iBet Football Pro
Michael (Admin) | Oct 12, 2009 Sports
User rating: 
(10 votes, average: 3.70 out of 5)
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Pssst… I got a hot tip on tonight’s Monday Night Football game… it’s gonna be an UPSET! Miami’s gonna win!
Well on second thought, this is a pretty bad example since the NY Jets are only favored by 1 point which basically makes this game a tossup. Even iBetFootball PRO will tell you “DO NOT BET!!!” this game because it’s just too close to predict. What it does recommend, however, is that you take the Over which is 36 because iBetFootball is predicting the final score to total 39. Still pretty close, but hey it’s called gambling for a reason, right?
iBetFootball makes its predictions based on past game data, so in theory it should become more accurate as the football season goes on. How accurate was it this past weekend, you ask? Well, let’s see…
Tags: $5.99, american football, casino, NFL
Quick Picks Fantasy GM
Michael (Admin) | Sep 10, 2009 Sports
User rating: (3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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I heart gambling and I heart football even more, so naturally I gravitated towards Quick Picks Fantasy GM the second it hit my inbox! It’s a weekly salary cap game where you re-draft your team every week so even if Tom Brady gets mowed down by a bus (perish the thought!) you won’t be screwed for 17 weeks straight like you probably were last season in your standard fantasy football league.
Not only do you get to pick a new team each week, but you can also win money doing it. That’s right… iPhone apps don’t cost money, they make money! Maybe. If you know your football. Free The Fan is giving out weekly prizes of cash and Overstock.com gift cards, plus there are some hefty cash and Overstock prizes for the overall season point leaders! In total, $10,000 in cash and prizes that will be handed out over the course of the NFL season.
It may sound easy but the salary cap is the Great Equalizer here. Is it really as simple as blowing $20 million of your $25 million cap on four studs when you have EIGHT roster spots to fill? Haha, you wish.
Tags: $1.99, american football, fantasy football, NFL
IAR’s 6 Random Freebies
Michael (Admin) | Sep 4, 2009 Random Freebies
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...This used to be called “Eric’s 6 Random Freebies” but it’s become something of a team effort so now our weekly collection of random free junk has a slightly different moniker.
The name may be different, but the untested freebies are just as free!
imeem Mobile by imeem – You like genre-based streaming music but, in an effort to fight the power, you refuse to join the Pandora army… maybe imeem is what you’re looking for!
Facts About Sex by Inner Four – Everything you never wanted to know about sex and were just too lazy to ask
College Football Live! by Plusmo – Play-by-play coverage + all kinds of NCAAF features = (potentially) very good app
SepiaCamera by Takayuki Fukatsu – If you’re too cheap to spring a buck or two for one of Mr. F’s other camera apps, grab this one for the low, low price of zilch
Question of the Day by Sporkfly Media – Entertain and/or annoy everyone around you with incessant questions that are none of your damn business
Flood-It! by LabPixies – With an average rating of 3.5 stars from nearly 11,000 reviews I have a feeling this app may have graced the Top 25 at some point but I’m not sure
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- imeem Mobile
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- Facts About Sex
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- College Football Live!
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- SepiaCamera
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- Question of the Day (the answer is THE BANK, haha me funny)
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- Flood-It!
Tags: american football, free
Fanball.com Fantasy Draft, Player & Injury News 2009
Michael (Admin) | Sep 3, 2009 Sports
User rating: (3 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
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If you’re a fantasy football geek you already know who Fanball.com is… they’re one of just a handful of credible fantasy news sources not named ESPN. A few weeks ago I did a three-app Draft Kit Roundup and this app from Fanball fits right in with that group; it provides player rankings, news and injury updates, and it also tries to be a live draft companion which it kind of succeeds at but not entirely.
I made it pretty clear in my Draft Kit Roundup that I think trying to track your live draft on any iPhone app is a waste of time, and even though Fanball’s app is pretty good overall I still think it’s a dumb idea! I’m in three leagues this year (as usual) and my first live draft was last night. iPhone apps like this one do have some value in a live draft setting, but mostly on the news and stats side.
Tags: $.99, american football, fantasy football, NFL
Q&F: Outlast Football
Michael (Admin) | Aug 31, 2009 Quick & Free, Sports
User rating: (5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Call me a commie but I don’t give a crap about baseball… (American) football is the only sport that matters! And now that football season is finally here I’m on the lookout for apps that will make the games even more fun to watch.
Outlast Football is your basic survival pool where each week you pick ONE team that you’re absolutely sure will win, and if you’re right then you live to see another Sunday (or Monday or occasionally Thursday). If you choose the wrong side of an upset, though, you’re done for the season. The only catch is that you can only pick a team once during the whole season, so after Chicago crushes Green Bay at Lambeau in Week 1 you’ll have to move on to other possible winners in subsequent weeks.
You can make your survival pool public or private and you can also join other public pools if making one pick a week isn’t enough for you. There’s also the option to add a point spread if you’re fully convinced that your team will win by (x) points, and you’ll either get rewarded or penalized in “LastCreds” depending on the outcome.
I don’t fully understand the point of LastCreds, aka Outlast points, but I’m guessing it’s just a way of ranking players and their knowledge (or luck) in predicting winners. As for how this app performs in the heat of battle I don’t really know yet since the NFL season hasn’t started, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough!
Outlast Football is free, so if you’re a football fan you need to download it and join my public pool! Just go to “Buddies”, click Search in the top left corner, look for “iphone” and you’ll find iPhoneAppReviews.net. Be sure to join the league called “(for real this time)”.
iTunes Link – Outlast Football
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
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- Arrrgghh I can't delete my screwed up 'IAR survial pool!'... that needs to be fixed
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- Outlast hasn't assigned any spreads for Week 1 yet, probably because we're still in preseason
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- Join my pool! Make sure to join the one called 'for real this time'
Tags: american football, free, NFL
PlayFootball
Michael (Admin) | Aug 13, 2009 Games
User rating: (5 votes, average: 4.80 out of 5)
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Jebudas Communications, aka Destroy Objects, Inc., knew that porting a Madden clone to the iPhone would be pretty impossible to pull off so they did the next best thing: they kept the play calling and got rid of the players! Well the players haven’t been ditched completely, but they’re now reduced to little dots that make very Madden-like grunts while they’re executing plays called by you, their offensive and defensive coordinator.
PlayFootball is a funny little game that’s boiled down to making coaching decisions rather than trying to figure out how to run, catch, and throw. Just call your play and watch the little dot people run into each other until the whistle blows and it’s time to huddle up again for the next down.
Tags: $2.99, american football, Sports
Fantasy Football Draft Kit roundup
Michael (Admin) | Aug 7, 2009 Sports
User rating: (5 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
(5 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5) Loading ...Hey FF nerds, I missed out on the short window for fantasy football reviews last year but this time around I’m all over it! Every year I’m in at least three fantasy football leagues so I definitely have a vested interest in apps like these.
One thing I wanna say right off the bat is that all of these fantasy football apps fall into the “draft kit” category which implies that they’re intended for use during a fantasy draft so that’s how I’m treating them. They each allow you to mark players so you know if they’ve been drafted by you or someone else, each supports multiple drafts, and each one has a “my team” view.
Double Feature: 3 Point Hoops Basketball & Field Goal Frenzy
Michael (Admin) | Jun 18, 2009 Games
User rating: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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I’ve been meaning to review these games for the longest time! Skyworks released them about a month ago and they’re both good for some mindless fun, but they’re also more or less the same thing in different environments… flick a finger from the bottom of the screen upward (just like in Arcade Bowling) to shoot a 3 or kick a 3.
It’s not as easy as it sounds, so don’t get too cocky! The rim in 3 Point Hoops Basketball might as well be a girl ‘cuz I got zero game and have a really hard time scoring with it, and Field Goal Frenzy gets really tough when the wind kicks up.
Choke! Choke! Choke!
Tags: $1.99, american football, basketball
