Greeting all weekly fantasy football die hards, and welcome to lucky week 13. If you’re facing tough decisions this week, and you’d like specific advise, tweet me at unSOPable23. Here’s a quick preview of three players I’m benching or not spending my valuable money in a weekly salary cap fantasy football games, and who are the typically inferior options in which I prefer.

Peyton Hillis is back in the Browns backfield and led the team in carries last week. But with an awful offense around him, and a hungry Ravens D coming to town, Hillis shouldn’t be reinserted into your good graces quite yet. Instead, look to the Lions Maurice Morris, who will start in place of an injured Kevin Smith. Detroit figures to feature their struggling running game in an effort to keep Drew Brees on the sidelines. I’m penciling MM in for at least 85 total yards.

The Houston Texans are expected to falter, but it won’t because of their stout defense and elite running attack. With the Texans looking to run the ball every down, expect a down weak from Matt Ryan. The Falcons time of possession will be low, and he won’t have enough opportunities to outperform somebody like Carson Palmer this week. Palmer has been rock solid of late for the Raiders, and the Dolphins (while hot) are not good defensively. Oakland’s running game is a load, and Miami will be forced to cover the speedy Raiders one on one.

Things have gone downhill for the Chiefs fast, and it’ll continue this week for their lone fantasy relevant player: Dwayne Bowe. The Bears are a top notch defensive unit, and with Tyler Palko behind center, the Bears secondary may touch the ball more than Bowe. Eric Decker (yes, that Eric Decker, the one who plays with Tebow) is the better option despite playing in a run first offense. He is Tebow’s go to man, and the Vikings actually stuff the run reasonably well. Denver doesn’t win this game with 55 rushes, and odds are that most of the air attack is filtered through Decker.

As the college football season winds down, the games hold more importance, as conference championships are on the line. Here are two players that will rock  this week college fantasy football games, and carry their owners.

David Wilson (RB for Virgina Tech) – Has managed at least 132 rush yards in every road game this season, and records 20+ carries in 75% of contests. He will get plenty of chances against a Clemson defense that surrenders 27.5 points per game.

Austin Davis (QB for Southern Miss) – Will be in a shoot out with Case Keenum, and has the talent to surprise. He’s thrown for 3,052 yards and 2.4 touchdowns for every INT. Davis has accounted for at least three scores in six of his teams last nine games, and he figures to make that sever out of ten on Saturday.

Good luck to all this week in the fantasy festivities.

Fantazzle Kyle

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Greetings Fantazzle Community,

Today we have for you a couple quick looks at the past week and a quick review of the week ahead for college football. Remember, the Fantasy Football Freeroll presented by Scorebig.com is now available to enter for free and is awarding over $200 in prizes!

NFL Week 8 – Here is a quick look at what went right and what went wrong this week in the fantasy world.

Ray Rice led a late surge as his Ravens prevailed over the Cardinals. His 99 total yards aren’t special, but his three touchdowns should make fantasy owners giddy, as they all came from one yard out, adding yet another dimension to his game.

Brent Celek was targeted nine times against the Cowboys; a second straight week in which Mike Vick looked his way on a consistent basis. He caught seven of those passes for 94 yards, including a nice TD in the back of the end zone.

Antonio Brown had a field day against a weak Patriots secondary. He caught a team high nine passes for 67 yards and a TD. The numbers aren’t eye popping, but dig a little deeper to find the most telling statistic. Brown was targeted 15 times on Sunday, giving him 63 targets on the year (compared to Mike Wallace’s 57).

Chris Johnson disappointed fantasy owners for the third consecutive week. The big difference this week was the opponent. The harmless Colts (surrendering the second most fantasy points to opposing RB’s) allowed only 34 yards on Johnson’s 14 carries, the fifth time in seven games in which Johnson has failed to average more than 2.7 yards per carry.

DeSean Jackson caught only three balls (on six targets) for 31 yards and has proven to be the Adam Dunn of the NFL. Jeremy Maclin is the consistent producer on the Eagles, and Jackson is the one who can win/lose you weeks.

Dez Bryant visited Nnamdi Asomugha Island on Sunday night and was held to just 28 yards on three catches. The most valuable Cowboy receiver will be whoever is declared the team’s second option by their opponent.

Enter now –> College Fantasy Football Salary Cap games

NCAAF – The week ahead is a huge one for the landscape of college football. Here’s a quick look at three games involving nationally ranked teams on both sidelines. My picks are in italics.

9 South Carolina @ 7 Arkansas

The Gamecocks surrender 17.1 points per game, which doesn’t sound bad at all, but when you include the fact that they have scored 24 or less points in five of their eight games, it becomes a fine line between winning and losing. They tend to excel in ugly games, where they simply outlast inferior teams, but Arkansas doesn’t fit that description. They are 4-0 in games decided by 10 points or less, and have a QB in Tyler Wilson who they trust to win them the game. Arkansas averages only 131.8 rushing yards per game, 83^rd in the country, which could be dangerous should South Carolina find a way to slow down the ninth most effective passing game in college football.

1 LSU @ 2 Alabama

When the top two teams in the nation meet up on Saturday, it will be the 46^th such occurrence. The nation’s top ranked team has dominated ranked teams by a combined score of 103-35 in three games. The Tigers rank third in the country in points allowed per game (11.5). Hard to imagine, but the Crimson Tide are better, and only surrender less than a TD per game (6.9 points). When the defense isn’t scoring points, the physical Trent Richardson is their focal point. The first team to 20 points should win this colossal game, and take over the #1 spot in the next BCS poll.

Good luck all and enjoy the games!

–Fantazzle Kyle

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The 2011 Fantasy football season continues to roll on. Drew Brees had a monster day on Sunday, throwing for 31 completions, 325 yards and 5 touchdowns. TE Jimmy Graham had another big outing, catching 2 of those touchdowns. Marques Colston had 2 touchdown catches himself as the Saints offense just continues to roll. Anyone playing Fantazzle’s weekly fantasy football salary cap games should pick any of these 3 Saints players when setting their lineups for the week. They seem to be producing great fantasy numbers at a consistent clip right now, so pick them with confidence!

Many fantasy leagues out there have byes weeks to deal with. If you started Tim Tebow at quarterback like I did for the week because of bye’s, then you were rewarded. Tebow started the game of slow, but wound up bringing the Broncos back for a win and finished the day with a solid fantasy effort. He threw for 161 yards, 2 touchdowns, a 2-pt conversion and 65 rushing yards; not bad for a bye week fill in. Demaryius Thomas, who was a hot waiver wire pick up this week with Brandon Lloyd being traded to St. Louis, salvaged his day with a touchdown catch late in the comeback win, so I guess he panned out.

DeMarco Murray also had himself one of the biggest fantasy days in week 7 rushing for 253 yards and a touchdown! That was a new Cowboys single game record. Felix Jones may have to miss some more time with that performance from Murray. I’d like to see another big game from Murray however, before I start recommending him for your weekly fantasy football games.

Moving on to injuries, Tim Hightower left the game after piling up 88 yards on the ground with a left knee injury. It looked pretty significant and he was carted off the field. If you haven’t already, grab Roy Helu and Ryan Torain. Percy Harvin also left his game early after re-aggravating his rib cage area. Hopefully, he can play next week with Chris Ponder looking formidable behind center. And in a surprising move, Joseph Addai was able to play at the last second. Most people thought he would sit out this week, but Addai ended up trying to give it a go. It wasn’t much of a go as he totaled 2 catches for 11 yards and rushed for only 8 more! The Indy backfield is just a mess.

Check back with us next week for more updates on what went on in the NFL. Check us out at Fantazzle, we have great pick’em, salary cap and challenge games going on all the time. Play for free or deposit money to win cash prizes. Fantazzle also has their new Hall of Fame fantasy football ranking system so that you will know how you rank amongst Fantazzle’s current, new and past players.

Stop on over and have some fun. Also, be sure to check out our all-new fantasy football podcast at Fantasy Football Sportal & Weekly Fantasy Sportal. You can even listen to the new podcasts right here on the Fantazzle blog. Just look over to the right and hit play on the topic you want to hear about. If you have any questions, feel free to hit us up on Twitter.

As always, enjoy the week

Fantazzle David

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Hey all,

With Week 12 of the 2010 NFL season nearly in the books, we are getting closer and closer to the kickoff of our SuperStakes Sundays Playoff Game, which starts in Week 14 and runs through Week 16.

You still have another week to win your way into these excellent fantasy football games by playing our SuperStakes Sundays Satellite games in Week 13. If you haven’t played our SuperStakes Sundays game before, all you have to do is pick a fantasy football lineup of 2 QB, 3 RB, 2 WR, and 2 TE, while remaining under a $1 million fantasy salary cap. Raise the stakes as the fantasy football season winds down and win huge cash prizes!

Play Fantasy Basketball

If you’re not a fantasy football fan, we’d like to remind you about our slate of fantasy basketball games going on right now. We have our daily and weekly fantasy basketball games, along with our Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball.

Our daily fantasy basketball games run every single day that there are at least 3 scheduled NBA games, while our weekly fantasy basketball games run every single week. The Mini SuperStakes basketball game starts every Friday and runs through the weekend, giving our fantasy basketball community members a unique game with a limited field and an awesome cash prize pool. Simply play for $11 for your chance at winning big money every single week!

In addition to our SuperStakes basketball and football games, check out our high stakes games on our SuperStakes Contests page.

Play Fantasy Hockey

Last, but not least, our fantasy hockey games can be played daily and weekly, with the daily hockey games running every day there are at least 3 scheduled NHL games.

Don’t miss out on the exciting hockey action, as you can pick your league size and entry fee and battle other fantasy hockey fans for cash!

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Hi all,

Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Football Games is always trying something new and giving our users what they want. We have had several requests to make Thursday (and now Saturday games) relevant to our lineup of fantasy football games. So this week, we are introducing a new fantasy football salary cap game that will use players ONLY from this week’s Thursday and Saturday game.

And there is no time better to play this fantasy football game. Over 60% of fantasy football fans seasons are over due to bad years in their traditional fantasy football leagues plus these are two incredible games. Both 13-0 teams are playing, the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints, which both host some exciting fantasy football players. Now, thats not to say your going to have a lineup with Peyton, Brees, R Wayne, etc. This is a salary cap fantasy football game so you’ll get a few stars, but you’ll have to watch you budget. You’ll have to pick and choose wisely staying under a $1,000,000 salary cap.

This fantasy football game should be great for fans starting to go through some fantasy football withdrawal PLUS make these games exciting to watch. I’ll watch NFL games at any chance I get, but I know I’m the minority and not the former. I watched all 60 minutes of the Oakland/Washington game on Sunday (it was the only one on TV for me). Thats just me. But I know its tough for some to watch games when the the NFL team they support is not playing AND they have no fantasy football players playing. Makes the NFL game just a tad more boring. This special fantasy game hopes to combat this for you all. Sign up before the game starts on Thursday night at 8:20pm ET and be rewarded with the cash prize Saturday night after the NFL game ends. You’ll have the money deposited in your account IMMEDIATELY following the football game to give you plenty of time to register for our regular weekly fantasy football games that start on Sunday at 1pm ET.

Hope you all find these special fantasy football games exciting to play!

Also, if you missed it last week, we started a new fantasy football promotion. Besides our Steve Smith free fantasy football salary cap game (also make sure to vote for Steve Smith promotion presented by Fantazzle Weekly Fantasy Football Games for the 2010 Pro Bowl to win free tickets to the NFL Pro Bowl, airfare, hotel and dinner with Steve), we are offering another free fantasy football game and all you have to do is follow Fantazzle on Twitter. Follow us now and you can receive the URL for this free football game and win a cash prize.

Take care,

Fantazzle Prez – Ryan Parr

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