RotoWire - The Most Respected Fantasy Sports Resource

RotoWire.com is the leading fantasy sports resource on the web. In fact, we're the guys who pioneered the whole concept of real-time fantasy sports news and information back in 1997 when the Internet was just taking flight. Through the years we've been able to stay ahead of new imitators by offering the most in-depth analysis, the fastest real-time news and the largest scope of coverage of any fantasy sports site. Our quality has won us many industry awards and it's why such high-profile organizations as ESPN.com, Yahoo! Sports, GoTV.com, EASports and XM Radio have chosen to partner with us to help their fantasy offerings.

We're among the leaders of the fantasy industry as members of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association and Fantasy Sports Writers Association. We're also regularly invited to the top fantasy expert leagues, such as the USA Today Sports Weekly Baseball LABR league, Tout Wars, Yahoo! Sports experts leagues and many more.

Among the industry awards we've won:

2007 FSWA Fantasy Baseball Writer of the Year [Jeff Erickson]

2007 FSWA Fantasy Hockey Writer of the Year [Janet Eagleson - Her 2nd consecutive win]

2007 FSWA Fantasy Basketball Writer of the Year - [Andre' Snellings]

2007 FSWA Best Fantasy Football Print Publication - RotoWire Fantasy Football Guide 2007

2007 FSWA Best Fantasy Baseball Print Publication - RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Guide 2007

2007 FSWA Best Fantasy Baseball Article in Print - [Will Carroll for Lessons Learned: Digging in the Injury Database in the RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Guide 2007 - His 3rd consecutive win in this category]

2006 FSWA Best Fantasy Baseball Article on the Internet [Peter Schoenke]

2006 FSWA Best Fantasy Hockey Writer of the Year [Janet Eagleson]

2006 FSWA Best Baseball Magazine Article In Print [Will Carroll]

2005 FSWA Golf Writer of the Year [Greg Vara]

2005 FSTA Best Football Draft Kit

2005 FSTA Best Fantasy Baseball Magazine

2005 FSWA Best Baseball Magazine Article In Print [Will Carroll]

2005 FSWA Ad Campaign of the year

2001 FSTA Fantasy Baseball Website of the Year

And our staff does very well in experts leagues, as evident by our recent titles:

2007 $50,000 Fantasy Jungle Fantasy Football Grand Prize Winner [Mike Doria]

2007 NL Tout Wars [Jeff Erickson]

2006 CBS Sportsline 5x5 NL Expert Draft league [Erik Seigrist]

2006 Yahoo! Sports Experts Baseball League champion [Chris Liss]

2005-06 Yahoo! Sports Experts Hockey League champion [Peter Schoenke]

2005 Yahoo! Sports Experts Football League champion [Chris Liss]

2004-05 Yahoo! Sports Experts Basketball League champion [Peter Schoenke]

2004 CSBC / CBS Sportsline Fantasy Basketball champion

2004 Creative Sports NL Expert League champion

2002 Fantasy GMs College Football Expert League champion (first college expert league using player names) [Peter Schoenke]

2001 FSTA Baseball champion

2000 FSTA Football champion

2000 Gridiron Grumblings Expert League Champ

Our innovations include:

The Fantasy Industry's first real-time player news in 1997. (You'll notice all our competitors copied our format that uses a "news" and "analysis" for each player note. We invented that in 1997).

The Fantasy Industry's first real-time customized cheat sheet in 1998.

The Fantasy Industry's first free online commissioner service in 1998 (we learned our lesson and later went pay).

The first online site to offer a fantasy sports magazine in print in 2000.

The first web site to offer wireless player updates in 2004.

RotoNews to RotoWire Comes Full Circle - Our History

RotoWire.com is the leader in fantasy sports quality because of it's innovation and experience. Those of us at RotoWire.com love what we do, and that shows up in the quality of the work and the persistence our story.

In 1997, three Northwestern graduates, Peter Schoenke, Jeff Erickson and Herb Ilk, came up with an idea that changed the fantasy sports market forever: to provide real-time news and analysis for fantasy sports junkies like themselves. RotoNews.com was born and revolutionized the industry.

Not long after they launched the site, the founders realized that the demand for real-time information was beyond even their wildest expectations. Suddenly, RotoNews was consistently ranked among the 10 largest sports sites in surveys by both Media Metrix and PC Data, topping such sites as FoxSports.com. RotoNews became so big that the owners decided to chase the same dot-com bubble as everyone else and sold the company to a West Coast corporation in 1999. In 2001 that company's management (which the RotoNews founders were not part of), misjudged the "new economy" and went bankrupt. RotoNews.com was stuck in bankruptcy limbo.

The RotoNews team decided to march on and continue to provide the fantasy news, information and commissioner services that served the industry so well, but as a new business: RotoWire.com. The tremendous changes in the Internet advertising market also caused the business model of the new web site to change and our content went from free to a pay model.

The same editors, writers, and programmers that made RotoNews.com the leading brand for fantasy news on the Web created RotoWire.com. Since our RotoNews days we've added some new faces, but the core group remains the same. Peter Schoenke, Jeff Erickson, Chris Liss, Jason Thornbury, Mike Doria, Tim Schuler, Michael Romanowski and Herb Ilk form the RotoWire.com team along with a large network of writers that kept our coverage the best on the web.

Our goal is the same from back when we started: to be the best resource of real-time information and draft preparation for fantasy players anywhere. The business model may have changed, and competitors and knock-off copycats of our original concept may have emerged, but few will deny we still produce the most timely and thorough information on the web.

We're constantly trying to improve upon our original concept, so please give us your feedback. What can we do better? Please email us and let us know at:

support@rotowire.com

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