The Interactive Sports Conference is a new fantasy conference set to occur on March 24 and 25 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV. The Fantasy Sports Association (FSA) is the major backer of this conference. Further, it appears all of its members organizations will be represented turning the conference, turning it into a who's who of the fantasy sports industry. The networking at this event sounds like it will be the best reason to attend. With a name like Interactive Sports Conference, it is not surprising to see an agenda filled with sessions on online ... Read More

There are hundreds of places that fantasy football players can get their information from. Sara Holladay has made a name for herself as the Fantasy Football Librarian by helping fantasy players dig out what are the most interesting and relevant articles. With an almost encyclopedic knowledge of everything that is written, Holladay has proven that she is quite the fantasy football player herself when she won the Buffalo Wild Wings Fantasy Football All-Star Bloggers league and a trip to the Super Bowl. I recently got to ask Holladay a few questions: How did you get involved ... Read More

Even though Spring Training games have just started, MLB.com is challenging fantasy players to accurately predict who will win each division, league pennant, World Series, MVP, and Cy Young awards with the Gillette 2010 Season Predictions Sweepstakes. Be the person with the most correct predictions and you will win an all-expenses paid trip for two to the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix. The contest is sponsored Gillette and is another example of the series of simple fantasy games that MLB continues to produce. With the 2010 Season Predictions game, players are able to pick a few ... Read More

It's Wednesday and, at least in DC, kind of dreary. Since we can all use a pick me up, I have an amusing little story to get your blood going this afternoon. In my oldest fantasy baseball league (the league that recently folded), the league had an entry fee of $350 per team. Since we all knew each other, owners did not have to pay the league fee until the end of the season. That was if they did not win anything. One season a league member (John) had a terrible season and had to pay about ... Read More

Remember when someone showed up to your fantasy baseball draft using a laptop? At first, you probably wrote him off as a total dork, but when he left the draft with more talent on his bench than in your starting outfield, you might have reconsidered. At this very moment, we may be at another fantasy technology paradigm shift as it is now possible to use just an iPhone to draft and manage your fantasy baseball team. I took the liberty of looking at the available iPhone applications that would enable this not-to-distant future: 2010 RotoWire Fantasy Baseball ... Read More

After a stomach bug kept me from reading anything last week, I am happy to get up back on track with the next installment of our Fantasy Book Review series here on Fantasy Ethos. I am happy announce that today's review centers around the release of Baseball Prospectus 2010 by the Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts. The last time I held a book this large, I am pretty sure I was looking a number in the phone book. That so happens to be the book's exact point. The Baseball Prospectus 2010 is meant to be an ... Read More

Handling of fantasy league funds is always difficult and is occasionally a tense part of a fantasy league. To alleviate those issues for leagues, Fantasy Sports Vault offers a neutral third-party league treasurer service. It is a turn-key solution that takes all of the fuss out of collecting league dues. For the 2010 fantasy baseball season, Fantasy Sports Vault has released a number of upgrades. Most of the changes revolve around making the sign-up process a little easier and giving leagues additional flexibility. All of these upgrades will enable more leagues to be able to use ... Read More

In honor of the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament, Fantasy Ethos will publish 65 posts in the month of March, one for every team in the tournament. This is part of a greater effort to bring you (our beloved reader) much more regular content, because I know you want it. To get to the 65 posts, I will be throwing out a few new features, some interviews, maybe a contest or two, and few more tricks that I have up my sleeve. This post is officially the first post of the 65. While some may consider this ... Read More

Trades may be the single largest cause of disputes in fantasy leagues leading to the collapse of leagues and even the demise of friendships. A cottage industry to help settling fantasy disputes has developed catering to this market with sites like SportsJudge and Fantasy Dispute. A reader sent me this screen grab from his Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball sign-up, and the lower right corner, you see a new offering: In the lower right corner it says: Yahoo! Sports Trade Review: Yahoo! Sports staff members will review all trade protests and veto trades deemed to be unfair to the ... Read More

Continuing this year's trend of the big guys stepping up their fantasy baseball game, CBSSports.com has unleashed new upgrades to its games that are bound to make fantasy baseball players happy. Whether it is free leagues, premium offerings, or high stakes leagues, CBSSports.com is making a plea to attract every type of fantasy baseball player this season. One of the big new offerings is a free fantasy baseball game. From the looks of it, it is a scaled down version of CBSSports.com's fantasy baseball commissioner (which currently goes for $159). But, it does have the premium ... Read More