We launched a fantasy football salary cap game on Facebook last week.
Check out the application here
It is our first Facebook application, which we launched with RockYou and My Fantasy league. RockYou handles promotion and advertising, and My Fantasy League is the salary cap game 
engine we use. Both are great partners and we are excited about the possibilities. We decided to deploy this app less than a month ago, so partnering with pros like My Fantasy League was essential. We already have a relationship with them and use their APIs to hook into their system for ScreamingSports.com, so we used their back end and developed the Facebook front end to work with their APIs. They are great guys to work with. Much thanks to Kevin over there.
With our Facebook Salary Cap Game we try to emulate the NFL. You get a $100 million salary cap and buy and sell players each week based on their performance. These games are easy to play and so are great for the Facebook audience. Expect to see a lot of this type of game in the future as well as Pick 'em games and prediction engines. We already have competitors in the Facebook Fantasy SportsGame space, but I think in the long run, our product, and our relationship with RockYou, will win out.
We want to create a new way for fantasy players to play their games. Rather than having to go to a separate site, we want them to be able to play on Facebook and against the entire Facebook sports community. We think there is a lot of potential here and we are launching Fantasy Sports Dashboard on Facebook next week. Then, you won't ever have to leave Facebook to play fantasy sports or to manage your teams anywhere they may be.
Try out the game and give us your feedback!
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