FSB Daily 2/2: Mastersball, Fantazzle, RotoWire
A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.
– The news slipped by us at holiday time, but Mastersball.com and CREATiVE Sports have merged, operating under the Mastersball heading since the start of 2010. As fantasy veteran Lawr Michaels explains in his open letter to readers, the move combines staffs long on experience. The outlet is also part of Fantasy Sports Ventures’ Fantasy Players Network.
– Fantazzle is looking to hire a full-time social-media guru and add a few interns.
– Perhaps you’re sitting there looking over the RotoWire fantasy baseball draft kit on your PC and iPhone, wishing that you could get just one more electronic format. Well, if you’re a Kindle owner, you can now purchase the baseball preview magazine wirelessly.
– OPENSports.com’s Chris Chester states it in terms that I probably wouldn’t use, but his issues with the iPad pertaining to viewing baseball games and accessing fantasy baseball make sense.
– The NFL RedZone Channel on my cell phone? Yes, please. (Now all I need is a phone on which I can watch it …) The appeal of this channel to fantasy players is obvious for anyone familiar with the concept. If you’ve been asleep for a while, it’s a channel that shows every score (touchdowns and field goals) through the day games on NFL Sundays, switching live to contests in which one time is nearing the end zone.
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Tags: fantasy baseball, fantasy sports, fantasy sports business, fantasy sports industry, fantazzle, football, mastersball, nfl, open sports, redzone channel, rotowire
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:07 pm
No offense to Chris Chester, but I don’t think his “issues” make much sense. He’s only owned his first smartphone for 24 hours and none of us have used an iPad. Is he really in a position to offer a well informed critique of how mobile video is consumed or will be consumed on the iPad? Sure, there are issues with the ability of the iPad to multitask, but none of us know how the real user experience will feel.
Instead Chris relies on tired testosterone-driven stereotypes (e.g. when people aren’t home they only watch sports at the bar with other fans and when they do watch at home they watch on theicouldn’t possibly use an iPad because their fingers are covered in BBQ sauce)
There are plenty of MLB.TV subscribers watching out-of-market games on their laptops in their living rooms. I’m sure there is a percentage of those folks who would rather keep an iPad on the end table next to their couch instead of keeping a laptop in their living room.
Just because Chris isn’t the target market for watching MLB on a iPad doesn’t mean the target market doesn’t exist and that it consists of “stupid idiots.”
I guess time will tell who the real stupid idiots are…