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Fantasy Sports 2.0

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

A Meeting of Fantasy’s Sharpest Minds - A review of the FSTA conference that occurred last week.
Atomic Moguls announces dozens of new fantasy games to be released in coming sports seasons - Lots of new games planned from this company, including college football, and English soccer.

Michael Phelps’ wave takes swimming to new heights - It’s […]

Announcing Baseball Boss - Game Combines Trading Cards with Fantasy Sports - Interesting concept, we’ll review the site in a separate full post shortly.

Fantasy Sports Industry Grows to a $800 Million Industry With 29.9 Million Players - We previewed this story for you on Tuesday, but here is the press release. Impressive growth indeed.

Yahoo Opens […]

In a newsletter sent to its members this morning, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association announced that the fantasy sports industry has grown to a staggering 29.9 million people now actively playing in the U.S. and Canada and $800 million spent directly on fantasy sports products. This is based on a survey conducted by the Fantasy […]

Fantasy sports companies can breathe a sigh of relief; the US Supreme Court has declined to hear the CBC case. This was a rejection of the appeal filed by Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association. It essentially is a victory by fantasy sports companies (and a huge loss for MLB) over the issue […]

Here are the stories we’re following for you on April 3, 2008:

Fanball Launches The Godfather of Fantasy Sports Blog - Blog of Charlie Wiegert of Fanball, where he discusses the fantasy sports industry, Fanball fantasy sports games and all things fantasy sports.

2K Takes a Radical Approach in their MLB DS Game - a review of […]

Outside of the USA, rugby is a big deal. It’s up there with football (soccer) and cricket as arguably the biggest sports internationally. According to Wikipedia, the form of rugby called “rugby union” has a large following internationally:
Rugby union has established itself as a popular sport, particularly in Australia, Argentina, Canada, England, Fiji, France, Georgia, […]

Sports Prophet LLC has been selected to be a finalist for the FSTA Best In Innovation Award for its advanced fantasy sports drafting and player management software.
Sports Prophet’s system utilizes a proprietary blend of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and data mining techniques to provide player projections with a level of accuracy previously unattainable, […]