ESPN to Provide Extensive Coverage of Fantasy Football's 21st Season

ESPN Fantasy Football, the most popular fantasy football game in the industry, begins its 21st pro football season with a mix of new and highly popular content and features across ESPN platforms. The game is accompanied by the fantasy sports industry's most comprehensive collection of expert analysis, news, tools and statistical information. Exclusive content available to ESPN Insiders includes Insider Recommends, Roster Advisor, Custom Value Generator, and expert analysis from Matthew Berry, Eric Karabell, Field Yates, Stephania Bell, Mike Clay, Tristan Cockcroft, KC Joyner, and Tim Hasselbeck, as well as special contributions from ESPN's NFL Nation staff writers. Also, ESPN will televise the 28-hour ESPN Fantasy Football Marathon presented by Draft Kings on August 15-16.

The new ESPN Fantasy app updates the No. 1 ESPN Fantasy Football app on iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and Android 7-inch tablets and allows users to play Fantasy Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Hockey in the same application for the first time ever. Major enhancements this year include a brand new design and visuals that feature new game logos, player headshots, sticker packs, and animations; award-winning fantasy analysis and video accessible right from the app's home screen; improved draft and live scoring features; and personalized notifications tailored to users' rosters. The free-to-download app makes it easy for users to sign up, create or join a league, customize their league, draft, make trades, add players, follow their matchups with real-time scoring, view expert analysis and video, and view and post messages to other league members.

Kicking off preseason preparations for fantasy players, ESPN.com has begun hosting Mock Draft Mondays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET every Monday in August. Players have the unique opportunity to ask questions and practice draft strategies against ESPN fantasy football analysts including Matthew Berry, Eric Karabell, Field Yates, Mike Clay, Tristan H. Cockcroft, and KC Joyner, along with injury analyst Stephania Bell, His & Hers' Michael Smith, SportsCenter's Randy Scott, ESPN New York's Anita Marks, and various NFL Nation reporters, among others. Fans are also able to interact with ESPN's experts and analysts via social media.

ESPN.com provides multiple tools for THE DRAFT including a Fantasy Football Draft Kit, which analyses and projects more than 500 players. Cheat Sheet Central, rankings and strategy content are also included, as well as the 2016 editions of Matthew Berry's "Draft Day Manifesto" and soon-to-be-published "Love/Hate" column. For those looking for a more hands-on way to prepare, the Mock Draft Lobby is designed to run nearly unlimited live practice drafting sessions against other ESPN fantasy football owners.

ESPN will again offer free Team Logo Sticker Packs, including many new collections for this season, which allow players to easily create unique avatars for their fantasy football team. Millions of players customized their team Logo last year, including original artwork from sports, pop culture and entertainment, adding fun to any team's identity.

During the season, managers can follow ESPN FantasyCast for free, real-time scoring of their weekly fantasy matchups, updated as the plays happen in real life. Embedded player profiles allow fantasy players to get the latest statistics, news and injury information for players they own or are following, and easily add, drop or trade players to build a championship team.

Each league also features message boards, chats, polls and smack boards, and players can interact with ESPN Fantasy throughout the season on social platforms via Facebook Live on the ESPN Fantasy Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/ESPNfantasy and on Periscope on the @ESPNFantasy Twitter page.

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