With Brett Favre finding a new home with the Jets and Steven Jackson threatening to stay home all season there are some shake ups on the GSI Cheat Sheet. 

Favre checks in at No. 15, best rest assured if he shows good signs early he could slide up the ladder quickly. He isn't the only Jet on the rise though. Both Jerricho Cotchery (No. 21) and Laveranues Coles (No. 28) moved up slightly, as did tight ends Dustin Keller (No. 30) and Favre's old buddy Bubba Franks (No. 34). We opted not to move Thomas Jones (No. 24) up yet, but there is no doubt that his production should benefit from the boost to the passing game.

As for Jackson, he is threatening to sit out the enitre season and while he is still a top-three back in my eyes, if I had to draft today I would have a tough time taking him over Brian Westbrook and possibly even Joseph Addai. For the time being Mr. Jackson slips to No. 5 at his position.

UPDATED PLAYER RANKINGS 

Let's take a quick look at some of the latest Bengals' news: 

--After already seeing starting DE Antwaan Odom, their biggest free-agent signing, the Bengals' defense took another hit this week when safety Chinedum Ndukwe left Wednesday morning's practice on a cart, then returned to practice before having an MRI on his leg. He, like Odom is out indefinitely and will definitely miss the opening preseason game. It's a setback for Ndukwe, who's competing with Dexter Jackson for a starting job.

--Georgetown College Athletic Director Eric Ward said attendance is down 45 to 50 percent at camp this year, according to the Dayton Daily News. Heat, rain, high gas prices and the fact that camp opened on a Monday (July 28) — robbing the team and college of an extra practice weekend — all conspired to keep attendance down.

--Cornerback Deltha O'Neal is going from starter to backup this year and now he is listed as the team's top punt returner. So far the veteran appears to be accepting the role well, according to Mark Crunette of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Previously too indispensable as a starting cornerback to expose on punt returns, O'Neal could improve the Bengals' league-worst 4.9-yard average on punt returns from 2007. He has a 10.1-yard average and two touchdowns on 136 career returns, though his eight attempts in Cincinnati yielded just a 5.4-yard average.

--Defensive tackle John Thornton, who has made a mark in the community for his fundraising to fight Autism and runs a web site development company, is on The Cincinnati Business Courier's 40 under 40 list of notable young Cincinnatians.

--Running back Rudi Johnson, wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh, cornerback Ethan Kilmer, safety Herana-Daze Jones, and linebacker Rashad Jeanty, to go along with Odom and Ndukwe, are players that Bengals.com's Geoff Hobson speculates will not play Monday night in Green Bay.

--Quote of Note: "He looked like he's been working out, he looks like he's in fair shape right now," linebackers coach Jeff FitzGerald said of first-round pick Keith Rivers, who ended his holdout earlier this week. "We cut his reps a little bit; we let him run with the second bunch to get filled in a little bit. He remembers. He's got a good memory. He took good notes; he did a good job in spring." 

The Brett Favre saga appears to be over. The future Hall of Famer has landed with the Jets and as the dust settles let's take a look at the winners and losers.

WINNERS

Brett Favre - He gets  a starting job again. This guy led his team to hosting the NFC Championship last season and his team didn't want him back. I'm sorry, but if Favre wants to play he should be given the chance. 

Jets - This team went from 7-9 in my book to 11-5. They had one of the NFL's best off-seasons before this move, but still were going into the season with Chad Pennington and Kellen Clemens at QB. The days of stacking the box against the Jets are over.

Laveranues Coles and Jerricho Cotchery - The duo is one of the top five in the NFL in talent, but had problems with getting the ball delivered to them. I expect both wideouts to see a spike in production with Favre's arrival.

NFL - With the season weeks away there is plenty to get excited about, but all fans have been hearing about is Brett freaking Favre. Now, attention can be put back into all of the exciting news around the league. In addition, the league keeps one of its most marketable names and now has him playing in the nation's largest market. 

Tavaris Jackson - The youngster improved down the stretch this year and is playing in the perfect situation - great line, awesome running game, top-ranked defense. With Favre not coming to town Jackson's development will not be derailed. He is a player on the rise.

LOSERS

Aaron Rodgers - This could get ugly. Has there ever been a quarterback to take over the reigns of his offense under more pressure? On top of that his rookie contract is up and this is pretty much his one chance to get paid. He's handled it great so far, but the season hasn't even started yet.

Packers - They were in a tough spot and I'm can't even say that I disagree with their decision. Still, the way that it was handled from top to bottom was embarassing. It was Bud-Selig like. I am starting to wonder if has something to do with that Wisconsin cheese.

Ted Thompson - The guy didn't want to sign his name on the trade. It felt dirty didn't it Teddy. Let's face it, if the Packers' bomb this year Thompson could go to Bartman-level hatered in Green Bay. At least he wasn't stupid enough to trade Favre to the Vikings, who by the way are MY PICK to win the NFC North.

Chad Pennington - One day your the starter, the next day you are cut. I don't blame the Jets, but it's just funny how things work. For Pennington, he may never get a chance to start in this league again. He makes for a decent backup though and will land somewhere quickly.

Jeff Garcia - Alright people are just now starting to believe that he is not gay, and that only came after he married a smoking-hot wife, Carmella DeCesare. Now the guy is in tears and getting himself all worked up in front of the media. The Bucs made it clear they wanted Favre and didn't get him. Now, they must soothe the over-sensitive Garcia and move forward.

ESPN - What in the world is the world wide leader in sports going to talk about now? Let's try the other 31 teams, pennant races, or the Olympics. As usual ESPN totally took something and blew it up 24/7. Hopefully, everybody can get back to playing football now.

From TopEndSports.com: 

It is fascinating the number and variety of sports that have at one time been part of the Olympic Games. Since the first modern Games in 1896, 12 sports have disappeared completely from the Olympic schedule. These are golf, rugby, croquet, cricket, Jeu de Paume, pelota, polo, roque, rackets, tug-of-war, lacrosse and motor boating. Added to this is a large number of discontinued events from sports that are still on the program, such as the swimming events of plunge for distance and underwater swimming, the track and field events of the standing highjump and tug-of-war, and the shooting events of pigeon shooting and duelling pistol.

You can have a look at the complete list of all discontinued sports, or my list of some the more unusual sports.

In the past, the host country often included their own sports. Some of the discontinued events were simply updated to metric distances or modified into the well-known events of today, especially in track and field and swimming. There are also some interesting sports that were included as demonstration sports, some eventually becoming part of the official program, others disappearing as they should. See more about demonstration sports and the complete list of demo sports.

From HardballTimes.com:  

Win Shares. Invented by Bill James. Win Shares is a very complicated statistic that takes all the contributions a player makes toward his team’s wins and distills them into a single number that represents the number of wins contributed to the team, times three. The website has tweaked James’ original formula somewhat.

Win Shares Above Bench, or Baseline. WSAB is a refined approach to Win Shares, in which each player's total Win Shares are compared to the Win Shares an average bench player would have received, given that player's time at bat, on the mound or in the field.

This is an important adjustment to Win Shares, as we discovered during the 2003-2004 offseason. The bench player approach is explained in this article. It is essentially 75% of Expected Win Shares for all players except Starting Pitchers, for whom it is 60% of Expected Win Shares.

With all that said here there five most valuable players:

• Lance Berkman - WSAB = 18
• Albert Pujols -  WSAB = 16
• Ian Kinsler - WSAB = 16
• Justin Morneau - WSAB = 16
• Josh Hamilton - WSAB = 16

Hopefully, you all out there heeded my advice last week when I wrote that the best bet in fantasty (and if you know a bookie, that type of betting as well) this week was Oswalt versus the Reds.  He did it again last night.  Oswalt went seven innings, struck out six and allowed only one earned.

He's now run his record to 21-1 all-time versus the Redlegs.  Owning the Reds doesn't come close to describing it any longer.  The Reds are officially Oswalt's b***h.