“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.” – Winston Churchill
The winds of change are constant and the worlds of sports and travel are not immune. I know, you’re probably saying what the heck do sports and travel have in common? Good question…and believe it or not the answer below WILL help you make better fantasy sports decisons in signifcantly less time - guaranteed.
Turning a Firehose Into a Drinking Fountain
Think back 10 years ago…do you remember what it was like to plan a trip? Spending hours and hours on the phone with travel agents, never really knowing if you got the best possible advice or price. You’d most likely use one of the “well known” agencies since it was scary enough putting your faith in one agent – never mind with an agency that wasn’t well known. Well, lucky for all of us, a revolutionary idea surfaced led by the likes of Expedia and Traveloticy that allowed us to gather all the flight, hotel, rental car, and consumer reviews together in a single Web site to make travel planning easier. It not only became much easier to book trips, but it also forced more competition within the travel industry which has benefited us all.
Now let’s look at the world of fantasy sports – according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, the market impact of fantasy sports impacts more than $4.4 billion annually with more than 27 million people joining in on the action. If we get more specific and look just at fantasy football, it accounts for about 80% of all online fantasy players. Although fantasy football has been around for more than 15 years, it’s the massive growth over the past 5 years that has put it on the map. Over this same period in time, the amount of providers servicing the industry has also exploded leaving us today with more than 400 Web sites providing various (yet extremely similar) fantasy football information and services. Like the travel industry prior to the entrance of the big aggregators like Expedia and Travelocity, the vast amount of fantasy football content has made it challenging to understand the landscape and discern “good” from “bad” information.
So this is where travel and fantasy sports come together. The challenges travellers had 10 years ago – too much information and no “funnel”, is EXACTLY the same problem afflicting fantasy football (and sports in general) today. Fantasy players are too smart and demanding to not want to see an aggregated view of this market and be able to know which sources they should invest their time with to make crucial decisions.
Well, it may have taken a few years, but FantasyXPERT has finally brought many of the best practices from the travel industry to the world of fantasy football and we can now start benefiting from an easier to navigate and more competitive market.
Power to the People – Come Join the Revolution!
FantasyXPERT’s mission is to help people like you make better informed fantasy sports decisions in less time. What began as a simple idea in the Fall of 2007 – to analyze vast amounts of fantasy footall information available online – has become the first and largest fantasy sports decision-making Web application on the Internet. We achieve our mission by analyzing, organizing, and simplifying information from more than 100 popular and well-known fantasy sports Web sites (and the number of sources we cover grows daily). Simply put, FantasyXPERT is a place where fantasy sports players can distinguish good information from bad to make quick and intelligent decisions. Today our focus is fantasy football but in the future you can expect to see our footprint expand to cover additional fun and popular fantasy-related sports as well.
If you want to join the revolution, you can create a FREE account at www.FantasyXPERT.com that will give you access to a well organized summary of the 100+ sources we analyze, direct links to these source’s weekly projections as soon as they become available, and our XPERT Smart Rankings for Player Projections, Waiver Wire and Start & Sit advice. XPERT Smart rankings are a consensus ranking of the projections of only the most historically accurate sources that exist on the Web today. For examples of what you will receive see the screenshots below:
More than 100 sources updated daily with direct links to the related advice columns as soon as they are made available.
Check out the most accurate sources for various timeframes (i.e. who’s hot right now vs who’s been the best over time), positions (i.e. I need someone who knows what he/she is talking about when it comes to RB predictions), and categories (i.e. who truly knows the Waiver Wire?). Be prepared though – this data may force you to re-think your current strategy!
There’s a major difference here though that you fail to acknowledge. Expedia and Travelocity have agreements in place with all those companies. Do you?