The Fantasy Sports Trade Association will dole out its annual industry awards later this month at its winter business conference. Among the categories to be recognized is Draft Style Contest, in which the host site serves as league manager. Voting ends Monday, Jan. 5, and the finalists are as follows:

• CBSSports.com Free Fantasy Football
• Fanatic Fantasy Football
• Fanball Draft and Play
• Head2Head The Draft 2008
• PASPN.net Offseason & Real-Time Fantasy Basketball
• U-Sports

A roundup of recent posts from the FSB News page.

– Sure, it’s fun to run a fake team you populate with real players, but a group of British soccer fans have been doing it with the real thing.

– We’re all sports and/or stats geeks here, and Nate Silver just might be our king.

– PASPN.net got some play in The Wall Street Journal recently for its unique fantasy basketball game.