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BestBuy Fantasy Footaball Launches
BestBuy Fantasy Footaball Launches
Launched back before NFL week 1. But, that was DjangoCon 2011, so the post happens today.
Best Buy's site is operating for the third year in a row. Originally it was open to the public, but now it is employee only. You play by selecting a line-up every week and play against your co-workers and against the CEO. Makes for really fun team building.
It uses a fantasy games framework originally developed by Rudy Menendez and myself back in 2008 for Grupo RBS's first fantasy football game ever. It's evolved quite a bit over 3 years and it's now a mature fantasy games framework that can easily handle over 1000 sign-ups an hour before you need to start rain dances for your cloud server.
It's built on top of Django 1.3, PostgreSQL 9 and standard LAMP stack within Linode.com. If you would like your own fantasy game running on your site, Inquire within.