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  Big Ben leads all fantasy scorers in the 2008-09 season

  Brandon 9:22 am on 8/05/2008 | 5 Permalink Reply
  Tags: madden, simulation, video games

  Well, at least he does in a recent Madden 09 simulated season, which ranked the following players as leading the league in fantasy points for the upcoming season:

  25. Reggie Wayne, WR, IND
  24. Willis McGahee, RB, BAL
  23. Thomas Jones, RB, NYJ
  22. Chad Johnson, WR, CIN
  21. Jamal Lewis, RB, CLE
  20. Adrian Peterson, RB, MIN (More …)

   

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  Fantasy football on your XBox 360

  Matt 11:28 am on 5/09/2008 | 4 Permalink Reply
  Tags: technology, video games

  Now this sounds pretty cool. Check out the promo video after the jump. A few of the spiffier features I learned about from Pasta Padre’s interview with the producers:

  • If you’re doing a live in-the-flesh draft with your buddies, you can use your HDTV as a virtual draft board via your XBox. After some players are drafted, a video will play with commentary about the pick from EA fantasy “experts.” Given the pit-in-your-stomach insecurity some people (OK, like me) get after making a big pick, I bet this will be a very popular feature – as long as it doesn’t cut into the next person’s time allowance.
  • If you’ve got picture-in-picture on your TV, you can have a little screen updating you on your team while you watch the games.
  • It’s a fully-featured web-based fantasy football system. No idea yet how good it is, but I’ve got a 360 so I’ll be trying it out and posting about it in addition to my other regularly-posted reviews of fantasy football services.
  • Your fantasy team can be imported into Madden. Awesome.

  The make-or-break factor here will be the quality of the web-based team interface. If it’s a pain to manage your team, figure out waivers, or sift through free agents, no amount of Xbox spiffiness will make this a system worth using. I should also mention that it will cost a total of 1600 Xbox points for the system and the on-screen updates (which cost 1200 and 400 separately) – which translates to $20. (More …)