Fantasy Cheat Sheet: Week 12
A week's worth of advice to help you make your last-minute moves
Week 12 Cheat Sheet
Each week, the cheat sheet combs through the choicest Insider fantasy advice to provide owners with last-minute roster advice for the weekend. Here is this week's edition:
Top tips
Cam Newton, QB, Carolina Panthers: Newton has hit a bit of a sophomore skid in 2012 -- especially within the fantasy football realm -- which has meant that he's been benched in some standard, one-QB leagues. In his "Four Downs" column this week, Eric Karabell argues that Newton should be activated for Week 12. The Panthers have the Philadelphia Eagles in the Monday night game this week, and Philly has been quite hospitable to opposing QBs as of late, including 32 points (in standard ESPN scoring) to Robert Griffin III in Week 11.
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Fantasy Football Week 12

It's a busy week in fantasy football, with all the byes done, the fantasy trade deadline passing, Thanksgiving games, and lots of playoff positioning.
Fantasy Football Tools
• Week 12 Projections• Roster Advisor

• 2012 Scoring Leaders | Points Against
• Most Added/Dropped (Past 7 days)
• NFL Nation blog
Week 12 Rankings
• QB | RB | WR | TE | K | DST | IDP
Weekly Features
• Berry: Week 12 Love/Hate list
• Carpenter: Gridiron Challenge preview
• Cockcroft: Consistency Ratings
• Harris: Free-agent finds for Week 12
• Harris: Instant Impressions from Week 11
Bell Injury Blog
• Wednesday: Gronkowski, McCoy, McGahee
Insider 
• Karabell: Four Downs from Sunday's games
• Kavanagh: Week 12 cheat sheet
• Karabell: Sneaky pickups
• Karabell: Week 12 flex rankings
• Pro FB Focus: Evaluating snap counts/trends
• Football Outsiders: Good/bad matchups
• Karabell: 2012 season rankings update
• Goal-Line Grid: Through Week 10
• Joyner: Injury replacements
• Karabell: Four Downs -- Week 11 recap
Video
• Wednesday: Berry's Love/Hate ![]()
• Wednesday: Fantasy Focus on rankings ![]()
• Wednesday: Thanksgiving preview ![]()
• Tuesday: Colin Kaepernick's value ![]()
• Monday: Gronkowski replacements ![]()
• Monday: Week 11 breakouts ![]()
Podcasts
• Wed. Focus: Thanksgiving Day preview ![]()
• Tue. Focus: MNF recap, trade talk ![]()
• Mon. Focus: Week 11 recap ![]()
Chat Schedule/Wraps
• Tuesday 3 p.m. ET: Stephania Bell
• Tuesday 11 a.m. ET: AJ Mass
• Monday 11 a.m. ET: Tristan H. Cockcroft
Countdown to Trade Deadline
• Mass: Trade deadline chat
• Cockcroft: Analyzing rest-of-season schedules
• Bell: Assessing risk of injured trade targets
• Berry: Ten trades I'd do
• Harris: Two approaches to trades
• McCormick: IDP trade targets
• Mass: Evaluating multiplayer deals
• Mass: 10 rules for trading
• Joyner: Playoff trade targets 
• Karabell: Trade deadline targets ![]()
• Harris: Favorable playoff schedules ![]()
• Bell: Trade value of injured players ![]()

