Best Fantasy Commissioner Product Award!

Best Fantasy Commissioner Award

We are very happy and excited to announce that MyFantasyLeague.com won the award for Best Fantasy Commissioner Product, as announced by the FSTA at their winter conference in Florida this week.  You can find more details about this award and all of the other awards that were handed out as part of their annual industry recognition awards here on the FSTA web site.

The nominees in the category included industry veterans CBS Sports, ESPN, Fanball, and RT Sports, so it was a full field of very worthy commissioner products.  CBS has won the award each year in the past since its inception, so we are the first company to dethrone them. You can bet we will be working hard to make sure we earn it again for 2009!  Thanks to all of our peers in the industry that voted for MyFantasyLeague.com, and a special thanks to all of our customers that have helped us make it fun and exciting to keep innovating and creating the best commissioner product that we can each season.  We’d also like to congratulate all of the other nominees in this category, as well as the winners and nominees in all of the other categories as well.  The fantasy sports industry is doing a great job of creating awesome products for fantasy fans and players throughout the season.

We also took home the award for the Best Print Ad as well, so our thanks go out to Greg at Sortis Marketing for coming up with the excellent ad concept for us!

Other notable award winning products include Mock Draft Central, which we have worked with in the past few seasons to integrate their draft results with our leagues for those that want to use both products.  Also, LeagueSafe.com won the award for best specialty product and for best new innovation.  We integrated their service with MyFantasyLeague.com this past season, and look forward to working with them in the future as well.

Fantasy Sports Trade Association

The FSTA held their semi-annual conference this week in Florida.  It is a great way for all of the companies and individuals involved with the Fantasy Sports Industry to get together and learn about the current happenings and future opportunities in all aspects of the fantasy sports world.  Check out their website for more information about the organization and the conference:

Fantasy Sports Trade Association

We’ll post several more topics here in the next week about companies that attended the FSTA Conference to let you know about some exciting products and services that you may be interested in.  We’ll also have more details in our next post about some awards we won! 

We don’t have an offseason!

Now that the NFL season is really almost over, it’s time to start thinking about your 2009 fantasy football league!  Here at MyFantasyLeague.com, we are open and accessible all year round, so we don’t really have an offseason.

If you are part of a dynasty league that is hosted on mfl, then you can continue to use it throughout the year, even before and after the Superbowl when most other fantasy football sites shut down for several months.  You can continue to make trades and transactions, and you can use the message boards and polls and other features to keep in touch with your league as needed.

If your league is a more traditional redraft or keeper league that takes a break anyway, then you can rest assured that your league will be accessible throughout the “offseason” in case you ever need to refer back to anything for historical purposes.

No matter what type of league you have, shortly after the Superbowl, we’ll introduce our 2009 leagues and allow you to upgrade your league to the new season so you can start setting up your draft and other info for the 2009 season.  Watch for more details on that here in this space very soon.  In the meantime, as we do every offseason, we’ll continue to pour through your feedback and comments from our end of season survey to help guide us as we add new features and improvements. Keep that feedback coming, and we look forward to serving your league again in 2009!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from all of us at MyFantasyLeague.com! We hope your fantasy football season was a success! As you shake off the effects of your fantasy championship party, or your New Year’s Eve party, don’t forget that you can still play fantasy football for 4 more weeks if you want to keep the fun going until the Superbowl. Just check out our Free NFL Playoff Leagues to get started with some postseason fantasy football excitement.  It’s free and it only takes a minute to start a league before this weekend’s games.