Monday, October 29, 2007
Basketball Launches on FSL!
We just put up our first contests for Basketball's opening night on Tuesday. Hockey is next in the Queue. We like to adjust the salary cap levels based on user feedback, so let us know what you think about the cap levels and structure. Also, please keep in mind that we do not live score Basketball. Player Fantasy Scores are updated one time with the final box score, and not continuously as the game progresses like with Football or Baseball. We would love to offer live scoring this year for Basketball, but due to licencing restrictions, we can't. We believe that licencing is not required for use of player names and/or stats, and the courts agree that this is true for Baseball. We see basketball as no different than baseball with respect to licencing requirements.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Basketball on Tuesday, Hockey in a Month!
You asked for it and you got it. We are moving Hockey forward an will be launching Fantasy Hockey in about a month. Basketball Launches with the start of the season on Tuesday October 30th. Just like with Baseball, all of our Fantasy Sports Contests are daily, with daily guaranteed cash prizes. Get in the Game at FantasySportsLive.com.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
New Sport Updates
Its been a while since we updated when we were planning on rolling out new sports. We are currently in development with Basketball, and plan on launching at the end of the month with the start of the regular season. Due to current NBA licencing requirements, Basketball will not have real time scoring updates. Player scores will be updated one time with the final box score on the leaderboard. Payouts will be just as fast as our other sports. We decided to push NASCAR out and launch it in February with the start of next season. We have a great scoring system for NASCAR that we can't wait to reveal. NASCAR will also be updated with the final race results, and not by a live feed. While Hockey can easily be added, we decided to get Basketball and NASCAR up first. When February rolls around we will decide if we want to get Hockey up this season. If not we will have it at the start of next season. Obviously if enough demand for fantasy hockey is out there, we can change our priorities.
Football is off to a great start with record traffic and prizes on the site every week. We have also not had a single reported scoring error all football season. This is a better performance than some of the major fantasy sites. We take special care to make sure that we get the scoring right each week, and then close our contests out with accurate results 48 hours before the biggest sites finalize their results. Its just another reason to play on FantasySportsLive.com
Football is off to a great start with record traffic and prizes on the site every week. We have also not had a single reported scoring error all football season. This is a better performance than some of the major fantasy sites. We take special care to make sure that we get the scoring right each week, and then close our contests out with accurate results 48 hours before the biggest sites finalize their results. Its just another reason to play on FantasySportsLive.com
Monday, October 8, 2007
Biggest Fantasy Football Prize & Sweeps Are Not Good for Playoff Fantasy Baseball
Yesterday, "Family Guy" won $200 in a $107 Heads-Up contest. The $200 is the largest individual prize we have paid out for fantasy football to date, and equals the few $200 prizes we have paid in fantasy baseball earlier in the year. As things pick-up this season we will be offering more variety of contests. For Week 6 we added a $20 ten-player contest, and a $30 six-player contest. By the end of the season we would love to be running ten-player $100 contests. If you are interested in the higher buy-in and competition leagues, help fill the highest buy-in leagues now and we will roll them out even faster.
We broke some new ground in offering Playoff Fantasy Baseball this season. Unfortunately, Murphy's law stepped in, and we had three sweeps in the first round. Since we need at least two games to run lawful fantasy contests, we will not be able to run them again until the AL and NL championship series starts. Not what we were planning for, but what can we do. We will also be running fantasy football well into the playoffs.
Lastly, we have had a few complaints about viewing the entire draft pool. We only show the 12 most expensive players by default for each position. There is a "show all players" link that allows you to view and draft all of the available players for each position. With the fantasy football ranking cap where it is, it is pretty tough to put a team together that is under the cap without going deeper than the top 12. If you are having issues staying under the cap, please use the "show all players" link to pick up a few inexpensive players. Another option is our no cap leagues where you can pick up all the top 12 players that you want without issue.
We broke some new ground in offering Playoff Fantasy Baseball this season. Unfortunately, Murphy's law stepped in, and we had three sweeps in the first round. Since we need at least two games to run lawful fantasy contests, we will not be able to run them again until the AL and NL championship series starts. Not what we were planning for, but what can we do. We will also be running fantasy football well into the playoffs.
Lastly, we have had a few complaints about viewing the entire draft pool. We only show the 12 most expensive players by default for each position. There is a "show all players" link that allows you to view and draft all of the available players for each position. With the fantasy football ranking cap where it is, it is pretty tough to put a team together that is under the cap without going deeper than the top 12. If you are having issues staying under the cap, please use the "show all players" link to pick up a few inexpensive players. Another option is our no cap leagues where you can pick up all the top 12 players that you want without issue.
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