As TechCrunch says, “they’re not ESPN”, but the apps they’ve put out so far are much better. They have a very popular fantasy football league on Facebook, and an app that ties directly into it. It’s superb.
Even better is their “Sportacular” app (free version, $1.99 version). It’s somewhat similar to the ESPN ScoreCenter app, but it does so much more. It has tons of scores, stats and features, and push notifications for all kinds of events. You can get notifications on a single game, or all games from a team. From there, it gets even more granular and lets you choose to be alerted:
- Pre-Game (3 hr)
- Game Start
- Game End
- Score Change
- Inning/Period End
- Every 3rd Inning (baseball, of course)
This lets me do some cool things. I have it set to give me the “Game End” alerts for Atlanta Braves games. I’m a casual fan, and it’ll be nice to see final scores roll in. During football season, though, I have it set to alert me when some teams Start and End, so I can know when to look for the game on TV.
They’ve got some slick stuff going. Check out the screens below for a bit more info.
I got it last night and have popped it on a copule of devices.There are a copule of bugs, but nowt major, and just managed to play a game against an opponent online.Once I had got used to the interface it went smoothly.I hope this will turn out to be a worth replacement for iBodger (never really got on with it myself).Hoping for an implementation of enforced theme lists and a collection manager in the future.I like it for, if nothing else, the room it has saved on my shelves after selling off my faction books