The Road to Krause's National Fantasy Football Championship Begins with STATS Fantasy Football.MORTON GROVE Morton Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,408), Cook co., N of Chicago, NE Ill.; inc. 1895. It has research laboratories and plants that manufacture goods such as pumps, electrical equipment, and cosmetics. , Ill. -- - STATS, Inc., the world's leading sports information provider, and Krause Publications' Fantasy Sports Magazine announced today the 2004 overall winner of STATS, Inc.'s flagship fantasy football game, STATS Fantasy Football, will gain a free entry, worth $1,250, into the 2005 National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC NFFC National Family Farm Coalition NFFC Netflow Feature Card (Cisco) NFFC National Fantasy Fan Club NFFC Nottingham Forest Football Club NFFC National Federation of Fisheries Co-Operatives NFFC Net Flow Feature Card ). The NFFC is run by Krause Publications' Fantasy Sports Magazine and touts the largest prizes in the industry with a grand prize of $200,000. The NFFC offers both auction and traditional draft leagues to more than 600 participants competing in 14-team leagues. Each league champion will win $5,000. STATS, Inc. will manage the game and web site for the NFFC after running the highly successful National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC NFBC National Fantasy Baseball Championship ) beginning this past March. STATS, Inc. is providing web development and hosting, real-time scoring; customer service; and daily player notes for NFBC and NFFC. The NFFC also introduces fantasy football's first multi-city live draft, with Fantasy Sports Magazine hosting simultaneous drafts on September 3rd and 4th in Las Vegas, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Chicago. The draft will run in conjunction with the ninth annual Fantasy Sports Trade Conference in Las Vegas, which will be held September 1st and 2nd at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino. For the past 15 years, STATS Fantasy Football has offered an in-depth test for hardcore fantasy football players. Game registration for STATS Fantasy Football is $19.95 and available at www.stats.com. More details on the NFFC, including rules, entry and in-depth fantasy information, are available at www.fantasyfootballchampionship.com. About Krause Publications Krause Publications is the world's largest hobby publisher, with 46 periodicals, 15 hobby shows and 750 reference and how-to books. Based in Iola, Wis., the company was founded by Chet Krause in 1952 and acquired by F&W Publications in 2002. Fantasy Sports Magazine was established in 1989 - originally it was called Fantasy Baseball Magazine - as the first national newsstand publication for the industry. Krause Publications produces four Fantasy Sports magazines per year and promotes the twice-annual Fantasy Sports Trade Conference, which was established in 2000. About STATS, Inc. With more than 20 years of experience in sophisticated sports data collection, processing and distribution - STATS is the world's leading sports information and statistical analysis company. STATS provides exclusive information and data from its proprietary databases to fans, professional teams, print and broadcast media, iTV platforms, software developers and interactive and wireless service providers around the globe. STATS, Inc.'s business partners include FOX Sports, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , CBS Sports, WGN WGN Wellington WGN White Gaussian Noise WGN World's Greatest Newspaper (Chicago, IL, USA) WGN World Gastroenterology News WGN We Got Nomar WGN World's Greatest Network WGN Wireless Network Gateway WGN Wagon Sports, YES Network, Yahoo!, SI.com, MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Sporting News, EA Sports and the Associated Press. (http://biz.stats.com) |
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