With the 2010 fantasy football season fast approaching, now is a great time to share a few big things we’ve been working on since the end of 2009.
First, if you haven’t noticed already we have a new name for 2010…PlayThisGuy.com. We didn’t set out to change the FantasyXPERT.com name but as the 2009 season wound down and we had a chance to look at what we need to improve upon we saw an opportunity to incorporate a new, simpler name that hopefully you’ll find is more memorable and descriptive of what we do. Also, we just got sick of telling people to spell FantasyXPERT.com without the “e” – kind of became a pain in the butt.
In addition to a name change, we also made significant changes to the look and feel of our site. As fantasy football becomes more and more popular (now more than 20 million people play), the complexity of fantasy football sites also continues to skyrocket – just try to find a start and sit column from one of the more popular sites in less than 10 seconds…I dare you! In many ways we kind of view ourselves as the “anti status quo” so in customary form designed our site to be the single easiest site in the industry to use (see for yourself). For 2010 we went with a more “Web 2.0″ feel (boy that sounds a little cheesy, doesn’t it?) that just plain works. The benefit is you get more intelligent information in much less time.
We encourage you to poke around the site. If you would like to share feedback on the layout/ design (good or bad) please do so by emailing us at contact@playthisguy.com – we welcome your comments.
If you came to our blog through the www.PlayThisGuy.com site then you no doubt noticed a strikingly simple home page focused around helping you get advice on a specific player. Admittedly we “borrowed” the search box concept from the Internet’s biggest players because it works exceedingly well for fantasy football too (amazing no one has done it before). One of our pet-peeves with analyzing players was how much “noise” or “data” we had to weed through to find the important nuggets that would make a difference in our decision. Our Player Analysis page tries to focus on providing you the 20% of information that makes a difference – not the 80% that won’t. Don’t worry though, for those of you that like to dig into the details we didn’t forget about you. We’ve made things easier for you too by providing deep-links that eliminate your need to hunt for important Web pages on various sites. Have you ever had 5 or 10 different tabs or windows open because you were trying to decide between 2 players? If so then you should like our compare players feature – in less than 10 seconds you can compare 2 players side-by-side in one window. To our knowledge it’s the only thing like it on the Web.
Some of the data that made us famous like which “experts” provide the most accurate advice are still there. You’ll also find new features such as the ability to take notes through the season. Imagine that, a simple-to-use tool that keeps track of your thoughts – who to pick up, interesting stats, the original team you drafted, etc. – that ultimately can help you make better decisions. Novel concept, right?
We’ve got a lot more up our sleeves for 2010 so stay tuned for more regular posts as we get closer to draft time.
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