Comments on: Fantasy Sports Game Developer RotoHog Secures $2 million In Funding

By: Rogers

Rogers — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:19:13 +0000

Not sure what is this site about, ultimately luring folks with a lottery…..not a business model that is compelling, waste of VC money. Look at their stats on compete and Alexa, they have been struggling….

By: Give Me The Rock » The Roadtrip: Fantasy Sports Economic Edition

Give Me The Rock » The Roadtrip: Fantasy Sports Economic Edition — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:52:01 +0000

[...] now we get to the important link (to me, at least): Fantasy Sports Game Developer RotoHog Secures $2 million In Funding. That makes me happy. Not just because I write about fantasy sports, but because it means that at [...]

By: Rotojoke

Rotojoke — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:42:19 +0000

What a Joke. As one “old” customer stated, “who wants to invest in a sinking ship…”

By: gogo

gogo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:20:56 +0000

Check out the second link, Mission Ventures link. It seems wrong.

By: plank

plank — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:03:28 +0000

Dear Rotohog,

Problems with the Ultimate Fantasy Commissioner game at NBA.com continue. Currently in our league, PFC2, we have:

1) No opponents scheduled for this week

2) Have had no scoring updates since the conclusion of games last Wednesday (meaning our entire Period 7 matchups are incorrect in outcome)

3) Still can not see the overall fantasy points of a player available on the waiver wire (everyone has a 0.00)

4) Commissioner still can’t replace owners or reset position eligibility

5) Speaking of position eligibility, that has not been updated yet this season (as an example Thaddeus Young of the 76ers started at SF for the entire season so far, but still is not eligible there)

I can go on – suffice it to say that since the complete failure of the draft system for the month of October, the myriad “glitches” have made playing UFC this year a nightmare. Communication with those using the UFC this year has been terrible – no responses other than the auto-generated “we’ve received your feedback” email, no public postings on the UFC forum. Does your company have no desire to put out a quality product? Do you have absolutely no care for customer service?

Thank you for taking all the fun out of an interesting and functional game – any chance you will honor your obligation to provide a working product to the fans of the game?

Sincerely,

http://my.nba.c...geID=5800242942

By: Rotohog raises $2m for white-label fantasy sports games » Games Brief

Rotohog raises $2m for white-label fantasy sports games » Games Brief — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:50:37 +0000

[...] reports that RotoHog has raised $2 million to expand its fantasy sports business [...]

By: classic

classic — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:13:05 +0000

MA has not invested in RH.
PS: Wanted to say good post!

By: classic

classic — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:20:57 +0000

MA has not invested in RH.

By: jonathan daniels

jonathan daniels — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:12:31 +0000

wonder why you covered this funding but not the other funding of the day – the omgpop $5mm raise. Seems very “un” objective and journalistically unethical. oh unless mike invested in the company… then you cover it.

By: Rotohog obtiene 2M en Serie B

Rotohog obtiene 2M en Serie B — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:25:22 +0000

[...] un sitio de deportes de fantasía, ha recibido una ronda de financiación Serie B de 2 millones de dólares por parte de Mission Ventures y DFJ [...]

By: ファンタジースポーツゲームの開発社RotoHogが、$2Mの資金を調達 | KGRAND ONLINE NEWS

ファンタジースポーツゲームの開発社RotoHogが、$2Mの資金を調達 | KGRAND ONLINE NEWS — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:08:59 +0000

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By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:54:56 +0000

Congratulations to Kelly Perdew and the team.

By: Ben Fryxell

Ben Fryxell — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:03:09 +0000

Nice article! Check out my site too at http://macmaniapodcast.com

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:02:37 +0000

strange, but interesting

By: Smart Babes Are Sexy Blog

Smart Babes Are Sexy Blog — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:42:58 +0000

Thanks @ Cardinal

Breaking into China will be very difficult. Shanda, Tencent and other local players have established themselves very well, I am not sure how a new foreign entrant will be able to take on entrenched competitors here … while US$2 million may seem like a lot in the current SV VC climate, players like Tencent and Shanda collectively are generating that much in profit each day in China …

From India

Anjali Sen

By: Tom Belzer

Tom Belzer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:39:22 +0000

Crafty spammer…. Guys, “Eli R” = “Smart Babes”

Clueless fool!

By: Former Rotohog Affiliate Who Didn't Get Paid

Former Rotohog Affiliate Who Didn't Get Paid — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:26:03 +0000

Last April, a sales rep (Ryan M) convinced me to put up Rotohog affiliate tags on my site. I tested it for a couple days but it wasn’t a good fit as other ads generated more revenue.

Anyways, they said I got them a couple dozen leads and at $3 a pop, the total amount was $129.

I saved the messages (yeah, hotmail, I know… they sent their original message to the WHOIS email, not the email that appears on the website… Lesson learned: don’t trust WHOIS crawlers):

http://img17.im...otohognopay.jpg

Maybe now with $2 million, they can afford to pay people that gave them users. $129 isn’t huge, but as with a mugging, it’s not the amount of money that was taken that’s important.

By: classic

classic — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:57:33 +0000

know this team well and am a believer in RH.

By: cardinal89

cardinal89 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:49:27 +0000

@Smart Babes. RotoHog is planning to use the funding to expand its client base in international markets, including China.

The Chinese are huge soccer and basketball fans and the fantasy sports industry in China is in it’s infancy. Looks like a good move for DFJ Dragon to get in on the ground floor.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:41:54 +0000

Of course you are missing something/everything. You have no clue… All your comments are spam – please go away.

By: ファンタジースポーツゲームの開発社RotoHogが、$2Mの資金を調達

ファンタジースポーツゲームの開発社RotoHogが、$2Mの資金を調達 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:59:20 +0000

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By: Aaron Blohowiak

Aaron Blohowiak — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:31:30 +0000

@fornls: in this context, fantasy means “pretend” or “make-believe” and is used to describe “fantasy sports”

http://en.wikip...i/Fantasy_sport

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:23:52 +0000

They Provide a different angle of a free fantasy game, they have a nice business, if the regular Fantasy game in the like of Yahoo! ESPN and CBS are what is called “Full Fantasy game” where team owners can hold only one entity of a sports player and by that only perform trading among themselves in Rotohog team owners trade with the system, and there are multiple entities of each sports figure.
No big technology but still a nice business.

If you are looking for technology/innovation in this field you can take a look at http://www.onesesaon.com (they aren’t a Fantasy sports game but still pretty innovative), and a newcomer
in the name of http://www.playspex.com, (A Fantasy game where you Buy & Sell your players with the use of real money)

By: Change Your Life for Better

Change Your Life for Better — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:02:48 +0000

What exactly does this company provide for games? Is that a technology or a software? I did not understand what fantasy means in this business. I was thinking of fantasy computer game development.

By: CMC Fan

CMC Fan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:44:41 +0000

rotohog is also run by the dude that won The Apprentice a few years ago. I wonder if Ivanka is COO