What do I do now?

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dannywest

Florida Skunk Apes
The lineup:
Brett Favre, QB
Knowshon Moreno, RB
Montario Hardesty, RB
Hakeem Nicks, WR
Percy Harvin, WR

Injuries and retirement rumors have us, fantasy football owners, more often than not, hitting the panic button prematurely, but, when your lineup looks like the one above the concern is perhaps justified.

So the question is: What do I do now?
Do I hit the waiver wires in an add/drop frenzy, hopefully obtaining the best guys left (from those that weren't quite good enough to make anybodies' original roster)? Do I package my remaining talent in hopes of collecting a salvageable team? Or do I throw in the towel already, working from what is left of my roster, expecting to beat only those teams with injury woes of their own?

On Sunday I will answer these questions (and more) in the first installment of the 2010/2011 WESTern Perspective, re-imagined and revamped for new readers and returning customers.

Keep an eye out on the home page and get an early advantage over the competition!
 
Looking forward to this, though Im concerned anyone in the situation above may have already abadoned all hope :)
 
Had a couple things come up this weekend that delayed this some, will have it up no later than Wednesday (though I'll be shooting for Tuesday).
 
If this is a dynasty league, I go into full rebuild mode and pick up as many picks for anyone who can't help me long term. Guys like Harvin and Nicks are guys I think I'd keep a hold of.
 
I appreciate everyone's patience. For me, the first one is always the most difficult to get out. Should be done with it soon though. In the meantime, here's a preview of what's to come.
Feedback, positive or negative, would be greatly appreciated.

Fantasy football - it's everywhere! Stop in at the corner bar this weekend and it's not unlikely that you will overhear a few guys discussing their fantasy football roster; a trip to a local restaurant, Buffalo Wild Wings, perhaps, and it is probable that in the back corner you'll witness a dozen individuals, all adorned in the apparel of their favorite NFL team, in heated discussion, paper draftboard tacked to the wall; even a quick outing to buy a new pair of shoes can take an hour of your time as you and the cashier discuss draft strategies. Fantasy football is inescapable. Gas stations and grocers make room for a plethora of fantasy football magazines, most of which seem to be carbon copies of one another, radio jockeys dole out bits of, often, unresearched information, and website after website pop up out of nowhere, all desperate to make a quick buck off of fantasy football's many rookie owners.
The reality of it is this, if you're looking for great information look no further than this site. If you're confused on who to take after Chris Johnson and Adrian Peterson have been drafted, just click here; if you get stuck debating between Randy Moss and Reggie Wayne, again, we've got you covered; and what separates this site from similar one's is that all of our contributors are active members on the message boards, if you've got a question on something they've put down, if you're looking for a bit of keeper advice, if you're just generally unsure of what to do next, they're quick to answer. Email ESPN's Jim McCormick, let's see if he gets back to you.
But alas, in this article, I will offer you no draft advice.
Recently a friend and I were discussing his two most recent drafts, and while he was fairly confident of the outcome, he, feeling there was room for improvement, set off for the Craigslist of fantasy football, the Waivers.
Everyone seems to view the Waivers as an easy way to add key components to your team, but there is a method and skill involved in order to sort through the crap and make a move that will really help you. Come the regular season, Jeremy Miller's Weekly Waiver Wires is a great read regarding the guys that you should be grabbing, but for now, the truth is that undrafted players are undrafted for a reason, there is an amount of uncertainty about them, and that uncertainty is surely not going to change in the 24 hours from when your draft ended to when you first glance at the Waivers. It would be nice if we were all like Steven Ortiz and had the capability of trading an old cell phone for a slightly used Porsche, to swap out Jerome Harrison for Ray Rice, unfortunately though, it doesn't work like that. When you swap out crap, what you get back, mostly, is just more crap.
So, what then are you to do in order to improve your squad? That question, the very point of this article, is one of the biggest problems facing new and veteran fantasy owners alike.
While there is plenty of information available on who to draft and when to draft them, the information out there on what to do between the end of your draft and the start of week one is virtually nonexistent. And that, folks, is why I'm here.
With the Waivers ruled out, unless of course you need to replace a kicker, during the preseason, team improvements can only come via one method - TRADE.
But who to trade for, who to give up, and how to go about trading can be a bit of a challenge itself.
I've found that when a high profiled player winds up on a squad, owners are thrown into a false sense of security. It matters not who else is on the roster, if Peyton Manning is at quarterback and Brandon Marshall is the number one receiver, most owners seem to think that the Championship trophy is theirs to lose.
I'll take a well rounded squad of decent and consistent players over a team of two or three superstars partnered with absolute garbage any day of the week. And that's it, the secret weapon, right there in black and white. Most guys don't want a winning team, they want a Chris Johnson.
Whose on your fantasy team? Adrian Peterson.
One man simply cannot be your entire fantasy squad, tragically though, most owners don't realize this until it's way too late.
My friend, the one mentioned early, could not have drafted a better team to set up this article.
 
hopefully, your friend also gained some depth thru the draft . . . but i don't think his team is horrible just because of all the training camp hype . . . i say sit tight, but looking for trades isn't a bad idea either . . . ;)
 
bobbeaux said:
hopefully, your friend also gained some depth thru the draft . . . but i don't think his team is horrible just because of all the training camp hype . . . i say sit tight, but looking for trades isn't a bad idea either . . . ;)
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He's okay in some areas, really weak in others.
I've helped him out in telling him what I would do and the rest will be up to him, but I'll elaborate more on that in the article itself.
 
enjoyed your article . . . i often find it hard to trade . . . actually, i've never completed a trade yet . . . but i'm wondering if i may be overvaluing certain players . . . homering, if you will? . . . lol
 
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