The online provider of fantasy league hosting platforms and fantasy content announced Monday the rollout of a fantasy football application for the iPhone.

Fanball.com Fantasy Football Draft ‘08 is touted as a full-season application that provides features such as player news, cheat sheets and stat projections, according to the company’s press release. The program, which sells for $1.99, seems particularly geared toward fantasy drafts, allowing owners to accumulate various pieces of important information without having to carry an unruly stack of papers or find a place to plug in their laptop.

Of course, the launch one day after the first Sunday of football season doesn’t set the application up to help on that front in 2008, which Fanball.com new media manager Seth Trachtman acknowledges.

“We got in late in the game, but there is still some value in the app,” he says. “It does have updated player news from Fanball Owner’s Edge. We are planning on rolling out an updated version soon.”

For just $2, the in-season features could well prove worth the price, particularly for fantasy football enthusiasts who spend their days on the move rather than tethered to a computer.

“This application is only the tip of the iceberg in what promises to be a long relationship between Fanball, fantasy sports and mobile technology,” senior vice president of business development Ryan Houston says in the release.

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