Sounds great. I play Fantasy Football, but I do enter Hockey Pools and this would be very useful.

El_Jivaro...

Brilliant idea and something that I have been looking for myself. Although I am not a Fantasy Football player, I am active in many hockey pools, and this type of service would be very valuable in support of my addiction. There is lots of value in knowing the news detail on your roster players, but does your plan include a stats summary (similar to what you would see on a team scoring page for a real team), showing only my players, regardless of professional team?

The only downside to this kind of service in my eyes, is that more of my competitors will have access to the same information.

Office Poolies unite.....

Olympian

this is a great idea, Jamie! :)

This is a tool that I would definitely use. The data that is out there in the sports pool world exists in silos and needs aggregation. Sports mad poolies NEED an edge!! It defies rationality but it is the psychology of the fantasy sports or sports pool participant. I need to know that Shaun Alexander's hammy looked tender during Thursday drills.

I like it. Taking this a step further, many times the early bird wins in FF leagues. What if this site could track each user's league and send an email or text message when a 'hot' (as determined by the number of teams picking the guy up) player or 'strong buy' (determined by the site's experts). Many would pay a fee for this service if it was done right...

MACDAFUNK,
I didn't think about that but yeah, the 'strong buy' feature would be terrific for things like recommend waiver claims (Delhomme isn't starting so go pick up Wienke)...thanks for the input

sounds like a useful tool for hardcore fantasy football people and also for novices trying to even the playing field against more knowledgeable colleagues.
Be cool if you could compile the information to build a dynamic overall rating of all players in the league.

Dude,

I have RSS hooked up for every single one of my players. I think this is a great idea and easy to implement.

I actually think this can be done as a sort of Protopage Ajax-like implementation.

The killer piece to this is to just look in the local papers for each player. Every major city paper has RSS feeds on sports topics. You can easily do a screen for the word "injury" or "benched" to add a priority for certain alerts.

We could build this in a couple of weeks. This would have to be ad-supported or some folks would pay a small monthly subscription fee. This is best for Fantasy Hoops, Baseball, and Hockey which have a lot of games per week. Not as much of an issue with football because you have the whole week to prepare and get your news.

I entered this idea prior to joining Cambrian House. I have since signed on to work at CH and therefore no longer qualify to move ahead with radgiver.

Luckily I have found an excellent idea Champion. mdub has agreed to take this idea and move forward with it. The submitter status of the idea will be changing in the next couple of days with his name in place of mine.

Why am I giving the idea away? I think it's an amazing and viable idea and I'd hate to see it die on the vine. It's funny how things work out; this wouldn't have been possible if someone with the same passion for sports hadn't come forward.

Good luck mdub, I know this idea can make some noise in an upcoming tournament.

I think this is already being done. I use yahoo sports for fantasy football and there is a link from my roster to information on injuries, streaks, etc. on each of my players.