During the NFL off-season, the one thing that gets (fantasy) football fans to awaken from their slumbers is the NFL Draft. The NFL Draft means that last season is officially over, every team is now undefeated, and with the parity in the NFL, one good draft can turn a team into an instant contender. Not only do fans get really excited about the NFL Mock Draft, they spend countless hours mock drafting and even entering a few fantasy mock draft contests of their own. Here is a round-up of a few sites that you may ... Read More

You can now download the introduction and first chapter of Family Fantasy Sports' Book of Champions. This is a great example of creating content for your customers that appeals to them and knowing why they are your customers. Family Fantasy Sports is one of the most unique fantasy sports sites out there as it caters to those seeking a much more family friendly version of fantasy sports. The nature of Family Fantasy Sports' business is that it creates a safe online environment for families to play fantasy sports together. As part of that, it has established ... Read More

I know we are in the middle of spring training right now, Joe Mauer is signing ridiculously huge contracts, and ESPN Fantasy is airing new fantasy baseball commercials, but can we just get this season started already? Fantasy football and March Madness are nice diversions, but fantasy baseball is what it is all about. It requires dedication and focus for six or seven months. Endurance like this makes running a marathon look easy. It is the Cadillac of fantasy sports. The start of the season is so close, I can almost taste. While I impatiently wait, ... Read More

Sometimes, you have to go outside your own pool of resources to find something interesting. RotoExperts is hosting its Fight for Your Write! fantasy baseball article contest. Anyone is open to submit his best fantasy baseball article to the competition. The winner will have his article published plus receive a nice trove of prizes, including a copy of Major League Baseball 2K10, an Evan Longoria Fathead Jr., and a Buffalo Wild Wings hooded sweatshirt. There are millions of fantasy baseball players out there and at least half of them think they can give better fantasy advice ... Read More

In all of this March Madness, one site has peaked my interest a bit. It was TweetBracket. TweetBracket is a test application for 140Bets who is building a platform to allow users to make binary selections, have the information tweeted out (optional), and then have it seamlessly track all of your picks against those of your friends. For the NCAA tournament, 140Bets has set-up a demonstration with TweetBracket in which users select which team they think will win, and 140Bets does the rest. To make it interesting, it is providing prizes like HDTVs and a ... Read More

When ESPN purchased Matthew Berry's The Talented Mr. Roto, one of its goals was to make Matthew Berry its Mel Kiper Jr. of fantasy sports. From appearing on its NFL pre-games shows, starring in commercials, producing podcasts, and being their go-to guy for fantasy sports, ESPN has fully come through on that promise. Now, ESPN is taking it one step further with the launch of a page for Matthew Berry. The page becomes a resource for all things Matthew Berry. From video on Berry's appearance on "One Life to Live" to his most recent article involving ... Read More

Since the most recent Tiger Woods news actually pertains to real news and not just the shattering of Tiger's fantasy life, I thought it actually merited coverage. Tiger Woods announced that he will return to golf to play in the Masters tournament next month. Woods' much publicized infidelity has made him take a hiatus from the game and seek counseling as he tries to put his personal life back together. Woods' impact on fantasy golf is legendary and problematic at the same time. The dominance he has displayed in golf similarly leads to dominance in fantasy ... Read More

Sometimes, there is truth to a rumor. Yahoo! announced today that it did in fact go shopping and purchased Citizen Sports to further solidify its fantasy sports empire. Citizen Sports Inc is leading developer of fantasy sports games that are built into social networks, such as Facebook. While Yahoo! is clearly the leader in fantasy sports right now, this acquisition of Citizen Sports positions itself way to dominate the emerging social network fantasy sports leagues. Oddly enough, Citizen Sports Inc started as ProTrade featuring a stock market like fantasy sports game. However, as it saw the ... Read More

We go back to our bookshelves for this week's Fantasy Book Review here on Fantasy Ethos. I am happy to announce that today's review is Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. Prior to the release of Moneyball, Sabermetrics was something of which only serious stat geeks cared about. Moneyball gives you incredible insight as to how Billy Beane managed to put together teams that won no fewer than 87 games from 1999 to 2006 despite having one of the tiniest payrolls in baseball. Michael Lewis was given unlimited behind-the-scenes access to ... Read More

After being part of a two-man team that took Mock Draft Central from fantasy obscurity to a necessary feature on every major fantasy site, Geoff Stein is now a Senior Editor at Fanball. I recently got a chance to pepper Geoff with some questions that I help shed some light on this emerging player in the fantasy sports industry. How did you get involved in fantasy sports? I drafted my first fantasy football team as a sophomore in high school back in 1999. I went undefeated in the regular season with the likes of Peyton Manning, Marvin ... Read More