“Sporting News users will still be able to play the same games that they are used to playing on SportingNews.com, and we are working hard to ensure that the best features of those games remain intact in the new versions,” RotoHog business development director Garrett Brown told FSB.com. “We’ll also be adding new features that will make the games more enjoyable for fantasy players.”

“In order to take our games to the next level, we wanted to align with somebody intensely focused on the space, was committed to a strong [business-to-business] solution, and wasn’t satisfied with developing the same old off-the-shelf products,” said Jeff Gerttula, vice president and general manager for online at Sporting News.

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Report abuse | Block 19 Jun 2009 14:59 guys, there will be an announcement early next week about this stuff. just to let you know, it will be our game model, powered by Rotohog

Starting with the upcoming football season, Sporting News Fantasy Games will be built and hosted by Rotohog. However, the unique brand of Sporting News Fantasy Games will not change; specifically, the components that make up our salary cap pricing model will remain intact. As a game player, you should not expect to see any major gameplay or rule changes. We will always be looking to add new features or general improvements from season to season, but the core of the games and our prize structure will stay the same.

We will also be upgrading our e-commerce system, which will affect managers with outstanding tokens. Managers with outstanding tokens will have them converted to "site credits", which will be redeemable for future games beginning with the 2009 football games. However, members actively buying trades in Salary Cap Challenge Baseball or Golf will not have their tokens automatically transferred to "site credits" for future games. We are doing this because once tokens are transferred to "site credits", they will no longer be redeemable for golf or baseball trades. At the conclusion of the baseball and golf seasons, leftover tokens will be automatically converted into "site credits" for future games.

If you’re actively buying trades for Salary Cap Challenge Baseball or Golf and you want your tokens transferred for "site credits" for Football 2009, there will be several dates, starting in early July, when we will be converting tokens to "site credits" upon request. Unfortunately, we will not be able to honor requests for partial transfers -- we will only be able to transfer all of a manager’s tokens to "site credits". We will contact users with tokens and baseball or golf teams prior to each of these dates, reminding them of the opportunity to convert.

Unredeemed trades will be similarly affected by our commerce change. Unredeemed trades will be transferred for use in future games around September 1st. If you do not have a Season 2 Baseball or Golf team, your unredeemed trades will be automatically transferred. If you do have an active Season 2 Baseball or Golf team, you will be contacted prior to the early September transfer and will have the opportunity to request your unredeemed trades be transferred for use in future games, beginning with football. Once trades are transferred, they will no longer be available for use in any baseball or golf game. When all of the baseball and golf games end, all unredeemed trades will be automatically transferred to the new system for use in football and all future games.

We expect our relationship with Rotohog will allow us to continue to offer unique and high-quality fantasy games long into the future. We will be able to focus our attention more on providing tools and features to further differentiate our games and our community. There will be more information in the coming weeks and months and we will try to let everyone know the latest information as it becomes available.

Sincerely, Eric Ferreira Member Services Manager