Managing a team over the course of a fantasy football season is a bit like taking part in a poker tournament. At the beginning, you can afford to be conservative and take a wait-and-see attitude with your players, in the hopes that the underperformers will come around (just as it's usually smart to play conservatively early on in a poker tourney, while you've still got the luxury of low blinds). As the season (or tournament) wears on, you have to adjust your style of play. If you're at .500 or worse, you're the equivalent of a low-stacked player at the final table - it's high time to make some bold moves. Hesitate, and you'll be doomed to watch your subpar squad slowly fade out of contention.

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To all of our devoted readers (and those who just stopped by for their first time), Happy Halloween! Make sure to go out and get some good candy (not the crappy kind that you hated getting as a kid!) to pass out to the kids tonight...or risk having to clean up toilet paper and shaving cream up in the morning.

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If your team needs some help and you're looking to make a trade to bolster a position, here's a list of players to look for and work into those deals this week. Players listed under Sell High are overvalued - meaning that I think they're performing at a level they won't be able to maintain throughout the season, and thus are ripe to be traded away while their value is still high. Those listed under Buy Low are the ones to look for on other peoples' teams - hopefully their owners are discouraged by their poor performance thus far, and will trade them away for a song.

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Here are our responses to the first couple of questions for the week. Remember, you can always ask us questions by clicking the Ask the Geeks logo on the left sidebar (or this link).

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Now that we're halfway through the season, I'm curious as to what websites our readers are using to manage their fantasy football leagues. We generally offer player ownership statistics for Yahoo and ESPN leagues (as in, "Pierre Thomas is available in 72% of Yahoo and ESPN leagues"), but that's not too helpful if the majority of our visitors are hosting their leagues elsewhere. 

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Here's a look at the players to target on your league's waiver wire this week. This list is ordered by the percentage of ESPN leagues in which the player is available; even if you're not a ESPN user, it's a decent indication of how likely you are to find the player on waivers in your league. We also note here how strongly we feel about this pickup with three categories: Instant Starter, Grab 'n' Stash, or Desperation Pickup.

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Thanks to Michael Irenski at the Wall Street Journal for the nice writeup today! (And thanks to Frank from fantasydope.com for spotting it before we did and giving us a heads-up. )

In a weekend where the Saints and Chargers put on a jolly good show for those fortunate enough to witness the game in London, the real star this past Sunday was a guy who was questionable to even play. Philadelphia running back (although calling him just a running back is quite an understatement) Brian Westbrook left his team's week six match with the 49er's with what would be confirmed as fractured ribs and coming into this weekend, it was up in the air if he would even play. However, I guess a bye week was just what the doctor ordered to heal those ribs, because Westbrook went off in a big way! For those managers brave enough to plug him into their line-up, you were rewarded heavily after he rushed for 167 yards and two touchdowns, while catching six balls for an additional 42 yards (for a whopping total of 209 yards and two scores!) It's likely that Westbrook single-handedly beat a few fantasy teams out there. Anyways, enough drooling over Westbrook...let's get to the rest of the action from the weekend...

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In a bind? This column is for those of you who, due to injuries or other circumstances, find yourselves with a gaping hole at QB, RB or WR and need a stop-gap player to plug in for one week.       

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After weeks of mediocre results, last week I hit the jackpot with my picks (must have been the renaming of the post!) I finished up 17-7-6 (hits-misses-pushes) for the week, carried there by the stellar play of the Titans running game versus the joke that is the Kansas City Chiefs defense. I also got some help from a few other running backs including Ryan Grant, who finally found the endzone, and Dominic Rhodes, who filled in quite nicely for the injured Joseph Addai and rewarded fantasy managers with two touchdowns. While the Jets passing game failed pretty miserably against what I thought was supposed to be a weak Raiders pass defense, it wasn't enough to keep me from my best week of the season.

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