Comments on: FleaFlicker is a Better Fantasy Sports Site

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:24:23 +0000

Never heard of it, but I came across a pretty original fantasy sports website that is also free: FantasySportsStocks.com.

It is like a stock market, but instead of trading companies…you get to trade sports teams. I’ve been playing a few weeks…the stock values go up & down depending on team performance. Pretty cool concept.

By: AOL Acquires FleaFlicker

AOL Acquires FleaFlicker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:57:50 +0000

[...] has acquired Fleaflicker, a New Jersey-based fantasy sports site founded by Ori Schwartz that we first covered in July [...]

By: DraftMix: Faster Fantasy Sports For Fun Or Profit

DraftMix: Faster Fantasy Sports For Fun Or Profit — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:11:50 +0000

[...] leagues. Fantasy fans generally run their leagues on services like Yahoo Sports or CBS Sportsline (FleaFlicker is free and ScreamingSports is a good team management service). Players often pick their whole team [...]

By: Tus ligas de futbol virtuales con FleaFlicker - Planeta Especial Mundial de Fútbol Tu Planeta Especial Mundial de Fútbol.

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:15:50 +0000

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By: YouBeQB Launches - Predict Game Plays, Win Points

YouBeQB Launches - Predict Game Plays, Win Points — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:05:38 +0000

[...] site that will snatch up even more time from fantasy sports junkies (see Screaming Sports and FleaFlicker for examples of some of the new thinking around fantasy [...]

By: Blog Mirrors » Amazon Funds Fantasy Movies League

Blog Mirrors » Amazon Funds Fantasy Movies League — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:09:38 +0000

[...] league for sports betting (you use the lines on the games and pick your winners; earn points). FleaFlicker is your traditional fantasy sports league website, but is free and relies on advertising [...]

By: Amazon Funds Fantasy Movies League

Amazon Funds Fantasy Movies League — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:30:46 +0000

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:15:41 +0000

Did some one over here heard about the PLAYspex.com project?

Is’ Kind of a Secret new project in the field of the Fantasy Sports that suffers from not being to much innovative since it was invented it sounds interesting if some one over here Knows more about this please comment

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:30:06 +0000

I am looking for a new site to host my league’s home page next year as CBS Sportsline has completely gone to pot. The new keeper function(which my league has used for 7 years) was a total failure. The online draft room was inoperable, and we have guys out of state that had to be on the phone for over two hours long distance. And to top it all off after manually inputing every last player for 12 teams, the page reset, forcing me to spend another two hours yesterday doing it all over again. We have put up with a slow gamecenter for a few years hoping they would upgrade their server, but this is it. Goodbye CBS, I hate you so much.
Oh yeah- and after three of us writing legnthy complaint letters asking for some explaination…. nothing. 3 days and 3 more complaints later…..still nothing. CBS really cares for thier customers, really, alot.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:39:16 +0000

hey, i used fleaflicker last year, and although you don’t have the level of news per player that you may find at a sportsline…. the free services and customizeable scoring is fantastic.

By: nthOctave » Morning Coffee

nthOctave » Morning Coffee — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:24:50 +0000

[...] Every morning I wake up, I check in on my fantasy baseball team (currently in second place, thank you very much). Michael Arrington takes a look at FleaFlicker, thinks it’s a game changer. [TechCrunch] [...]

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:26:54 +0000

Actually, while watching the game I found myself wanting France to win. Funny.

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:12:01 +0000

Mike, I guess you are happy now that Italy won and French lost.
Jeff i suggest we boycott now TechCrunch

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:19:55 +0000

I agree with Peter Pezaris about fantasy sports being difficult to code. AJAX is invaluable for the trickiest part of building such a site, which is the live draft code. That’s what we used to build FanFooty last year.

Interesting comment about competition causing the operators to start offering free services a lot more. For FanFooty we’ve had to introduce fees this week for the first time to cut down some of the massive demand we’ve had for our services in the as-yet-undeveloped Australian market. You have to make a choice between dollars and traffic, and you have to keep on refining that choice as circumstances change. Sportsline vacillated many times between free, paid and a combination of the two before settling on their current all-paid model.

By: Peter Pezaris

Peter Pezaris — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:43:57 +0000

Bulding fantasy sports games on the web is one of the more challenging applications you can develop. The dizzying array of complexity introduced by obscure drafting, lineup, waiver, trade and playoff rules needs to be married to a transactional roster and statistical system that not only has to be perfectly correct, it needs to be updated in real-time while potentially millions of users are accessing the site.

Think of it as a stock market portfolio tracker where not only do you get to set the rules in terms of how stocks are bought and sold, but you have your own private view of the data that is unique to ten or twelve individuals. Then stream it all in real-time, and provide historical stats back to the beginning of time.

It can certainly be done, as we’ve seen by the sites you mention (and *ahem* CBS SportsLine *ahem* who have arguably a much richer feature set) but it it is Hard to Get Right. And users generally have zero tolerance for mistakes since money is often on the line.

Best of luck to FleaFlicker and anyone else that tries to break into this space, but if you, I suggest you buy yourself a lifetime supply of Jolt — you’re going to need it, especially around the beginning of September and on every Sunday thereafter!

By: Jafar

Jafar — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:58:32 +0000

Ouch. Poor Jeff.

By: Georg

Georg — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:30:40 +0000

ITALIA!!!!!!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:10:54 +0000

I think the logo is kind of cool actually

By: Dan Sherman

Dan Sherman — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:55:28 +0000

What is this thing called the “World Cup?” Is it a big cup that different countries use to drink from. I’m not following.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:54:54 +0000

Elvirs,

Ah, no, it’s for American Football, not the other kind. Sorry if my last paragraph threw you off.

By: elvirs

elvirs — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:48:18 +0000

are not they late a little? world cup is over:(
I think site was planned to go out in the beginning of world cup.

By: Brian Balfour

Brian Balfour — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:38:29 +0000

We are trying something a little different at http://www.fanlete.com. Not the full blown out fantasy leagues, but for those that want something a little simpler. Our competitions are basically like march madness brackets but for any sport, for any games, in any combination, at anytime. And of course we’ve thrown in some social networking to make it more interesting.

I couldn’t agree more about the fleaflicker logo….I am definitely not a designer but that is pretty repelling. It’s good to see a group trying to improve on the existing fantasy products out there. There is a lot of room for improvement over Yahoo and ESPN.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:11:28 +0000

Are we going to see some IP suits over licensing similar to MLB vs. CBC (http://tinyurl.com/rr3mn)?

By: murph

murph — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:08:42 +0000

what’s the catch here? are there ads? how are they paying for hosting and stats (big $$). i use a similar service to run my league (not one of the “big guys”) but the developer says he has to charge to cover hosting and the stats.

By: Maris

Maris — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:57:25 +0000

Agree to Peter - logo from previous century
Comoon - ask advice to designer or at least to people who has seen more than computer screen in his life.