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FSB Daily 10/31: RotoWire, Pickemfirst

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– RotoWire has released the first of what the company says “should be several” Android apps from it this year — the RotoWire Fantasy News Center. The app supplies news for football, baseball, hockey, college football, college basketball, golf, auto racing and soccer.

– KFFL has released a free iPhone app that features the site’s articles, player news and access to its forums.

– Another RotoWire item: The company has begun supplying fantasy content for the Huffington Post – including this item reproduced from the RotoWire “Rotosynthesis” blog.

– Pickemfirst has added the Fantasy Football Players Championship to the lineup of fantasy platforms it supports. The Web application — as noted on this site several times — allows users to instantly check the availability of athletes included they encounter in online text away from their league-management sites.

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FSB Daily 10/25: Yahoo!, FF Consulting, ‘The League’

Monday, October 25th, 2010

A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– Yahoo! has rolled out Android apps for managing fantasy hockey and fantasy basketball teams.

– It’s from more than a month ago, but still interesting: Sports business reporter Sarah Talalay of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel tells us about a pair of fantasy players who have taken on fantasy football consulting duties for friends, as well as brothers who get personal help annually from CBS Sports’ Jamey Eisenberg.

– Thousands of fantasy fans — or just dudes who like dude humor — are into the second season of The League on FX. Here’s a look back on an interview TV.com did with four cast members and co-creator Jackie Marcus-Schaeffer.

– This columnist for The Trentonian points to fantasy football’s predominance as the reason for the ratings edge the Week 6 Titans-Jaguars NFL matchup on ESPN held over the simultaneous Yankees-Rangers ALCS game on TBS. That lopsided Titans victory, of course, ended with a fantasy-altering touchdown run for Chris Johnson that spurred the Monday Night Football crew to discuss the play’s effect on fantasy owners (led by Mike Tirico).

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FSB Daily 11/6: FantasyXPERT, Android app, Fantasy Market

Friday, November 6th, 2009

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– FantasyXPERT.com is aiming to sift through the bevy of fantasy football recommendations out there to single out the most accurate sources for info in different areas. In this post, the site lays out some of its findings for October.

– Our own technology guy Phil Threadgould — who also founded and runs On Board Stats — was among the Michigan-based fantasy sports professionals featured in a recent write-up in the Detroit News.

– Those who have jumped on board with Sprint’s new Android device already have an app to help them play Yahoo! fantasy football.

– Among other points on the subject of online marketing to the sports-fan audience, Clickz.com’s Tessa Wegert points out what a favorable target the fantasy sports player can be.

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