iPhone App Reviews

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Michael (Admin) | Nov 18, 2009 Website Stuff

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I suck at a lot of things, but apparently Free the Fan‘s weekly NFL salary cap game isn’t one of them!

A couple months ago I reviewed Quick Picks Fantasy GM and thought it was a really cool idea… you select a new NFL team roster every week but you also have to stay within a $25 million salary cap. The best players cost $5 million, the crappiest are only $1 million, and you have to fill all eight roster roster spots. Just like in regular fantasy football, stat points are awarded as your guys make plays in the real world, and each week the top three scorers are rewarded with cash or Overstock.com prizes, and there’s also a season-long competition.

In week 8 of the NFL season (two weeks ago) I finished 2nd overall for the week and that earned me $75 to spend at Overstock.com. THEN… in week 9, I finished first!! First place for the week gets you $200 cash.

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Tags: fantasy football, NFL

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…

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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.

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Tags: $1.99, american football, fantasy football, NFL

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.

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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

Tags: american football, free, NFL