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Bruno Boys, Draft Sharks Lead 2010 Fantasy Football Accuracy

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Bruno Boys and Draft Sharks led the way in year four of the Accuracy Challenge created by the Fantasy Football Librarian.

Announced by co-manager Donnie Campbell of TheMostCredible.com at the Fantasy Sports Trade Association awards dinner Tuesday night in Las Vegas — and via The New York TimesFifth Down blog Wednesdsay — the Accuracy Challenge recognized Bruno Boys for delivering the most accurate set of preseason fantasy football rankings in 2010.

Draft Sharks, meanwhile, stood alone atop the ranks in football stat projections, edging 2009 winner RotoHog.

Not to be pushed aside, RotoHog managed to come out on top for the second straight year in baseball projections.

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FSB Daily 8/12: SI.com, Pro Football Focus, Top FFers

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

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

– The previously announced SI.com fantasy football game for Facebook — developed by Kabam (ouch), formerly known as Watercooler — is now live. According to the press release, “Fans who play SI Fantasy Football not only draft the ultimate team, but get to talk smack and socialize with all of their Facebook friends while doing it.”

– In just a few years of being online, ProFootballFocus.com has become a well-respected resource for football stats and player grading. The site has now added a dedicated fantasy section, led by the staff from FantasyDC.com.

– The Fantasy Players Association forums have the most recent top 10 rankings of fantasy football players released by the WCOFF folks. Scott Atkins also says the FPA plans to conduct interviews with each guy.

– BrunoBoys.com is looking for some help generating fantasy football articles for this season, including per-article pay.

– If you’re a freelance Web designer looking for a fantasy sports gig, this aspiring site owner is looking for someone to build.

– Procter & Gamble’s “Take it to the House” promotional campaign (a partnership with the NFL, will apparently include a “P&G Blogger Fantasy League,” comprising 12 “top sports bloggers.” If this group has been selected already, there doesn’t seem to be mention of the participants in the press release or on the campaign’s Facebook page.

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Bruno Boys Step Out on Their Own

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

After about four years of delivering its content through other outlets, Bruno Boys Fantasy Football launched its own site this week.

Co-owner Marc Caviglia told FSB.com that he and partner Michael Whooley had grown tired of not having full control of their business, having their movement restricted in areas such as building business relationships and selling advertising.

“Not that it was bad because they funded us, but we weren’t the only decision makers in the process,” Caviglia said.

In August 2005, Bruno Boys entered the marketplace through a content deal with the Most Valuable Network. After three seasons with MVN, the company signed an exclusive deal with Screaming Sports in April 2008 to feed all Bruno Boys content into its Fantasy Sports Dashboard.

Caviglia says the company didn’t initially plan to work toward its own standalone destination, arriving there, instead, as a logical next step.

“After a few years of success in the industry we started to realize this could potentially turn into our livelihood, and it changed our direction and mission statement from just having fun while providing information to: How can we continue to grow, become more mainstream, monetize and serve our customers at the highest level, while staying a free service,” he said. “After a successful 2008 season, we decided the time is now.”

The new site, whose advertising will be handled via a partnership with Fantasy Sports Ventures, is still under construction, but it does feature the 2009 season preview “Webazine.”

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FSB Daily 2/5: On Pit Row, Minor League Analyst, New Job Postings

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

OnPitRow.com is relaunching a survivor sort of fantasy NASCAR game that had been on hiatus. Players pick a single driver each week and can’t use a driver more than once.

Minor League Baseball Analyst by Deric McKamey purports to combine sabermetrics with traditionally trained scouting to look at more than 1,000 diamond prospects.

Jobs — Bruno Boys is looking for fantasy football writers. SportingNews.com needs an intern.

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