Quantcast

Fantasy Sports 2.0

Web 2.0 + Fantasy Sports = Putting the ‘Fan’ back into Fantasy Sports.

In today’s Digital Media Wire:
PicksPal, a free, national online sports competition where users predict the winners of various games, has raised $3 million in its third round of venture capital financing, from Bay Partners and Canaan Partners, PEHub.com reported.
I’ve never really used PicksPal because I found the betting lines to be too confusing. I’d […]

Think you can estimate who will win a UFC match, in which round and if it’s by TKO or decision? Now you can, as a fantasy game for UFC matches will be unveiled tonight for UFC 77: Hostile Territory. Zuffa LLC announced the new fantasy game on the UFC website and the address for the […]

Today is a big day for the fantasy sports industry with a monumental court ruling on the case CBC Distributing and Marketing Inc. vs Major League Baseball Advanced Media.  This case was about whether or not MLBPA could regulate the use of players’ names and statistics to prevent a fantasy sports company from using this information without a […]

IGN: NBA 2K8 good, not great

IGN reviewed the recently released NBA 2K8 and labeled the newest addition to the video game franchise “not a slam dunk”. The main complaint is that you can turn any player into a top defender through the Lock-on D mode (even if they are not) while the overall defensive AI has its issues in that […]

Israel and UK based social network for sports fans, Sportingo.com, has just received a little under $3.2 million in funding from Ingenious Media. 
Launched early this year in Israel, Sportingo is a site where users can write their own match reviews and commentary, and discuss others’ content. With the type of content that’s created on Sportingo, this […]