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

– Inc. Magazine wonders aloud about the impact of the name change on the company going from Fantasy Sports Ventures to Big Lead Sports. BlogsWithBalls.com points to the whole thing as a prime example of bloggers’ increasing impact and a lesson to those “bloggers” that it’s possible for them to steer more than just the direction of their content.

– This list of the 10 most-visited U.S. sports websites in September includes three fantasy-games outlets. There’s no way for us to know the impact of fantasy on traffic to other sites, but four others on the list fall within the same domains as included fantasy sites. Beyond that, I know fantasy football sends me to NFL.com (an eighth listed site) for a large portion of every day.

– MLB.com provides a video look at the recently completed First Pitch Arizona event, hosted by Ron Shandler’s BaseballHQ.com.

– Former Milwaukee Brewers teammates Ben Sheets and Geoff Jenkins have reportedly teamed up on a WCOFF platinum-league team this season.

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ESPN started the Fantasy Sports Trade Association conference by winning nearly half of the nine awards handed out.

The “Worldwide Leader” won Industry Recognition awards for Best Online Draft-Style Contest, Best Video Podcast, Best Fantasy Sports Broadcast and Unique Contest for its Streak for the Cash game. That marks a solid jump from the one award that ESPN garnered a year ago.

The other five plaques handed out on Tuesday went to …

– CBS Sports, Best Online Draft Room

– Head2Head Sports, Best Online Salary-Cap Contest

– Fantasy Sports Channel/BlogTalkRadio, Best Audio Podcast

– WCOFF (Gridiron Sports), Best High-Stakes Event

– Baseball HQ’s First Pitch Arizona, Best Live Event

This Forbes.com article from Jan. 13 points out that the magazine was founded on providing readers with sound investment advice. Now, that apparently includes advice on your investments in fantasy baseball.

Zack O’Malley Greenburg is putting together a weekly fantasy “Investment Guide” series for the site that is scheduled to run up until the beginning of baseball season, and the seemingly unlikely host isn’t the only noteworthy aspect.

ZOG (as he labels himself) is drawing contributions from Baseball HQ’s Ron Shandler, Fantasy Sherpa Scott Swanay, Yahoo!’s Scott Pianowski and Nick Rousso of Lindy’s.

“Each week we’ll profile a different position, complete with exclusive analysis and composite rankings,” ZOG writes in the opening article on catchers.

It’s not only cool to see fantasy further penetrate an outlet such as Forbes.com — which has been giving our industry some pretty fair treatment over the past couple of years — but always fun to gather proven fantasy minds and see what the collective has to say.

“I was a schmuck for not making any money on this thing,” Daniel Okrent says early in a Forbes.com story posted Wednesday.

Although Okrent is universally attributed with creating what we know most commonly as fantasy baseball, he and his fellow originators failed to capitalize on their copyrighted Rotisserie Baseball.

But while the Forbes report leads with that unfortunate tale, the crux of the item is really the advice sought from Okrent and several of his leaguemates — as well as select other experts from the fantasy industry.

Forbes went to the eight gentlemen listed below in search of some player recommendations and a bit of sage advice. You’ll have to click on the links for the players. For the words of wisdom on the other hand, look no further than …

Daniel Okrent, creator of Rotisserie Baseball: Pay attention to your wife.

Ron Shandler, Baseball HQ: Decide whether you are in this to have fun or to win. In many cases, those two goals are mutually exclusive.

Harry Stein, original member of Okrent’s league: Bid up superstars (in auction drafts), but make sure someone else gets them. The successful rotisserie player does not get wedded to the idea of landing a particular player. And avoid one-dimensional players.

Scott Swanay, FantasyBaseballSherpa.com: Use a set of player rankings that quantifies position scarcity. If time permits, compare your player rankings to Average Draft Position (ADP) data from a credible source (such as Mock Draft Central) to avoid picking your targeted players too soon.

Sam Walker, Fantasyland: Read psychology books. The way to win is to understand the people in your league and to know what they do before they do it. Try to get inside peoples’ heads.

Bobby Jurney, 2008 winner of NBC Sports’ National Fantasy Baseball Championship: Know the players. It is easy to draft the big names, but nine times out of 10, that is not going to win you anything. It is the people who do the research and know all of the players, big and small, that are going to be successful.

Cary Schneider, original member of Okrent’s league: Find someone younger than you to give you information. If you’re over 30 you won’t know who any of these players are.

Nando Di Fino, The Wall Street Journal: Don’t follow the experts blindly. And read Rotoworld or Rotowire every day. (Di Fino forgot to add: “… and FSB.com.”)