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FSB Daily 2/23: RotoExperts, Bloomberg, Accuscore, Wainwright

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

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

- David Hersh, who formerly served as vice president of fantasy sports for CBS Sportsline after coming over in the Commissioner.com acquisition, has joined RotoExperts as a senior adviser.

- In conjunction with MLB.com, Bloomberg Sports has rolled out the second season of its Front Office product of fantasy baseball tools, which it promises will be easier for consumers to use.

- You Digital Media has reached a deal with Accuscore that will allow the latter to create and present video representations of its data sets. (If you know just what that means without reading more, you’re smarter than I.)

- We don’t do player-news stuff in this space, but I thought it worth lamenting that we haven’t even reached the starting of spring-training games and already a fantasy ace seems on his way to Tommy John surgery. Consider Adam Wainwright the latest argument in favor of drafting as close to the season as possible.

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FSB Daily 2/18: NFL.com, FFPC, Fantazzle, Razzball, Lester’s Legends

Friday, February 18th, 2011

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

- NFL.com’s Michael Fabiano sat down this week with fantasy football MVP Arian Foster. Spoiler alert: He didn’t pass along the hug that so many of us would like to give.

- John Haskell described in a recent interview with DraftSharks.com’s Jared Smola the agony created by having to wait for the delayed Vikings-Eagles tilt to deliver him $100,000.

- A couple of interesting things going on over at Fantazzle.com this weekend: For starters, as fantasy NASCAR options dwindle, Fantazzle opens its racing season with Sunday’s Daytona 500. And for fantasy basketball fans — or anyone looking for a reason to be interested in the all-star game — there’s an NBA fantasy game that combines the Sunday showcase with elements of the skills competition.

- Razzball.com is on the lookout for football writers.

- LestersLegends.com will take a look at you whether your game is football, baseball, basketball or the NFL draft. (Take that hockey and soccer BS elsewhere, though.)

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FSB Daily 2/8: ‘The League,’ Yahoo!, Strat-O-Versary, Examiner

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

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

- Apparently all caught up in the excitement of the Jordy Nelson Era dawning, FX announced the day after Super Bowl Sunday that it will be picking up The League for a third season.

- Yahoo! opened the doors on fantasy baseball Tuesday, with Andy Behrens focusing on some new features for dynasty leaguers.

- Regardless of your feeling about Strat-O-Matic’s role in the creation of fantasy baseball, there’s no denying that it helped breed many a current stathead from young-geek seedling. This year marks the 50-year anniversary of the game’s creation, kicked off by a free event in New York City on Feb. 12.

- A panel of eight folks who act as fantasy football writers for assorted local Examiner.com outlets combined to vote Arian Foster the 2010 fantasy MVP, Michael Vick the “Biggest Surprise” and Randy Moss the “Biggest Disappointment.” (Wild guess: Moss reacted with a shrug and a scowl.)

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FSB Daily 2/2: Biro, Job Opening, Fantasy Movies, PFT

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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

- Ladd Biro gets the proper treatment from his local newspaper following his Fantasy Football Writer of the Year award from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association last week.

- This job posting calls for a full-time senior financial analyst for a fantasy sports company. The best news: The salary apparently falls somewhere within the tight range of $0 to $120,000.

- The Wall Street Journal tells the story of a fantasy movie league that’s actually made up of Hollywood types.

- In Monday’s edition of PFT Live, Mike Florio and Gregg Rosenthal discussed how fantasy football might keep many from viewing Ben Roethlisberger as an elite quarterback.

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