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  ESPN Fantasy Focus and Stephania Bell: My two favorite discoveries this season

  Matt 8:53 pm on 11/23/2009 | 4 Permalink Reply
  Tags: espn (5), iPhone, podcasts, stephania bell

  I’ve got to credit both of these finds to my iPhone – more specifically, the fantastic (and free) Stitcher Radio app, which has a fantasy football channel. This is how I first encountered the ESPN Fantasy Focus podcast, which has become a regular companion on my dog’s nightly after-dinner walk.

  Hosted by Matthew Berry and Nate Ravitz, Fantasy Focus is great once you get past the obligatory five-minute warm-up, which generally consists of personal anecdotes you won’t care about and jokes you won’t laugh at (no matter how many times you repeat the line, “That is factually correct,” it still isn’t funny). Thankfully, Berry and Ravitz more than make up for it with their knowledge of and obvious love for fantasy football – I almost always learn something important that I didn’t know before, and their enthusiasm is contagious.

  A frequent guest on the show is Stephania Bell, an orthopedic clinical specialist and fantasy football geek whose blog is easily the most thorough resource for NFL player injury info. Definitely one to add to your feed reader.

   

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  Matt 11:07 pm on 11/18/2009 | 4 Permalink Reply
  Tags: geeky stuff, iPhone

  Good news for those of you who use fancy-schmancy cell phones to view our humble blog: I just installed a unbelievably awesome Wordpress plugin called WPTouch which automatically detects whether a visitor is on a supported mobile device (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, etc.) and then serves up a version of the site designed specifically for that phone. Huge thanks to the developers at Brave New Code who wrote this plugin and offer it to the Wordpress community for free.

   
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  Yahoo! fantasy football apps launching on September 8

  Matt 11:11 am on 8/28/2009 | 8 Permalink Reply
  Tags: blackberry, iPhone, yahoo (6)

  A tweet from YahooFootball just now:

  

  Holla indeed. Great news for Yahoo! users with iPhones and Crackberries. I hadn’t heard the news and tried to figure out why Yahoo! thinks we might already know. All I could dig up was this press release from August 12 which mentions the mobile apps:

  This year, Yahoo! fantasy football enthusiasts will be able to track their favorite team’s success right in the palm of their hands. On September 8th, Yahoo! Fantasy Football goes mobile, launching three different ways to stay on top of their game. Included in the Yahoo! Mobile offering will be an iPhone app, a BlackBerry app, and a version for the mobile web. With mobile fantasy football you can get real-time scores and player stats, the ability to bench and start different players, and even the ability to trade with others in your league – all through your mobile device.

  If there’s one thing I’m a bigger dork about than fantasy football, it’s my iPhone, and all my leagues are on Yahoo!, so this is pretty much the perfect storm of awesome. I’ll get a review up here as soon as I get my grimy mitts on it.

   
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  An interview with Matt Maroon, co-founder of Draftmix.com

  Matt 2:32 pm on 8/30/2008 | 0 Permalink Reply
  Tags: AOL, draftmix, facebook (3), fleaflicker (4), iPhone

  Draftmix is a website that offers a novel approach to fantasy sports. A Draftmix “league” is a very short-term commitment – it lasts only a week. You participate in a normal fantasy football-style draft on a Wednesday, drafting players who you think will put up the best numbers in just that given week. The following Tuesday, payouts are awarded and that’s it – league over. Draftmix is aimed at those people who like playing fantasy football for money but are looking for some short-term gambling gratification.

  Brandon and I first heard about Draftmix last year when we were invited to join the Draftmix Blogger Challenge (and thanks to big games from Joseph Addai and Hines Ward, we won). I’ve been keeping an eye on Draftmix ever since. I think it’s a fun concept that’s implemented very well. They’re still flying a bit under the radar at the moment, but they were just getting started in ‘07 and I think they could really catch on in a big way this year.

  This afternoon, I had a chat with Matt Maroon, part of the three-man Draftmix team (and a former professional poker player). (More …)