I hope everyone had a great weekend of football. It was an especially tough week fantasywise at the tight end and the running back positions.

I will be out of the country on vacation from 10/18 - 10/27 so there likely won't be a column this week or next week. I will however, do my best to answer all questions in the threads. Internet will be spotty, but I will respond as timely as possible.

Fire away!

I didn't want to start my own thread for this....but I seriously hate Phillip Rivers. This isn't even fantasy related because I was 50 down tonight with just McGahee and Rivers......but seriously. Any time I have put any stock in him......he explodes in a terrible way.

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12 team H2H Keeper
G,A,PP,PIM,SOG
W,GAA,SV%,SO
C:Giroux,Zberg,Marleau,Kadri
LW:Ovi,Neal,Pach,Benn
RW:Perry,MSL,Wheeler
D:Yandle,Subban,Edler,OEL
G: Lundqvist,Miller,MAF

12 Team H2H
R,2b,3b,HR,RBI,AVG,SB,BB,K,E
W,L,SV,HLD,K,ERA,WHIP
C:Buck
1B:Santana
2B:Kipnis
3B:Zimmer
SS:Tulo
LF:Marte
CF:McCutch
RF:Pence
Util:Ozuna
SP:Cain,Moore,Latos,Kennedy,Ryu,Guthrie
RP:Henderson,Rivera,League,Gregerson,Herrera
DL:Hart,Anderson,Bailey

Yea... I think he is officially out of the top 7 "elite" qbs. closer to low QB1/high QB2 at this point.

After trading Stevie+Daniels+Bilal Powell+LaFell for D Thomas, AND losing Jahvid Best, I've got 4 open spots on my roster in a 14 team league.

QB: Rivers, Freeman
RB: McCoy, FJax, A Green
WR: AJ Green, Nicks, D Thomas, Torrey Smith
TE: Pitta

We start 2 RBs, 2 WRs, one WR/TE and a WR/RB. I've got #1 rank on the waiver wire, but I dont plan on using it this week, so I need some help ranking the available options. Some will probably be claimed, so what would be your strategy and which 6-7 names would you target? I'm considering just loading up with backup rb's and hoping one gets an opportunity, but I also need WRs for next week so maybe 3 wr's and using my #1 waiver rank on a rb later if needed?

Available:

RB: Tanner, Goodson, Draugn, Bell, Turbin, Ogbonnaya, Pierce, Turbin, Batch, Brown, Vereen

WR: S Hill, K Wright, Sanders, TY Hilton, Blackmon, TJ Graham, V Brown, Keshawn, Branch, Edelman

TE: Myers, Mercedes Lewis, Keller, Tamme, K Davis, Kendricks and Watson/Cameron.

I know....its tricky, but any input is appreciated! Expecting S Hill and K Wright to be picked up on waivers.

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14 Team Dynasty League
5 C's, 8 W's, 5 D's, 2G's - 3 Prospects.

Scoring
F: Goals(3) Assists(2)
D: Goals(4) Assist(3)
G: W(3) Saves(0.15) Goal Against(-0.75) Shutout(2)

C: Datsyuk, Grabovski, Backstrom, Bergeron, Bozak
W: Kovalchuk, Ovechkin, P Kane, Hall, Sharp, Kessel, Nash, Silfverberg
D: Enstrom, Letang, Kronwall, Faulk, Chara
G: Miller, Price

IR:
Prospects: Galchenyuk, Nyquist, Shore

Lost my last matchup b/c I played Luck instead of Romo. Both were playing pretty good defenses so it was a tough call. Too bad I made the wrong one!

Trying to figure out my play this week to not make the wrong choice:

QB
Luck vs CLE
Cutler vs DET
Romo @ CAR

I moved McGahee for Luck last week and am hoping to flip 2 of the QB's paired with another RB or WR for a top QB and TE to round my team out. Trying to make that move this week but in case I don't need to figure out who is the best start here.

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10 Team Keeper League - Points Only
8 Keepers:
F Tavares - Hall - Ryan - Benn - Yakupov - Elias
D Subban G Price

This is the time of year to really start backfilling your roster with RBs. The running back injuries aren't over and at some point a backup will break out in a big way. You want to have some in the chamber in the event that this happens.

Felix not on the WW? if he is I'd use my #1 priority on him. If not then grab Tanner, Turbin, and Vereen. for my 4th spot I would try to grab Kendall Wright. If not, grab Vincent Brown a couple weeks early. He should be back by week 10 at the latest.

If it was my team, I would stick with Luck and try to package the other two. I don't hate keeping Romo, but I prefer Luck this week and going forward.

Felix gone yes. Kendall Wright and Vincent Brown was picked up as well, so I got Stephen Hill, Myers, Tanner and Sanders (I need wr's in week 8 when "most" of my wr's have their bye week, and the Steelers got a great matchup at home vs the redskins). I'll go rb's after week 8 when my wr's and TE is done with the BYE.

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14 Team Dynasty League
5 C's, 8 W's, 5 D's, 2G's - 3 Prospects.

Scoring
F: Goals(3) Assists(2)
D: Goals(4) Assist(3)
G: W(3) Saves(0.15) Goal Against(-0.75) Shutout(2)

C: Datsyuk, Grabovski, Backstrom, Bergeron, Bozak
W: Kovalchuk, Ovechkin, P Kane, Hall, Sharp, Kessel, Nash, Silfverberg
D: Enstrom, Letang, Kronwall, Faulk, Chara
G: Miller, Price

IR:
Prospects: Galchenyuk, Nyquist, Shore

Im deciding which third rb to play

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12 team deep roto league
Categories : goals , shots , assists , pims , special points , plus minus , goalie minutes played , wins , gaa and svptg...... Start 13 forwards , 6 dmen and 2 goalies

Forwards - Crosby , Seguin , Eberle , Jamie benn , Taylor Hall , Wheeler , David Backes ,Silfverberg , Ennis , voracek , Andy McDonald , Berglund , Turris , Konopka

Defense -Pieterangelo , D. Keith , Giordano , Roman Josi , Kostka , Bouwmeester

Goalies- Rask , Fasth

Bench- Mueller , J Bernier , Vokoun , Barrie , Brendan Smith, Bickel

IR- Atkinson

Ballard is the better option this week, but Donald Brown should be back next week. Because of that Blount is the better option long term.