San Francisco, CA, June 5, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Daily fantasy sports participants now have a tool to enhance their experience thanks to the launch of DFSEdge.com. With this new website, all levels of daily fantasy participants will have at their fingertips player analysis, strategy, and tools to help them make better decisions about who to play and where to play in daily fantasy sports. The impressive roster of DFSEdge.com writers now includes Derek Carty, one of baseball's brightest young analysts, who recently joined the team to help further develop and innovate the daily fantasy research tools and decision making analysis found on DFSEdge.com.
Daily fantasy sports has gained recent popularity as an offshoot of traditional fantasy that allows players to "be in the game every day." Daily fantasy sports gives fans another option for fantasy game play that does not require a full season's efforts. Moreover, daily fantasy play also allows season-long fantasy players to play more actively on a daily basis and/or to remain engaged and competitive with their friends and fantasy league counterparts even if they are out of the running in their season-long contests.
Who to Play AND Where to Play Daily Fantasy Sports
DFSEdge.com is not a game play site, rather it serves as a trusted advisor to daily fantasy sports players in baseball, football, and golf looking to make better decisions about their daily player rosters.
DFSEdge analysts crunch the numbers and provide daily fantasy sports players both research information and decision making insight that is particular to the complexities of daily fantasy sports game play.
"In traditional fantasy, it's all about the big picture," said Doug Anderson, Executive MLB Editor at DFSEdge and one of its baseball experts. "You can overlook things like trouble with lefties, struggles on the road, and other imperfections. In daily, you have to take those into account every day, as well as pay extra attention to 'day-to-day' injuries and weather reports. There is a lot more up-to-the-moment research involved in daily."
DFSEdge also monitors both existing and startup game play sites to evaluate these sites on a variety of game play criteria. The decision of where to play can be just as challenging in terms of game play format, roster salary caps for a given game, payment terms, site popularity, trustworthiness of a given game play site, and more.
DFSEdge intends to serve as a guiding presence across the daily fantasy sports industry, both helping daily fantasy sports participants become better players and encouraging daily game play sites to follow best practices that will promote overall growth of daily fantasy sports game play.
Building a Dream Team to Innovate Fantasy Sports Analysis
Derek Carty began his writing career in 2007 and within a few months helped start the fantasy section at The Hardball Times. In 2011, he joined Baseball Prospectus as their fantasy manager. Carty is a graduate of the MLB Scouting Bureau's Scout Development Program (aka Scout School) and is the only active fantasy writer to have graduated from the program.
Carty's work has appeared in ESPN Insider, Sports Illustrated, NBC's Rotoworld, FOX Sports, and USA Today, among many others. Carty is widely respected in the fantasy baseball world and competes in both Tout Wars and the League of Alternative Baseball Reality ("LABR"), the two premier expert leagues in the industry. In his five years competing, he has won three titles with nine top-three finishes. In 2009, he became the youngest champion in the history of LABR--the longest-running expert league in existence--taking home his first title as a rookie.
Carty took notice when daily fantasy emerged and immediately began refining his ideas for the new format.
Carty observed: "The biggest difference is that for traditional fantasy you only need to concern yourself with a baseline projection for a player. In daily fantasy, however, that's just a starting point. You have to have the same complete understanding of the player's skills, but you also have to know how to properly evaluate the slew of contextual factors that change from game to game and play a huge part in how a player performs on any given day."
As more and more traditional fantasy players make the transition to daily, DFSEdge will be the bridge that helps them cross over to the daily game. DFSEdge will guide players through the different strategies that daily fantasy requires, and help them adjust to the new language they must adopt to master this exciting offshoot of traditional fantasy sports.
For more information and to read DFSEdge's database of articles, visit www.DFSEdge.com or follow along on twitter at @DFSEdge.
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