My Summer
2010 September 08
Blogs—as I've come to find out—become quite a nuisance while you're busy with other items in life, especially work. June 3 through today have been exactly that for me. I thought I'd take a moment to fill this blog with all of the great things I've been working on that have forced me to neglect it.
NFL 32 Teams in 32 Days & Fan Rankings
With NFL.com, I released a power-ranking app, which ran immediately following the 2010 NFL Draft. Fan's rankings were tallied and revealed during NFL Network's flagship daily news show, Total Access. The site was successful enough to earn a promotion to be NFL.com's primary week-to-week power rankings app for the run of the 2010 regular season.
NFL Top 100
On Friday, Sept. 3, NFL Network debuted a new 10-episode series produced by NFL Films entitled, The Top 100: NFL’s Greatest Players. Leading up to the series launch, NFL.com polled their fans for who they thought the Top 100 players off all-time were. Building the web ballot fell to me, and I was tasked with taking a similar approach to the NFL Drat MVPs voting. Users are given two random players from which to choose the superior player. The Fans submitted an astounding 12 million votes!
NFL Rush Fantasy 2010
NFLRUSH Fantasy Football is a great game for young fans who want to play fantasy football and follow their favorite players. The goal is to pick the players you think will do the best each week of the season. It can be best described as Fantasy Football Light for kids. The prize, however, is anything but. NFL Rush is giving away a $10,000 scholarship to the winner!
NFL Home Team Challenge
Home Team Challenge is a regular season clone of last year's NFL Playoff Challenge. The caveat being that users compete against other fans of their favorite NFL franchise. Players are chosen weekly to earn fantasy points. All 32 team are represented and you can find each team's game following the URL scheme: teamname.challengegames.nfl.com/hometeamchallenge/ (see below).
- http://giants.challengegames.nfl.com/hometeamchallenge/
- http://jets.challengegames.nfl.com/hometeamchallenge/
NFL Fantasy Football en Español
I teamed up with NFLatino.com and Univision.com to build the NFL's first fantasy football game entirely in Spanish for the 2010 regular season. The game is Weekly Player Pick'em with groupings for US and International users.
Versus.com College Football Challenge 2010
For the second year, I teamed with Versus.com to build their NCAA Football pick'em game. This is in the style of the classic office pool format, where participants simply pick winners. Your picks are measured against other group members, a resident expert, and the community of users at large.
But other than those 7 releases, summer was rather slow. How about yours?