The much-hyped Bloomberg Sports consumer fantasy-baseball product went live today.

As part of the partnership with MLB Advanced Media, Bloomberg writers will be keeping up a blog on the Major League Baseball site throughout the season. The material will include use (and some explanation) of the tools available as part of the company’s new fantasy offerings.

Bloomberg has also partnered with RotoWire.com to supply the player news feed as part of its fantasy subscriptions.

We could go into greater detail here, but you can get the info straight from Bloomberg baseball writer Jonah Keri via the blog link above or the HotStove.com video embedded below.

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

– MLB Advanced Media announced this week a deal with STATS that makes the latter the “official real-time data licensor” for MLBAM statistics and information. It’s a multi-year deal that extends to baseball’s minor leagues. It can be tough to really understand just what this kind of deal means, but federal courts have told us in recent years that stats exist in the public domain. Ultimately, then, such a distribution agreement would seem to cover only the “official” MLB stats. Anyone attending or watching a game, though, can compile the same numbers.

– Recent FSB.com profile subject got a writeup from The Wall Street Journal’s Nando Di Fino this week, in which he suggested that American fantasy-game providers could learn from the site’s graphical model.

– As part of its in-season Weekly Lineup Challenge, FantasyFootballStarters.com has donated $1,000 to NFL-sposored charity Play It Smart on behalf of winner Alan LaFollette.

– Socaltech.com reports that NASCAR.com has contracted with Rotohog to produce a stock-market style game for this season.

– This AP story purports to be about rising female participation in fantasy, but it’s actually just a fun read about a few women who like to challenge the men in their leagues and their lives. (Let’s just hope that the Kansas University alum who fancies former Jayhawks for her fantasy hoops team has at least tended to get Paul Pierce.)

– If you can lead the field in “stable earnings” through April 17 in this new fantasy horse-racing game, you can win a trip to this year’s Kentucky Derby.

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A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– So, if chess is for geeks and fantasy sports are for geeks, what does that make one who plays fantasy chess?

– MLB Advanced Media has been awarded a federal patent for its MLB.tv geolocation tool, which allows it to determine your exact location to make sure you’re not within your team’s local broadcasting range. Anyone else find this technology mildly unsettling?

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The Harvard Law School spring sports symposium is less than a month away, and one of the three panel discussions on the docket includes fantasy as a central theme.

At 10:30 a.m. March 14 — the event’s second day — the New Media panel will convene to “cover how sports leagues and teams exploit new media and fantasy sports to generate revenues.”

The panelists include Bob Bowman, president and CEO of MLB Advanced Media; Mike Mellis, senior vice president and general counsel for MLBAM; Bryan Perez, senior vice president and general manager for NBA Digital; Michael Zarren, assistant executive director of basketball operations/associate counsel for the Boston Celtics; and Frank Hawkins, a partner at Scalar Media.

The discussion will be moderated by Rick Karcher, law professor and director of the Center for Law and Sports at Florida Coastal School of Law. FSB.com has contacted Karcher to find out more about the planned discussion, and we’ll pass along whatever we learn.

The symposium is free to attend but space is limited. The event begins on Friday, March 13.