermichael Finley

6.       Tony Gonzalez

7.       Brent Celek

8.       Aaron Hernandez

9.       Vernon Davis

10.   Kellen Winslow

11.   Jermaine Gresham

12.   Owen Daniels

13.   Anthony Fasano

14.   Jake Ballard

15.   Dustin Keller

16.   Brandon Pettigrew

17.   Jacob Tamme

18.   Greg Olsen

19.   Scott Chandler

20.   Marcedes Lewis

Week 14 Fantasy Kicker Rankings

1.       David Akers

2.       John Kasay

3.       Sebastian Janikowski

4.       Stephen Gostkowski

5.       Dan Bailey

6.       Billy Cundiff

7.       Mason Crosby

8.       Matt Prater

9.       Robbie Gould

10.   Nick Novak

11.   Connor Barth

12.   Neil Rackers

13.   Jason Hanson

14.   Nick Folk

15.   Mike Nugent

16.   Alex Henery

17.   Matt Bryant

18.   Shaun Suisham

19.   Rob Bironas

20.   Lawrence Tynes

Week 14 Fantasy Defense Rankings

1.       Baltimore Ravens

2.       Pittsburgh Steelers

3.       San Francisco 49ers

4.       Seattle Seahawks

5.       New York Jets

6.       Green Bay Packers

7.       Houston Texans

8.       Denver Broncos

9.       Cincinnati Bengals

10.   Atlanta Falcons

11.   Miami Dolphins

12.   Kansas City Chiefs

13.   St. Louis Rams

14.   Detroit Lions

15.   Dallas Cowboys

16.   New England Patriots

17.   San Diego Chargers

18.   New Orleans Saints

19.   Arizona Cardinals

20.   Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Week 14 Fantasy Football Pickups

Before we get started on the Waiver Wire pickups... I feel the need for a bit of a pity party here.

I am in a league. 10-teams, IDP, weighted for tackles, competitive and for some cash.

I went into Week 13 at 11-1, I had locked a playoff spot four weeks ago. Locked first place two weeks ago. Untouchable. I mean it.

And in the past two week, my two starting running backs, Adrian Peterson and Matt Forte, both ranked in the top five in scoring, went down. To make matters worse, my two top linebackers, (again, both in the top five in linebacker scoring), Pat Angerer and Desmond Bishop went down with injury.

My four, FOUR, top performing players, all gone. A week before the playoffs begin.

So, now, more than ever, I am pouring my heart and soul into waiver wire pick-ups, because God knows that I need them too.

Week 13 Pick'em and Predictions

Eagles looking like a hot mess vs. the Seahhawks on Thursday night makes me a little bit worried about the remainder of Week 13.

We've seen one relative upset where the favorite completely flopped on the road. And this week we see a lot of favorites hitting the road to face teams that have upset potential. At first glance, these games appear straightforward, but I would not be surprised to see some home team underdogs keep them close. I'm talking about Texans and Falcons, Vikings and Broncos, Dolphins and Raiders, Redskins and Jets, Cardinals and Cowboys, Jags and Chargers.

Could see some big surprises this week. That's all I'm saying.

My locks for the week are Patriots (obviously), Cowboys, Ravens and 49ers. If you're still alive, these teams are likely not available for you to choose from. So good luck with that. Broncos over Vikings and Chargers over Jags would be next in line.

Good luck to everyone. Enjoy Week 13!

	Jordan	Andrew	MGLS
Record (LW) (Total):	(10-6)(106-70)	(11-5)(108-68)	(8-8)(93-83)
Eagles vs. Seahawks	Eagles	Eagles	Seahawks
Falcons vs. Texans	Falcons	Falcons	Falcons
Titans vs. Bills	Bills	Titans	Titans
Chiefs vs. Bears	Bears	Bears	Bears
Bengals vs. Steelers	Steelers	Steelers	Steelers
Broncos vs. Vikings	Broncos	Broncos	Vikings
Colts vs. Patriots	Patriots	Patriots	Patriots
Raiders vs. Dolphins	Raiders	Dolphins	Dolphins
Jets vs. Redskins	Jets	Jets	Jets
Panthers vs. Bucs	Panthers	Panthers	Bucs
Ravens vs. Browns	Ravens	Ravens	Ravens
Cowboys vs. Cardinals	Cowboys	Cowboys	Cowboys
Packers vs. Giants	Packers	Packers	Packers
Rams vs. 49ers	49ers	49ers	49ers
Lions vs. Saints	Lions	Saints	Lions
Chargers vs. Jaguars	Chargers	Chargers	Chargers
Survival Pick	Eliminated	Eliminated	Eliminated

Philadelphia Eagles vs. Seattle Seahawks Matchup Preview

Lots of backups on Philly's roster. And, still listed as questionable, LeSean McCoy might be added to that list.

I think that he will get the start and the playing time. If he's on your roster, you better wait til the last minute for word on his status before starting or sitting him.

Philly should be a bit angry after an awful loss to New England, but Vince Young and the receivers were a bit promising putting up over 400 yards through the air.

With Michael Vick and Jeremy Maclin still out, I think you can count on another big day for the Philly offense, statistically anyways.

Seattle has some injuries of their own. Sidney Rice is out for the year, and the offensive line has taken a few hits, meaning that their lone offensive bright spot, Marshawn Lynch, will be facing a tougher defensive stand than he has in the past.

Here are my start'em and sit'em picks for tonight's game.

Start: Vince Young, DeSean Jackson, LeSean McCoy, Brent Celek, SEA Defense, PHI Defense

Perhaps: Marshawn Lynch, Riley Cooper, Jason Avant, Doug Baldwin, Golden Tate, Kickers

Sit: Tarvaris Jackson, All backup RBs and WRs, Zach Miller

Sleepers: I think all SEA receivers are sleepers here, none of them are too ahead of the pack. Each of them has good games (or at least seasons) under their belt. With no front-runner, they are all big gambles.
Marshawn Lynch will face a lot of pressure since the O-Line and passing game is so weak, but the Philly Defense has not been great at all against the run. He's not exactly a stable start, but of all the Seahawks, I have to say he has the best chance to score.


As for predictions. Jordan and I both have Philly taking this one.