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

– AOL-owned fantasy commissioner site FleaFlicker now has a free iPhone app for team management and tracking. For a full introduction, allow me to present Fanhouse’s Tom Herrera.

– With baseball season drawing ever closer, The New York Times highlighted a few iPhone apps for baseball nuts and fantasy players: FanGraphs, RotoWire’s draft kit, iScore, K-ForCE, Yahoo!’s upcoming app and MLB’s At Bat 2010.

– The League of Alternate Baseball Realities is one of the best-known and longest-running “expert” fantasy leagues. The AL-only draft took place earlier this week, and here’s what each owner thought about his team afterward.

– This Wall Street Journal story tells about how the Michael Eisner-managed Topps company is revitalizing its sports-card sales with Attax, a game that incorporates some elements of fantasy.

– Nando Di Fino of The Wall Street Journal reports that Chris Carpenter boasted the highest winning percentage among owned baseball players in CBSSports.com’s 2009 fantasy leagues: 58.6 percent of teams that included Carpenter won their leagues.

– When SportingNews.com announced the end of its fantasy-games hosting, it also told users about a deal with CBSSports.com to host leagues at half-price ($90 instead of $180). CBS has also partnered with BleacherReport.com to offer the same deal via that site.

– Gentlemen (and ladies) for some reason, Zazzle.com thinks you might be interested in this overpriced, fantasy-themed toilet paper.

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

– Mediapost’s OMMA talks fantasy among the fun hobbies that induce serious investments of time and money from participants. The writer talks with Craig Davis of Fantasy Planet for some specifics on our industry.

– Steve Gardner of USA Today takes an interesting look through the 10 most-asked fantasy baseball questions according to Ask.com (and, of course, the answers) — broken down into Part 1 and Part 2.

– Another interesting bit from USA Today’s Steve Gardner: We fantasy folks tend to rely on as much math as possible, particularly when it comes to baseball. But at what point do you go too far for your audience?

– Online Media Daily recently spoke with David Katz, vice president of Yahoo! Mobile North America, to find out more about the company’s mobile strategies. Fantasy, for what it’s worth, came up several times.

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Anyone shopping for fantasy baseball draft guides this week will find a new entry into the space from an outlet with a familiar name.

For the first time, USA Today has produced a glossy fantasy baseball preview magazine, which was available for sneak peek at last week’s Fantasy Sports Trade Association “experts” draft (and a big help to those of us who might have come less prepared).

“The baseball guide is part of an overall magazine strategy,” USA Today fantasy sports editor Pete O’Brien told FSB.com. “We’re launching a variety of new magazines this year covering several topics. Given USA Today’s national reach and historical importance in the development of fantasy sports, fantasy magazines were a very logical part of the magazine program.”

Entering such a market figures to be a challenge, as multiple existing producers of fantasy magazines target breaking even in cost of production. CBS Sports saw fit in recent seasons to take its preview magazines off the shelves and present them in electronic form only.

Still, the myriad publications that continue to show up must mean that there is money to be made, and it’s tough to find fault with the quality of USA Today’s debut.

In addition to the common features such as player capsules and position rankings, as well as writing from USA Today and fantasy veteran Steve Gardner, the magazine presents articles from a number of reputable fantasy outlets. Writers from KFFL, Baseball HQ, Baseball-Reference.com, Mastersball, RotoExperts, Fantasy Pros 911 and KeeperLeagueGM.com all join the USA Today staff.

It doesn’t take tireless tracking of the fantasy industry to conclude that a fair amount of baseball knowledge resides within that group. What might be less obvious, though, is that every one of those sites is a member of Fantasy Sports Ventures’ Fantasy Players Network.

“Gannett owns a piece of FSV and we are happy to collaborate with them in print, radio and television,” O’Brien said, referring to USA Today’s parent company. “We’ve worked with FSV in football, baseball and basketball for both fantasy and non-fantasy content.”

What this and other forays — O’Brien said a fantasy football guide will show up later this year as well — ultimately mean for the company’s bottom line will remain to be seen. At the least, though, the addition of fantasy magazines shows the commitment to the fantasy sports segment of the business in a dying market for newspapers.

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– Fantasy Joe is among the online communities recently launched by USA Today. Moderators Matt Pitzer and Pete O’Brien moderate, post content and promise to address reader questions.

– Advanced Sports Media has launched two ways to get its Draft Analyzer on your iPhone. The free Cheat Sheet app provides player rankings and offers pick recommendations. The $4.99 Draft Analyzer Pro — Mock Draft lets you simulate a whole draft from your handheld with malleable league sizes, draft positions and competition levels.

– Those who like to play in NFL survivor pools might find this fantasy game from FantasySportsMadness.com interesting: No player can be used more than once during the season. It should be easy to find a receiver of value each week, but selecting quarterbacks will take some forethought.

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