CBS Opens Up Free Fantasy Sports Data Service

CBS Sports has announced that beginning today you will be able to access all of their Fantasy Sports data for free on their new fantasynews.cbssports.com Web site. The fantasy sports market is huge and continues to grow and this move is likely to help CBS attempt to move into a leadership role. They will also push users to signup for their free and premium games.

The sports covered include: college football, pro football, baseball, hockey, golf and auto racing. CBSSports.com Fantasy News will also allow users to tap into an enormous amount of data-mining information from the CBSSports.com base of users, the most engaged and passionate fantasy players in the industry. From the most added/most dropped players to draft averages to the most traded players, visitors to CBSSports.com Fantasy News will be served hundreds of statistical breakdowns. The site will feature editorial content from the team of writers at CBS Sports. 

When will we have a fantasy league for bloggers? Like vote on when you think x person will step over the edge or when y person will be forced out due to z reason. Could be exciting. I’d take Scoble on a over-under to move to a new app off FriendFeed within 6 weeks.

Update: A CenterNetworks reader sent us the following regarding the above story: The Supreme Court handed down it’s denial of cert on a case yesterday which would have potentially killed the (above mentioned) product.