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RotoHog is the consumer facing Fantasy Sports website for Fastpoint Games, a digital platform developer that designs, implements and markets fantasy services for media and advertising partners.〔(Entrepreneur Magazine Article ) retrieved 25 August 2009〕 The company builds, delivers and manages co-branded fantasy sports games for major media companies, sports companies and professional sports leagues. Their signature stock exchange game is a budget-based, high-roster-turnover style fantasy sports game that combines traditional fantasy scoring with a stock market-style trading floor for baseball, basketball, American football, and Association Football (soccer). The company also delivers traditional commissioner and pick-em style fantasy sports games.〔(Online News Article 1 ) retrieved 6 November 2008〕 RotoHog has also branched out to entertainment games with the Rose Ceremony game for the Reality TV show The Bachelor〔(Online News Article ) retrieved 19 January 2010〕 and the Us Weekly Celebrity Fantasy League.〔(San Diego News Network Article ) retrieved 30 March 2010〕 ==Fantasy Game Platform== RotoHog is also the provider of nba.com's NBA Stock Exchange and commissioner games〔(NBA posting with reference to RotoHog partnership ) retrieved 10 January 2008〕 and Brazilian media company Grupo RBS's first ever Fantasy Soccer game.〔(Business Week Company Profile ) retrieved 12 June 2008〕 In 2009, RotoHog began to provide games for Fox Sports en Español and the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball tour.〔(News article - SoCalTech ) retrieved 19 March 2009〕 〔(News article - MediaPost ) retrieved 19 March 2009〕 In June 2009, RotoHog closed a multi-year deal with Sporting News to power the sports media company's suite of fantasy sports games. Sporting News VP Jeff Gerttula commented, "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 () solution, and wasn’t satisfied with developing the same old off-the-shelf products," 〔(News Article - Sports Business Journal ) retrieved 8 June 2009〕 In March 2010, RotoHog began powering the MySpace Bracket Challenge for the 2010 NCAA college basketball tournament. At the same time, the company announced that it would be launching its first commissioner-style baseball game on its own site.〔(Online News Article ) retrieved 29 March 2010〕 Like most fantasy sports games, the core elements of RotoHog's flagship stock exchange game involve building a team and setting a line-up to earning points. To this traditional core game, RotoHog adds a liquid market for players that all team managers use to trade players. Players can be traded at almost any time and player prices reflect up-to-the minute supply and demand. This trading system removes many of the problems with unfair trades or collusion between managers that can occur in traditional fantasy games.〔(Online News Article 2 ) retrieved 11 January 2008〕 RotoHog also provides a social networking platform that allows users to compete in unlimited size leagues grouped by location, team allegiance, company affiliations, or local watering holes in addition to smaller traditional private leagues made up of a dozen or so friends.〔(Review site ) retrieved 11 January 2008〕 This social networking platform allows diverse groups to create custom leagues for their members. For example, the non-profit group ''Hire-a-Hero'' used RotoHog as a way to help military veterans connect with each other and transition back to civilian life.〔(Online Sports Magazine Article 1 ) retrieved 20 January 2008〕 RotoHog have agreed to donate a portion of the advertisement revenue received from the Military Fantasy Football League (MFFL) to the ''Hire-a-Hero'' program. They have also decided to donate the $10 received for their premium statistical service, with which users can register to receive the latest news, injury reports and scouting reports from the site.〔Online Sports Magazine Article 1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RotoHog」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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