Archive for the ‘Player News’ Category

Pickemfirst.com offers a Firefox extension for fantasy player research

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

One of the coolest new web sites we’ve seen recently is pickemfirst.com. It’s a Firefox extension that automatically highlights NFL player names on any web page, providing you detailed information about that player, including if he’s available as a free agent in your league or not.   Since a picture is worth a thousand words, check out this video to see this extension in action.

We’d definitely encourage all of our customers who use Firefox to check out this extension, and give the fine folks at pickemfirst.com some feedback on this.

Player News Sources

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Last month we talked about our new and improved player news and content from a variety of sources.  That plan has come together very well, and hopefully you are enjoying all of the in-depth fantasy football player news coverage in your league now.  Checkout the full Press Release that came out today for more details.

If you have a fantasy football news or content site, and you’d like to start getting the word out to thousands of rabid fantasy football fanatics, drop us a line to see how we can help you integrate your information into our leagues.  Or if you want to build tools for fantasy football players using our Open Developer’s API, we’d be excited to discuss that with you as well!

Nightly News

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

You’ve read about all of the additional player news that we’ve integrated into MyFantasyLeague.com recently. This additional content from all of our sources is readily available from various screens and reports in your league, such as the “Reports > NFL > News Articles” menu item, or directly on your league home page in the “5 Newest News Articles” home page module, as well as any player information pages that are readily available from your roster report or any other listing of players.

To help get a handle on all of this in-depth player information, we’ve added a new option to the “For Owners > Franchise Setup” page. If you click on the “Advanced” section of this screen, you’ll find the option to “Send Email For: My Player News (within the last day, sent at 3am ET)“. Franchise owners can select this option to automatically receive an email message overnight whenever there is fresh news for any players on their roster. It’s a great, easy way to be notified about updated news for all of the players on your fantasy team.

Tony Holm Joins MyFantasyLeague.com

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

I recently discussed how we beefed up the quality and quantity of our Fantasy Player News that’s available on your league home page. Now we have the rest of the story for you. This improved news came about as one of the first initiatives after hiring Tony Holm of FantasySharks.com fame. Check out the complete Press Release for all of the details. Tony has been working hard to integrate fantasy content from various sites to help you stay up-to-date on the latest happenings in the fantasy football world while you run your team on MyFantasyLeague.com.

We’ll have more details on the various news sources and additional content throughout the preseason.

More Player News

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

For quite a few years, we’ve had a great source of player news on our site from the folks at KFFL.  If anything happens to a player in the NFL, you can be sure they are on top of it and will report it with a news update on our site as soon as it happens!  KFFL covers the NFL news scene as well as anybody in the industry, which is why we’ve relied on them as the centerpiece of our NFL news source.

In addition to KFFL, we’ve also teamed up with Rotoworld for the past couple of years to provide additional player news and analysis.  They add a fantasy-centric perspective to all of the news and happenings around the NFL, so their NFL player news enhances and expands on the in-depth coverage that KFFL provides.

And now the exciting part — we’ve recently added several other sources of player news and fantasy content to enhance our coverage and provide you with even more fantasy news and valuable information at your fingertips each and every day!  We’ll expand on all of this in future posts, but for now we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added player news and information from several other top-notch sources.  In no particular order, these are the additional sources of news and articles that you’ll see in your league now:  Rotowire, The Huddle, Fantasy Fanatics, FF Toolbox, and FF Champs.

You’ll have access to all of these news sources on the usual news page in your league, accessible from the “Reports > NFL > News Articles” menu.  You’ll also see the news on the player pages when you click on a player name from anywhere on the site.  We’ll continue to enhance the fantasy news and content available to you throughout the season, and we’ll update you here with all of the new developments as they happen.