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.

The iPhone app released recently by Footballguys.com enjoyed a strong debut and has engendered a pretty positive response so far. Developing such a product must have taken a decent chunk of time, right?

“The app went from a thought to fully developed in about 6 weeks,” Footballguys co-owner David Dodds told FSB.com, saying that the thought was first mentioned in March at his company’s retreat to Tennessee. “At that time our guys had no idea how to develop an iPhone app. We discussed a simple news app there and went home and ordered Bruce (Our C++ Windows coder) a Mac and the Apple programming books. He started with the basic examples and caught on quickly.”

The app has a fairly large amount of fantasy functionality, which Dodds said basically serves as a smaller version of what visitors can do on the Footballguys website.

“We obviously had to change some things because of the tiny space, but most of the time we were able to just create a slightly different mini version that displayed the data,” Dodds said.

Although users don’t get access to Footballguys articles, the app does connect you with items such as player news, the daily e-mail newsletter, podcasts and team depth charts. So what does giving that info away to iPhone users do for Footballguys from a business standpoint?

“We think it’s a great marketing tool,” Dodds said. “On our first day as a download over 1,900 people downloaded this app. It shows the capabilities of what we have real well.

“Our eventual plan will be to release a premium version (with slightly more functionality) for a small fee (likely 99 cents).”

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

– Two days after its release, the Footballguys.com iPhone app ranks as the sixth most popular free app.

– The Fanball folks announced Friday that “Fanball’s Fantasy Drive” will occupy the 5-8 p.m. time slot on Sirius 125, the satellite radio channel that kicked off a fantasy schedule this spring with “RotoWire Fantasy Sports Today.” Kyle Elfrink, Ray Flowers and Charlie Wiegert will host, and Tom Kessenich announced that the first week will feature interviews with past NFFC winners.

– According to SuperCommish.com, The Post Sports Bar & Grill fared quite well in its first year of operation with a particular lean toward fantasy players.

– Most of us have to determine which hurlers to start for our fantasy baseball teams every week. Now you can do the same with your favorite Irish hurlers. Fantasy Gaelic Sports launched its beta phase recently with platforms for several sports.

– If you’ve got a dollar and some fantasy sports questions, you can buy the Fantasy Sports Coach iPhone App, which appears to treat baseball, football, basketball and hockey. The App seems to be trying to build a community of users to answer each other’s questions, though the first review on the page says early questions are being addressed by the programmers.

– The 2010 Fantasy Football Draft Guide from HattyWaiverWireGuru.com is already available as an app for iPhone or iPad.

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

– Forrester Research is presenting a case study that centers on the Yahoo! fantasy football experience to look into the delivery of multichannel products to Web and mobile consumers.

– The Footballguys.com app for iPhone and iPod Touch is now live and available for free via iTunes.

– The eTopps Big League Challenge will combine fantasy knowledge (starting the best players) with collecting baseball cards (or, at least, “eCards”) in a competition that opens May 24.

– There doesn’t seem to be much Canadian Football League fantasy play out there, but for those who are involved, FFToolbox.com has put together some rankings. Serious American football fans should recognize some names for former NFLers and/or major-college contributors.

– The FPA blog passed along news from the NFFC message boards that Fantasy Sports Magazine is putting out an issue centered on the NFFC and geared toward its high-stakes players.

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