The Fantasy Sports Trade Association announced Monday that a trio ofdistinguished contributors to the fantasy sports industry, Paul Charchian, Glenn Colton and John Hunt, have been elected to the organization’s Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies will take place at the FSTA Summer Conference sponsored by RealTime Fantasy Sports in Chicago on the night of June 13. Click here to register for the conference, which is being held at the DoubleTree Hotel – Magnificent Mile. An agenda can be found here if you’d like to learn more about this unique opportunity. Charchian, Colton and Hunt bring the total number of FSTA Hall of Fame inductees to 17. Previous honorees include: Greg Ambrosius, John Benson, Matthew Berry, Cliff Charpentier, John Dewan, Bill James, Daniel Okrent, Peter Pezaris, Peter Schoenke, Ron Shandler, Glen Waggoner, Charlie Wiegert, Bill Winkenbach and Rick Wolf. You can read more about the contributions of these Hall of Famers here. More about the Class of 2013: Paul CharchianCharchian was a co-founder of Fanball.com in 1993 and helped grow the company from a handful of part-time enthusiasts in his apartment to 80 employees spanning offices in three cities. He published over 200 issues of Fantasy Football Weekly, more than any other industry publication. While with Fanball, Charchian acted as the lead designer on over 25 Web-based fantasy applications for high-profile sites such as NASCAR.com, AOL.com, PGA.com, Best Buy.com and many others. Through his Twin Cities radio program on KFAN – at 19 years and counting, it’s the longest running fantasy sports show ever – Charchian interacts with thousands of fantasy sports players each year. He was also an industry pioneer in television, with a Minnesota-based show in the mid-late 1990s and a nationally-syndicated show in 1999-2000. ”Paul has been a key figure in the growth of fantasy sports,” said FSTA chairman and Hall of Famer Peter Schoenke. “He started one of the first print publications, created one of the early leading websites and has been a prominent leader in the industry’s trade association. It’s hard to find an area of the business where he hasn’t been a big part of the story and it’s great that he’s being recognized for all of his accomplishments.” Currently, Charchian is the president of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association and he runs LeagueSafe, an award-winning, fantasy sports finance management service that he founded in 2008. Glenn ColtonColton is a legal advocate, business advocate, writer, radio host, expert fantasy player and, for the last decade, a catalyst for the fantasy sports industry’s growth by giving advice to FSTA-member companies and the FSTA Board of Directors. Colton’s passion for the industry was never more evident than during the landmarkCBC v. MLBAM case. Colton advised the FSTA membership throughout the process and conducted numerous media interviews in which he preached partnership, thus ensuring that the fantasy sports industry took the high road. On Colton’s advice, and with his assistance, the FSTA filed an Amicus Brief that played a large role in the successful court rulings. Colton started writing for Rotoworld.com in 2003 and helped author its first fantasy football magazine. In 2012, Colton and long-time fantasy team co-owner Rick Wolf began hosting the Colton and The Wolfman show on SiriusXM Radio.

“Until recently, Glenn’s impact on the fantasy sports industry was mostly behind the scenes, as he acted as a legal advisor for the FSTA and for dozens of member companies,” said Charchian, wearing his FSTA president hat. “Glenn was at the forefront of a pivotal moment in the history of fantasy sports, ensuring that the leagues and players associations couldn’t monopolize our industry. Glenn has become more public-facing since the debut of his successful SiriusXM radio show. He is a favorite personality in the industry and I’m delighted that his decade of contributions have been recognized.” In his “day job,” Glenn spent 10 years as a Federal Prosecutor in New York and now heads the White Collar and Government Investigations Practice for Dentons, one of the world’s largest law firms.  John HuntHunt started working at USA TODAY in 1991 on the agate desk, compiling stats and answering the phone calls of the first generation of Rotisserie players. In 1993, he began a 13-year run as the fantasy columnist for USA TODAY Baseball Weekly (renamed Sports Weekly in 2002). His clear and unadorned prose was perfect for conveying information and introducing fantasy baseball concepts that we all take for granted today. His work on the national stage increased the visibility of the industry immensely with everyone knowing that Wednesday was the day to “read Hunt.” It became widely known that a mention by Hunt in one of his Fantasy Insidercolumns was enough to get you onto the map, so aspiring writers and industry vendors were constantly jockeying for blurbs in his columns. In addition to his writing, Hunt founded the first national experts competition (LABR – the League of Alternative Baseball Reality) in 1994. Via LABR, Hunt promoted scores of fantasy writers, built the business across multiple platforms and created a stable benchmark during the 1990s, leading to the establishment of some of today’s most venerable fantasy names and fantasy brands. “I have a soft spot in my heart for those who were writing about fantasy sports before anyone knew what the ‘Internet’ was,” said Charchian. “John was a pioneer. Back then, fantasy baseball advice was scarce. Good advice presented in a readable manner was even more rare. Maybe more importantly, John founded LABR, which elevated the profile of many fantasy sports writers and, 20 years later, remains the gold standard of expert leagues.” Hunt now covers the Oregon State Beavers for The Oregonian in Portland. Please address questions or media requests to FSTA Association Director Megan Van Petten at megan@fsta.org.

Rotisserie Baseball and Basketball Stat Service, Reports USA Stats

www.rotisserie.com, 16 Jan 2006 [old site]
USA Stats was begun in 1988 by Bill Meyer when his own “It Beats Working” league needed a new stat – keeper. Begun as a part-time business at Bill’s kitchen table, USA Stats has steadily grown into one of the largest stat services in the nation.

After working as a newspaper reporter for a couple of years, Bill attended law school at the George Washington University in Washington DC. He worked as a private attorney and federal prosecutor in Baltimore for nine years before being bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and starting USA Stats in 1988.Bill ran USA Stats on a part-time basis for three years and then gleefully abandoned the practice of law to operate the business full time in 1991. While still retaining a fondness for the Indians, he is now a devoted Orioles fan and enjoys rooting for the home team from his box seats at Camden Yards.

William K. Meyer is an associate in the Zuckerman Spaeder’s Baltimore office who focuses his practice on general litigation and criminal defense. Before joining the firm, Mr. Meyer was the founder and president of USA Stats, Inc., which provided statistical services for fantasy baseball, basketball and football leagues. Prior to his career in business, Mr. Meyer served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore. Before that, he was in private practice in Baltimore. He received his J.D., with honors, from George Washington University where he was a member of The George Washington Law Review.During law school, Bill worked as a law clerk for William W. Taylor III.

Founder, Strat-O-Matic Game Company

Hal invented Strat-O-Matic in 1948, and it was the game most die-hard fantasy baseball players played as kids. In many respects, it was fantasy baseball before fantasy baseball. You learned the players’ strengths and their abilities against left-handed and right-handed batters. You could also draft individual cards and compete in fantasy leagues with the results of your league coming on the roll of the dice. Hal Richman is still involved in the company, which now is online and supports one of the best Sym fantasy games in the industry.

Hal was a games pioneer long before many of us were born. The FSTA Hall of Fame was designed to honor pioneers who helped our industry grow. He was waaaaay out there long before our industry was born and without him folks like Daniel Okrent never would have come up with the idea of creating Rotisserie baseball. Many fantasy players in the 1980s and ’90s got their start on Strat-O-Matic and then made the smooth transition to Rotisserie Baseball and Football. We owe Hal’s innovation and steady guidance of Strat for that.

Hal is exactly the type of pioneer the FSTA Hall of Fame was designed to honor, and he’s still alive to cherish the award. As a resident nearby, he would be a great addition to the Chicago FSTA show.

Early pioneer writer/analyst; early Rotisserie player valuation expert; wrote 9 books on the topic in 1990s.

Back in the days when there were books on Rotisserie baseball, Alex Patton wrote nine of them. Now he continues to write for his own web site as well as for various other sites, such as Baseball HQ. With Eric Lindow, he has developed the popular software, Patton $ On Disk, that helps people get ready for the Rotisserie Wars.

Patton published his first book (“Patton’s 1989 Fantasy Baseball League Price Guide“) in — you guessed it — 1989, and his dollar values were included in USA Today Baseball Weekly’s fantasy annual throughout the 1990s.

To give you a taste of his original insights: In the Stage Theory of Rotisserie baseball, Alex broke down the level of league-skill into one of three stages.

Stage One — the least experienced, and auction behavior has out-of-control bidding on big name players. Tons of bargains were then available.

Stage Two — the more astute owners catch on to the bargains, and wait until the the opponents money is blown on the better-known players. They then harvest up the undervalueds.

Finally, “Stage Three Hell” — the expert drafts, where accurate information is well-known.

Placing where your league is affects how you approach the draft, coached Alex. And his counsel over this past decade-and-a-half have influenced fantasy players in all three Stages ever since.

Founded Small World – one of the first fantasy games -
bought by Sporting News

Bill created and operated possibly the first ever mass market fantasy sports game – in the LA Times, for the 1989 baseball season. In the pre-Internet years, newspaper games helped grow the fantasy industry from a couple million players to 8 to 12 million, depending on the estimates you believe to be true.

The LA Times was a client of his firm, Wakeman & deForest. The All Star game was being played in Anaheim that year and The Times asked Bill to create a promotion around baseball. His company used interactive touchtone telephone technology to create Dugout Derby. W&d and The Times worked together to run ads in the Sports section during the week, promoting the game. On Sunday, they ran a four-page spread listing all the baseball players along with a 4 digit numerical code for each. Participants had to call a 900 number at a cost of $2.75 for the first minute and $1.75 for every minute thereafter to enter their initial team as well as make the two trades a week that were permitted under the rules. Each day, a small ad was placed in the sports section with an Access Code that changed daily. In order to get into the system, participants needed to use that day’s access code (driving single copy sales of the newspaper). One of the signs of success was when the VP of Marketing called to say that the Publisher’s office was getting calls from 20-year subscribers who were out of town and couldn’t find an LA Times anywhere (to get the code). They needed to make a trade and threatened to cancel their subscription unless they were provided with the Access Code. Dugout Derby was sponsored by BMW.

This was the most successful promotion ever run by the LA Times in terms of generating participation and advertising revenue. It was expanded to include all the Times Mirror newspapers.

The baseball promotion was followed by others – promoted in the top 25 Times Mirror markets. Pigskin Playoff for Football was sponsored by Epson, an official NFL sponsor. W&d built kiosks in-store to merchandise the program along with print advertising in key markets across the country and TV ads that ran during NFL broadcasts. These were potentially the first ever TV ads seen by consumers featuring a version of fantasy football. A nice part of the Epson offer – buy an Epson printer or computer and they would mail you updated diskettes each week with team scores and ranks, in your market and nationally.

Fairway Fantasy was the golf promotion, sponsored by Spaulding, who used the promotion to get more retail floor space for the introduction of three new golf balls. W&d created a corrugated floor stand displaying dozens of golf balls, with a touch tone phone at the top. The sign on the display – “Step up to the Phone and Drive a Top-Flite to Hawaii.” Prizes for the contest were several trips to Hawaii.

The innovations brought to market by Bill provided proof-of-concept for mass market promotions. In the coming years, other companies built on this concept – Replica Corporation (in USA TODAY), SportsMark Promotions and Sports Buff Promotion in hundreds of newspapers across North America.

Geoff, Peter and Bill founded SportsMark Promotions in Calgary, Canada in 1992. Bill Junkin started the movement to mass market games and this team built on it, bringing a similar concept to hundreds of newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations in Canada and the U.S. They created an upgraded Interactive Voice Response system and let consumers play for free or pay a small fee to use the IVR system.

Their sales efforts stretched from personal meetings at media company offices to exhibiting at newspaper and media trade shows across North America. They opened the eyes of media promoters across North America – fantasy sports games were great promotions to engage the consumer. Millions of consumers had never heard of fantasy sports before playing a SportsMark game in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Examiner or hundreds of other newspapers.

All of their games were played and managed via mail, fax, and IVR (later transitioning online). Handling thousands and thousands of inbound and outbound letters for one game is the true definition of sweat equity. This grass roots effort helped the fantasy industry grow to what it is today.

SportsMark was eventually purchased by Internet Sports Network, Inc. (ISNI) in 1999, as part of the first large roll-up of fantasy sports game operators and content producers. ISNI did not survive and the SportsMark founders created Blast Promotions, followed by their current company SCAinteractive.
Geoff is currently the President and Peter is currently the SVP of Sales for the Calgary-based SCAinteractive. They are an industry leader in unique, interactive promotional solutions that bring targeted audiences online and keep them there for extended periods of time. Their secure technology is approved for up to $1,000,000,000 in instant win prizes and their auditable results provide peace of mind for both clients and sponsors alike. Their parent company – SCA Promotions – is the World’s Leading Provider of prize coverage for contests, sweepstakes and games.

Glenn has been playing Fantasy Sports for a very long time, and dived into the industry at LABR (League of Alternative Baseball Reality) in 2002. He is a legal advocate, business advocate, writer, radio-host, expert fantasy player and has been volunteering his time at EVERY FSTA Conference since 2003 to give advice to everyone who attends and especially advising the ENTIRE industry in times of trouble.

CBC v MLBAM – The Watershed Moment in Fantasy Sports

Glenn’s work, passion and advice to the industry in regards to the players’ association make him a compelling candidate for the Hall of Fame. Charlie Wiegert and his partners at CDM were true heroes to take on MLBAM to fight for our industry. Glenn had previous to that, set the tone for how to deal with the players’ associations. Glenn supported CDM and advised the FSTA membership throughout the process including print, radio and TV interviews that positioned our industry as the “good guys.” He preached partnership not confrontation and ALWAYS spoke to anyone who wanted to understand or get advice on how to handle the Player’s Association’s aggression. He was the industry’s voice of reason.

On Glenn’s advice, the FSTA filed an Amicus Brief, a legal document as a friend of the court to make sure the court understood that a ruling affected our members. Glenn created this brief and SUCCESSFULLY introduced the First Amendment which led the final ruling summary and made the decision have influence federally, thereby stopping the PA’s aggression and eliminating more lawsuits in the fantasy sports industry.

Fantasy Sports Expert, Personality and Journalist

In 2002, Glenn began competing in LABR and writing for Rotoworld.com. In 2003, he wrote the first Rotoworld Fantasy Football magazine with publisher Matthew Berry and Rick Wolf. He has written for Rotoworld and other publications / websites ever since.

Last April, Glenn began co-hosting a radio show on Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio. From the first day, he was a natural on the air and continued his work of crisp analysis and strategy to help fantasy players win championships.

In summary, Glenn was a catalyst for the Fantasy Sports industry’s success in the fight with the players’ associations, a brilliant lawyer who gives that expertise to everyone in the fantasy industry and an accomplished journalist, radio host and an expert fantasy player.

Emil Kadlec is the president of Fantasy Sports Publications, Inc., the largest publisher of Fantasy Football magazines. Fantasy Sports Publications has been in business for 24 years, and distributes over 850,000 copies of four Fantasy Football magazines annually — the CheatSheets, Pro Forecast, DraftBook and Football Diehards. The Pro Forecast originated in 1990.

He also co-founded the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) in 2002 (and the WCOFB in 2003), the original high-stakes Fantasy contest, which spawned a whole new industry.

Emil created the Draft Master style contest when he was a member of FanEx in the mid-90s. This style of play has now become popular for the busy fantasy player.

In 1992 he started a fantasy football radio show locally on Sunday nights and has a FootballDiehards.com show on the SIRIUS fantasy channel.

Emil started FootballDiehards.com website in 1996 (originally fspnet.com) which has been a leader in fantasy football information and tools to help managers draft and manage their teams thought the season.

Emil, 55 years old, has a Masters degree in electrical engineering and is a co-author of one patent. He and his wife Maria are working on a book about southwestern Indian pottery. Part of his diverse personality flaws is enjoying challenges. Currently Emil and Maria are attempting to grow blueberries in a desert environment – looks like the desert is winning at this point.

He is also the vise president of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. Emil is one of the bigger ass holes in the industry but don’t tell anyone.

Mike founded Sideline Software in the late 1980’s when he invented one of the first PC-based programs for fantasy football league management named FFLM. Since that time, Sideline has evolved into a company providing the largest independent on-line fantasy football league management product, MyFantasyLeague.com, which is the most feature-rich and customizable league management product available on the web today. In spite of competition from major media companies, many of who offer free products, Sideline has grown the number of leagues it’s serviced in each year of it’s existence. In addition, MyFantasyLeague.com has been awarded several significant industry awards, most recently “Best Commissioner Product” at the 2012 FSTA winter conference.

If you’ve taken the time to get to know Mike at an FSTA event, I’m sure you already know how knowledgeable he is about our industry, and why he’s been so successful for the last 20+ years. If you haven’t taken the time to meet him, I’d definitely recommend you do, and you’ll see how worthy he is of this nomination.

Due to Mike’s long-standing involvement in the fantasy sports industry, and wide respect from his peers, I feel Mike is a very worthwhile nominee for the FSTA hall of fame.

If we only measure Joe Bryant’s candidacy for the FSTA Hall of Fame for his invention of Value Based Drafting, it should be enough. Virtually everyone who reads this endorsement for Joe should already know this, but here’s VBD boiled down to one sentence: The value of a player is determined not by the number of points he scores, but by how much he outscores his peers at his particular position. It seems obvious now, right?

Invented by Joe nearly 20 years ago, VBD has become so well accepted that it faces no credible challenges. People building other draft strategies are forced to work around VBD, because it envelops such wide tracts of common sense.

If we only measure Joe Bryant’s candidacy for the FSTA Hall of Fame for creating FootballGuys.com, it should be enough. FootballGuys has become an industry model for compelling, in-depth content.

Joe, along with partner David Dodds, have created a living, breathing behemoth in FootballGuys. FootballGuys is so good, so rich in content, that it (literally) keeps startups from entering the space. There’s nowhere to attack FootballGuys. Can a startup offer more fantasy football content? No. Deeper content? No.

On top of his aforementioned empirical qualifications, industry participants would be challenged to recall any face-to-face interaction had with Joe when he didn’t have a smile of his face.

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www.fantasysharks.com

Note: FantasySharks.com is the content arm of MyFantasyLeague.com.

FantasySharks.com has grown since first opening its doors in 2002 into one of the premier fantasy content and projections offerings on the web, with over 700 thousand monthly readers and 100 thousand registered members. Fantasy Sharks now boasts 45 fantasy writers, editors, projectors, radio hosts, podcasters all procured from an annual vetting process which includes guest article submission over the summer and a detailed interview process, to ensure only the most qualified contributors produce content for the site. To go along with staff members like FSWA Hall-of-Famer Greg Kellogg, fantasy football pioneer TC Cannon, and site owner and Chairman of the FSWA, Tony Holm, Sharks has been the go-to destination for fantasy writers, editors and programmers to showcase their talent. Sharks continues to attract and bring on well known fantasy authors like David Grey from fanball and Dr. Steve Sheiner and fantasy tools pro Robert Cobb from fantasyfootball.com. Fantasy Sharks provides weekly content to various fantasy outlets like USA Today for both print and web inclusion, MyFantasyLeague.com, FleaFlicker.com, Advanced Sports Media, Advanced Sports Logic, Pickemfirst and a variety of mobile application developers also take advantage of Sharks’ content and projections. Fantasy Sharks has weaved itself into the fabric of fantasy sports and we hope it will be recognized for years of service to the fantasy industry and for the collective accomplishments from all the site contributors.

http://www.nfl.com/fantasyfootball/live

NFL Fantasy Live is a daily show broadcast on NFL.com and NFL Network. Airing Monday to Friday at 1pm ET, the show provides daily analysis and guidance from the NFL.com Fantasy Live team and a 90-minute Sunday show at 11:30am ET features game day advice, including injury/inactive reports and updated player rankings. Michael Fabiano and the NFL Fantasy Live team are always available, with an on-demand player featuring archive and DVR features, ensuring that no segment is missed.

www.SportsForecaster.com

The Sports Forecaster hockey Yearbook is THE must-have magazine for hockey fans. Reader-friendly, colorful, analytical and insightful, it bursts at the bindings with facts, figures and an unsurpassed forecasts section.

http://www.rotoexperts.com

RotoExperts not only provides free and premium content on its own site, it also nationally syndicates broadcast content through platforms such as SiriusXM, TuneIn and SportsGrid. Live chats are now powered by Google+ Hangouts and email advice provides another personalized experience. All major and minor Fantasy Sports are covered, and RotoExperts content has also been nationally syndicated. Empasis is on a personalized user experience through various platforms.

http://www.rotoworld.com

Rotoworld is the premiere fantasy news and information site on the internet, and it’s FREE. It has 24/7 coverage by its top writers on player news on all the major sports, plus in-depth articles, constantly updated inury reports, transactions and depth charts, salary cap info and much more. If you need news on any player in fantasy sports, Rotoworld.com is the first and only place you need to go.

All Pro League

allproleagues.com

Offers free and pay-to play leagues. Season-long and weekly games for NFL. Up to date NFL news, injury reports, live box scores, live fantasy scoring updates, live chat, as well as multiple fantasy scoring platforms. THE MOST VISUALLY APPEALING PUBLIC FANTASY LEAGUE SITE IN A DECADE!

http://www.rotoworld.com/premium/draftguide/football/main_page.aspx

Fantasy Football Draft Guide – Done exclusively by Rotoworld’s top writers … complete projections, rankings, profiles, Tiers, mock drafts, dynasty breakdowns, rookie columns, injury updates and much more. Everything you need for your draft and more.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/data/fantasy/fantasy.php?tab=fantasy

PFF Fantasy Statistics Page, which includes new, unique stats. Highlights include Average depth of throw. Average depth of target (aDOT), Fantasy points per dropback, snap, and opportunity (rushes+pass routes run).

www.realitysportsonline.com

Reality Sports Online (RSO) is a new Fantasy Front Office Commissioner/League Manager platform. The Free Agency Auction Room is RSO’s most innovative and groundbreaking feature. Fantasy Team Owners negotiate multi-year player contracts online in real time, competing with other owners to sign the NFL’s top talent.

Other Features:
1) Customizable Scoring, Roster Requirements & Contract Settings
2) Rookie Draft with Slotted Contracts by Draft Position
3) NFL Based Salary Cap System
4) Partially Guaranteed Contracts
5) Franchise Tags, Injured Reserve, Waivers, and more

www.fantasypokermanager.com

Draft your favorite 12 international poker players and score points depending on results they obtain in live tournaments! Manage your team anytime by adding or removing players according to your budget. Create your own private league, challenge your friends and try to reach the top rank of the leaderboard. FPM features the world’s most popular poker tournaments thanks to exclusive agreements (with the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour and more) and a database of complete stats on the current Global Poker Index Top 300 poker players worldwide.

www.leaguesafe.com

LeagueSafe is an online escrow service that allows fantasy sports owners to pay their entry fees online via e-check or credit card. The funds are deposited securely in an FDIC-insured bank account for the duration of the season, and paid out to league winners at season’s end.

http://www.cheatsheetwizard.com/

CheatSheetWizard.com, created by FantasyPros, was the most innovative fantasy product in 2012. Both users and industry experts loved the suite of draft tools that made it dead simple to prepare for and nail your fantasy drafts.

The Wizard’s Editor lets users import rankings from any website or spreadsheet and customize these rankings with simple drag-and-drop, one-click tiers, and editable notes.

The Wizard’s Draft Simulator lets users mock draft in minutes. The Simulator also helps users make smart decisions by providing expert voting, dynamic value-based draft advice, and opponent pick predictions.

The Wizard’s Analyzer instantly assesses the users’ drafts to show how they rank within the league and what their strengths and weaknesses are. Users can even import mocks from other sites to analyze.

Finally, the Wizard’s Draft Assistant helps users during their real drafts by synching with major league hosts like Yahoo, eliminating the need to track taken players manually.

http://www.myfantasyleague.com/

MyFantasyLeague.com offers the most comprehensive Twitter integration of any fantasy football league management site. With authorization, it can automatically send tweets for key league events, including draft picks, weekly results, and more. If an NFL player has a Twitter account, the tweet mentions that player’s account, and often times this past season, the NFL player in question responded to the tweet – for example:https://twitter.com/FrostRuck/status/239880686922776578

http://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/apps

The innovative CBSSports.com App Central Marketplace, launched in January 2012, offers fantasy gamers on CBSSports.com a wide range of tools to get the competitive edge they want, and gives premium developers the ability to market and sell their apps to a growing community of CBSSports.com Fantasy players. Users can install apps seamlessly into their leagues to scout players, get draft analysis and the latest news, make roster decisions, and more. Apps are sorted by game and users can search by most popular, recently added, and top rated.

http://bit.ly/Qe22s0

NFL.com Fantasy and Google+ Hangouts introduced free live video chat to all NFL.com leagues, with one-click access to video chat during their live draft or on gamedays. This innovative feature changed the way leagues communicated forever.

NFL.com also has weekly expert video chats with fans through the same feature. Fans participate in interactive sessions with NFL.com fantasy experts.

Google Blog: http://bit.ly/Qe22s0
Commercial: http://on.nfl.com/Uanz4w
Expert Hangouts: http://bit.ly/Y1UIG8

http://rotoexperts.com/hangout/

RotoExperts’ Sunday Chats, powered by Google+ Hangouts, give fantasy players unique gameday opportunities to have their questions answered via video. Users type in their questions and our experts answer in real time with in-depth responses.

http://advancedsportslogic.com/products/trade-judge

Trade Judge is the first product to arbitrate trades based on purely objective mathematical analysis. For leagues that allow trading, it can be used to put an end to divisive trade disputes that can ruin leagues and reflect negatively on fantasy sports.

Trade Judge is the most valuable fantasy football tool because:

- it is the first product to arbitrate trades based on projections from multiple experts using your leagues scoring rules, rosters and team’s probabilities to win

- the math in this patent-pending system is incredibly complex, taking into account players available on waivers, playoff seeding, each team’s need to win enough to get to the playoffs vs win the playoffs

- it is tightly integrated with Yahoo, ESPN, CBS, RTFS and MFL leagues

To access The Machine directly go to:

http://app.advancedsportslogic.com/ff

Username: fsta@advancedsportslogic.com

Password: asl@fsta

NFBC Draft Champions National Championship

nfbc.stats.com

NFBC Draft Champions National Championship. The concept was simple: Create a national contest with a major grand prize that tests the drafting skills of die-hard fantasy players while making the management of those teams easy. So we created NFBC Draft Champions, a 15-team league where owners draft 50 rounds and make no free agent pickups during the season. What they draft is what they have for the whole season. It’s like building an MLB franchise. We finished with 1,050 teams at $150-$375 per team and awarded a $10,000 grand prize.

http://developer.cbssports.com/challenge

CBSSports.com held its first-ever Developer Challenge ahead of the 2012 Fantasy Football season to encourage the creation of innovative apps for Fantasy players this season. Developers were offered unprecedented access to millions of players, as well as seamless integration into the CBSSports.com Fantasy Football experience and the ability to sell their apps directly to players through CBSSports.com App Central Marketplace. Developers could build apps in six categories, and the contest awarded a grand prize of $60,000, a first prize of $10,000, and a second prize of $5,000.

http://nfl.com/perfect

NFL Fantasy Perfect Challenge is the all-new free fantasy game from NFL.com featuring the ultimate prize – ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Launched with a commercial during Super Bowl XLVI, Perfect Challenge features a simple concept and interface with an incredible grand prize to create an innovative debut fantasy game. Users select a lineup of 8 players (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, TE, K, DEF) with the goal to choose the top-scoring player at each position. Pick the perfect lineup and you win $1 Million.

http://rotoexperts.com/fantasycares

The new RotoExperts Fantasy Cares Fantasy Football game is presented in conjuction with the Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund. Competitors donate funds to help former pro football players in need and win great prizes for their performance in this weekly game.