Best Mobile App – Service or Tool

By Will Mossa,    Awards

Product Name:
DraftValet Q&A Lifeline

Company Name:
DraftValet

Product Description:
The DraftValet Q&A Lifeline is a one-to-one personal fantasy sports advice app that provides thorough analysis and quick responses with paid customers guaranteed an answer usually in 15 minutes or less. The DraftValet Q&A Lifeline was named one of the top fantasy sports apps by Time Inc. It is available on iPhone and iPad devices and the company web site (draftvalet.com). Our nationally renowned experts provide detailed advice and analysis on pre-draft, post-draft, roster construction, start/sit, waiver wire help, trades, injuries and daily sports strategies covering many sports. Users have the ability to add their rosters in multiple leagues to help the experts get the context needed to provide the most thorough advice. The app also features a roster evaluator where the experts comb through the team with detail and provide a grade and recommendations to get it to championship caliber. The app also has a trending feature with the popular topics and questions being asked by users.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?People who play fantasy sports want advice from accomplished experts and players. DraftValet provides this and not in a simple one-word answer that is prevalent in the industry. Our experts explain why the decisions were made and back it up with statistics and reasons. They leave no doubt as to why the selections were made to help the users become better players. Best of all, the responses are provided in less than 15 minutes most times. This is critical with late breaking news and even more integral with Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) becoming more popular by the day. Have a player that was scratched a half-hour before lineup lock? No problem! Come to the DraftValet app and get an answer instantly. The app operates smoothly and you get instant push notifications on your iOS device. The interface is simple and easy to navigate and customers are extremely satisfied.

Product URL:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draftvalet/id879431063?mt=8

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Product Name:
Draft Guide App

Company Name:
Rotoworld/NBC Sports

Product Description:
The mobile version of the Rotoworld NFL Draft Guide is an in-app, add-on purchase for the Rotoworld Fantasy News App.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
The mobile version of the Rotoworld NFL Draft Guide gives you our rankings and player outlooks in the palm of your hand during your draft. The Draft Guide allows you to sort the rankings by three different scoring settings, ADP and more. You also get convenient access to the depth charts of all 32 teams, and you can input your players as you’re drafting your championship squad.

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Product Name:
FantasyPros My Playbook – Fantasy Football 2015 (iOS)

Company Name:
FantasyPros

Product Description:
My Playbook combines FantasyPros Expert Consensus Rankings with advanced tools and reports into an easy to use mobile application for iOS. Managers can easily import teams from their favorite fantasy football commissioner to manage their teams all season long. Managers can see weekly optimized lineups with the touch of a button; view an innovative team stream with news, articles, and advice from FantasyPros experts and correspondents; get waiver wire advice; analyze trades; get start/sit advice; and get a live game day feed of fantasy performance.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
With support for the vast majority of fantasy football commissioner services, My Playbook lets users import and manage all of their fantasy football teams with weekly customized expert advice. A variety of powerful new features are available, such as the innovative Team Stream which lets you view news, advice, and in-depth articles specific to each team; a powerful trade analyzer that lets you see the projected outcome of any trade scenario; and an advanced waiver wire tool that suggests the best available player to add AND which player to drop, giving you an analysis of the projected outcome. This, along with tried and true start/sit advice and cheat sheet capabilities gives managers the ability to make well-informed decisions for their teams, all season long.

Product URL:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fantasypros-my-playbook-fantasy/id1032583059?mt=8

Special Instructions:
This is a paid app; please purchase from the App Store and we can refund the initial purchase price (email hahn@fantasypros.com). Once purchased, please login using username: fantasypros_fsta / password: fantasypros_fsta


Product Name:
Scout Fantasy Mobile App

Company Name:
Scout Media

Product Description:
A new app for hardcore fantasy players.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
Push alerts when your questions are answered on our Member Forums. Get exclusive, insider news and video about the teams and passions you love the most. Get alerts on breaking news, and join fellow fans talking about all things fantasy.

Product URL:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scout.com/id969228328?mt=8 

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Product Name:
Fantasy Alarm Fantasy Football Mobile App

Company Name:
Fantasy Alarm

Product Description:

A three time FSTA award winner for the Fantasy Alarm’s Fantasy App is one of the most widely used fantasy app in the industry. Hundreds of thousands of people rely on our Lineup Alarms and the most timely information in the Fantasy Industry to set their fantasy lineups every single day.

Fantasy Alarm’s Fantasy Football App helps you win in fantasy football and syncs your roster right to the app from all major league management providers including CBS, Yahoo, ESPN, NFL, RTFS, MFL, Fleaflicker and more. You will receive real-time alerts letting you know that your player Appears on the active/inactive list released to FA straight from the league office and more.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
Fantasy Alarm Football, from the revolutionary developers of FantasyAlarm.com, gives you direct access to the information the press uses to report fantasy sports news and information. You will receive real-time alarms when a player on your roster… Is added to league injury list, listed as questionable or listed as probable, Has rumors, trades, or is moved up or down on the depth chart, Is removed from or added to the active roster (injured, suspended, etc.). Breaking information, news, trends or favorable match-ups for your tracked players, Game time decisions tracking last minute news from media outlets. Protecting you in the event something changes after the inactive report is released (including monitoring pre-game broadcasts) and Bye week notifications.

Product URL:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fantasyalarm.fantasyalarmnfl&hl=en

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