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It’s money making championship time for most of you, which means that studs should be played without any second guessing, and hopefully a week from now I won’t be able to make a list of the 10 players who ruined your championship bid. Those guys are the worst.

But what should you do beyond those studs? There are numbers for that, and rankings. Lots of rankings.

Compiled by Devang Desai, we went extra deep for this week’s championship rankings while tapping into the minds of Michael Fabiano and Adam Rank from NFL.com, and Matthew Berry and Eric Karabell from ESPN.

Immediately we learn that Cam Newton should finish with at least 654 total yards Sunday against the Raiders.

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After a one week hiatus your weekly composite rankings are back just in time for the playoffs. Who is Clay Harbor, will Jordy Nelson play and is David Wilson the messiah — all legitimate questions as we head into week 15.

This week we racked the brains of NFL.com gurus Michael Fabiano and Matt Smith as well as Matt Berry and Eric Karabell from the four letter.

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The league's leader in receiving yards against the 19th-ranked secondary? Yes, that'll do.

There’s just two more weeks left until the fantasy playoffs in most leagues, and two more weeks until your fantasy season possibly ends, and you get to see your wife again. She’s been getting the letters you’ve been writing.

So we forge ahead with our weekly perusal of some of the foremost fantasy thought leaders, and their weekly rankings. This week we’re rolling with Matthew Berry and Eric Karabell from ESPN, and Michael Fabiano and Matt Smith from NFL.com. Since I’m still losing my battle with time, we’re just giving you the straight goods this week sans commentary and opining. Try to hold yourself together.

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Hey you guys, it’s rankings time. In a special edition to get you ready for the smorgasbord of Thanksgiving day action I did the same thing we’ve done in weeks past. We that we can retire the word ‘special’ from our lexicon. You’re not special. Your kids crapily made macaroni sculpture of the Mona Lisa isn’t special. Nothing is special.

Yes, as you can probably tell I had a horrible week in fantasy football. Luckily our rag tag crew of fantasy experts — Michael Fabiano and Matt Smith of NFL.com, Jamey Eisenberg and Dave Richard of CBS.com and Matt Berry and Eric Karabell of the mothership — are back with their weekly rankings. Throw me a line fellas. Read the rest of this entry »

The autumn wind blows briskly in the direction of the Raiders' end zone.

Yet another week filled with stud matchups for studs should be fun. But yeah, we say that nearly every week, and every week disappointment inevitably follows. Still hate you, expectations.

Featured in this week’s composite rankings are Eric Karabell and Matthew Berry from ESPN, and Michael Fabiano and Matt Smith from NFL.com. My fellow Internet football writers Devang Desai and Kyle Smith helped with the compiling and number staring. So come with me now for some rankings, some musings, and lots of projections sure to fail.

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Ray Rice vs. the Raiders = boom

So many stud players with so many stud matchups this week. All of the fantasy points will be scored by said players, and you’ll either love or hate yourself.

Yes, welcome to Week 10, where Matt Ryan is the next man up in the season of Saints slugging, and Stevan Ridley will be the latest to make the Bills look like they couldn’t stop Sam Gordon. As is our weekly custom, we compiled rankings from Michael Fabiano and Adam Rank from NFL.com, and Jeremy Eisenberg and Dave Richard from CBS.

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