‘Today in Fantasy’ Wants to be Our Personal Google
One thing that we all know about fantasy content: There is a whole lot of it out there these days in all kinds of different places. How does one sort through it? A new Footballguys-supported site wants to make itself the answer.
TodayinFantasy.com launched this week as a depot for free fantasy content.
“There is a ton of great quality free fantasy content online but it’s spread out over many different websites so it’s tough to stay on top of it all and find what you’re looking for,” said Aaron Rudnicki, a Footballguys staffer and the guy running the Today in Fantasy show. “Using an automated search engine like Google brings up a lot of irrelevant stuff, so we wanted to add a personal touch to make sure that items coming up are relevant and useful.”
Rudnicki told FSB.com that he and the others working on the site manually log every article into the site’s database, providing tags and summaries to help users find the stuff they’re looking for. The staff also tries to attach a rating to each article to make the content deemed most worthwhile appear first among search results.
“Right now, it’s pretty labor intensive to load content because we’re not just taking RSS feeds but reading the content to rate it and tag it where appropriate,” Rudnicki said. “We’ll likely need to add staff soon to keep up with everything and will certainly look for ways to streamline it where we can.”
The site currently supports only fantasy football, but the plan is to add basketball and hockey later this year and then baseball in the spring. In announcing it to subscribers of his e-mail newsletter, Footballguys co-owner Joe Bryant said Today in Fantasy could even extend beyond the four majors “if this is as successful as we hope it will be.”
The site is associated with Footballguys and will soon have a presence in the mobile app, but Rudnicki said it will be run as an independent website. FBG staffers Doug Drinen and Sean Alsobrooks are also credited with playing essential roles to the building of the database and site design, respectively.
In addition to free articles, Today in Fantasy links to items such as podcasts and applications. A daily e-mail newsletter is also available to display each day’s results.
Rudnicki said that the site will soon contain a link to allow the public to pass along links to material not already included, though the existing pool appears pretty expansive.
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