Fantasy Football Live: Week 17 (Archive)

Week 17 is Super Bowl for owners still playing Fantasy Football. A huge number of regular fantasy studs were inactivated right before kickoff this Sunday. In Green Bay Donald Driver, Donald Lee, Greg Jennings...in Jacksonville David Garrard, Maurice Jones-Drew, Fred Taylor all made the inactive list before game time. Bottom line, if a team had nothing to play for, their starting players were in doubt.

Injuries: Rudi Johnson and Willis McGahee were officially out. Frank Gore and Brian Westbrook were expected to be active and see carries in their respective games.

Week 17 subs

The gurus put together a list of five players expected to see time in Week 17 as starters were placed on the inactive list.

Charlie Batch, QB, Pittsburgh
Clifton Dawson, RB, Indianapolis
Pierre Thomas, RB, New Orleans
Darren Sproles, RB, San Diego
James Jones, WR, Green Bay

Studs and Duds

The gurus made their final picks of the season for Studs, Duds, Sleepers and Hail Mary picks for week 16. Each correct call is worth 10 points. A guru can earn five points for partial credit on a near-miss. Calling a Hail Mary correctly is worth 20 points. Hail Mary picks must be players owned in less than 10-percent of all Yahoo! Fantasy Football leagues.

Brandon: 40 pts.

Stud: 10 (Jamal Lewis)
Dud: 0 (Derrick Mason)
Sleeper: 10 (Kenny Watson)
Hail Mary: 20 (Aaron Stecker)

Brad: 30 pts.

Stud: 10 (Fred Taylor)
Dud: 0 (Clinton Portis)
Sleeper: 0 (Ron Dayne )
Hail Mary: 20 (Chris Redman)

That final score decided the winner of this season's FFL Studs and Duds competition. Here's the final tally.

Brad: 480 points

Brandon: 465 points

Pickups of the Week

One final week of Toyota Tundra Pickups of the Week from our gurus. The Toyota Tundra Pickups of the Week are all owned in less than 50% of all Yahoo! Sports fantasy leagues:

Todd Collins, QB, Washington, 0.60% owned
Clifton Dawson, RB, Indy, 0.01% owned
Nate Washington, WR, Pittsburgh, 2% owned
Pierre Thomas, RB, New Orleans, 0.11% owned
Desmond Clark, TE, Chicago, 49% owned
Cincinnati Defense, DEF, 9% owned

Top Matchups

Brandon Funston's Top Matchups of the Week were:

Marc Bulger vs. Arizona
Kenny Watson vs. Miami
Dominic Rhodes vs. San Diego
Santana Moss vs. Dallas
Kevin Walter vs. Jacksonville

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