ESPN has announced that the 2010 ESPN Fantasy Football presented by GEICO and GMC kicks off on ESPN.com.
ESPN for the sixth consecutive year will feature a broad lineup of free features including live scoring, multiple draft options, mobile alerts and team management, fully customizable rules and scoring, and the broadest collection of expert analysis, news and statistical information available.
Players can start drafting ESPN Fantasy Football team on ESPN.com served by integration across ESPN’s many media platforms.
The 2010 Fantasy Football on ESPN.com marks the 15th anniversary debuted in 1995. ESPN kicked off its “Reality of Fantasy” campaign, featuring Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson in one of several TV spots.
The 2010 Fantasy Football on ESPN.com draft events will be held through August, hosted by radio stations across the country. On August 22, ESPN Radio 1250 will kick off its Fantasy tour in Pittsburgh, featuring Hall of Famer John Clayton, ESPN Fantasy Guru Matthew Berry, ESPN.com sports injury expert Stephania Bell, and ESPN Radio 1250’s Matt Williamson and Ken Laird. Similar draft events will be hosted in
- New York - August 24 & 25
- Chicago – August 28
- Dallas – August 29 and
- Los Angeles - August 29
ESPN will feature a complete lineup of news, information, analysis, and entertainment, including the return of Fantasy Football Now – the Emmy Award-winning live Sunday morning program, incubated on ESPN.com and now a simulcast on ESPN2 and ESPN Mobile TV.
ESPN’s Berry will be the lead analyst, joined by a collection of additional contributors each week. ESPN’s digital media platforms will also feature the daily Fantasy Focus program. Other coverage via TV, radio, online, mobile and print leading up to and throughout the season includes:
2010 Fantasy Football on ESPN.com new features are:
- Standard Leagues – Now supporting both 8- and 12-team league sizes, all Standard Leagues will be included in the public leaderboards;
- Public Leagues – Players can now create a Public League with customizable settings;
- Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB) – Custom league players may elect to use auction bidding instead of waivers to handle free agent pickups;
- Player Watch Lists and Player Comparison – Features are now available for team owners to add/flag players and better manage the waiver wire throughout the season;
- Social Media – Share leagues or team notifications via the “Share” icon on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter;
Other returning free features from last season include:
- Fantasy Football Now – The Emmy Award-winning live program will start every Sunday at 11:30 a.m. ET on ESPN2, ESPN.com and ESPN Mobile TV and continue up to kickoff time. Fans will be able to watch, chat live, get injury updates, and submit questions – all from the interactive Fantasy Football Now page;
- Fantasy Focus – The originally produced daily program, exclusively on ESPN.com and ESPN Mobile TV;
- Free Live Scoring with FantasyCast – A must-have online companion during fantasy football Sundays, ESPN FantasyCast features live chat with ESPN experts, real-time player-by-player scoring, live updating box scores and results, integrated Gamecast and a comparison to the players on the opposing roster, all completely free to all players;
- Fantasy Football Draft Kit – ESPN.com’s free Fantasy Football Draft Kit will give every player complete breakdowns of sleepers, busts and top keepers; Top 200 players; position-by-position rankings; offseason changes and updated depth charts; projected stats; expert mock drafts and more;
- Mock Draft Lobby – The ESPN Mock Draft Lobby lets players drop in at any time to run through a draft, try out a new draft strategy or just see who and how other ESPN players are drafting;
- Multiple Draft Options – Teams and leagues can draft in multiple ways, including;
- Online Auction Draft – ESPN.com is bringing back the option to conduct their draft auction style – bidding against other competitors for top players, and managing a total budget of $200 for drafting their roster of players;
- Live Online Draft – Live online drafts can be public or private. Set a time and invite friends, or drop by the ESPN Live Draft lobby to find a league, join, and draft — anytime day or night.
- Automated Online Drafts – Leagues will be able to set their personal player rankings, the draft order and date while ESPN.com’s draft engine does the rest.
- Keeper Options – ESPN provides league managers of existing keeper leagues the ability to transfer keeper settings by entering keepers prior to their draft.
Draft Pick Trading – Players have the option to trade draft picks in leagues with a fixed draft order.
League Message Boards, Chat and Polls – Players can discuss news, create their own polls and even chat online – all from right within their ESPN.com league.
Customizable Rules and Scoring – League managers can set up their league and scoring any way they want. Your league, your way.
Inline Player Cards – Embedded player information cards allow players to see weekly projections, recent news from ESPN.com, game-by-game stats, graph views and more without leaving their own roster.
Smack Boards – Talk smack to your friends and opponents throughout the week and on game day using the dynamic chat windows integrated right into league and scoring pages.
Weekly Projections and Ranks – ESPN Experts do all the work for you with both weekly player projection totals and position ranks.
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