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FSB Daily 6/26: FF Librarian, No Offseason, FF Help

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

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

– The Fantasy Football Librarian has started to calculate and release “expert” accuracy rankings combining the three years that she has been measuring. So far, RotoWorld leads the pack for ranking receivers before the season over the past three years. Ask the Commish edged RotoWorld at quarterback.

– Dynasty formats in fantasy football seem to be gaining in popularity as both the overall pool of fantasy players and segment of serious players grow. NoOffseason.com is reaching out to that audience with its just-released Dynasty Draft Guide, published as an online magazine.

– Ready Set Go Fantasy Sports, the parent company of FantasyFootballStarters.com, has rolled out FantasyFootballHelp.com. The new site follows the still young trend of crowdsourcing by allowing users to create blogs, find articles and share advice and content with others.

– Yahoo! Sports blogger Kevin Kaduk (Big League Stew) identifies Silly Little Game as the weakest of the documentaries to date in ESPN’s “30 for 30″ series. We certainly weren’t fans either.

– If you like The Electric Company and fantasy football and have a spare minute, you might enjoy this quick video.

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FSB Daily 6/24: Fantasy Guru, Maximum, Yahoo!

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

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

– FantasyGuru.com has rolled out a redesigned subscriber interface that it says is cleaner and easier for users to navigate.

– Maximum Fantasy Sports is adding league hosting to its site offerings for the first time, including the ability to move players in and out of lineups after their games have started.

– Andy Behrens and his fellow fantasy football “experts” at Yahoo! are challenging their readers in a four-division league this fall, even though the readers have no chance.

– WeMade Entertainment has launched a salary-cap fantasy game called Fantasy Football Manager South Africa to run through the rest of the World Cup.

Yesteryear is offering the opportunity to win tickets to attend an NFL game with Tony Dorsett or Dwight Clark.

– Chiefs receiver Dwayne Bowe reportedly told the high school-aged attendees of a football camp this week to make sure to draft him in fantasy.

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FSB Daily 6/22: Pickemfirst, Bloomberg, Soccer Stats, 2014

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

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

Pickemfirst creator Alain de Raynal told FSB.com that his application was the first to be applied to Yahoo! fantasy games via the new open API there. This allows Pickemfirst users to add their Yahoo! teams to the app without having to share a password. Rumor has it that Yahoo! might also eventually set up a gallery of the best available apps, though we have yet to confirm any such plans with Yahoo!.

– Bloomberg Sports has launched a simple fantasy baseball game application on Facebook, developed by RotoHog.

– A recent study written up in the journal for the Public Library of Science purports to have found a method for measuring play-by-play contributions and performance of soccer players, whose low-scoring sport can be tricky for fantasy players.

– Motivated by his most recent viewing of Back to the Future II, ESPN’s Tristan Cockcroft has gone ahead and projected the fantasy baseball all-star team for 2014.

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FSB Daily 6/21: Bloomberg, Razzball, Value of a Fan

Monday, June 21st, 2010

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

– In this transcript from an interview on Moneyweb podcast, Bloomberg Sports head Bill Squadron speaks of the growth potential Bloomberg saw in the fantasy sports field and the role that played in developing its new sports-themed products. Squadron also says that the company plans to expand beyond baseball but has yet to nail down which sport will come next. That would seem to indicate no offerings for the upcoming NFL season, which will open in less than three months.

– Braves infielder Eric Hinske is not only a fantasy player, but apparently a fairly avid one. He informed Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan before Wednesday night’s game that the Falcons quarterback appeared on three of Hinske’s fantasy teams in 2009.

– Just to prove that pretty much everyone has an iPhone app at this point, fantasy content site Razzball has launched theirs. (Oh, come on. I’m joking. “Razz” is right there in the name.)

– According to this eMarketer report, a consumer that is a Facebook fan of your brand is likely to spend twice as much as one who is not a fan. The real value of a Facebook fan, however, is tough to nail down and will vary by that person’s activity level.

– Checking back in on Dreamstreet Golf, the startup fantasy game site that we mentioned on here about a month ago, it looks like the contest still has yet to launch. The just-completed U.S. Open had been the targeted first tournament, but anyone who has tried to put on an online game probably knows just how easy it can be to miss even the most realistic targets.

– Are you a sports uber fan? In her writeups of the recent Sports Marketing 2.0 VIP Summit, the OCD Chick mentioned Yahoo! Sports’ Kyle Laughlin classifying sports fans in the “casual,” “everyday” and “uber” categories. The qualifications for “uber” tend to match up with the most engaged and serious fantasy players. Yahoo!’s challenge/goal is to convert fans in the other two groups into engaged fantasy players.

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