Posted by frankum on 11/30/2011 5:50:00 PM (view original):
i found it through bill simmons...he has since stopped pimping the site     

Does he still play?  I'll assume once fox sports bought it, ESPN said no to his pimping of WIS

Bill Simmons for me, too.  Back at that time, I used to go around Googling for a product like HBD and was still hard-pressed to turn up WIS.

Radio Sports talk show host here in Alabama back in 01. He mentioned the simulation of the '27 Yankees vs the '75 Reds. When I got home, I immediately looked up the site and have been telling people about it ever since.

No reason why WIS isn't linked and promoted on all of Fox's media outlets.
Doesn't need to be a huge promotion, just ANY type of promotion.
Funny, when FOX bought the site I thought it would finally blow up and get the recognition it deserves. LOL

The 2nd thing I'd do, and I don't know how accurate it is though I'm not sure that it matters, is use the Fox NFL sunday pregame show, use any college basketball games shown nationally or locally on fox sports network and work in the WIS simulation.  I'd register WIS.com and have it redirect back to the main site, so that on Fox NFL sunday pregame show, along w/ the prediction by the panel, and on the scroll on the bottom, I'd have a WIS.com final score prediction.  If their fairly accurate, I'd pimp out its accuracy, if the simulation results are not, then I'd ignore them as best as I could, but either way I'd find a way to work it into the show to help drive traffic to the site.

This is actually an outstanding idea, and it wouldn't cost Fox anything to mention. Just run a quick graphic and talk about that for a moment, and it'd send at least a few curious viewers to the site, where they might find something that'd interest them. They could do the same thing on all their pre-game sports programming, really.

This is a great product; I don't know why it seems to languish in relative obscurity.

Local sports talk show, ESPN affiliate, has had Paul Bessierre(sp) on it several times.  While talk show hosts tend to lead you where they want you to go(I think it was college football simulations), I'm not sure I'd know WifS does anything but college football simulations after listening.

While talk show hosts tend to lead you where they want you to go(I think it was college football simulations), I'm not sure I'd know WifS does anything but college football simulations after listening.

I'm not sure that matters, though. If you're watching college football, you might be interested enough to check out the site, and that rotating media window on the home page cycles at a good enough speed to show off its various assets while you look for what you'd come to find. (The home page is *just* cluttered enough to keep a first-time visitor there long enough to see other the products offered.)

At the very least, if you've heard about the site during college/pro football or basketball games, it might make a stronger impact once baseball season rolls around and Fox pimped it during MLB broadcasts. Or vice versa.