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FSB Daily 1/22: RotoExperts, OneSeason, KFFL, Fishing

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– Scott Engel and Paul Bourdett of RotoExperts will join Fantasy Sports Channel managing editor Marc Ronick for nine hours of coverage from the FSTA winter business conference’s first day on Tuesday. The programming will stream live on BlogTalkRadio.

– The sports stock-market site has nailed down $3.5 million in Series A funding. As part of the new deals, OneSeason has also added new members to its board of directors and advisory board, most notably hall of fame safety Ronnie Lott.

– KFFL’s Tim Heaney — a 2008 FSWA finalist for Best Baseball Article in Print — rounds up news on players from the Caribbean leagues who are or will be worth the attention of fantasy owners. KFFL also features similar roundups from the Arizona Fall League (AL and NL) and the Hawaiian Winter Baseball league.

– Professional angler and ESPN Outdoors commentator Kevin Short wonders aloud (in writing) why there’s a bigger purse on the FLW fantasy fishing contest than on the fishing tour itself.

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RotoExperts Tops Columbus Dispatch FF Rating Competition

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

How does it get better than having one of your writers outperform a group of experts? How about taking the top two spots?

Fantasy columnist Jeff Thitoff of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch ran a weekly competition called Rating the Experts this season, where he had a group of fantasy football writers project top performers each week. Overall, it was Jonathan Phillips and Paul Bourdett of RotoExperts who finished first and second, respectively.

ESPN’s Eric Karabell, Michael Cooper of Cooper Sports Radio and Jared Smola of Draft Sharks rounded out the top five.

Thitoff said in an accompanying podcast that the scoring margin wasn’t large among the top seven finishers or so, still 1-2 is about as good as a fantasy site can hope for.

Congratulations to the pair of Experts for outexperting the other experts.

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