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

– The designer of the new FantasyMonster iPhone app says his product enhances the experience for Yahoo! fantasy players managing their teams on the move. Of course, this concept was tried once before, predating Yahoo!’s own iPhone app. The fact that it no longer appears to be live has to make you wonder about the viability of this newest entry, which costs $3.99 to download.

– Wall Street Journal’s Nando Di Fino addresses the Stephen Strasburg hype and hope train in fantasy baseball, adding perspective to the Nationals prospect’s situation by looking back at some previous players whose reputations arrived before they did.

– Fantasy Postseason and Fantasy Judgment have reached an agreement whereby the latter will provide dispute-resolution services for the former’s games through the 2010 MLB playoffs.

– More fantasy outlets are rolling out iPhone apps all the time. This one, Fantasy Football Manager, can help you manage your Premier League fantasy soccer teams.

– Recent FSB profile subject Draft Sharks has launched its redesigned website with content geared toward the 2010 fantasy season.

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A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– An apparent doctoral candidate at the University of Northern Colorado says he is seeking participants for a survey of how loyal fantasy players are to their primary commissioner outlets. The form does have spaces for name and e-mail address at the end for purposes of entering a drawing, but the survey can be completed anonymously (leaving those spaces blank).

– Derrick Eckardt, who founded and ran RotoNation up until the end of last year, has resurfaced in the fantasy sports arena with his own new site, FantasyEthos.com. The initial post showed up on June 1. Welcome back, Derrick.

– iLogon — which bundles sites and applications and sells access to users — has reached a deal with Roto Sports that adds RotoWire.com to its package.

– This Bleacher Report contributor says the Saints have the league’s best fantasy roster, with Arizona, Houston, Atlanta and New England rounding out his top five. What do you think?

– Now that MLB’s top overall draft pick, Stephen Strasburg, is finally an official member of the Washington Nationals’ organization, USA Today’s Steve Gardner surveys a bit of the early opinion on the young hurler.

– ESPN has finally announced formally the addition of former NFL Network and NFL.com reporter Adam Schefter, a pending move that has been known publicly for a while. Schefter’s Sunday morning reports on NFL Network added quite a bit of value to the network’s pregame show for fantasy players last season and will be tough to replace in 2009.

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As everyone knew would happen, the Nationals made San Diego State righthander Stephen Strasburg the first overall pick in the MLB draft that opened Tuesday night. That means that fantasy owners across the country can now fight to grab him off the free-agent market.

Of course, if you play on CBSSports.com, you might have had him on your roster for nearly a month by now — or maybe even longer.

CBS tossed the big righty into its fantasy player pool back on May 15, a move it says came after months of contacts and inquiries from users and after some leagues had already put the soon-to-be rookie into play.

“Our commissioner product — which handles the majority of our fantasy baseball users — allows league commissioners to manually add anyone they want to the player pool,” a CBSSports.com spokesman told FSB.com. “We had noticed that Strasburg had been manually added in lots of leagues already.”

Although the Strasburg situation isn’t really the norm — most years include much more guessing and speculation than certainty about who the top pick will be — it doesn’t appear that it will stay unique.

“If there is a similar situation in the future — with our users showing incredible interest in a player that is not yet in the player pool — I’m assuming we would come to a similar decision,” the spokesman said.

So, is this a good move to make? Well, when it’s a virtual certainty that a player such as Strasburg will be the top pick, it’s tough to see any real downside to adding him early.

From the technical side, the worst that happens is he doesn’t actually get drafted by the expected team, forcing CBS (or some other game operator) to change his team in its platform. The only fantasy formats that would be negatively impacted would be league-specific (AL-only, NL-only) if the player surprisingly didn’t end up in the expected league. How big a loss is that if the one owner who jumped on an amateur player early no longer has him? Not much, considering it would probably be at least a year before the fantasy owner would see any return.

Making the early move, on the other hand, adds intrigue to the longest of the fantasy seasons. It gives leagues and their commissioners a bit more time to figure out what to do with the player. If one astute owner grabs the guy and causes a when his/her leaguemates complain, that’s why we have commissioners.

Of course, the attention drawn to your game by making such a move certainly doesn’t hurt either.