Yahoo Fantasy Sports – Champion of Champions
Yahoo
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
In the second year of this contest Champion of Champions was expanded to Basketball, Baseball, Hockey and Football. We’ve crowned the best fantasy players as Champions of Champions for all sports in postseason play. To qualify, each winner in a season-long fantasy league is invited to compete in a Daily Fantasy tournament to determine the best overall fantasy player in each sport. Champion of Champions has also grown this year to include more winners, so as long as you don’t finish last in your league, you’ll be invited to play in a level based on your league finish. You’ll be entered into a Champions, Silver, Bronze or Plastic Cup level and potentially win.
WHAT MAKES THIS PRODUCT WORTHY OF WINNING
Winning your full season Fantasy Football league has historically been the end goal for most players, but now it’s just the beginning. Exclusively on Yahoo, fantasy players can compete against other league winners to earn the top position: the Champion of Champions. The opportunity to compete against all of Yahoo’s best full season players becomes a reality in the Champion of Champions post-season tournament where one winner will walk away with bragging rights, glory and nice prizes.
PRODUCT URL
https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/champion
MFL10s
MyFantasyLeague.com
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
MFL10s are a fun way to stay active with fantasy football during the off-season. Just $10 buys you an entry into a season long league with 12 teams and a chance to win a cool $100. You can join a league anytime during the offseason. New drafts kickoff every day starting right after the Superbowl. After you join a league, the draft starts within 24 hours, and then you have 8 hours per pick in an email draft format that takes 1 to 2 weeks to complete. Higher stakes formats are available as well, including MFL25s, MFL50s, and MFL100s with either full roster management or draft only formats.
WHAT MAKES THIS PRODUCT WORTHY OF WINNING
MFL10s provide the excitement of drafting in a season long format throughout the off-season, and the payouts are the best in the industry.
PRODUCT URL
www.mfl10s.com
CBS Sports Office Pool Manager
CBS Sports Digital
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
CBS Sports Fantasy doesn’t only cater to the most dedicated fantasy players — we offer a wide range of games from custom leagues for serious players to beginners’ games for future pros.
With CBS Sports Office Pool Manager, it’s free and easy to run a pro or college football pool online. Users can choose from Straight Up, Against the Spread, Survivor, and Confidence pools, and can customize the weights and scoring of any game however they like, across all of their devices. Users also have access to analysis and projections from SportsLine, CBS Sports Digital’s platform for statistical sports coverage and predictive analysis. SportsLine combines advanced data models with expert insight to provide smarter projections of game outcomes and player performances.
The rules of the game are simple:
- Build your pool: Start a pool and invite friends using email and social tools.
- Customize your rules: Create rules for how you want to make picks and award points.
- Pick your way to the top: Pick games each week against your friends and follow the results live.�
WHAT MAKES THIS PRODUCT WORTHY OF WINNING
CBS Sports Office Pool Manager offers a fun, easy and reliable way for any football fan to participate in the excitement of fantasy football games with their friends and family every week, without the need for an advanced skill level or serious time commitment.
Players also have access to all of our in-depth content and advice as well as our dedicated customer service team offering reliable, personal service.
CBS Sports Office Pool Manager has received more than 1 million entries in 2016 to date.
PRODUCT URL
https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football/games/office-pool-manager?ttag=OPM16_os_allgames_more
Tournament Challenge
ESPN
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Tournament Challenge is the premiere NCAA bracket game in the world, offered during the NCAA Tournament in March. The game is available on Web across all devices, as well as a standalone app for iOS and Android devices.
The game offers a complete experience for filling out and tracking NCAA bracket picks during the men’s and women’s NCAA tournament, including the ability to fill out a bracket from scratch or pre-fill based on ESPN expert picks, the ability to create custom groups to play against friends or join groups to compete against celebrities, and a killer feature called BracketCast that enables users to see the impact any given game will have on their bracket performance in real time. If an upset ruins a person’s bracket, all is not lost. They can play the Second Chance game which gives them the ability to fill out a new bracket starting with the Sweet 16 round. Users compete for prizes with increased chances to win based on their performance.�
WHAT MAKES THIS PRODUCT WORTHY OF WINNING
In 2016 ESPN had over 13 million brackets completed in the game, a new record.
PRODUCT URL
https://games.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2016/en/
The FNTSY Cup
FNTSY Sports Network
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The FNTSY Cup brings together a diverse cast of characters — writers, analysts, reality TV stars, politicians, wrestlers, actors, former athletes, hosts, and more — to compete in one of the most fun charity experiences around: a fantasy football draft.
In August, twelve teams and hundreds of fans came to Rock & Reilly’s in midtown Manhattan to celebrate fantasy football. With an open bar, food, and a simulcast of the event on both SiriusXM and FNTSY Sports Network, the FNTSY Cup is like no other fantasy event in existence — the smarts of an expert draft mixed with the unabashed fun of a home league.
Participants included Kelly AuCoin (from Billions and The Americans), Eric Young (WWE NXT wreslter), Albie Manzo (The Real Housewives of New Jersey), Keith Bulluck (former NFL star for the Titans and Giants), Dean Murray (NY Assemblyman who was integral in passing fantasy sports legislation) Chris Vaccaro (NFFC Hall of Famer), Lisa Ann (author and radio host), and then a bunch of your typical fantasy analysts who pounded Moscow Mules all night and tried to pick fights with each other.
The winner of the league will have $2000 donated to the charity of their choice at the end of the season; second place will get a $500 donation in their name.
WHAT MAKES THIS PRODUCT WORTHY OF WINNING
It’s a unique event with a charity aspect and a lot of people having a good time
FanDuel Friends Mode
FanDuel
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Launched just in time for the 2016-2017 NFL season, FanDuel launched Friends Mode – a new season-long fantasy product. On Friends Mode, users can join at any time throughout the season, enter contests on a week-to-week basis (if they want) and can be rewarded every week, instead of once at the end of the season.
All FanDuel users have a Friends tab in the FanDuel lobby on desktop and mobile. Within this mode, users can create and join leagues with their friends and family. Features include:
- Easy Commissioner Tools: On Friends Mode, it is easier than ever to be commissioner. Commissioners start a league by giving it a name and picture, creating one contest upfront by setting the parameters (entry fee and contests size) and inviting friends and family to join with an invite link. Once the league is created, a weekly contest is auto-created for that private group. The commissioner also has the option to edit contest size, entry amount and payout structure any given week.
- Flexibility: Users can join a league at any time throughout the season and enter contests on a week-to-week basis, choosing the weeks they want to participate.
- Weekly Prizes: Every week is an opportunity to win. On Friends Mode, winners are rewarded each week, instead of once at the end of the season.
- League Leaderboard: Like season-long fantasy, each league will feature a leaderboard to track standings all season, showing the top five scores throughout the season.
WHAT MAKES THIS PRODUCT WORTHY OF WINNING
Friends Mode is the first product of its kind, bringing the best of season-long fantasy to the daily format, giving users the ability to play against friends and family every week of the NFL season, choosing the weeks they want to play. The product has beat FanDuel’s expectations.
PRODUCT URL
www.fanduel.com/friends
Fantasy Football World Championships
Scout Fantasy
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Now in our 5th year, and previous FSTA Award Winning contest, The Fantasy Football World Championships continues to expand and build on the foundation which has provided fantasy players the ultimate in season long fantasy sports competition. Begin with our $35 Starter leagues and climb your way to the top of the mountain to compete in the Fantasy Football World Championships out in Las Vegas or online from home, Scout Fantasy has a contest for everyone.
No Trading, 12 team leagues and PPR Scoring. All players that enter are grouped into leagues made up of 12 teams each where you'll be assigned a random draft position. Some leagues draft in vegas while others draft online from home, but ALL are competing to win their league and the Title of World Champion. Players compete in a 13-week regular season against 11 league mates in our FFWC signature 11-man starting lineup, for the largest league prizes you'll find anywhere! Dominate your league and walk away with 10 stacks of high society! That's right, $10,000! Then, the Top 4 teams from each league advance to the Championship Round in weeks 14 through 16, where things really get serious. Competing for over $200,000 in prizes, the team finishing at the Top of the Leaderboard will be crowned the next Fantasy Football World Champion.
WHAT MAKES THIS PRODUCT WORTHY OF WINNING
There are several reasons, but we’ll give you our top three.
- Reduction of luck – With a 20 round draft coupled with an 11-man starting lineup, this presents the more skilled owners a chance to flex their fantasy muscles. Watch as other teams face difficulty fielding a lineup each week while you cruise to a fantasy title.
- 13-week regular season – There is nothing worse than watching your season end after week 11 and not have any action on the line during the biggest football day of the year (Thanksgiving Day). The World Championships is simply more bang for your fantasy buck.
- ROI – Return on Investment for the players. Do the math and compare us to the other household names in the industry. It’s not even close. Our Starter leagues pay out an incredible 95% back to the players in prizing, while our mid-stakes Online Championships (90%) and high-stakes World Championships (87%) return more money back to the players than any other contest by far. Win an incredible $10,000 Dominator prize in our World Championships and you’ll be hooked for life!
BONUS: The best league software, hands down.
PRODUCT URL
https://fftoolbox.scout.com/ffwc/main-event.cfm