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Bruce Campbell has become one of those rare actors where people have simply asked him to play 'Bruce Campbell'. Very few actors can pull this off and make a career out of it. Only other one that comes to mind right now is Christopher Walken. Can they play dramatic roles? Sure but even while Christopher Walken told you about 5 long years of your daddy wearing his watch up his ass, it was Walken telling you. You reach that stage of caricature only a few times with actors and Bruce Campbell is that guy. He plays the smug, badass hero. I mean, there's a movie called 'My Name Is Bruce', people. Yes, he plays a smug bad-ass like only Bruce Campbell can. Why all this talk of caricatures and playing yourself? Well, one, I'm quoting Army of Darkness for my title and any chance I get to talk about that movie, I make sure and take advantage of. Two, for all the things that Doug Martin has not been this year - superstar in the stats department - he's still been the 12th best running back off the board in PPR leagues. Though he's been minimally involved in the passing to date - only 4 receptions - he's second in the NFL in rushing yardage. You could say he's a caricature of a star running back because no one is taking him seriously. He's just there, producing but not wowing anyone. Oh hey, there's another 100 total yards of offense from Dougie Fresh. Psssh, big deal, seen that before. You see, he's been productive but not blow you out of the water productive. Now I know there's a lot of fears going around Tampa Bay right now. The team is considered on death's door. But that hasn't stopped them from keeping Martin involved as he leads the NFL in rushing attempts. As the pundits currently say, Martin's gonna eat. I don't even really know what that means but I understand it to be a positive. So check in and see if Martin owners are fed up with his solid but unspectacular performance to date. Then when he goes off at the end of the year you can say, 'Hail to the King, Baby'. God I love that movie. And Bruce Campbell. In other buy/sell news for 2013 Fantasy Football...
Do you remember the days when teams each had one running back to carry the load from 1st through 3rd down? Lumbering through the pain of worn out cartilage in their knees and treating pain killers like a food group. Now we have a world of 3rd down backs, pass blocking backs, full time, part time, short yardage (that use to be called a fullback) and some baby backs….yeah I’m pointing at you David Wilson. With the first two weeks in the books we can walk away from all this with a little bit of sanity knowing what we all didn’t know, we didn’t know together, and what we did know was laced with lies. For those of you that know me as Jack, I’m here to help break down and navigate the wonderful world of handcuffs. To help guide you, please take the contents of the little baggy I put under your seats, oh wait, that’s a different blog. To help guide you, if you are in a shallow league pay attention to the top, if you are in a 12 team, then give yourself a high five and if you are in a deep league pay attention to the bottom.
RCL Season is approaching!  We're stoked this year for another big RCL season, and we're still looking for more leagues and more commishes, so as Sky would say "clickity-click this linkity-link" and start up a new RCL league!  As I mentioned on yesterday's Podcast post, I'm going to give the top scorer every week a shout out and the team they toppled a slurry of French-ish epithets screamed as if atop a castle. Last Tuesday, we had our first RCL draft in my JB's Random Commenter League, and I gotta say, Razzball readers are pretty effing smart.  It was like drafting with 11 other mes.  12 JB's would be 79 feet of fantasy gigantism.  Horrifying.  But I did come away really happy with my team.  As we talked about in our chat, I don't really have any draft strategies this season, because there's just so much sleeper/overrated value at different times that I'm going to come away with wildly different teams based on my draft spot.  None of the guys on my team were particular targets, except my love for Cam Newton this year, who I think has a monster season.  But I'm getting ahead of myself...
Last week I was listening to a sports talk radio show that was making an argument against playing dynasty fantasy football. I know right?! Well the argument was that due to the high turnover rate of players, mostly running backs that it was too difficult to try to predict and control your team long-term. I personally think this is what makes dynasty so fun an challenging and because of the volatility we see so many different philosophies and strategies. Surprisingly I received an email the very same day from Nick Capozzi of the Razzball podcast, asking if we would like to do a write up about his new team he just drafted at MyFantasyLeague.com. If you've played dynasty you know all that play like to share their drafts due to the varying opinions of those that play, the same team that looks amazing to me could be regarded as unbalanced or too old by another dynasty enthusiast. So with this email I took a look at what was a very interesting draft by Nick and shot him a few questions where the "non writer" really made some great responses, land Sky was surprised by this as he says 'Nick believes himself a bit of a celebrity and because keyboards are what he views as 'the tool of we ignorant writing grunts who can't croon the panties off the ladies' Well Sky, Nick likes dynasty fantasy football so he's ok in my book, let's take a look at his draft and his answers to my questions.
You know like they always say. Ain't no party like my Nana's tea party cuz my Nana's tea party don't stop. Or at least I do as a Flight Of The Conchords fan but not their actual show. Is that weird? Like saying 'I don't like shredded coconut but I like coconut milk and actual chunks of it'. Well I say that, too. Shizz feels like shredded paper in my mouth, can't stand it. German chocolate cake was my nana's favorite cake and she always had it for the b-day which is to say, I hated going to my Nana's b-day party. Wow, I'm getting all biographical up in this business when I should be talking to you about our 2013 Fantasy Football Rankings. My bad, but now you know everything you've ever needed to know about me and more, right? You could even write my eulogy at this point. Sky: lover of fantasy sports, hater of shredded coconut, was all about Nana's tea parties. I'm tearing up over here, I mean you really GET me! Now down to the brass tax you came for. If you're wondering how to start the marvelous journey that began last week up until now with our Rankings, you can either click the link I provided you or scroll up to the menus above. You see that one that says Rankings? Click there or hover over it to see where there other individual rankings reside. Not enough ways to reach our rankings for you yet? Fine, give me your address, I will print it as a book and sell it to you for $20. Shipping charges are separate. You ok with the links now? Good, so with that let's move along with the show as we look at the Top 40 Running Backs for 2013 Fantasy Football...
Yup, it's that time of year. The time of year where football is all about the what ifs and the maybes and the possiblies. A time where everyone could have value and no pick could possibly go wrong. So of course this was a great time to have a Mock Draft when the world is your oyster and you get to shuck the hell out of it. So with that mindset, I joined Murph for a little bit of late February, early March mockery of the 2013 fantasy football draft system. Let's just look at how I did, shall we? Yes, let's:
Over the course of the off-season we'll be looking back at some of the major players who 'broke out' or outperformed their ADP by a drastic amount in the hopes that we can get a feel for what their 2013 fantasy football season holds and whether the break out is here to stay. Today's review subject is C.J. Spiller.
While looking back over a fantasy football season, the guys who round out the top 40 backs in our 2012 fantasy football rankings are usually a combination of injured studs and half season studs and this list will be no different. Of course, my favorites are the 'yeah, but when did you start that guy?' players on the list and there'll be a few of those. Gotta love when RB2 production has been sitting on your bench or out on waivers for 75% of the season. But I digress, for the purposes of this review, we'll be using yahoo's end of season PPR rankings to look back on the season that was for the top 40 running backs of the 2012 fantasy football season...
As we look back on my projections for the top 20 running backs for 2012 fantasy football, I would like to say I feel I nailed it. Unfortch, unlike that one famous carpenter that was around prior to AD, I'm not good with a hammer and injuries always seem to rattle this position to it's core when you go to review. There were plenty of surprises, some pleasant and some not so, but the people who drafted players like Maurice Jones-Drew or Ryan Mathews may never play this wonderful and wacky game again. In the end, the top 20 at this position were most likely the least injured players more so than they were the best players at times during the year which is to say, it wasn't always sexy to own some of these backs. For the meat and potatoes of this conversation, since we don't have a player rater yet, we're going to rely on yahoo PPR rankings for our review. So with the groundwork set, let's take a look back at the top 20 running backs for 2012 fantasy football...

The Bridgeburners knocked off He Hate Me 123 – 96 despite leaving the Seattle defense and their 41 points on the bench to set up a semifinal match with the first place Reign Maker$. Cam Newton’s strong play continued, but his 37 points were not enough for HHM to overcome the disappointing games of Torrey Smith, Bryce Brown, Fred Jackson, and Vernon Davis, who totaled 9 points between them. Please, blog, may I have some more?