Fantasy Felony: Playoff Planning Part 2

Fantasy Felony helps you hijack your fellow team owners.

Ever come up with an awesome idea, start executing it, get halfway through and stare at yourself in the mirror while repeating, "I've made a huge, tiny mistake"? Because that was my reaction about a half-hour into creating the graph you'll see after the jump which breaks down -- in color-coded form, where green is "top 10", yellow is middle of the road, and red is "bottom-10" -- all the playoff matchups (presuming your playoffs are Week 15 and 16).

Now, you can use this for a bunch of different purposes: free agency pickups, checking out what your prospective roster would look like right now in the playoffs and, most importantly, making trades at the deadline. I mentioned it last week, but it bears repeating -- if you're in contention, look at this chart and make some plays to assure yourself that you have good playoff matchups.

For instance: Kurt Warner is going to go large in the fantasy playoffs, provided the Cards haven't clinched (in which case, consider picking up Leinart early -- seriously), whereas the prognosis for Matt Forte is about as bright as his season thus far (read: dim). Now, not all of these colors can be taken literally; Buffalo is "good" against the pass, but that's mainly because their rushing defense is beyond abysmal. But you should be able to figure that via the colors. I think.