Fantasy Sports (Who is with me on this?)

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I know this has been requested before, but I am going to start this thread in the hopes that all of us running sports boards will pull together and get this thing done.

Recruiting, Drafts and Fantasy sports fill the voids during the off season of most major team sports. Recruiting has it's up and dead times, the Drafts are over and Fantasy sports is all you have going on. So what Im saying,... to us guys...Fantasy sports are a huge traffic builder. No other board has this capability, (Yes phpBB has a limited version see it here http://www.jslstudios.net/) I have been in this "business" for many years. The first one to come out with this is going to absolutely dominate the message board of choice badge.

We need a fantasy sports mod that will cover all of the major American Sports. If you want to add World Sports thats fine with me. Right now the most popular outlet for this is probably YaHoo sports fantasy league. If this mod could integrate with Yahoo log-ins and fetch all the standings from that leage that would be fine with me. Basically a mod that allows you to run a Yahoo fantasy league(s) from your V-Bulletin.

Or a stand alone version using our own board.... might be better. I'm Brainstorming here. It should have "bracketology" like the Arcade mods, Ajax updates, RSS feeds with subscriptions to game score reporting. I don't know, you tell me.

Heck just emulate the jlstudios one would be better than nothing, but I think VBulletin can do much better!

I will start it off and throw in a 100 bucks for this Mod, I think if we Sports Board owners pool together we can get this done. Anybody with this and will help sponsor? I am not a coder, this is not a scam or spam. Just a request from a Sports Site owner... Dude, Someone please make this mod!!!!

[Attilitus]

Do you know where one could get the statistics information required for this kind of mod?

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Originally Posted by Attilitus

Do you know where one could get the statistics information required for this kind of mod?

Statistics as referring to what? Features? Game Stats? Scores?

[Attilitus]

Well fantasy sports mods use stats from the real world. Does anyone know a way to get these stats from a web-accessible feed?

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Does this help? Live Demo

http://fsdemo.jslstudios.net/demo/fsports.php

Expanding on this...some ideas:

1. Current Standings in postbit. Ranks, Badges ect that can be Admin set and user defined like favorite team or league member user group.
2. Bracket Format
3. Leagues
4. Integrate with something like VCash or simular point system.
5. RSS Scrolls of upcoming games that scroll depending on which bracket you select. NFL, NCAA, MLB,World Cup, NASCAR whatever.

Any other ideas?

[Attilitus]

No.

Fantasy sports uses statistics from real life players. Where can I get these statistics?

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Originally Posted by Attilitus

Well fantasy sports mods use stats from the real world. Does anyone know a way to get these stats from a web-accessible feed?

Just saw your post, I will research

[bobster65]

Originally Posted by Attilitus

No.

Fantasy sports uses statistics from real life players. Where can I get these statistics?

For NFL Football, you can check out Dano's Feeds at myffl.net .. these are XML Feeds used by phpFFL (a php/mysql based NFL Fantasy Football App). I use his feeds for some custom Fantasy Football related Modules. His feeds are derived by datamining NFL.com.

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So Far:

http://www.fftoolbox.com/football/2007/cheatsheets.cfm

http://www.onebadwheel.com/blog/arch...or-webmasters/

[Attilitus]

Did some research on this. Currently NBA NFL, ect are trying to extract licensing fees for the use of their stats...

Until that legal issue is resolved, it would be highly risky to invest alot of time into a mod like this.