Founded
in 2004, RSGFS is a Phoenix-based technology company focused on providing
winning advice for the nation’s 30 million fantasy sports players.
Mission: is to become the No. 1 choice for predictive
fantasy sports analysis tools, delivered directly to consumers through
the Web, mobile
phones and retail stores – in short, wherever sports fans are!
RSGFS also delivers fantasy analysis tools via
licensing agreements with our business-to-business partners. A member
of the Fantasy Sports
Trade Association, RSGFS collaborates with online content providers,
mobile telecommunications companies, professional sports player associations
and other entertainment/leisure industry leaders.
Jeff Coruccini, CEO – Jeff has over twenty (20) years of business development executive leadership experience and ten (10) years working with start-up businesses (Web-centric models) in the areas of: customer management, software development, strategic partnerships and new business implementations. Experiencing success and failures with start-up companies gives Jeff tremendous experience for his role as CEO of the company. His proven business development and account management skills and project management experience has led to the company's successful product deployment and establishing strategic relationships with the licensing arm of the National Football League (NFL PLAYERS INC.), Sprint and Mobile ESPN. He has over fifteen (15) years of experience competing in fantasy football and it was his vision to develop the product and company. Companies Jeff has worked for include: American Express, Carlson Companies, McDonnell Douglas, Farelogix, Yatra.net, e-resourceplanner.com and b-there.com.
Simon
Chatfield, CTO – Simon has over fifteen (15) years of experience developing software applications and architecture designs. The past eight years he has worked for start-up companies while growing and developing his own consulting company - The Chatfield Group. In his current role as Chief Technology Officer, Simon has developed the code and architecture to support our fantasy football optimization algorithm. His prior experience with developing "travel search" algorithms and knowledge of football/fantasy football were the successful ingredients in creating our winning algorithm. Simon's experience growing companies and developing software products will ensure Ready-Set-Go becomes an industry leader in fantasy sports predictive analysis software. Simon has over ten (10) years experience competing in fantasy sports.
Dana Valentine, Co-Founder – Dana has over eighteen (18) years technical support experience with Fortune 500 companies. His background maintaining database applications and system support ensures the accuracy of our information for our products database and Internet forums. Dana is our lead Fantasy Football analyst with over fifteen (15) years of experience competing in fantasy sports. He has played a key role in our success the past two seasons, resulting in our application beating industry experts 70% of the time.
Brady Chatfield, Marketing and Public
Relations – Brady has more than fifteen (15) years
of experience in communications, including journalism, public relations
and marketing. His background ranges from working for large corporations
to nonprofits to co-founding his own consulting business, The Chatfield
Group, with his brother Simon. Brady's expertise helped Ready-Set-Go
Fantasy Sports more than double its user base in 2005 and has helped
the Power Analyzer gain national media exposure.
Russ Bliss, Radio Host/Analyst – Russ has over ten (10) years experience as a professional fantasy football analyst and during that period has hosted the most successful Fantasy Football Radio show - The Red Zone (KDUS 1060) in Phoenix, AZ. Russ joined Ready-Set-Go Fantasy Sports in December 2005 and plays a key role in the development of enhancements and new products.
The Fantasy
Sports Trade Association's fourth
annual demographic survey results, conducted by Dr. Kim Beason of
the University of Mississippi
, provide insight on this growing industry. The survey indicated there
are 15-18 million people playing fantasy sports with the average fantasy
player being a 36-year-old, married, white male with a bachelor's degree
and a member of the "professional" work force.
According
to the survey, basketball has shown the highest growth rate in the
past four years, showing a 7 percent growth during that time.
Football (4 percent) was next, followed by baseball (3 percent). In
addition, the average fantasy player also spends 34 minute's a day
thinking about their fantasy teams and has an average of 3.3 baseball
teams and 2.9 football teams.
"
This is a healthy, maturing growing industry," Beason said. The
survey also revealed some fascinating aspects of the industry's participants.
Among them:
- Fifty-five percent of fantasy players watch more
sports on TV since starting to play fantasy sports.
- Fantasy sports
players attend considerably more professional games than non-fantasy
players. Sixty percent of fantasy sports players attended
at least one Major League Baseball game last year, compared to
12 percent of adult Americans who attended at least one game last
year. The other
sports were equally revealing: 47 percent of fantasy football players
attended an NFL game last year (compared to 9% of adult Americans);
28 percent of fantasy basketball players attended an NBA game (compared
to 8% of adult Americans); and 27 percent of fantasy hockey players
attended an NHL game (compared to 4% of adult Americans).
- The industry
is growing at a rate of 7-10 percent in the past three years.
Erin
Hunter of comScore.com and Lee Ann Prescott of Hitwise.com also unveiled
additional online demographic information. Among their findings
was that fantasy football generated the highest amount of online traffic,
the strongest demographic resided in the 25-34 age group and the average
income of fantasy participants was between $60,000-$100,000 a year.
"
This is a very attractive demographic market," Prescott said. |
