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Free Fantasy Football Apps Worth Installing

With the football season now in full swing, the popularity of Fantasy Football is at an all-time high. Fantasy football allows the average casual couch dwelling football watcher a way to get more involved in the game. Its free to play and all you need are a total of 6 people to start a league of their own. If you don’t have like-minded friends, you could also join a league by yourself in those hosted by NFL.com, ESPN.com, and Yahoo.com. In fantasy football, you essentially become the general manager of your own football team and before the start of the regular season, pick players through a snake draft or auction. The auction draft is a little more complicated so its probably best for beginners to start in a snake draft league.  Droid or iPhone.

The rising popularity of fantasy football has occurred in tandem with the rising popularity of smartphones. As a result, there are many free app’s available to help you track the latest fantasy football news so you can make the quickest and wisest waiver wire pickups possible throughout the season. Players get injured weekly so it’s always best to be on top of the latest player trends and stats. 

-Rotoworld provides up to the minute news  - the same news that Yahoo uses for the individual player rankings and predictions. It also allows you to choose your favorite players to track so that a separate folder is always accessible for their news only.

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-Rotowire News Center provides more breaking news and offers recommendations based on that news.

-Fantasy Buzzr is a nice catch all of other websites’ news and places it together in a clean format.

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-Playerline provides an excellent news roundup and projected player stat lines for the following week as well

-InjuryTracker provides up to the minute injury updates during the games themselves on Sunday. Excellent for mid-day waiver wire pickups.
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