Sportsline Offers Fantasy Player Updates by RSS

I must have missed an announcement, or maybe there wasn’t any, but anyone using Sportsline for fantasy baseball can now get their player updates via RSS.

I was getting mine by email, but found it a bit rough to keep up with or pay attention to.  Subscribing to a feed is much nicer than email updates for me as I can let them sit there a bit without cluttering my inbox.

I found it by seeing the little RSS icon appear in Firefox while browsing in my fantasy leagues’ websites.  I was wondering if they offered the standard Sportsline feeds, or if it was something more.  Turns out it was a little of both.

If you’re wondering what your feed for player updates is, the url would look something like this:
LEAGUEABBREVIATION.baseball.sportsline.com/xml/rss/updates/TEAMID

You can find your team id by mousing over your team name on the “Teams & Owners” page and seeing what that last number is.

Update before I even hit submit on this post: I went to my hockey league, and of course the feed is active for that too.  Simply replace the word “baseball” with “hockey” in the url above and that’s it.  Have an update for my football pool as well, but I’m not sure what I’d get out of that since I don’t actually pick players - it’s a big feed, perhaps it’s just a lot of them.  Goes back to mid-March.

Posted by David M Singer on Apr 11, 2006 at 09:16 PM

Comments:

  1. Most of the chatter about RSS is how it allows news, blog, and other typically-serious information to your desktop, online reader, or wherever you happen to get it. There hasn't been much talk about the finer uses for the technology,...

    Posted by http://www.openthedialogue.com/2006/04/rss_can_be_ on Apr 14, 2006 at 11:41 AM
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