{"id":1459068,"date":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dynastyleaguefootball.com\/2020\/11\/lineup-advice-week-12-5\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:00:00","slug":"lineup-advice-week-12-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dynastyleaguefootball.com\/2020\/11\/25\/lineup-advice-week-12-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineup Advice:  Week 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday Games<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HOU @ DET<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>WAS @ DAL<\/li>\n<li>BAL @ PIT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bye:\u00a0 None<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 12<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving!\u00a0 A day to be thankful for family, those close to us and for the blessings life has offered us.\u00a0 Our world is changing.\u00a0 Getting more complex.\u00a0 This year in the United States I have witnessed and felt more division than at any before in this great nation of ours.\u00a0 It&#8217;s disturbing, scary and sad.\u00a0 For those of you outside the U.S., I would bet you have seen and feel the same.\u00a0 Please take this week to be thankful, whether you celebrate this holiday or not, for all those close to you, the world we live in and the fact that a better tomorrow starts with each one of us.\u00a0 Respect, nurture and cultivate.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have to agree, but we should always respect.\u00a0 If every one of us lived by that simple axiom, what a different tomorrow would be.\u00a0 If you would like to say what you&#8217;re thankful for in your question, it will do my heart good.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll get an answer either way.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are leading your league, in the running or well out of it, please set you best lineups each week regardless of your record.\u00a0 A league is only as good and as fair as each coach in it and it&#8217;s up to each of us to play our best lineups each week.\u00a0 Hopefully tanking, sandbagging or poor sportsmanship doesn&#8217;t rear its ugly head in your league(s) &#8211; don&#8217;t be that guy\/girl!\u00a0 We all need to do our part.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get lazy.\u00a0 This is a time to be grooming your roster for 2021 regardless of what state your team is in.\u00a0 There are always opportunities at the end of the year to take advantage of upcoming free agency names, not only for the free agents themselves but for the players beneath them on the depth chart. A very selective addition of one or two names can have a profound impact in future years.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck in week 12!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please read the following&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To our knowledge, DLF is the only fantasy site that answers your specific lineup questions all seventeen weeks of the NFL regular season and into the post-season as well. \u00a0It\u2019s just another feature we offer our valued premium subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, a huge THANK YOU to all our premium members who support what DLF is doing here.\u00a0 Without you, we wouldn\u2019t still be here after 14 years!\u00a0 There\u2019s just far too much work and time involved in running a site like this and your support aids us tremendously by giving us the ability to attract and retain the best dynasty writers in the business.\u00a0 Beyond that, it allows for solid hosting, tools, utilities, development, podcasts and the delivery mechanisms to get all that content to you.\u00a0 Thank you again!<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not a subscriber but use the DLF Forums, or have been interested in what we\u2019re all about, there\u2019s no time like now to give us a try.\u00a0 I can personally guarantee you\u2019ll be hard pressed to find another business, let alone one on the Internet, which cares about their members more and focuses on our value proposition like DLF.\u00a0 That\u2019s a personal commitment, to each of you, which has guided us from day-one!\u00a0 We strive to keep our prices low so everyone can afford one of our membership options and, again, we can\u2019t do what we do without YOU!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020 Lineup Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the first year we started offering \u201cpersonalized\u201d lineup advice to DLF members each and every week of the NFL season, our membership has grown many fold.\u00a0 It\u2019s no longer a simple or quick process.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way!\u00a0 It\u2019s part of our value proposition to each of you and, most importantly, it\u2019s one of the ways I get to know our members individually.\u00a0 Interfacing with each of you is what makes what we\u2019re doing here so special, and we very much hope you see and enjoy that difference.\u00a0 We\u2019re a unicorn in the fantasy space.<\/p>\n<p>But our growing membership base is forcing me to make a few changes to ensure I can keep up with the volume and still provide the quality input you\u2019ve come to expect.\u00a0 Rare are the questions which I can simply \u201cpop off\u201d an answer to.\u00a0 With each one, I research up to seven different variables to arrive at my response and that takes time.<\/p>\n<p>Please see below for my notes concerning this service for 2018.\u00a0 I ask that you read them and hold to them toward helping me help more of you.\u00a0 And, perhaps, helping me to keep my sanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2022 NEW: Please limit your text and questions.<\/span>\u00a0 DLF&#8217;s growth has been tremendous. Long (story) questions or questions involving multiple players and positions take a ton of time and I&#8217;m genuinely concerned about my ability to provide quality and timely advice.\u00a0 I would love to be able to answer the old questions of old, but there just won&#8217;t be that much time. Please limit, in any way possible, you questions. I&#8217;m trying very hard to not limit questions to one per individual.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2022 IMPORTANT:\u00a0 If any of your questions involve players who play on Thursday night, please put &#8220;TNF&#8221; on the first line by itself at the top of your question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 If at all possible, please don\u2019t submit your question until AFTER the Thursday night game, unless it involves a player playing on Thursday night.\u00a0 This allows me to concentrate on the TNF game first while also allowing more time for injury news from the previous week.\u00a0 Because of the popularity, I answer questions as they come in and much can change in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Because of our comment system, it\u2019s VERY easy to miss your response(s) to my advice.\u00a0 I don\u2019t get alerts to new questions or responses you make to my response to you.\u00a0 I have to physically scroll from top to bottom each time to look for responses.\u00a0 Depending on the number of questions each week, I may miss any response to my advice.\u00a0 When in doubt, make a new entry at the bottom and reference your earlier question if needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Scoring System \u2013 Let me know if your league is PPR, non-PPR or if there are any unusual scoring rules that would affect the advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I always like to see what YOU are thinking on your question(s) first. On those \u201ccoin-flip\u201d plays, as I call them, knowing which way you are leaning helps me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 My crystal ball isn\u2019t perfect and I can assure you I \u201cfeel\u201d any advice which ends up being incorrect.\u00a0 I do often go back and check my last week\u2019s advice.\u00a0 I\u2019m very proud of my track record and like to think I\u2019m more accurate than the \u201cMagic 8-Ball\u201d approach but, in the end, it\u2019s only an guess.\u00a0 An educated guess, but still only a guess.\u00a0 Go easy on me.\u00a0 I\u2019m hard enough on me for both of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I cannot be the coach of your team and all advice is just that:\u00a0 \u201cadvice.&#8221;\u00a0 Ultimately, the decision is yours to make and you should always be fully accountable to that.\u00a0 Look to me as that little person on your shoulder chiming in with his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Do NOT wait until game-day to ask your questions!\u00a0 Life here at DLF can be very busy as is my life away from DLF.\u00a0 Waiting until game day runs the risk of not getting a response.\u00a0 I always make an attempt to check before kick-off on game day, but I can\u2019t guarantee it.\u00a0 It\u2019s always best to give me at least 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It\u2019s not uncommon for me to answer questions out of order due to injury status of a mentioned player, players who play earlier in the week or any number of other reasons.\u00a0 If it looks like I\u2019ve skipped you, I likely have\u00a0 saved you for later until I have more information.\u00a0 It\u2019s also possible your question is too long and I\u2019m prioritizing other more easily answered questions.\u00a0 Brief questions always get priority as I can answer more of them quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I rarely answer questions after kick-off of the first games on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 I often am away to watch the games and can\u2019t guarantee I will\/can check.\u00a0 If I\u2019m available and able, I do try to check in.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 HAVE FUN!\u00a0 I so enjoy interfacing with each of you and look forward to\u00a0 your comments to my advice while following along with how your team is performing. This game has a lot to offer us die-hard fans, so don\u2019t let its twists and turns, injuries and\/or run of bad luck remove any of the enjoyment.\u00a0 Win or lose, there\u2019s always next week or next year!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck this year.\u00a0 Fortune favors the bold \u2013 but there\u2019s no substitute for preparation.\u00a0 Now, let\u2019s go have some fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a tough lineup decision or simply need a second opinion? 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