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June 19, 2025 Katelyn's Must See Matchups Katelyn Hutchison SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author

Former player & Creative Director for UNC Women’s Soccer, Brittani Bartok, is excited about her role as Head Of Content for LFG. May 8, 2025 Let’s Find Out Why Brittani Bartok Q: What has led up to your role as head of content for Lets Fantasy Game? A: During my sophomore year playing women’s soccer at UNC, I spontaneously decided to create the team’s social media accounts. At that time, athletic departments did not have social media accounts for individual sports. As the self-appointed team documentarian, I immediately saw it as an opportunity to share all of the thoughts, photos, and videography that I felt captured what I loved most about my team. I would have never guessed those “behind-the-scenes” channels would become my full time job after my soccer career. They also became some of the most followed and engaged in college sports for over 17+ years. I believe there was, and still is, a need for that content in women’s sports and I want to be someone that continues to deliver that here at Let’s Fantasy Game. Q: What vibes can we expect from Let’s Fantasy Game content? A: I learned so much during my time at UNC about how important and impactful it is to bring people content that is fun and authentic. Having been an athlete myself, and knowing the athletes personally, I really want to give people a different perspective. Creating content with a vested interest in players, teams, and women’s sports from a very positive, raw and joyful lens has, and always will be, my passion. Becoming Head of Content for Let’s Fantasy Game is a dream come true and I can’t wait to continue to do my part in growing women’s sports in my own unique way! Q: What should people know about Fantasy Gaming Around Women’s Sports? A: What people should know is that you don’t need to know much at all to start having more fun when watching some of your favorite sports at home, at the bar, or even at the stadium. I have personally always been very curious, but intimidated, about the idea of participating in men’s fantasy sports. Fantasy sports have been such a great conduit in men’s leagues for so long when it comes to growing viewership and a sport’s popularity - not to mention offering a stimulating community space. I’m excited that Let’s Fantasy Game has built something inviting, fun, and safe that is specific to women’s sports and its fans. And it’s about damn time! LFG! SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author 3x NCAA Champion - UNC Obsessed with art, your dog, and avoiding cardio.

June 17, 2025 Aaron's NWSL Weekend Preview Aaron West SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author

...there are several other reasons that I play that have nothing to do with money, some of which I have never seen discussed outside of group texts with my buddies. I wanted to share them with you today in the hopes they might help someone else find their own “why”. June 9, 2025 Why I Fantasy Game Steve Pimental My first article for Let’s Fantasy Game was The “Why” Behind Steve Pimental . In that piece, I describe my journey with women’s sports and how that brought me to the Let’s Fantasy Game team. But there is another why that is also important to me, and that is why I play fantasy games. I believe the people in my life who don’t play fantasy think I just do it to try to win money, and there is certainly some truth to that. One of the reasons I rarely play daily fantasy baseball is that I know I would essentially be lighting money on fire. If I don’t feel like I have much of a chance to win, I am less motivated to play. That being said, there are several other reasons that I play that have nothing to do with money, some of which I have never seen discussed outside of group texts with my buddies. I wanted to share them with you today in the hopes they might help someone else find their own “why”. Reason Number One: Cheer on players I like to root for. In a future article, I will get more into which players I like to root for and why, but I enjoy having a little extra incentive to cheer on the players I like. For me, this comes out most when I’m playing fantasy golf. I don’t know if it is because golf is an individual sport versus a team sport, or because I wind up playing multiple lineups, but I often devote one lineup entirely to players I like. Again, there is some element of wanting to win. I won’t play someone if I don’t think they have a chance, but it makes it even more fun when that lineup does well. While I sometimes construct entire fantasy lineups with players I like, I more often use my personal feelings as a tie-breaker. If I have a close decision between two players, I’ll default to the player I most want to root for. At the end of the day, fantasy is supposed to be fun, and while winning is fun, cheering on players I like is also fun. Reason Number Two: Hedge my bets emotionally When I’m rooting for a team, especially in a big game, I sometimes pick against them for my fantasy teams. For instance, if I’m cheering on Chicago Stars FC against Portland Thorns, I will play the Thorns for fantasy. The idea behind this is if the Stars win, I won’t care how I did in fantasy. If the Stars lose, there is a good chance I won some money. It is a good way to have my cake and eat it too. LFG’s fantasy offerings , powered by Sparket and Fantasy Sports EVO are perfect for this, since you can play an entire team in your fantasy contests, rather than needing to choose individual players from that team. Reason Number Three: Stay more engaged in a live sporting event There is something to be said for entering a fantasy lineup in the morning, going and living my life during the day, and then logging on at the end of the day to see how I did. There is also something to be said for sweating out every play and watching your fantasy fortune swing as a result. This is especially true for me when I am attending an event live. I watch every play with increased interest when there is a little something extra on the line. This is especially true if I’m watching a game that doesn’t feature one of my hometown teams. If I’m on vacation in a new city and want to check out a game, a fantasy contest is the perfect way to make that game even more interesting. Reason Number Four: Talking with friends Finding Julia Lopez Ramirez during my research for the U.S. Women’s Open was exciting, as was winning my FRL bet (even though we split it six ways) and rooting her on all weekend. I was even more excited because she was one of my six players to watch coming into the tournament. Knowing that I had shared my research with our Let’s Fantasy Game community and that they were rooting for her too, was thrilling. That is often how I approach fantasy sports with my friends. We share our research and players we like, and argue when we disagree. We brag about our successes and lament when luck is not on our side. There are plenty of times I have only played a fantasy game because my friends were too, and I didn’t want to be left out. Reason Number Five: Utilize my knowledge I cannot tell you how many times I will read an article or listen to a podcast or watch a game and learn something that I will immediately try to use for fantasy. I’ll decide I need to use Skylar Diggins, and then I will build the rest of my fantasy lineup around her. I obviously love these sports and learning more about them; using that knowledge for a fantasy game feels like the natural next step. Just like I want to share my fantasy insights with my friends and the LFG community, I want to put them to use in fantasy contests as well. What is the point of knowing that Brittney Sykes leads the league in free throw attempts if you don’t play her in a fantasy contest when she faces a team that fouls a lot? I have played fantasy sports for nearly 30 years, so I am sure I am forgetting some of the reasons I do it. Let us know on Discord or social media why you fantasy game. SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author Steve Pimental would rather write 20,000 words about Stef Dolson than write two sentences about himself. He lives near Chicago with his beagle/shepard mix, Hootie.

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July 29, 2025 Must-Watch Matchups + NWSL is BACK Aaron West SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author

If you are reading this because I am writing it, I don’t believe you.  If you know of my journey in developing software, businesses, and mentoring talent in the sports industry, you might be asking.... April 29, 2025 Why is the Wolfman Interested in LFG? Rick Wolf It Took Eighty Years, But the TIME IS NOW! If you are reading this because I am writing it, I don’t believe you. If you know of my journey in developing software, businesses, and mentoring talent in the sports industry, you might be asking: “Rick, why do you care about Let’s Fantasy Game?” Welp…it’s about my MOM. It is about her lifelong battle for gender equality. My mother grew up in New York in the 1940s as a devout Dodgers fan. Nightly, she listened to Red Barber on the radio and scored the games. In high school, they called her “Brooklyn.” She told me of her ANGER that sports for girls in high school were not against other schools and not competitive at all. She played sports with the boys, practiced on their teams, but wasn’t allowed to play in games. In 1948, she graduated second in her class and was accepted as one of the first women into the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School. After one semester, her parents took the money saved and gave it to her brother to attend Villanova Law School. Her parents told her, “Men have a better chance of succeeding. Find a husband.” She left her family. Moved to New York City. Got a job writing for the New York Daily News. She wrote under the pen name Claud Van (her name was Claudine Van Cott). After more than six months delivering high-quality editorial for the newspaper, she was fired for lying about her gender. Well, they couldn’t say it was for being a woman. She gave up her dreams, found an army man, reconciled with her family, and settled into being a housewife. It angered my father that she continued to be a devout feminist. She touted the passing of Title IX in 1972 throughout the town with joy. Our family was exhausted hearing about Billie Jean King beating Bobby Riggs in 1973 and what that meant. She went door to door for the League of Women Voters to get housewives to have a voice different from their husbands. She discussed women’s rights after her divorce, as she raised five children as a single mother, working as an Executive Secretary. In my high school, our football team won the state championship, so it was hard to notice a lot of the women’s sports. The first visible sign of significant change I saw in women’s empowerment around sports was in college. It was 1982, and I was on the Cross-Country team at Binghamton. The female athletes on the team were ultra-competitive, the most intense I had ever seen. These women were more intense than the football players who had won State the year before. The world was changing. In 1996, I was running production for SportsLine USA. We ran CBS Sports digital coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. We built new systems, the first I had seen for tournament coverage on the internet. “We should cover the Women’s Tournament. All the systems would work.” The answer was no. We launched CBS Sports’ first fantasy products only a month before that, so we knew that when fantasy sports, games, or any competition became available, it would create a lasting and lucrative community. Fantasy sports, contests, games of skill, and sports betting (offshore at the time) made the games more popular and added the FUEL needed to make pro sports more popular. The leagues noticed and embraced fantasy sports. People simply want a place where they belong, and they can embrace the stars of the game. So, why is this the right time to add that fuel to the momentum of women’s sports? Since 1996, women’s sports have had some significant moments, but they have not yet sustained momentum toward equality. The Gold medal for US Women’s Soccer game in 1996; WNBA inaugural broadcast in 1997; 18 million people watching Brandi Chastain’s celebration in 1999 FIFA World Cup; our great Olympic Gymnasts though the years; The Williams sisters dominating the world tennis stage including Serena winning the Australian Open in 2017 while pregnant are just a few. The current momentum started in the 2023 Women’s NCAA Finals showdown between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. This showdown caused an electricity around the two stars, but mostly Clark, that then ran through the entire 2024 season. That rivalry and focus on other female stars in other sports, and the sheer quality of play and athleticism, has continued the momentum needed for this moment to arrive. My mom is telling everyone in heaven. So, that is my “Why.” When LFG approached me and shared their plans, connections, and focus on coverage, community, and contests (the three Cs) for women’s sports, they had me at LFG, which is what I said! After talking with my partners, Full Moon Sports became an LFG Founding Investor. We are on board here, and you can find us in the Discord channel, writing on the site, posting on X and LinkedIn, and who knows, if the Wolfman comes back to the airwaves soon, covering fantasy sports for the WNBA or NWSL. So sit back, enjoy the games, and get ready to hang with a community where EVERYONE BELONGS! We will be discussing women’s sports and competing in exciting, skill-based games. Oh…and I will be trash-talking…even when I lose. LET’S F*^%ing GO!! SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author Rick Wolf is the Founder & President of Full Moon Sports, founded in 2001 to provide solutions to sports media and especially fantasy sports. Wolf created and executed business plans for companies such as Daily Racing Form, AOL, Sports Illustrated, Allstar Stats, NBC Sports, Rotoworld, Spotlight Sports Group, and Fantasy Alarm. Wolf is also a founding Board Member of the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association (FSGA), a non-profit organization with the mission of raising awareness worldwide for Fantasy Sports. Wolf served as FSTA Chairman from 2002 to 2006 and Treasurer from 2016 to 2018. In 2011, Wolf was inducted into the Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame. Wolf was also inducted into the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2025. Wolf was a SiriusXM radio personality. For 12 years, Wolf co-hosted Colton and the Wolfman on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio with Glenn Colton bringing high-energy hijinks to the airwaves.

The WNBA had a historic opening weekend, with several records being set. Whether players were setting franchise records, debut records or all-time records, I believe they all point to larger trends that will shape the league this season. May 20, 2025 What These Record-Setting Debuts Mean for the 2025 WNBA Season Steve Pimental The WNBA had a historic opening weekend, with several records being set. Whether players were setting franchise records, debut records or all-time records, I believe they all point to larger trends that will shape the league this season. 1. Napheesa Collier ties the WNBA record for most points in a season debut. It is worth noting that the record she tied belonged to Candace Parker (twice), Maya Moore and Katie Smith. For as much as guards around the league are beginning to have a greater impact (more on that later), the WNBA still belongs to forwards. A guard hasn’t won an MVP award since Diana Taurasi in 2009. And while most WNBA champions have had good guard play, including Kahleah Copper and Chelsea Gray being named Finals MVP in 2021 and 2022, you have to go back to Diana Taurasi, this time in 2014, to find a team that won the finals with a guard as its best player. Collier could very well carry on that tradition, which is why it is significant that the record-holders she tied were all frontcourt players. The 2024 MVP runner-up was one overtime away from winning the championship last year, and the Lynx should contend for the title again this season. Coming into this season I thought that if Collier didn’t win MVP last season, when her team finished three games ahead of the Aces, it would never happen. If she continues to play like she did in the opener against Dallas, she will prove me wrong. 2. Kelsey Plum sets the new WNBA record for most points in a season debut. Collier’s share of the record lasted just a couple of hours before Kelsey Plum eclipsed it. While Plum was an integral part of two Aces championships, that team revolved around three-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson. In fact, with Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young there, it wasn’t even clear most nights if Plum was the Aces best guard. With the Sparks, Plum has her first opportunity in years to drive an offense, and the early returns have been promising. Plum dropped 37 points in a blowout of the Valkyries and followed that up with 18 points and five assists against the Lynx. I think the Sparks probably need Cameron Brink and some added bench depth to truly contend, but Plum may just prove me wrong. 3. Satou Sabally set the record for most points by a player in her Phoenix Mercury debut. I think this record is telling for a number of reasons. First of all, it points to the increased player movement in the league in recent seasons, and with the Mercury in particular. This is Phoenix’s first season since Diana Taurasi retired and Brittany Griner signed with Atlanta. Both of those players debuted with Phoenix as rookies and stayed there for years. While Sabally’s 27 points are impressive, it is important to note that there were plenty of points to be had with two franchise icons out the door.Perhaps more importantly, this should serve as a reminder that Satou Sabally can be one of the best players in the league when healthy. She has topped 17 games in a season just once in her career, but that season, 2023, she earned first-team All-WNBA honors.This game also illustrated how top-heavy the Mercury are. Sabally and Alyssa Thomas became just the fourth pair of teammates in WNBA history to each score 20+ points in their team debuts. They scored 58 percent of their team’s points, and while Kahleah Copper will shoulder much of the scoring load when she is healthy, I still can’t believe the Mercury failed to surround their big three with any proven talent. Phoenix didn’t need much from its role players to thump Seattle, but they will going forward if they are going to actually contend. 4. Caitlin Clark became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach three career triple-doubles. In doing so, she tied Candace Parker for the third most triple-doubles in WNBA history. Honestly, the only takeaway here might be that the Sky are nothing more than a fringe playoff team, but this performance is still worth discussing. New Fever head coach Stephanie White said she wanted to take the ball out of Clark’s hands more this season, and her 23.0 percent usage indicates that may actually be the case. Clark had a 26.2 percent usage as a rookie, including 28.7 percent after the All-Star break.As we mentioned above, it remains to be seen if any guard can guide her team to a championship, but I wouldn’t want to bet against Clark. If she can share the load during the regular season and increase her usage when needed in the playoffs, the Fever have a chance to beat anybody. 5. DeWanna Bonner moved to third on the all-time points list. This probably says more about Bonner’s durability and the era that she has played in than anything else, but I still found it interesting. Bonner is in her 15th WNBA season. She has played in more than half of the league’s seasons. Bonner made All-WNBA twice, and was Sixth Woman of the Year in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Bonner has always played with at least one other Hall-of-Famer, first with Diana Taurasi and Brittany Griner in Phoenix and later with Alyssa Thomas in Connecticut. She only scored seven points against the Sky, but if Caitlin Clark really is going to share the offensive load more this season, Bonner should be more than capable of shouldering it. SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author Steve Pimental would rather write 20,000 words about Stef Dolson than write two sentences about himself. He lives near Chicago with his beagle/shepard mix, Hootie.

July 23, 2025 Find Out Why W/ Jax - Watch Me! Sports Bar (Part 2) SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author

August 13, 2025 Must- See Moment - A'ja Wilson Makes History Aaron West SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author

For our conversation, I wanted to find out what retirement looks like for Coach Dorrance and pick his brain on the state of the game and what changes could be made going forward. That proved to be a rather easy endeavor. Dorrance was incredibly thoughtful, and you can wind him up and let him go on a number of topics and get deep, thorough answers... July 13, 2025 Catching up with Anson Dorrance Steve Pimental In my short time at Let’s Fantasy Game, I have gotten to write a lot of fun articles. I love making Sparket picks, doing deep-dives into which teams are WNBA title contenders and highlighting athletes I love to root for . I’m not sure if any of that can compare, however, to getting to speak to a true legend in women’s sports. Casual women’s soccer fans may not know the name Anson Dorrance, but they almost certainly know about the University of North Carolina Women’s Soccer program. For decades, that program has been known for winning NCAA Championships and producing U.S. Women’s National Team players. When Dorrance retired from coaching last year after 47 seasons coaching at North Carolina and 45 as the women’s soccer coach, he did so with too many records to count. He won 1,106 games as a head coach, and his 21 NCAA women’s soccer championships are the most for one coach in any Division I sport. A big part of any college coach’s legacy is what his players go on to do after college, and Dorrance has some incredible records in that regard as well. Over 55 UNC players have gone on to appear in international games for the USWNT. Since 1991, there have been at least two former UNC players on every U.S. Women’s World Cup roster. It would be impossible to chronicle all of North Carolina’s success under Anson Dorrance in one article, so I’m not even going to try. For more insight into how he built the North Carolina soccer program, Dorrance recommends The Man Watching by Tim Crothers. For our conversation, I wanted to find out what retirement looks like for Coach Dorrance and pick his brain on the state of the game and what changes could be made going forward. That proved to be a rather easy endeavor. Dorrance was incredibly thoughtful, and you can wind him up and let him go on a number of topics and get deep, thorough answers. That isn’t shocking for someone who was well-known in his career for rousing pre-game speeches and is an accomplished public speaker. It is surprising, however, for a self-described “radical introvert.” “I don't have any issues speaking publicly, because I'm not shy and I have extraordinary confidence, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm introverted, and it took me late into my 60s to actually discover that,” Dorrance said. Like many introverts, Dorrance loves reading, which he has been able to do a lot more in retirement. Dorrance said before he retired, he was getting 200 emails a day. Now that the emails have slowed down, he has more quiet time to read. “Well, I love to read. So I'm back to reading books. I love reading The New York Times Sunday paper. I sort of read that cover to cover, so not just the news parts, but I like the opinion pages and the book reviews,” Dorrance said. In addition to reading, Dorrance has had a lot of time to watch women’s soccer. He has been following the European championships closely, catching up on teams that he hasn’t always gotten to see play in the past. He has also enjoyed watching several of his former players get a chance with the USWNT. “So in the last recent cycle of national team games, Avery Patterson has done extraordinarily well as have Claudia Dickey and Ally Sentnor, and Sam Meza, so it's been really enjoyable watching our kids play,” Dorrance said. Dorrance hasn’t just been watching international play; he has also had a front-row seat for The Soccer Tournament, a $1 million winner-take-all tournament held in Cary, North Carolina. That tournament offers a unique format that Coach Dorrance would like to see replicated at the highest levels of the game. Rather than settling ties with penalty kicks, which Dorrance compares to breaking a tie in a basketball game with a free-throw contest, TST sets a target score based on the score at the end of regulation. So if the score is 2-0 at the end of regulation, the first team to score three goals wins. This way, every game ends on a game-winning goal. There are no penalty kicks, and no time wasting. Fans don’t have to watch the team that’s winning take two minutes on every free kick, since you cannot win by simply letting the time run out. The other big rules change Dorrance advocates for is what he calls a “sin bin,” which would basically be like a penalty box in hockey. Right now, a referee’s only tools for players who commit a serious infraction is a yellow card or a red card. A yellow card doesn’t really hurt the team, and in some cases it encourages players to push the rules further because they know the referee doesn’t want to give them a red card. A sin bin would allow referees to send off a player for a period of time before allowing them back on the pitch. Now, if a player makes a reckless challenge or stops an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, that player’s team has to play shorthanded for a while. This would provide a much greater disincentive to fouling than the current rules. While I loved hearing about Coach Dorrance’s time at North Carolina and picking his brain about the state of the game, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to ask him about a former player near and dear to my heart, Let’s Fantasy Game’s Head of Content, Brittani Bartok. Bartok was a three-time National Champion at North Carolina and later served as Creative Director for UNC Women’s Soccer. “Well, I think she's an extraordinary artist, and when she was doing social media for me, the stuff that she produced is some of the best stuff we have ever produced. So I really think she has a unique artistic flair that I think needs to be expressed in some fashion because I think she is just a very talented and creative artist,” Dorrance said. “I joke with her all the time, and this is genuine, I consider her the greatest six-minute player, and sometimes I reduced it to six-second player, in UNC women's Soccer history, because the amount of goals and assists she had for the minutes that she played is probably the greatest points per minute.” For all of Anson Dorrance’s success at North Carolina, coaching Brittani Bartok and countless others, it almost never happened. Dorrance went to law school after his own soccer playing career, but his former coach, Dr. Marvin Allen, recommended Dorrance to succeed him at North Carolina. The Athletic Director Mr. Bill Cobey went with Dr. Allen’s recommendation, and the rest is history. Despite never planning to coach, Dorrance fell in love with it. He coached the men’s team from 1977 to 1988, and he began the women’s program at North Carolina in 1979, where he stayed until he retired. “I want to consider myself someone that's involved in human development, not just soccer development,” Dorrance said. “So teaching people how to live a principal-centered life, I think, has been critical for our success.” SEE MORE ARTICLES & VIDEOS About the Author Steve Pimental would rather write 20,000 words about Stef Dolson than write two sentences about himself. He lives near Chicago with his beagle/shepard mix, Hootie.