Best News & Analysis Site: Daily Fantasy Sports

By Will Mossa,    Awards

Product Name:
Playbook Pro

Company Name:
Fantasy Alarm

Product Description:
The Fantasy Alarm DFS Playbook Pro is a one stop shop for everything you need to manage your daily fantasy sports lineups in all sports across the industry. We offer DFS Playbooks for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, CFB, NASCAR, PGA & Special Events all year around.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
The DFS Playbook Pro includes; in-depth analysis, projections, position coaches, tools, rankings, lineup generators and optimal lineups from some of the best analysts in the industry .

Product URL:
https://www.fantasyalarm.com/dfs-playbook-pro/home/

Special Instructions:
Most features described above are free but if you would like to test out any premium area feel free. Please use the following login credentials.   u: fsta@fantasyalarm.com p: awards


Product Name:
FantasyWired.com

Company Name:
iBus Media

Product Description:
FantasyWired is dedicated to providing top-notch, completely free daily fantasy sports news, advice and analysis. Our team of DFS experts break down daily slates on the major sites offering value plays, chalk plays, and other daily advice to level the playing field for beginners. Our goal is to keep even our most premium content free and accessible to players who love DFS, but don’t have the time or bankroll for premium tools. In addition, we’ve been extremely active on putting together a plethora of starter content to assist and onboard players who have never played daily fantasy sports before.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
While many products in this category cater themselves to the high volume, DFS grinders — FantasyWired take the opposite approach. We aim to assist the recreational players, and those who are just starting to play the game. This strategy, will assist in keeping the DFS ecosystem healthy and thriving by growing the popularity of the industry as a whole. We’ve also developed our site design around ease of use — ensuring players can quickly access the info they need to help them build their lineups. Our long tail SEO strategy also is geared towards beginners, and those who may be confused by the advertising barrage that we’ve seen in the industry. We’ve created a clear funnel for new players to learn about what daily fantasy sports are, how they can get started playing, and how they can start winning through completely free strategy and advice.

Product URL:
www.fantasywired.com

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Product Name:
RotoGrinders.com

Company Name:
RotoGrinders.com

Product Description:
RotoGrinders is the heart of the daily fantasy community. Founded in 2010, the site has been at the forefront of DFS news and analysis since the industry’s beginnings. Over time, RotoGrinders has grown into a legitimate one-stop resource for DFS players who want to build better lineups. In addition to providing daily strategy content, tools and forum discussions, the site’s podcasts and slate of “GrindersLive” videocasts have become staples of DFS multimedia broadcasts. RotoGrinders continues to evolve, adding new features and enhancements that deliver critical information in near real-time, including an interactive Starting Lineups tool and DFS Alerts section that combines breaking news with strategic analysis. All RotoGrinders content is tailored to a specific DFS site and sport, giving visitors an edge no matter where or what they’re playing.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
At the heart of RotoGrinders lies the Grinders Rankings, which aggregates tens of millions of contest results from across DFS sites to create a rankings system that recognizes the world’s top DFS players. RotoGrinders sources most of its content from players at the top of these rankings, ensuring that site visitors get insights from the sharpest minds and most proven DFS winners. At the time of this submission, 8 of the top 50 and 13 of the top 100 ranked players have served as RotoGrinders contributors in the past year. RotoGrinders also has innovated at an unprecedented pace the past 12 months, including the additions of a dedicated meteorologist to break down the weather impact of every slate and an expert team of analysts to push urgent DFS news and analysis directly to members’ cell phones. While much of the site is open to the public, more than 100,000 DFS players have created accounts to join the RotoGrinders community.

Product URL:
RotoGrinders.com

Special Instructions:
All visitors who create a free RotoGrinders account will receive an introductory guide on 7 ways RotoGrinders can help you win more money playing DFS. ¯ It’s the best way to quickly see everything¯ the site can do. In terms of news and analysis, most of these sections can be accessed via the global site navigation, including: DFS Alerts¯; Podcasts; GrindersLive videocasts; and Daily Research¯ consoles for all major sites and sports.


Product Name:
RotoWire.com/daily

Company Name:
RotoWire.com

Product Description:
RotoWire is the web’s premier fantasy news and information resource with 24/7 coverage of baseball, football, hockey, basketball, college football, college basketball, auto racing, soccer, MMA, cricket and golf. RotoWire also features extensive coverage and tools for daily fantasy sports in all 11 sports. A RotoWire.com subion includes access to all areas with draft kits, in-season tools, feature stories and columns for each sport.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
RotoWire has become the leader in DFS news and information. RotoWire’s daily lineup information for MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, soccer, college football and college basketball has become the leading resource with the information also syndicated to DraftKings and FanDuel. The lineups are posted as soon as available and projected lineups are estimated for upcoming games with constant updates. RotoWire’s DFS Lineup Optimizer, which won the 2014 FSTA award for Best Fantasy Sports Service/Tool for Web, has expanded to nine sports with the only options on the web for Soccer, golf, NASCAR and college basketball. RotoWire also features daily DFS columns for ten sports along with daily projections, value reports, in-depth matchup statistics and more. And that is in addition to the leading player news and injury data from RotoWire as well that is deeply integrated into the web site’s DFS tools.

Product URL:
RotoWire.com/daily

Special Instructions:
Use the following to login and view all the areas/features of RotoWire.com/daily UserName: Fsta Password: fsta


Product Name:
DailyRoto

Company Name:
DailyRoto

Product Description:
DailyRoto.com is a leading Daily Fantasy Sports community and provider of free and premium product. Powered by RotoExperts and led by DFS experts Drew Dinkmeyer, Mike Leone, and Adam Hummell, DailyRoto.com pairs high quality premium content with a passionate community. Drew Dinkmeyer and Mike Leone create some of the best and most credible premium content in the industry through statistical analysis and using their experience as DFS players. An emphasis on innovative and educational free content allows players of all experience levels to improve their Daily Fantasy Sports skills and have fun doing it. Adam Hummell manages a community that provides a platform for Daily Fantasy Sports players to learn, be educated, and foster camaraderie. Additionally, the DailyRoto community gives Daily Fantasy Sports game providers an arena to interact on a more personal level with their users in an effort to improve both their products and the overall user experience.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
DailyRoto.com is a leading Daily Fantasy Sports community and provider of free and premium product. Powered by RotoExperts and led by DFS experts Drew Dinkmeyer, Mike Leone, and Adam Hummell, DailyRoto.com pairs high quality premium content with a passionate community. Drew Dinkmeyer and Mike Leone create some of the best and most credible premium content in the industry through statistical analysis and using their experience as DFS players. Since 2014, DailyRoto premium content has helped to produce four separate one million dollar winners. An emphasis on innovative and educational free content allows players of all experience levels to improve their Daily Fantasy Sports skills and have fun doing it. Adam Hummell manages a community that provides a platform for Daily Fantasy Sports players to learn, be educated, and foster camaraderie. Additionally, the DailyRoto community gives Daily Fantasy Sports game providers an arena to interact on a more personal level with their users in an effort to improve both their products and the overall user experience.

Product URL:
www.DailyRoto.com

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Product Name:
DraftKings Playbook

Company Name:
DraftKings

Product Description:
DraftKings offers both written and broadcast content for its users from fantasy experts and analysts including the DraftKings Playbook and DKTV.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
DraftKings is the first major company to fully-integrate a DFS product with content, including articles from our DraftKings Analysts and our own broadcast channel in DKTV. The DraftKings Playbook is a resource for daily fantasy sports players.  It’s the best place to get daily fantasy strategy tips, team and player rankings, as well as cheat sheets.  Our experienced DraftKings Analysts and Playbook fantasy experts offer advice on daily picks to help our community make informed decisions. DraftKings has approximately 30 contributors on the Playbook and five of them are considered DraftKings Analysts.  They all use their vast experience and knowledge across the various different sports to offer the community information and tips they couldn’t get anywhere else.  We view our analysts and expert contributors as brand ambassadors. They create content for us, they offer our community tips and advice about how to play, but they are not employees of DraftKings.com. These players have agreed to be representatives of the DraftKings brand and serve as ambassadors for Playbook. 

Product URL:
https://playbook.draftkings.com/

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