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With the sixth and final installment of our WFNY daily fantasy challenges via FanDuel, we are taking it back to the basics. For just $2 (and up to three teams each), winners will do what they can with the provided salary money and take home their share of $500. [Read more...]
Tonight will kick off (or be the first pitch) for the WFNY/FanDuel Fantasy Baseball tournament which could send one of you to Las Vegas for the chance to win $100,000.
We laid out the details here, but in case you’re not from around these parts…
FanDuel Fantasy Challenges are fantasy baseball, salary cap style, for one night. You want Josh Hamilton? He’s yours. Josh Johnson has been on fire — sign him up!
You can enter as many teams as you wish. Each weekly tournament has over $3,000 in prizes, but if you win one of the 15 qualifying tournaments, you and a friend win an all expenses paid trip to the Palazzo in Las Vegas the weekend of July 28 & 29. There, the 15 finalists will compete for $250,000 in cash prizes in a one-day fantasy baseball game with the winner taking home $100,000.
Again, it’s only $10 to enter and you can enter as many teams as you want for the chance to take home $100,000.
Enter through this link. Tell them WFNY sent you. Good luck!
Another week, another fantasy baseball challenge brought to you by FanDuel. We’ve had a few giveaways already, winners splitting their share of some relatively easy money. This time around, things get heady.
Gentlemen… [Read more...]
And we’re back with this week’s Fantasy Challenge. Given that the “beat the expert” component hasn’t faired so well — I’ve come in last and second-last, respectively — we’re going back to the old way. Straight-up salary cap, one night’s worth of games. [Read more...]
One night, one team, $125 to the winners.
As we mentioned yesterday, log in through this link, register a team based on a $35,000 salary cap and see if you can beat me. It’s only $2 to enter, so if you played last week, it’s house money. We’re also allowing participants to enter up to three teams per person with the top seven winners get a share of $125; beat me and break even. It’s that simple.
Limited spots are available so get clicking and get winning.
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So, last week went well. At least for those who entered our FanDuel ”Beat the Expert” challenge wherein yours truly came in dead last, allowing every single person to at least break even. Thanks a lot, Josh Johnson.
This time around, we’re going to do more of the same to see if I can rebound.
Log in through this link, register a team based on a $35,000 salary cap and see if you can beat me. It’s only $2 to enter, so if you played last week, it’s house money. We’re also allowing participants to enter up to three teams per person with the top seven winners get a share of $125; beat me and break even. It’s that simple.
Limited spots are available so get clicking and get winning.
How would it feel to not only leave tonight’s NFL Draft slate with $500 in addition two more quality draft selections for your Cleveland Browns?
As a “Last Call” reminder for WFNY’s Fantasy Challenge — in our partnership with FanDuel — this free-to-enter salary cap game lasts one night and will net winners up to $500. As we mentioned earlier this week, it’s a points-based format so we won’t be taking into account potentially lumpy stats like ERA or BA, but all settings are attainable on the custom WFNY FanDuel page.
All one has to do is click on that link above and see if they can compile a team that can not only beat mine, but the others who have decided to get down for the challenge. Spread your $35,000 in salary money carefully — it doesn’t go far!Good luck!
Along with sports changing over time, the nature of sports fans have changed too. The way we consume sports certainly has changed with television and the Internet. It got me wondering how much of a sports fan I would have been if I hadn’t grown up in this day and age. I love watching the games, but I would be lying if I had an insane attention to detail. I have never had an affinity for memorizing statistics either.
I had a roommate in college who was insane with his photographic memory. He could close his eyes and tell you all the last 20 Super Bowl winners based on a poster he had on his wall. He could tell you what the Jets did in each of their games last year because he had looked at a page with all the weeks and results laid out. Back in the old days of being a sports fan, that kind of talent made you an expert. If you could spout off statistics from famous Yankees off the back of their baseball cards, you were revered in the sports world for having such an encyclopedic knowledge.
I was never cut out to be that guy, yet here I am in the modern age with the ability to write articles and engage other sports fans as something of an authority* because I spend so much time working at it. The value of skill sets has shifted away from people needing to memorize things and more toward analysis, communication ability and ability to engage an audience. Still, part of the reason that I can do this is that I am pretty handy with a computer, researching, consolidating information, analyzing it, putting an opinion around it and writing it up. [Read more...]
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