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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Most football fans would be happy enough just to see their favorite football team garner a No. 2 seed in the NFL playoffs. Tom Yates of Pittsburgh ended the season with that and $100,000.

Yates took home the top prize in the main event of the National Fantasy Football Championship, edging his closest competitor by fewer than three points. In yet another example of just how close these things can be, one more touchdown pass from Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers in Chicago’s Week 16 Monday night victory — the final NFL game on most fantasy schedules — likely would have vaulted the third-place Riverdog team of Todd Ullman to the championship mantle.

According to NFFC founder Greg Ambrosius, Yates is a high stakes veteran who previously competed in the World Championship of Fantasy Football before joining the NFFC in 2007.

The NFFC is put on by Krause Publications and supported by STATS. The contest expanded via a partnership with NBC Sports that began this season.

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– STATS executive vice president Steve Byrd says that companies are beginning to learn how to “leverage their brand and interact with their customers using unique sports content and games.”

– John Hermansen of Global IP Solutions thinks that the fantasy league experience would benefit from the addition of voice over IP capabilities.

– Not only is there an outlet for you to play fantasy supercross, but you can win an actual race-used bike.

OntheRecordSports.com wants to know how well fantasy players can anticipate performance each weekend, rather than who can build the best lineup.

The new site, which officially launched its beta phase on Monday morning, affords users the opportunity to predict how individual players will perform in upcoming contests and challenge others to do better. It also allows users to create profiles, upload other personal content such as videos and talk trash to each other.

The site also offers community games, including contests for the Super Bowl and NCAA tournament that purport potential top prizes of $5 million.

“We felt like the time was right for a fresh take on fantasy,” On the Record Sports chief executive Mark De Philippi told Sports Business Journal. “The big boys have pretty much cornered the market on commissioner-style games.”

According to SBJ, the venture is backed by investment capital in the seven-figure range, and the prizes are insured. OTRS has partnered with STATS LLC in this offering and was founded by former Upper Deck executive Jamie Kiskis.

“We’ve been doing fantasy for a long time and now have the opportunity to really pick and choose our partners in this space,” Stats senior vice president of sales Greg Kirkorsky told SBJ. “These guys came to us with a really fresh take and a way to get at the casual fantasy player in a meaningful way.”

According to OntheRecordSports.com, Kiskis — a San Diego State alum — developed the idea on the Aztec Talk message board in response to boasts of other posters who often claim to have “called” athletic results before they happened.