Comments on: MLB Names Yahoo! Official Fantasy Baseball Game

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:39 +0000

Building a high-traffic commissioner game is a totally different beast than building one for a few thousand leagues.

In the early days of Open Sports we had speced out tech plans to use some (new at the time) open source technologies to be able to build a fantasy game platform that operates cheaper than anyone else at the time. Coming from Fanball (before the recent meltdowns) we know what it takes to operate these games. Needless to say Open Sports went a different direction and ended up getting married to Fox, however, Yahoo has implemented some of these techniques already. It’s possible to run a commissioner game with ads only but ONLY with enough scale and effective use of sharding, precached static DB documents instead of traditional RDBMS, light AJAX interface, etc.. Yahoo, obviously, has that scale and tech savvy to do this and it looks like they have.

Good job.

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By: Randy Burgess

Randy Burgess — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:15 +0000

I think it’s a matter of resources. Running a fantasy league system that can compete with CBS, Yahoo!, and ESPN takes a good number of people that are good at what they do (i.e. they get paid). MLBAM is probably just choosing to focus their resources on other projects–projects that have less major-media competition (such as HD Sports Video or something)–and let the media corps manage the games.

Making Yahoo! the “official” fantasy league manager is probably just for cash.