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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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Baseball and Hockey Webcasts Come Together

Monday, February 9th, 2009

As of Feb. 16, fans of baseball and hockey will be able to purchase online access to MLB and NHL games in one shot.

Whereas $109.95 will buy you a full season of MLB.tv and $79.95 will purchase the NHL’s Race for the Cup programming package, those who would like both will be able to bundle them for $139.95.

Obviously, this is a nice offering for any fans who would like access to online broadcasts from both leagues. Even for those of us who won’t be purchasing it, though, the package is an interesting new partnership between completely separate sports entities.

If this bundling proves popular, could it lead to more joint packaging by leagues both online and on TV? The NHL and NBA each start their seasons while the NFL is playing. Football season begins about a month before MLB is done. Players arrive in Florida and Arizona for spring training about halfway through basketball and hockey schedules and right about the same time that NASCAR season opens.

Even an entity like Major League Soccer could see an opportunity to tag along with the stronger following of another sport.

For fantasy players and writers, it would certainly be nice to get a discount by combining a couple of programming packages they would normally purchase anyway.

We’ll see what comes of this partnership.

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Eagleson Vies for Third Straight Hockey Award

Monday, January 19th, 2009

It would be a strange year if RotoWire’s Janet Eagelson weren’t up for top hockey honors when the Fantasy Sports Writers Association honors its members.

Eagleson has taken each of the FSWA’s first two awards for best hockey writer and is once again a finalist. This time, she’ll battle Sean Allen of ESPN.com and Scott Pianowski of Yahoo! for the top prize. Pianowski is also a finalist for the FSWA’s top baseball writer award.

The trophies will be handed out next Tuesday on the first day of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s winter business conference.

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FSB Daily 12/10: Draft Getaway, Fantasy Sherpa, FanDraft, NHL in Trouble?

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– Trying to figure out where everyone in your league should gather for your draft next year? How about Aruba? (If you can afford to hold your league draft in Aruba, make sure you use the FSB contact page to acquire our address for donations.)

– Once you get past a couple of other folks in far less interesting industries, this New York Post story tells a bit about how Scott Swanay rebounded from two corporate merger-driven layoffs to develop his Fantasy Sherpa sites (baseball and football to date, with basketball and hockey in the works).

– eROI offers a look at how it developed content e-mails for CBSSports.com (free download) and how important such a tool can be.

– FanSoft Media expects to release the 2009 version of its FanDraft baseball product in December — ahead of its usual January release.

– The global economic downturn could impact the National Hockey League more heavily than other major American sports leagues, largely because of the lack of a solid television contract and the weakness of the Canadian dollar.

– This columnist in California has found fantasy golf lacking and wants to play with rotisserie scoring.

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