Anyone can pick Phil Mickelson to win at Torrey Pines, or Robert Allenby, or Ernie Els, or Hunter Mahan. My goal in this weekly piece is to give you five possible selections you might not be thinking about. Let's head down San Diego way and see what's going on with this week's Farmers Insurance Open.

Steve Marino: Perhaps I'm using a liberal definition of sleeper by tabbing Marino here, but he's yet to win on tour and he's not among the Top 20 favorites this week, so that's good enough for me. His Torrey Pines run last year was done in by an opening-round 78, but he grabbed two solid checks in the previous years (T23, T20). There isn't an obvious weakness in Marino's game - other than the empty mantle, I suppose - and that's the type of versatility that will serve you well at this week's challenge. He's one of the Top 5 players on tour without a victory, that's for sure (say howdy to Tim Clark when this infamous club meets up).

Nathan Green: He made it to a playoff when they came to

You know the rules. Assume a new draft that starts tonight. Yahoo default settings. What's happened to this point is an audition, but not how we're grading them – this is all about what will happen the rest of the way.

Let's head to the crease.

1. Martin Brodeur(notes)
2. Ryan Miller(notes)
3. Roberto Luongo(notes)
4. Evgeni Nabokov(notes)
5. Henrik Lundqvist(notes)
6. Miikka Kiprusoff(notes)
7. Craig Anderson(notes)
8. Ilya Bryzgalov(notes)
9. Jimmy Howard(notes)
10. Tim Thomas(notes)
11. Niklas Backstrom(notes)
12. Tomas Vokoun(notes)

Comments: Kiprusoff hasn't played well in January, but it's hard to get past where his seasonal numbers are. … Nabokov's stats have a lot to do with the play in front of him, but they don't ask how, they ask how many? … Howard's effectively thrown Chris Osgood(notes) out of the way for the balance of the year, barring an injury.

13. Marc-Andre Fleury(notes)
14. Cristobal Huet(notes)
15. Jaroslav Halak(notes)
16. Jonas Hiller(notes)
17. Jonathan Quick

Setting the stage for Week 14 of the fantasy basketball season.

Schedule Breakdown

Four-game teams: ATL, BOS, CHA, CLE, DEN, GSW, HOU, IND, LAC, LAL, MEM, MIA, MON, NOR, NYK, ORL, PHI, PHO, POR, SAS

Three-game teams: CHI, DAL, DET, MIL, NJN, OKC, SAC, TOR, UTH, WAS

Also see: Basketball Monster's ease rankings | Rotowire's value meter

Pickups/Plug-ins – Players owned in fewer than 40% of Yahoo! leagues

• Goran Dragic(notes) - Leandro Barbosa's(notes) wrist surgery [see below] presents Dragic with a great opportunity for more consistent playing time at both guard positions for the Suns. Case-in-point: Saturday's win over the Warriors, during which he scored 20 points and added three treys, four steals, and a block in 26 minutes. While the matchup clearly couldn't have been better, his production was still part of a trend. In games where he's seen at least 20 minutes of action (15), Dragic has averaged 11.1 points, 1.7 threes, 3.1 boards, 3.5 assists, 2.3 turnovers, and 1 steal. Jason

Joe Mauer(notes) is about to get a ludicrously large payday – presumably in the $20 million per year range – but that fact really isn't meaningful for any of us in the fantasy community (unless you're actively trying to sell him something). Here, we care primarily about the imaginary payday Mauer is about to receive.

If your intention is to purchase his services in 2010, then you'll need to commit a substantial percentage of your budget. In the Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide we set Mauer's mixed league suggested retail price at $42. That number is probably insane, yet surprisingly easy to justify. Mauer enhanced his Hall of Fame resume with several bullet-points last year – MVP award (his first), Gold Glove (second), batting title (third), Silver Slugger (third) – while massively out-producing the standard-issue fantasy catcher. He led all players at his position in runs (94), homers (28) and, obviously, batting average (.365).

At the risk of appearing too self-referential, we'll

Mo Williams(notes) and Brandon Roy(notes) injuries take center stage, while George Hill(notes) and Brandon Rush(notes) appear on more radars.

• Mo Williams will miss four to six weeks with a left shoulder strain, suffered Tuesday against the Raptors. He'll be re-evaluated in two weeks, at which point we should have a more precise timeframe for his return. Fantasy owners have little choice but to carry dead weight while Williams is out – on the far end of that expected down time, he'll be back the first week of March, with six weeks of games yet to play. If you are in danger of falling out of contention, then you can throw him on our trade block and see what kinds of offers come in.

Delonte West(notes) is the obvious beneficiary of excess playing time. He started Thursday's game and played 43 minutes … and broke his left (shooting) ring finger. West will not play Saturday (OKC) and, although the damage is not severe, it's not yet known if he'll need more games off. At this point he's at

Tonight we take an audit of every fantasy-viable center skating in North America. The stats to this point are merely an audition; this list is what I'd use for a new draft that starts right now. Bring your intelligent disagreement to the comments, we'll fleece it out together. (Anyone carrying center eligibility in the Yahoo! game was considered for this exercise, and Y! default scoring is assumed.)

1. Sidney Crosby(notes)
2. Henrik Sedin(notes)
3. Evgeni Malkin(notes)
4. Patrick Marleau(notes)
5. Nicklas Backstrom(notes)
6. Jeff Carter(notes)
7. Joe Thornton(notes)
8. Mike Richards(notes)
9. Eric Staal(notes)
10. Ryan Getzlaf(notes)
11. Pavel Datsyuk(notes)
12. Tim Connolly(notes)
13. Jonathan Toews(notes)
14. Steven Stamkos(notes)
15. Anze Kopitar(notes)
16. Henrik Zetterberg(notes)

Comments: No knife fights over the guys at the 2-4 slots, you could rank them in any order and it wouldn't look out of place. Marleau probably won't be in this area next year but sometimes you have to

We've seen plenty of New York vs. Philadelphia throwdowns over the years and there's another heavyweight bout set to go in 2010: the battle for first-base supremacy. If you find yourself in need of some corner clout in the late-first or early-second round, who you gonna call?

Yahoo! staffers Brad Evans and Scott Pianowski love a good debate and were happy to take up the case in around 250 words or less. Settle in for opening statements, then register your vote and comments at the bottom of the piece. We'll figure this out together.

Big Noise opens: Mark Teixeira(notes) is a true consistency king. He's tallied more consecutive top-flight seasons than the creepy Burger King has trespassing violations. Despite suiting up for four different clubs over the past three years, he's compiled at least a .290 BA, 30 homers and 105 RBI each season. Even after a horrific April (.200 BA, 3 HR, 10 RBI) – sans A-Rod – he managed to rack a.292-39-122-103 line in his first year in the Bronx, equal to

Let's be honest and up front this week, amigos – we're getting quantity over quality at the 2010 Bob Hope Classic. No Top 10 players are on the grounds, no major names. Sure, Justin Leonard is a pleasant chap, and Chad Campbell looks primed for a big year, and this could be the spot for Tim Clark to break through. There's always some reason to watch. But at the end of the day, we're looking at a five-day birdie fest without a ton of curb appeal.

Here's hoping the weather plays nice – the early forecasts are ominous – and let's see if we can pick some fantasy sleepers out of the hat.

Ben Crane: His reputation for slow play has tended to obscure the bigger story here – Crane has some game. He's already bagged a couple of wins on tour and consider his earning rank over his eight-year career: 48, 63, 184 (injured), 58, 19, 76, 50, 71. He's never missed a check in seven visits to the Bob Hope, including a fifth-place run in 2004 and a 12-place finish two years back. Fear the turtle.