Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball ’11 & the Impact of Mobile on Fantasy Sports
- Posted March 31st, 2011 at 10:57 am by Yahoo! Mobile
- Categories: General
With another Opening Day upon us, baseball fans around the world are given a clean slate and renewed optimism that this will be the year their team brings home the pennant. Same is true in the fantasy sports world, where the difference between celebrating a championship and finishing at the bottom of the barrel could be the result of an ill-advised draft pick or, even worse, a missed waiver wire pickup.
At Yahoo!, we understand the importance of getting timely updates on the latest news, statistics and injuries for your fantasy players. With today’s release of the Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball ‘11 iPhone app – you will soon be able to add and drop players, claim waived players, and accept or decline trade offers – directly from your mobile phone.
Over the last few years, the exponential growth of mobile apps and shift of computing to the mobile device has greatly impacted the way we participate in fantasy sports. Today’s fantasy gamers are more active and engaged than ever before – consider these 2010 Yahoo! Fantasy Football Statistics:
- Yahoo! Fantasy Football mobile use tripled in 2010 with over 30% of fantasy players engaging on their mobile device (vs. 10% in 2009)
- Mobile users consumed over 45% of the total Yahoo! Fantasy Football page views – nearly 4x the page views in 2010 vs. 2009
- In 2011, Yahoo! expects Fantasy Football mobile user share to be close to 50%
Gone are the days of scouring box scores in the Sports section on Monday mornings to check your player stats. With Yahoo! Fantasy Sports mobile apps you have fast access to your leagues, teams, matchups, player stats and real-time scores – right at your fingertips, anytime, anywhere.
The Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball ’11 app is now available for free from the App Store on iPhone at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo-fantasy-baseball-11/id355995557
Let’s play ball!
Ron Belmarch
Product Manager, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports
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March 31st, 2011 at 3:10 pm
So what about the rest of us? Not everyone has an iPhone. BlackBerry for me and I’m sure Android for others or even an accessible mobile website would be appreciated.
April 4th, 2011 at 10:38 am
You probably get this alot, but everywhere you look, there is no timetable update. When is the fantasy baseball mobile application going to be available for Blackberry?
April 4th, 2011 at 10:39 am
It’s beyond ridiculous that you don’t have a mobile website for fantasy baseball but you do for fantasy hockey and basketball. Fantasy hockey? C’mon. Anyone that doesn’t have an iPhone is left out in the cold. Your actual website is impossible to navigate on a phone; even when I switch the view to classic, drag and drop is still enabled and simply scrolling through the page puts people on my bench on accident.
I have and will continue to implore our commissioner to ditch Yahoo for another site.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
I’m surprised and disappointed that there is not a mobile app for blackberry? when will we see it?
April 10th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Why is there not a fantasy baseball 2011 app for blackberry?
April 11th, 2011 at 10:52 am
When is the App coming out for android? I have been waiting and waiting and I hope it is at least on th way. I have thoroughly enjoyed the football app. Now I am hoping this comes out so I can be a more active manager with my teams. Thank you.
April 11th, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Where’s the Android app?
April 11th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
When is the android app for yahoo fantasy sports going to be available?