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This looks useful for hardcore fantasy sports fans. However, I have always felt like Fantasy Sports need a lower barrier to entry for fans, not tools to make hardcore fantasy players better. As a casual sports fan I can definitely see the appeal of Fantasy Sports, but whenever I enter a league with friends I still get dominated, which is no fun. I think there could be a huge market for simpler, social Fantasy Sports games.

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I agree with you. New players have no chance when facing experienced fantasy players. This make them more likely to drop out during the season and make everyone in the league unhappy (including the experienced players). BUT if the beginners had tools (like Pickemfirst;) they will be able to compete right away... I feel that Pickemfirst does lower entry barrier, at least that's waht we had in mind when designing it.

That is interesting and I think Pickemfirst could be useful for beginners. However, from the video I got the sense that the product was tailored more for the hardcore crowd (those who have multiple teams and read articles across the web). As a beginner, I don't invest that much time and usually do my player analysis on the provided site (ESPN, Yahoo, etc). Just my thoughts.

agreed. Ideally we would have more than one video. And each one would target a specific audience. One thing is sure is that the only way to become good at fantasy sports is to do a lot of research. Both on the provider site and on others sites, blogs... This is obviously very time consuming.

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