Best News & Analysis Site: Single Sport (Seasonal & Daily)

By Will Mossa,    Awards

Product Name:
BaseballHQ.com

Company Name:
BaseballHQ.com

Product Description:
Fantasy baseball’s #1 premium information service. Stats, projections, news analysis, player performance trends, injury analysis, minor league coverage, gaming strategy, DFS tools and more.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
We publish over 1000 articles every year; site is updated daily from the day after the Super Bowl through the end of September (and several times a week from October-January). BHQ also features an extensive set of tools, including projections and our Custom Draft Guide, where users can get projected values per their specific scoring systems.

Product URL:
www.baseballhq.com

Special Instructions:
Subscriber-only; but list of free articles (approx 1 per week) can be found here: https://www.baseballhq.com/free-content 


Product Name:
4for4 Fantasy Football

Company Name:
Intense Industries (4for4 Fantasy Football)

Product Description:
4for4 Fantasy Football (4for4.com) has been in business for 16 NFL seasons and over the last six seasons combined, FantasyPros considers 4for4’s Senior Editor, John Paulsen, “the most accurate fantasy football expert”. These projections are the backbone of 400+ weekly player rankings, 6,000+ daily news alerts, 500+ pieces of weekly content, 38 weekly reports and 16 tools.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
Like all our competitors, a lot of time and effort goes into providing quality and accurate fantasy football information. We feel that what differentiates 4for4 from our competitors is the passion to serve our customers and the attention to detail on *every* level. Yes, most 4for4 employees are well-versed in fantasy football but the first thing on everyone’s mind, before fantasy football, before revenue, before marketing, before ANYTHING, is our subscribe base.

Product URL:
www.4for4.com

Special Instructions:
Use login: FSTA and password: FSTA to browse the site with no restrictions


Product Name:
Pro Football Focus Fantasy Gold

Company Name:
Pro Football Focus

Product Description:
Subscribers to Pro Football Focus Fantasy Gold receive access to the following: Year-round, proven-accurate staff player rankings, including preseason, weekly, rest-of-season, dynasty and IDP. PFF won the FSTA award for most-accurate preseason fantasy football rankings in 2013. Player Projections that cover offense, IDP, kickers, returners, and team defense. Our projections are available and updated nearly the entire calendar year and power several commissioner sites, including ESPN, Yahoo, RT Sports and Reality Sports Online. Our Custom Toolkit, which allows users to input their league settings, which are applied to our projections and converted into a custom set of rankings. Users can simulate as many drafts as they like and even use the tool during their live draft. In season, users can input their roster and the tool will suggest a weekly starting lineup. The tool is 100 percent compatible with ESPN, Yahoo, and all other major commissioner sites. It’s available year round. Users can view individual future weeks or any combination of future weeks. This tool includes auto-generated auction values and include a replacement level value for each player. Our Daily Fantasy Tool, which compares player prices on the top daily sites to our projections and provides the relative value of all players. The tool also suggests an optimized lineup and allows users to “lock in” or “ignore” players or teams. Content provided by an award-winning staff of writers. The PFF Fantasy staff is more than 30 deep, which allows it to churn out dozens of quality advice columns per week during the fantasy season. Offense, IDP, Dynasty and Daily are all covered at length each week. The FSWA’s best web article and top newcomer awards went to PFF Fantasy staffers in 2012 and 2013. The best print article went to a member of the PFF staff in 2013. A majority of our staff is active on Twitter and available to answer user questions via email. Access to the unique/innovative data provided by the Pro Football Focus game analysts’ Everyone has access to target and reception numbers, but at PFF, users have the ability to examine snap and pass route data from each game. On top of that, we utilize depth of target/throw, offensive/defensive formations and personnel packages, tackle/pressure/interception/etc.-per-snap frequencies, adjusted, regressed, and normalized statistics in several key areas, including touchdowns and yardage. We also use our participation data to get a leg up on weekly matchups. For example, by charting how often cornerbacks stick to one side (as opposed to following No. 1 wide receivers around the formation), we can better project each wide receiver’s production. Many of the top, high stakes season-long and daily players subscribe to Pro Football Focus Fantasy Gold in order to access our WR/CB Matchup tool and data. This is really just the tip of the iceberg as to the data and information we are able to provide. Our PFF Fantasy Stat tool, which provides gamers both raw data (eg. attempts, yards, touchdowns, interceptions, fantasy points) and unique statistics (eg. average depth of target (aDOT), completion percentage on aimed throws, fantasy-points-per-snap and opportunity). What makes this product even more innovative is the ability to manually adjust which weeks of data are shown. Choose any variation of weeks and analyze the results. Historical data is included and the tool updates each week of the NFL season, including the playoffs. The Fantasy Slant –  a collection of Google Hangouts and Podcasts throughout each week of the calendar year. The top talent at PFF Fantasy provide their advice in all areas of Fantasy Football, including redraft, IDP, daily, and dynasty. The War Room Google Hangout airs each Sunday morning of the NFL regular season, providing users with last minute Sit/Start advice live on the air. Access to our annual PFF Fantasy Draft Guide, which is available in PDF and print format. It debuts before its competition (May) and is updated through late August.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
The data we have access to is unprecedented, the content provided by our talented staff has been recognized as best in the industry on multiple occasions, our tools are both unique and vital for users and we are extremely active/accessible on social media. At PFF, we pride ourselves on accuracy and feel we’re the top outlet for those in search of a fantasy football championship.

Product URL:
https://www.profootballfocus.com/fantasy/

Special Instructions:
User ID: PFFMike . Password: pffmike


Product Name:
footballdiehards.com

Company Name:
footballdiehards.com

Product Description:
The FootballDiehards.com was originally established in 1996, providing content for fantasy football managers with their teams over the full cycle of the year. Over the 20 years we have grown to include DFS content, podcasts and specific tools to help managers in the current times. In addition, visitors to the site find a wealth of content — including constantly-updated rankings, news, feature articles and columns by some of the game’s forward thinkers and successful professionals — to make sure they’re ready for whatever version of the game they enjoy. The site is smart phone and tablet friendly.

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?

Product URL:
https://www.footballdiehards.com/

Special Instructions:
U:media@fspnet.com
P: media99


Product Name:
Daily Dr. Roto Videos

Company Name:
Scout Media

Product Description:
Dr. Roto provides daily wisdom via video on the Scout network every single day, from Waiver Wire Wednesday to Visionary Style picks, the office is open my friends!

What Makes This Product Worthy of Winning This Category?
Dr. Roto provides an impact video every single day that packs in years of experience, delivered in a fresh and entertaining style.

Product URL:
https://www.scout.com/fantasy/story/1623342-visionary-playoff-waiver-wire-pickup

Special Instructions: