The Wikipedia Challenge

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leigh Posted: 04-03-2010 7:30 AM

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Wikipedia has articles on the most obscure ridiculous things, but nothing about our esteemed fantasy league.

I’m offering to pay the $50 entry to next season’s Original Recipe league for whoever is up to the challenge of making a KFBA Wikipedia page.  You write it, you get it posted, and next round you ride for free.

Here are some facts.  Please reach out to The Colonel and The Broham, they would be more than happy to answer your questions about the history of the KFBA!

* Created in 1999 at TCI
* KFBA.NET incorporated in 2003
* # of teams owner, # of users, etc – I’ll get some data and post it on Monday
* The Kentucky Fried Point
* Original Recipe history (mostly satirical but has some truth to it)
* I feel like we had some more articles on how the KFBA got started but I can't seem to find them right now .....

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leigh replied on 04-05-2010 8:20 AM

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The Kentucky Fried Basketball Association

• Created by Ben Haas in 1999
• link to fantasy basketball entry
• Key innovation: the Kentucky Fried Point
• Adopted rules common to fantasy football
• First fantasy basketball game to use productivity per minute for scoring
• "16"
• Name inspired by Kentucky Fried Movie

The Kentucky Fried Point

• Single stat to compare players
• Points + Assists + Rebounds + Blocks + Steals = KFP
• KFP / Mins Played = KFAvg

KFBA.NET

• Incorporated in 2003 as a Delaware corporation
• Subscription model
• Original content
• First season began in Fall 2003 with X# teams. Launch party at Coburn's.
• Currently running as a semi-private site with no fees to play

The website

• Developed in ASP.NET starting with version 1.0
• Used Metaverse.cc for content management from 2004-2007
• Stats from XmlTeam
• Message board powered by Telligent Community Server