ScreamingSports: All Your Fantasy Sports, One Place
Atlanta-based ScreamingSports is a new service from FSDashboard creating a social network for fantasy sports fans where they can manage their teams, regardless of where they are hosted. FSDashboard is releasing the site fresh off a $1.25 million round of financing from Mangrove Partners.
ScreamingSports also adds features some fantasy sites don’t have. You can access your teams from a mobile phone for last minutes tweaks and even automate updates to your teams based on injuries.
We’ve seen a cadre of other startups cater to this crowd for big payoffs in the past. Wikia reportedly purchased ArmchairGM for $2 million. Time and Sports Illustrated acquired FanNation and paid about $25 million for a 40% stake its parent company. Rivals allegedly sold for a whopping $100 million.
Since they depend on third party sites for their users, Screaming Sports stands in a more tenuous spot than these other sites, who went it alone. However, it’s easy to see ScreamingSports launching their own network after reaching a critical mass, similar to Meebo launching their IM network after aggregating the major players.