and Mike do explain that photo of you and Loren!!! otherwise Loren is going to explain it and give his spin on it..And we all know that is what you want ..right??

As a diehard fantasy fan, I’m cheering everybody on because I simply want to see innovation and progress.

John
Fantasy Football Collective

I am hoping your venture is going to work out, but I disagree with your example of buying a magazine from the bookstore is the same as paying for “premium content online”. The vast majority of consumers will not pay for online content. That is why they are at their local Barnes and Nobles and only playing for free on sites like CBS, Yahoo (where I play), and ESPN. If you can find a way for me to buy a Fantasy Football draft magazine that has some type of code within it, which will pay for my season’s “premium content”, I definitely would purchase that over another magazine (as long as it was no more than 5 dollars more). I think if you can get a deal with a reputable magazine to help sell you subscriptions that you could really make a dent in this multi-million dollar industry. I guess after you conquer football, then you could move to basketball, and baseball too.

What “angry andy” meant to say is that fantasy football is not at all like a fantasy game like World of Warcraft and he is disgusted with your ignorance of the difference. I am not disgusted, however.

How is it different than what screaming sports is doing?

On the business end, a lot of valley guys won’t get this because this has HUGE mainstream appeal. This isn’t a dinky web 2.0 app, this is a real business and a real market.

the less your competitors know the better

The point of the Digg-like voting is for the breaking news about injuries or backups to surface quickly. And because we are source agnostic, we include links to fan message boards and individual blogs. Where do you think the news breaks first? On fan message boards or in traditional media?

We’re going to continue to improve our user interface and the feature does work.

Jonathan Joseph
Founder and Head Coach, UFN

As Don noted, the business model will be more evident next year in the form of premium services and perhaps some other things we are working on. As for the overwhelming majority of users being in free leagues, that’s certainly true but a large percentage do purchase premium content and services related to fantasy football. All those preseason draft guides you see on the magazine racks at bookstores are a good example.

Thanks for your interest.
Jonathan Joseph
Founder and Head Coach, UFN

In my experience, the money is in providing live content while the games are on.

The feature to change your roster from one site vs the competitor sites has a clumsy interface and doesn’t work. In addition, the fantasy sites themselves already have the information on what players other people are starting on their leagues and display that for free. The only thing this would give you is a provider independent grouping of fantasy players (across ESPN, Yahoo, CBS, etc) to rank players. I also don’t see any features that can quantitatively assess an athlete’s performance after the game has completed or quantitatively assess fantasy players to rank them against each other.

I gotta friend who spend 8-12 hours flying trans-atlantic flights… and no he is not a pilot, he flies in the MS simulator.

The website, in spanish, is this:

http://www.grandt.com.ar