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 Randy Couture partners with fantasy MMA website Kountermove

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http://mmajunkie.com/news/25999/randy-couture-partners-with-fantasy-mma-website-kountermove.mma
Fantasy MMA has been around in many forms since the sport's boom in the late 2000s.

Kountermove, a company backed in part by UFC Hall of Famer Randy
Couture, today launched a website that allows users to draft teams of
fighters with a $25,000 "salary cap" and compete against each other.

But in this new style of fantasy league, you can win real cash with your
picks, and winners aren't necessarily the players that pick the most
winning fighters.

Fantasy sports is a multi-billion dollar business in the U.S. and draws
an estimated 22 percent of males with access to the Internet.

To date, most MMA fantasy leagues are simple pick-ems and are not played
for cash. In Kountermove, a statistical approach to play makes it
similar to thousands of companies based around other sports that legally
allows money to be put on the line.

In a typical game, the player who picks the team that has the best stats
at the end of a "season," or major MMA event. The teams, made up of
five fighters, are measured by a series of stats such as takedowns,
significant strikes, submission attempts, and of course, a finish. The
team with the best stats takes the lead.

That means that even if one of the fighters on your team loses, it's
still possible to win a season. The player who put Chael Sonnen on his
team for UFC 117 would actually have a winning fighter because, on
paper, Sonnen outperformed Silva.

Users can play for cash with an entry deposit or play for free. Players
select games based on entry fee amounts, number of opponents, and
whether they’d like to draft from the main or full card of fighters.

Kountermove's creators hope that the statistical approach to picking
teams also encourages players to take a deeper look at fighters and
fights that may not receive as much attention as event headliners.

"Doing fantasy football, I got to know second-string running backs
really well, where I never would have cared had it not been for
fantasy," Kountermove executive Aaron Ard told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

Couture, a financial backer and spokesperson for Kountermove, is
expected to help promote the brand but will not have any responsibility
for the day-to-day operations of the company.
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PostSubject: Re: Randy Couture partners with fantasy MMA website Kountermove   Randy Couture partners with fantasy MMA website Kountermove EmptyWed Nov 23, 2011 12:38 pm

Does anyone want to give kountermove a try? Would be fun to have fantasy MMA that was scored by someone else.
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PostSubject: Re: Randy Couture partners with fantasy MMA website Kountermove   Randy Couture partners with fantasy MMA website Kountermove EmptyWed Nov 23, 2011 12:49 pm

I will give it a shot. But I like the personal interactions between us more than anything! The shit talking, betting, etc.
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PostSubject: Re: Randy Couture partners with fantasy MMA website Kountermove   Randy Couture partners with fantasy MMA website Kountermove EmptyWed Nov 23, 2011 12:54 pm

Andrew the Raider King wrote:
I will give it a shot. But I like the personal interactions between us more than anything! The shit talking, betting, etc.
Well there would still be a thread here about the league, just like all the other fantasy leagues with members from here. Hell some of the longest threads are from fantasy sports. Also there have been av/sig bets made about fantasy matchups.
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