Electronic Arts is dogpiling new features onto their Fantasy Football service in an effort to get people to migrate from the siren-like call of other fantasy football sites, including the ever-popular (and free) one at Yahoo. EA has created both a free fantasy football website as well as downloadable applications for both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network that will be available for an as yet-unannounced fee. Both services will give you the ability to manage your fantasy teams and track stats through the extremely long-named EA SPORTS Fantasy Football Live Score Tracker application.
However, what really caught our eye in the press release was this: "The fantasy scores can be viewed in two ways: full screen mode with complete rosters and details or picture-in-picture mode which allows gamers to keep an eye on scoring updates while watching live football action." Is EA magically adding live television to our consoles? If so, thank you, wonderful elves! We've contacted EA about this and will pass (get it?) an update once we have it. Oh, you'll also be able to import your fantasy team into Madden NFL 09 and pit them against other players. Finally, we'll have fantasy fantasy football.
Reader Comments (15)
Posted: Jun 16th 2008 3:00PM MrHashbrown said
Now if they had live game updates then it would be pretty cool to have (for a somewhat cheap price, that is). Plus during halftime you could just play some games.
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Posted: Jun 16th 2008 3:03PM (Unverified) said
My guess is the picture in picture option just makes it display a small amount of information in very large font so that when you watch the game through your normal source, you can have PIP up (if your tv supports it) with your console selected.....
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Posted: Jun 16th 2008 6:29PM Streeks1984 said
fuck EA this wont go anywhere just like nfl head coach. hahahahahah death to EA!
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Posted: Jun 16th 2008 3:13PM NO DOUBT GET LOUD said
"yet-unannounced fee"
This isnt an epic fail, its an ((epic fail)^fail)*failure.
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This isnt an epic fail, its an ((epic fail)^fail)*failure.
Posted: Jun 16th 2008 3:34PM teamsammalone said
StatTracker through Yahoo! (for baseball at least) costs $10 a season... This might not be any worse.
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Posted: Jun 16th 2008 3:18PM Xoonaka said
"the Live Score Tracker will allow you to view up-to-the-minute live scores of your league and teams while you watch the games every week via your TV’s Picture in Picture capability."
http://fantasy.easports.com/reports/news/ea/6_2_08/featured/welcome_back.asp
No crazy functionality, they just are telling you that since it's on a console hooked up to your TV, you can use PIP. It's the same as if you had your PC hooked up to your TV, it's nothing special.
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http://fantasy.easports.com/reports/news/ea/6_2_08/featured/welcome_back.asp
No crazy functionality, they just are telling you that since it's on a console hooked up to your TV, you can use PIP. It's the same as if you had your PC hooked up to your TV, it's nothing special.
Posted: Jun 16th 2008 3:22PM FrankTheCrank said
Posting in my EA Madden zombie voice:
Yes....will buy....latest Madden....have credit card in hand....no I do not want to reserve Metal Halo Gears 9...thank you.
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Yes....will buy....latest Madden....have credit card in hand....no I do not want to reserve Metal Halo Gears 9...thank you.
Posted: Jun 16th 2008 10:25PM Vay1en said
This would work if it would compile the stats on Sunday and Monday and then Monday night use those stats to generate a fantasy matchup between two teams and then allowed you to watch your game unfold between your teams. You could watch your players do in the game what they did that Sunday. Heck, I'd watch every game in my League just to see how it goes. The trick is interleaving the stats so they happen somewhat close to their original timestamp in the real game without being ridiculous (like two 1 yard TD runs 10 seconds apart just because that's actually what those two players did in their real-life games).
Barring this kind of innovation, they aren't really bringing anything to the table that someone (like me) with a laptop and NFL Sunday Ticket can't already experience (and probably not even that much). EA, are you listening?
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Barring this kind of innovation, they aren't really bringing anything to the table that someone (like me) with a laptop and NFL Sunday Ticket can't already experience (and probably not even that much). EA, are you listening?
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