If you are a football fan or really a fan of management games and haven't given fantasy football a try then you are missing out on one of the most fun real world based management games there is. Think about the manager games that are out there for real sports, what information do they give you and how do they give it to you? Fake headlines, fake emails regarding players, and more fake media sources but in fantasy football none of that is fake, the NFL is covered everyday on countless numbers of websites, blogs, and of course daily on television. Instead of getting a choice bit of information given to you from the game you are the one who picks the trusted sources, you have your go to websites and a list of analyst that you trust who aren't named Skip Bayless because lets face it he doesn't know what he is talking about. The question is with millions of players every year (including you now, that is right I convinced you that easily) why have we not seen a console manufacture or game publisher hop on board?
Xbox Live and PSN tout the millions of unique users they have on their services, PSN now has a tie in with NFL Sunday Ticket, Xbox Live has an ESPN app and ESPN has their own fantasy football service on their website, still why no move to consoles? The big kicker is why is there no fantasy football leagues in EA Sports Madden franchise? Are they afraid it would take away from their own online leagues in which friends can draft their own teams and play against one another through out the season? They could easily combine the two, join a league with your friends, everyone drafts a team to play against one another weekly online in Madden but built into EA Sports online they can choose to set up a fantasy football league as well with this league. That is one way of doing it or they could keep it as a separate feature entirely that is built into the dash of Madden, players could send trash talk to each other weekly, notifications of specific player injuries and other updates on the dash as well. Overall is Microsoft or Sony were to indeed incorporate a fantasy football app or game into their online services it is another avenue to earn advertising money and build a base of steady weekly users, if EA were to include a fantasy football game into their Madden franchise they would give players just another reason to pop in their game discs every week during the NFL season. It is a win win that will attract new users to the respective platforms and can generate money, this needs to happen.
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