Hey Guys,

The Daytona 500 is just around the corner, kicking off Fantasy Racing at Fantazzle. With tons of different formats, we’re bringing you some of the most innovative fantasy racing games out there. If you’re a NASCAR fan, this is just what you’re looking for.

Take advantage of our weekly games, starting with the Daytona 500 this weekend. Try out the Fantasy Racing Salary Cap Game, choosing five drivers while staying under the $1 million dollar cap. Or perhaps our Pick ‘Em game, simply picking the five drivers that will score the most fantasy points.

If you’re in it for the long haul we have something for you as well. Play for the entire season or break it down into segments, these games are must plays for racing fanatics. Oh, and did I mention the loads of Free money up for grabs in our Fantasy Racing Challenge.

Don’t Forget About Our Fantasy Basketball Mid-Season Game

The All-Star break means the NBA regular season is half way home. It also means the beginning of Fantazzle’s Fantasy Basketball Mid-Season Game. This is a salary cap game that runs from right after the All-Star break until the end of the season. There’s no better way to get in on the fantasy basketball fun for the remainder of the season!

Have a great week everyone,

-Fantazzle Jon

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Hey everyone,

We here at Fantazzle hope your Holiday weekend went as well as ours did, and would like to wish you a Happy New Year, while reminding you about some of our fantasy games.

With the 2010 NFL season ending this weekend, this is the final week of our regular weekly fantasy football games. However, as you may have already heard, the fantasy football season is far from over, as you can still end the fantasy season by going out on top with our fantasy football playoff games.

This past NFL season has been a successful one for our players on Fantazzle. Many prizes have already been won, and with the playoffs starting, there are many more to be claimed. Playing our playoff fantasy football games is just one way to maintain that competitive spirit we all crave, while also having an opportunity to win cash.

Play Fantasy Basketball!

With the NFL season winding down, the NBA season is just gaining steam. We have all your fantasy needs for the NBA right here at Fantazzle. Our fantasy community members can play daily fantasy basketball every day there are at least three scheduled NBA games, while weekly fantasy basketball is live every single week.

Highlighting our fantasy basketball games is the Weekend Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball game.  Simply select players for weekend games for Friday through Sunday, while staying under the fantasy salary cap of $1 million. This great game can be played for just $11, while the cash prize pool grows with user participation. Enjoy high stakes fantasy basketball at a low stakes price!

Enjoy the rest of your holiday, and good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Zack

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Hi everyone,

We are now nine weeks into the 2010 NBA season, so we thought we’d send out another reminder about our excellent fantasy basketball games. If you don’t like how your fantasy basketball team is shaping up so far, simply ditch your season league to play daily and weekly fantasy basketball games, and even take part in our special weekend fantasy basketball game!

It’s never too late to turn your fantasy basketball season around at Fantazzle, with daily and weekly opportunities to pick brand new rosters of any players you want, while also getting the chance to compete against fellow fantasy basketball fans for cash prizes!

Our Daily Fantasy Basketball Challenge game allows you to pick whoever you want, while our Weekly Fantasy Basketball Salary Cap game has you pick your fantasy roster, while remaining under a fantasy budget of $1 million. You can also take our fantasy salary cap game one step further with the weekend Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball game, which runs from Friday to Sunday, and gives you a chance at winning cash out of a large prize pool!

Fantasy Football Playoffs COMING SOON!

Your 2010 fantasy football season doesn’t have to end. In addition to weekly fantasy football running through the course of the regular season, Fantazzle will be offering two new fantasy football playoff games that will be played during the 2010 NFL Playoffs.

With almost all fantasy leagues done before the regular season is even over, Fantazzle takes you to Week 17 with our weekly fantasy football games, and then keeps the magic of the fantasy football season alive, all the way to the Super Bowl!

Our Fantasy Football Playoff Challenge game will run for the entire length of the 2010 NFL Playoffs, as fantasy owners will have to pick the best lineup that can both produce points, and last as long as possible in the playoffs. Pick any 2 QB, 3 RB, 3 WR, and 2 TE to complete your fantasy roster once the playoff schedule is set, and sit back as your team accumulates points throughout the NFL Playoffs.

The Fantasy Football Playoff Salary Cap game will take the form of our usual regular season Weekly Fantasy Football Salary Cap game, only it will be offered in every single round of the playoffs. Simply pick the best possible lineup while remaining under a fantasy salary cap of $1 million, and test your fantasy skills each week against other fantasy players. If you don’t succeed during the Wild Card round, simply start over in the Divisional, Championship, and/or Super Bowl rounds! With Fantazzle, fantasy football doesn’t officially end until the 2010 NFL season has seen it’s last snap!

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Hey everyone,

With the breaking news that Atlanta Hawks star guard-forward Joe Johnson will likely miss 4-6 weeks with an elbow injury, we thought we’d take a second to get this news to you, and also remind you about all of our excellent fantasy basketball games.

Remember, here at Fantazzle, player injuries have no impact on you. If they’re hurt, simply don’t select them on your fantasy roster! We realize that significant injuries in season long fantasy basketball can crush your fantasy team, which is why we actually are making this post for three reasons:

To remind you to update your Season Long fantasy basketball lineup if you’re in a season league at Fantazzle, to inform you of the injury to Joe Johnson, and to let you know that if Johnson’s (or another player’s) injury hurts your team, you can always start your fantasy basketball season over at Fantazzle!

With daily, weekly, and even a special weekend Mini SuperStakes game, Fantazzle delivers an elite lineup of fantasy basketball games for our fantasy community. Don’t let injuries to big-name players ruin your fantasy season, no matter the sport!

Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball

Speaking of the Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball game, we just wanted to slow down for a second and tell you a bit more about this awesome game, in case you’re not aware of all the details.

Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball is a fantasy basketball salary cap game that is played every week, tipping off on Friday’s. The game plays through the weekend, giving you three days of fantasy basketball action to accumulate points in your efforts to win a huge cash prize pool. The Mini SuperStakes fantasy basketball game gives you a high stakes fantasy basketball atmosphere, with only a $11 entry fee. Pay just $11 and compete against other fantasy basketball fans for huge cash prizes!

To Play Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball, simply select 2 C, 3 G, 3 F, and 2 Util to complete your roster, while remaining under the fantasy salary cap of $1 million. It’s just like our regular fantasy basketball salary cap games, but with an excellent cash prize pool for a cheap entry fee!

Good luck to all who play fantasy basketball games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Hey all,

The 2010 World Series is finally upon us with a seven game series showdown between the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants. This means you have less than two full days to sign up and play our final fantasy baseball game of the season! Fantazzle’s third and final game in its round-by-round fantasy baseball playoff series game wraps up when the World Series Fantasy Baseball Challenge game starts at 7:30 pm ET on Wednesday night.

If you’ve been having fantasy baseball withdrawals, this is your last chance to get in on some fantasy baseball playoffs action, while also having the chance to win great cash prizes! Play now and see if you can end the 2010 fantasy baseball season on top!

Tip Off the 2010 Fantasy Basketball Season at Fantazzle!

We announced the release of our daily and weekly fantasy basketball games last week, but felt it was well worth mentioning again. The 2010 NBA season is here and gets started with games on Tuesday night, which also marks the start of our first ever daily and season long fantasy basketball games.

You can also take part in our Weekly Fantasy Basketball Salary Cap game every week of the NBA season, and if you prefer the grind of the long NBA season, you can even get in on the long-term action with our Season Long Fantasy Basketball Salary Cap game. Play daily, weekly, and season long fantasy basketball this year, and win cash prizes!

Refer Friends and Earn Cash Prizes!

In case you haven’t heard already, Fantazzle is currently running a Friend Referral Contest, which started on October 19th, and will be running until November 15th. The Refer Friends Contest will be giving away over $2,000 in total prizes over this period. We are also now offering $5 for each friend you refer that signs up and deposits cash.

Our Refer Friends Contest will also be holding two different Private Fantasy Football Challenge games in Week 11. We will be holding a $500 and a $1,000 Private Fantasy Football game that contestants can earn entries to by referring friends. In addition to holding the two private games, but we will also be giving away a $500 BONUS (conditions apply) to the member who records the most points throughout the contest in our Total Accumulated Points system. Simply refer your friends by going to your My Account page and then clicking the Refer Friend tab. From there you will see several options on how you can send your link to friends.

Our fantasy community and members are what make Fantazzle what it is today, and we genuinely appreciate everyone involved. Take part in any of our fantasy games and promotions, and win cash today!

Good luck to all who play fantasy games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Hey all,

With the 2010 NBA season rapidly approaching, it’s time to announce our new lineup of fantasy basketball games for the year. We’re introducing two new games this year – the Daily Fantasy Basketball Challenge game and the Season Long Fantasy Basketball Salary Cap game. Our new daily and season long games give us a complete lineup of fantasy basketball games for the first time ever, allowing our users to play daily, weekly, season long, and playoff basketball games!

The Daily Fantasy Basketball Challenge game is a daily game played every single day that there are at least 3 scheduled NBA games. All you have to do is pick a roster of 2 C, 3 G, 3 F, and 2 Util players and submit your lineup. You have the freedom to pick anyone you want, and play whenever you wish!

The Season Long Fantasy Basketball Salary Cap game operates almost exactly like our pre-existing weekly and playoff fantasy basketball salary cap games. You still have to select your fantasy roster while remaining under a fantasy salary cap of $1 million, while filling your lineup with 2 C, 3 G, 3 F, and 2 Util players. Create a lineup mixed with studs and sleepers to gain the edge on your opponent. The best part is, you get to create a new lineup every single week, just like our weekly game, but if you like the season feel to fantasy basketball, you get that, as well!

Get Ready For More Playoff Fantasy Baseball!

After two rounds of exciting playoff baseball action, the fantasy baseball playoffs return for one final round in the World Series Fantasy Baseball Challenge game, which starts on Wednesday, October 27th. Keep an eye out for the finalized schedule for the World Series, so you can have time to create your fantasy lineup and compete for cash. Get in on the intensity of the 2010 MLB playoffs by selecting your own roster of players that will be participating in the 2010 World Series!

Play Fantasy Football in Week 7

If basketball and baseball aren’t your thing, remember, we’re not even half-way through the 2010 NFL season, which means plenty of more great opportunities to play Fantazzle’s weekly fantasy football games. Compete in our regular weekly games, or raise the stakes with out SuperStakes Sundays fantasy football game and win even bigger cash prizes than usual!

Also, don’t forget about our SuperStakes Satellite games and FREE Ray Rice fantasy football game, both played every single week. Speaking of the Ray Rice game, now is the time to get into the action with this great free game and promotion! Play this week for a chance to get into the Week 8 Grand Prize game, and then continue playing the rest of the season for your chance to get into the Week 16 Grand Prize game!

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Seven weeks into the NBA season and a nice cluster of Fantazzle fantasy basketball gamers has emerged.  I’m seeing a lot of the same faces in my weekly fantasy basketball leagues now, and it’s becoming clear who the real heavy hitters are.  These are the guys who have grasped the most fundamental rules of the basketball salary cap game, and are simply just looking for good value on a weekly basis, rotating in a familiar cast of characters any time they have a four-game schedule.

This post is really not for you guys.  I don’t want to waste your time telling you things you already know.  Check back with me in the New Year, thanks for checkin’ in.

For the rest of you, let’s go over two of these so-called fundamentals.  Maybe I can win you some money, so listen up.

The first rule of Fight Club is…there’s no such thing as a three-game player.  At least not in my universe.  The pool of rosterable Fantazzle players is not nearly as vast as you might think.  And that’s because it never makes sense to pay a guy to play a three-game schedule when there’s another guy, of comparable value, who is playing four games that week.

Take the case of Mo Williams versus Brandon Jennings.  Both are having really good fantasy seasons in both traditional formats – both among the top 30 – and in Fantazzle, where both are among the top 75.  This week, Williams and Cleveland have a four-game schedule while Jennings and the Bucks only play thrice.  Jennings is a top 30 Fantazzle Player (so far) while Williams is not even in the top 50.   Meanwhile, Williams commands a 90K salary while Jennings only goes for 80K.  You might be tempted to go for the young southpaw, thinking that on any given night he could go for 50 (Fantazzle Points…or actual points, really), so maybe he’s the better play.  Right?

Wrong. You never go for the guy with only three games, no matter how much you like him, and now matter how good the value.

Is Carlos Boozer a steal at 80K?  For shizzle.  Should I pay him 80K to play three games when I can pay Amare Stoudemire 110K to play four?  Nooope.

In this format, there’s always another good option available who plays a full four.  No, Stoudemire is not the steal that Boozer is, not the same great value.  110K is a lot of money, I know this.  And yes, you could take that 30K in savings and spend it somewhere else.  But you just cost yourself points there, buddy.  In order for Jennings to total the same amount of points as Williams, he’d have to play like top 15 player for a whole week: average nearly 37 FPG.  (The math: if Williams does what you expect him to do – average about 27 FPG, he’ll net you about 110 FPG for the week).

Now, this is of course something that could very well happen, since Jennings has already shown us that he can go off for 40, or even 50, on any given night, and he does average over 33 FPG.   But its certainly not something you can expect from the kid either.  The numbers just don’t support it.

And at the end of the day, no matter how you slice it, fantasy sports is just a game of numbers.  The Fantazzle fantasy basketball salary cap format is like a jigsaw puzzle – whoever can fit in the most high-value pieces into the same picture wins.  That’s the way it works.  Sure, you  might get lucky some of the time, pick guys based on intuition, or from watching them play on TV.  But if you rely on these two things are ignore the cold, hard facts, those black and white boxscores every morning, you will lose more than you win.  At least around here, in these parts.

Now, with that being said, it shouldn’t take a whole lot of time to figure out who you ought to play. Because for some weeks, there is a pretty short list of tier-one guys (think top-20 players) who are actually running a full four game schedule.

This week, for example, you can count them on one hand: Amare Stoudamire, Tim Duncan, Marcus Camby, Steve Nash and Baron Davis.  If I’m missing somebody, please call in now, the hotlines are open!  That’s 1-800-DJ-SALT-E-NUTS.

Which I suppose brings me to my next point, which is that it always pays to be pay LeBron.  And Kevin Durant, and Dwight Howard, and the rest of the upper-echelon guys who go for $100,000+ in this racket of a game we call the ‘Tazzle.  Well, nobody really calls it that (yet), but I’d bet my bottom dollar that you’ll see it in this here blog again.

True or false, you have had the following debate with yourself the first few times you played this game: am I better off trying to fill out a balanced roster, loaded with pretty good, but not really great players?  Or should I load up on them Brons, go nuts with them Kobes and say screw it, pass me a little Timmy Duncan while you’re at it?

It’s the classic debate that any Salary Cap Game worth its salt creates.  Here, I think the answer is pretty simple.  It’s kind of like the idea that you always want to take a safe, yet still-upsidish kinda guy in the first round of your draft (say, like a Pau Gasol), and then take your chances in the later rounds with those true high-risk, high-reward type players (say, like a Gilbert Arenas).

Here at Fantazzle, you always want to load up on those rare guys that are like money in the bank. Because if you are doing it right, you basically get to make about three or four first round picks in this game, and then go about finding slick value the rest of the way.   The one thing you absolutely don’t want to happen is pay good money (say, $100K or more) for a guy, and have him put up a 20 spot for you.  That’s what you call a flop, ladies and gentlemen, and make no mistake about it – it’s what costs you them shiny cash prizes, at the end of the day.

My goal with every squad that I pick is to have about three or four guys averaging upwards of 40 Fantazzle Points Per Game  (FPG), another three or four averaging in the 30′s, and then of course you sprinkle in a couple of them 20-point, 50-70K type value-buys (think Anderson Varejao or Trevor Ariza), and don’t look now, but you have yourself a 1400-point monster.

(The math: if the scoring average of every player on your team comes out to be about 35, and every player on your team is playing four games, that’s what you end up with).

If you are allowed to spend an average of 100K per player, then it stands to reason that you can afford to bag a couple of big ticket items as long as you can also snag your fair share of bargain-barrel pickups.

It’s kind of like this: you know that you could always get a better value for that electronic gadget if you wait until Black Friday, and then get up at four o’clock in the morning to wait on line outside of Best Buy with hundreds of equally crazy, broke ass idiots.  Or, you could just pay full price for it now, when you really want it, in December, and get to enjoy it all year long.

Yes, you have to shop for value but no, its not the only thing that matters – not when there are guys like David Lee floating around out there with 90K price tags.

Or think of it this way: will the Cleveland Cavaliers hesitate to offer LeBron James a max-level contract this summer when he becomes a free agent?  No, they’ll pray that he takes their money.  And that’s because he’s the only guy in the league who’s the best guy in the league; there’s always only just one.  Sure, LeBron costs you more than everybody else, but he’s also a lot better than everyone else, too, so you just pay him and smile.

Could Chris Paul be better a better fantasy play than James in a few months?  Sure, if he has a career year and sets a career high in steals.  But if that happens, you can just pay him instead.  Or maybe not – maybe you just pay him too.  The nice thing about this format is that you don’t have to choose between guys like that: you just have to be smart enough to know who else can help you in the 70K salary range to balance out your roster.

It’s OK to even overpay for a guy who is solid friggin’ gold when you’re getting 50 points, and you can also get 30 points from another guy, like Carlos Boozer, who makes 80K.  As long as you also find your bargains, it all balances out.

But will you ever get a 50 point bargain?  Maybe, but they’re awful hard to come by.  And certainly not on a regular basis.  (In case you’re wondering, LeBron is averaging nearly 48 FPG this year).

So now we’ve got our first two rules down.  Any questions?  There will be more to come in the weeks ahead.  Dr. Quez is open for business, everybody.  If you have a comment, just leave it here on the page.  Otherwise, hit me up at agoliaat@gmail.com.  Happy Chanukkah, boys and girls.  That means you, Scot Hirschfield!

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