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By Matt on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Comment on this post

Get fantasy football info on your cell phone or mobile device

As the mobile Web continues to mature, the fantasy football world is slowly finding ways to migrate from your PC to your pocket. Most of the major fantasy football providers now offer mobile access in some (usually limited, but improving) fashion. If you like the idea of on-the-go access to your fantasy teams as well as important player updates and other news, here are some resources to help you stay connected to fantasy football wherever you are.

Yahoo! has announced that it will offer a mobile version of its fantasy football service for free starting this season. It isn't available yet, but it'll probably kick in once the regular season starts.
CBS Sportsline players can access their teams and set their lineups for free via their mobile phones using their Fantasy Football Companion.
ESPN lets you manage your team on your phone, but only if you're a Verizon VCAST VPAK subscriber, whatever that is. Lame.
Got an iPhone? Forget about bringing reams of paper to your next draft - just download Fantasy Football Draft Central '08 or Fantasy Football Cheatsheet '08, two cheap ($1 and $2, respectively) apps that take the place of cheat sheets. I don't have an iPhone so I can't vouch for how well they work, but MacWorld's got a review of both.
ScreamingSports.com offers a mobile version which attempts to manage all of your teams, regardless of what websites you play on, from one central place. In my experience, though, it hasn't worked too well; it looks like it's been in alpha for years.
Got a Sprint phone? The NFL has partnered with Sprint to offer exclusive content to their customers. This is the kind of thing where you hate to see exclusive relationships. But hey, we already knew that the NFL loves to screw fans; witness the NFL Network debacle where millions of people were blacked out of Thursday-night games.
Finally, a shameless plug - this website is optimized for mobile websites, so check us out on the go at ffgeekblog.com.

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#1. Kevin Jones, 4 months ago

Matt,

You missed my new company (although thats not suprising since we just launched a few days ago). Blastats provides a mobile solution for fantasy football scoring. We can text full fantasy team scores to customers, email to them, and provide everyone with a mobile web page to track all of their teams from the top to bottom.

We are also unique in that we can work with any league host site out there. Plenty of people play on different sites, and we provide an all in one place service that sets us apart from everyone else.

After looking around your blog a bit, I can tell that you're the kinda guy who would love our product. We're growing fast right now, and looking to encorporate many new features by this time next year. If you could shoot me an email with some services you'd like to see available, we can add it to our list of things to do this offseason.

A couple of final notes. Although CBS claims their service is "free", it is not. You get charged either 3.99 or 4.99 a month for it by your cell carrier. And Yahoo isn't free either, not if you want your stats on your cell. Its 9.99, and I'm starting to wonder where it is too.

Thanks,
Kevin

Check us out: http://www.blastats.com

#2. Peter S, 4 months ago

RotoWire.com has SMS text alerts at no extra cost as part of their subscription. You get player news instantly to your cell phone.

#3. Andy V, 4 months ago

Yeah, but that is just SMS text alerts for player news, BLASTATS sends your scoring updates for leagues across yahoo, espn & sportsline, etc, not just that Manning threw a TD, but how many fantasy points you got for that TD.

#4. Peter S, 4 months ago

RotoWire.com is a complementary service ... it's not stats. But player news ... such as if someone got hurt in the game today or got cut from the roster.

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