Yahoo Fantasy Sports

Second Blog

Warning: Okay, i'll be honest. All of the ideas of space, place and scale have been taken up by my classmates on the blog, class discussions and from the course itself. So, this may not be the best blog out there. However, i'll try my best to make my case - or at least I hope so.

Yahoo: Is an American public corporation and global Internet services company. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale California.

Yahoo! Fantasy Sports: Is a section of Yahoo! Sports which was launched on December 8 1997. Yahoo! Fantasy Sports was created with Yahoo's acquisition of Sportasy.com for an undisclosed amount in December 1998. It has grown to include numerous sports. Yahoo! offers both free and pay fantasy sports. Yahoo! Fantasy Sports had 3.1 million users in July 2006 of the more the 15 million adults that play fantasy sports in the United States.

Fantasy Sports is a Mecca for all hardcore sports fans. You are able to draft, control and monitor players as you wish. This space itself is filled with competitors, the ability to manage a sports franchise successfully and one’s sense of feeling to belong. This virtual place gives an identity of togetherness with people who have similar interests and rivalries can be created to emphasize the need to thrive for glory and pride. The scale of the fantasy sports leagues is very large. It can be a family based leagues, public groups, custom created to your preferences (scoring systems) and you get to meet fans across North America! After all, the geography of Sports is worldwide! Fans that religiously follow a certain sport may have insider reports on the status of players and rumours that may usurp in matter of hours. Since there isn’t a central location behind the Yahoo Fantasy Sports due to it being a virtual space, mobility is not a factor. You can use your laptop to check up on your team’s success (or failure) and you can propose trades to other managers in your league to improve your team. There is always a way to connect to people worldwide (internet is all about communicating across the world through the web). Just like a sports arena filled with fans watching a hockey game. Here, sports fan enter the realm of virtual space to manage their hockey team(s).

PS: I enjoyed this course very well and this course is A LOT better than Psychology 1010 (my elective, lol).

~ Ruban Jesudiaharasa