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

- Check this out: Matthew Berry has an Oct. 7 appearance scheduled for the Jewish Community Center in Springfield, Mass., for which attendees will be charged up to $35 (reserved seating; tickets also available at $25, $15 for Center members). By comparison, folks in Houston can buy a $30 ticket to go see Vampire Weekend (plus $12.99 in extra whatever charges).

- Major League Baseball Advanced Media has won a Duke’s Choice Award for its fantasy draft application and live scoreboard. Although it would be much more interesting if these awards singled out personal favorites of John Wayne, Duke’s Choice awards “highlight the ingenuity and creativity of Java developers.”

- FantasyPro.net has launched a weekly fantasy football platform in which players build a salary-cap team and then enter a pay league at their chosen fee level.

- This article — apparently from the student paper for the University of Memphis, although it seems to instead be named for mayonnaise — focuses on the fantasy playing habits of some average college students, including at least one dude who will now have his professors checking his laptop more closely during class.

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

- Bloomberg Sports has partnered with Roundarch to develop an iPad app ($4.99) for their Decision Maker fantasy football product.

- New fantasy football service numberFire uses “quantitative analysis and statistical reasoning” to offer player recommendations, including comparisons to similar players, teams and situations from previous seasons. Guess it was just a matter of time before the nerds got their hands on fantasy football …

- Here are six free fantasy football apps for your Android. (C-3PO says, “Thank you, sir.”)

- The Northeast Times of Greater Philadelphia tells the story of how local boy Tom Harkins came to start FantasySportsTrophies.com, which now has a deal with NFL.com.

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

- ESPN has an android app out for fantasy team management, but those who want it will have to shell out $4.99.

- Yahoo!’s opening of its fantasy sports API allowed programmers to cater to the Web’s biggest fantasy audience, and FantasyFanatics.com did so. The Fanatics tool offers instant start-sit recommendations based on the crowdsourced rankings compiled for the given week from submissions via FantasyFanatics.com.

- Fantrax.com appears to be building a writing staff to accompany the fantasy games and league hosting that serve as the site’s centerpiece. Fantrax recently added a general sports columnist, a golf columnist and a football columnist, who will also serve as the site’s editor-in-chief.

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We passed along the story this week of the 36-year-old “Mean Machine” moniker coming up as the most common fantasy football team name among CBSSports.com users. Turns out it’s not just them.

The folks at RapidDraft.com took a spin through the team name database and turned up the exact same No. 1. Paul Crewe would be proud. Captain Knauer would be peeved. Caretaker, unfortunately, would still be dead.

As a matter of fact, the rebellious gen-pop was not the end of the commonalities. The rest of RapidDraft’s top six (two tied for fifth) shared three other names with the CBS list: “Bulldogs,” “Cowboys” and “da Bears.”

The two differentiators among RD users were “Titans” and “Spartans,” which obviously shows that the RapidDraft game appeals more to fans of Rob Bironas and ancient Greeks militarism.

Considering the ensuing litany of names obviously inspired by favorite NFL franchises, it’s interesting to note that “Packers” is nowhere to be found. Obviously, PETA has gotten to them.