Posts Tagged ‘nba’

FSB Daily 4/15: Big-Money Job Opening, Rotisserie 30, Berry Nerdy

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

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

– Craigslist is displaying an ad for a six-figure position to lead fantasy games development for a new company, apparently based in Manhattan. The startup is looking for someone with plenty of gaming experience to serve as “Chief Games Development Officer.”

– Tuesday marked 30 years since Daniel Okrent gathered a group of friends/colleagues in a French restaurant in New York and created Rotisserie baseball. To celebrate the anniversary, ESPN’s Nate Ravitz and Tristan Cockcroft put together a cool retrospective — with links to other material that’s part of the ‘Silly Little Game’ project.

14-year-old Matthew Berry = Napoleon Dynamite?

– Fantazzle has launched a salary-cap fantasy game for the NBA playoffs, which open on Saturday.

– The World Championship of Fantasy Football announced Monday that Chicago will join the list of locations hosting main-event drafts. The events will take place Sept. 10 and 11, with Atlantic City, Orlando and Las Vegas also playing host.

– Ever wondered how your favorite personal-finance bloggers might fare against each other in a fantasy baseball league? You haven’t? Oh, well, they’re taking each other on anyway, with $100 going to the chosen charity of the winner.

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FSB Daily 4/11: Jobs, Fantasy Postseason, 30 for 30, Yahoo!, Grumblings

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

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

– CBSSports.com filled the marketing manager position we previously posted but is now in search of a marketing coordinator. Like the manager post, this is a full-time job set in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

– Aspiring fantasy writers should also take a look at the Jobs page and check in with World Fantasy Games.

– Fantasy Postseason has added games for the upcoming NBA and NHL playoffs to its repertoire.

– ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary on fantasy sports, Silly Little Game, will premier on April 20 (a Tuesday) at 8 p.m. This site shows a clip (interview snippets with some members of Daniel Okrent’s original rotisserie baseball league), as well as some re-air dates and times.

– AppleGazette.com gives an “A” to the Yahoo! 2010 fantasy baseball app for the iPhone.

– SportsGrumblings.com’s “supercomputer,” Mighty Max, is now generating weekly and daily player rankings for fantasy baseball.

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Top Basketball Writer Swims in the Mainstream

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Like its auto racing counterpart, the FSWA award for top fantasy basketball writer will not see a repeat winner. It will definitely, however, go to someone from one of the industry’s most-visited sites.

The honor has been given out for the past two seasons, and neither of the two honorees — Andre’ Snellings of RotoWire and some dude you’ve probably never heard of from ESPN — shows up among this year’s finalists.

Instead, the Best Basketball Writer category comprises Steve Alexander of Rotoworld, Matt Buser of Yahoo! and Sergio Gonzalez of CBS Sports.

The FSWA awards will be announced on the first day of next week’s FSTA winter business conference in Florida.

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FSB Daily 1/14: Fantasy Meets the Job, FST.net Cleans Up

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– His occupation as a Utah Jazz beat writer and preoccupation with fantasy basketball can meet somewhat awkwardly for Jim Burton of the (Ogden, Utah) Standard-Examiner. It does seem to have helped him connect with Jazz center Mehmet Okur, though.

– Jan Hubbard of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram tells of the long-time Larry Bird League set up to follow the Celtics great’s player rating system. Hubbard also learned that if you’re going to trade Bird in his namesake league, you should at least keep it a secret from him.

– Cal Spears has noticed some issues with ballot-stuffing on FantasyTeamNames.net and is imploring users to police themselves.

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