About RotoWire

• The Fantasy Industry's first real-time player news in 1997. (You'll notice all our competitors copied our format that uses a "news" and "analysis" for each player note. We invented that in 1997).
• The Fantasy Industry's first real-time customized cheat sheet in 1998.
• The Fantasy Industry's first free online commissioner service in 1998 (we learned our lesson and later went pay).
• The first online site to offer a fantasy sports magazine in print in 2000.
• The first web site to offer wireless player updates in 2004.
• Pioneered the DFS lineup optimizer in 2012.

We are proud suppliers of syndicated sports content to some of the best partners in the industry.

For more information on how you can partner with us, go here or contact us directly with any questions you might have.

Our staff does very well in experts leagues, as evidenced by our recent titles:

• 2023-24 FSGA NBA Experts Champion League [Ken Crites]
• 2023 Fantasy Football Index expert auction league [Jerry Donabedian]
• 2022-23 FSGA NBA Experts Champion League [Mike Barner]
• 2022-23 FSGA Experts Hockey Champions League [Michael Finewax]
• 2022 Sirius XM MLB Fantasy Dynasty [Clay Link]
• 2021 Fantasy Football Index Experts Poll [Chris Liss]
• 2021 FSGA NFL Expert League [Chris Liss]
• 2021 Scott Fish Bowl – Highest Finishing Expert (4th overall) [Peter Schoenke]
• 2021 Dynasty Owner Experts Championship [Joe Bartel]
• 2021 King's Classic [Jim Coventry]
• 2020 NFL Sin City Showdown [Jason Thornbury]
• 2020 Tout Wars – AL [Chris Liss]
• 2019 Sirius XM Post-Draft Draft [Mario Puig]
• 2018 The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational - Overall Champion [Clay Link]
• 2018 CBS Sports Analysts - AL [Clay Link]
• 2018 Sirius XM MLB Fantasy Dynasty [Clay Link]
• 2018 Sirius XM Best Ball [Jeff Erickson]
• 2018 NFBC Main Event League [Scott Jenstad]
• 2018 The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational - League 4 [James Anderson]
• 2018 LABR - Mixed [Derek VanRiper]
• 2018 Tout Wars - Mixed Auction [Tim Heaney]
• 2018 Arizona Fall League NFBC Experts [Tim Heaney + Derek VanRiper tie]
• 2017 FSTA MLB Expert League [Derek VanRiper]
• 2015 LABR - NL [Derek VanRiper]
• 2015 Tout Wars - AL [Chris Liss]
• 2015 PFF Going Deep Expert League [Peter Schoenke]
• 2015 NFBC Main Event (12th place) [Chris Liss]
• 2014 Head2Head.com College Footabll Experts League [Peter Schoenke]
• 2014 Tout Wars Mixed League Auction [Derek VanRiper]
• 2013-14 Roto Community Hoops Challenge [Kyle McKeown]
• 2013-14 SiriusXM Dynasty League Basketball [Kyle McKeown]
• 2012-13 Yahoo! Sports Experts Basketball League champion [Shannon McKeown]
• 2012-13 SiriusXM Dynasty League Basketball [Kyle McKeown]
• 2011-12 SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio Hosts Fantasy Basketball League [Andre' Snellings]
• 2011-12 CBSsports.com Experts Fantasy Hockey League [Darryl Houston-Smith]
• 2011 USA Today AL LABR Champion [Chris liss]
• 2011 Yahoo! Sports Experts Baseball League champion [Jeff Erickson]
• 2010-11 Roto Community Hoops Challenge [Kyle McKeown]
• 2010-11 SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio Hosts Fantasy Basketball League [Peter Schoenke]
• 2010 SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio Hosts Playoff Fantasy Football League [Jeff Erickson]
• 2010 World Championship of Fantasy Baseball - 8th place overall [Dalton Del Don]
• 2009 Mixed Tout Wars [Chris liss]
• 2009 Yahoo! Sports Experts Baseball League champion [Chris liss]
• 2008 Yahoo! Sports Experts Football League champion [Chris liss]
• 2008 The Metro Sports Fantasy Football League [Chris liss]
• 2008 Sports Illustrated/Citizen Sports Fantasy Football Experts League [Chris liss]
• 2007 $50,000 Fantasy Jungle Fantasy Football Grand Prize Winner [Mike Doria]
• 2007 NL Tout Wars [Jeff Erickson]
• 2007 Fantasy College Football Invitational chamption [Jeff Erickson]
• 2006 CBS Sportsline 5x5 NL Expert Draft league [Erik Seigrist]
• 2006 Yahoo! Sports Experts Baseball League champion [Chris liss]
• 2005-06 Yahoo! Sports Experts Hockey League champion [Peter Schoenke]
• 2005 Yahoo! Sports Experts Football League champion [Chris liss]
• 2004-05 Yahoo! Sports Experts Basketball League champion [Peter Schoenke]
• 2004 CSBC / CBS Sportsline Fantasy Basketball champion
• 2004 Creative Sports NL Expert League champion
• 2002 Fantasy GMs College Football Expert League champion (first college expert league using player names) [Peter Schoenke]
• 2001 FSTA Baseball champion
• 2000 FSTA Football champion
• 2000 Gridiron Grumblings Expert League Champ

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In 1997, three Northwestern graduates, Peter Schoenke, Jeff Erickson and Herb Ilk, came up with an idea that changed the fantasy sports market forever: to provide real-time news and analysis for fantasy sports junkies like themselves. RotoNews.com was born and revolutionized the industry.

Not long after they launched the site, the founders realized that the demand for real-time information was beyond even their wildest expectations. Suddenly, RotoNews was consistently ranked among the 10 largest sports sites in surveys by both Media Metrix and PC Data, topping such sites as FoxSports.com. RotoNews became so big that the owners decided to chase the same dot-com bubble as everyone else and sold the company to a West Coast corporation in 1999. In 2001 that company's management (which the RotoNews founders were not part of), misjudged the "new economy" and went bankrupt. RotoNews.com was stuck in bankruptcy limbo.

The RotoNews team decided to march on and continue to provide the fantasy news, information and commissioner services that served the industry so well, but as a new business: RotoWire.com. The tremendous changes in the Internet advertising market also caused the business model of the new web site to change and our content went from free to a pay model.

The same editors, writers, and programmers that made RotoNews.com the leading brand for fantasy news on the Web created RotoWire.com. Since our RotoNews days we've added some new faces, but the core group remains the same. Peter Schoenke, Jeff Erickson, Chris Liss, Jason Thornbury, Mike Doria, Tim Schuler, Tim McCaigue, Shannon McKeown and Herb Ilk form the RotoWire.com team along with a large network of writers that kept our coverage the best on the web.

Our goal is the same from back when we started: to be the best resource of real-time information and draft preparation for fantasy players anywhere. The business model may have changed, and competitors and knock-off copycats of our original concept may have emerged, but few will deny we still produce the most timely and thorough information on the web.

We're constantly trying to improve upon our original concept, so please give us your feedback. What can we do better? Please let us know.

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