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  • An Online Stock Market for Sports Fans

    NEW YORK, NY -- October 1, 2008 -- By Brad Stone

    Here's an ironically appropriate Web startup for today's calamitous economic times. Today OneSeason.com is introducing a day-trading site for sports fans - a Web stock market which allows people to invest real money to own "shares" of their favorite sports players, teams and leagues.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/an-online-stock-market-for-sports-fans/?ei=5070&emc=eta1

  • Stocks Sinking? Be Like Me: Buy Eli Manning

    October 23, 2008 -- By Sean Gregory

    As the Dow Swooned in October, some investors scored big on the jock market. OneSeason.com a website that lets users trade virtual shares of sports stars, made its debut on Oct. 1, and though the stock is fake--Kobe Bryant won't give you a dividend--the profits and losses are very real. TIME's Sean Gregory asked an active trader how to play the game.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1853326,00.html

  • Playing the Jock Market

    October 3, 2008 -- By Sean Gregory

    Is Morgan Stanley's stock, down 63% over the last year, giving you anxiety attacks? Does GM, which has lost 75% over the last year, make you want to drive a car off a cliff? Well, you could always, as so many investors do, try to forget your sorrows by pouring your passion into your favorite football or baseball teams. Or, you could buy some shares of LeBron James (ticker symbol: KING), who was up almost 400% on October 2. Or grab PMAN (no, that's not shorthand for notorious footballer Pac-Man Jones) the ticker symbol for Peyton Manning, up nearly 300% on the day. Investors have always loved to use sports metaphors, but now they can combine the two national past times even further. In the midst of a historically awful week in the stock market, OneSeason.com, a new website that allows users to trade virtual shares of sports stars, made its debut.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1847296,00.html

  • New Market Trades on Sports Knowledge

    NEW YORK, NY -- October 23, 2008 -- By Nando Di Fino

    OneSeason is a stock market game based on buying and selling shares of professional sports stars. (The professional sports stars know little to nothing about this.) It isn't the first of its kind. Protrade has a similar set-up and is licensed by both the National Football League and Major League Baseball players unions. It is free to play and offers rewards like autographed footballs and video games. But OneSeason, which began trading Oct. 1, has a draw that sets it apart from its predecessors, and makes it nearly irresistible. Its game is played with real cash.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122471163578159995.html

  • OneSeason.com: Trading Virtual Shares Of Players For Real Money

    October 2, 2008 -- By Darren Rovell

    A new site launched yesterday called OneSeason.com. It's basically trading virtual shares of players for real dollars... If your portfolio isn't looking too good these days, maybe you should try a sportsfolio. Eli Manning (EMAN) is hitting the market in a couple hours.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/26994101

  • OneSeason:'Like baseball cards without the piece of cardboard'

    SILICON VALLEY, CA -- January 25, 2009 -- By Scott Duke Harris

    Once upon a time in America, a boy would pedal his Schwinn to the corner market and spend a nickel for a five-pack of baseball cards and a stick of bubble gum. Not every pack contained a Willie Mays or Sandy Koufax, but every card mattered. A neighbor would later give him a shoe box stuffed with older cards - Yogi Berra! Jackie Robinson! - including some that dated to the 1930s.

    Puberty would change the boy's obsessions. Yet even now, some 35 years later, the man sighs recalling how his sister tossed those 4,161 cards in the trash. (What did I do to deserve that?)

    Now comes OneSeason, a new sports-themed Internet startup that at least seems sister-proof. Combining the passions of sports and Wall Street, OneSeason is the latest in a slew of online sports-themed startups seeking new ways to profit from sports fandom.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_11532259

  • OneSeason puts a market spin on fantasy sports

    SILICON VALLEY, CA -- January 21, 2009 -- By Camille Ricketts

    Hoping to attract stock market refugees benched by the downturn, web site OneSeason lets users buy and sell virtual shares in their favorite athletes - from SHAQ (at $15.69 a share) to AROD ($5.08). The concept, which combines fantasy sports with virtual goods sales, just earned the San Francisco company $3.5 million in first-round funding led by Charles River Ventures.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/21/oneseason-puts-a-market-spin-on-fantasy-sports/

  • Fans' Fantasy:Buy Virtual Piece Of Favorite Athlete

    BOSTON, MA -- January 8, 2009 -- By Adam Levitan

    Remember when you sat around with your friends, trading baseball cards and haggling over which was worth more: a Mark Mc-Gwire rookie card or a special edition Don Mattingly reprint? That was so '80s. The Facebook generation needs collectibles online, not in a plastic wrapper with bubblegum. Enter Internet startup OneSeason.com, a site where users can purchase shares of their synthetic athletic heroes and trade them in a market very similar to the stock exchange... Try doing that with cardboard.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.metrobostonnews.com/us/article/2009/01/08/03/3005-66/index.xml

  • Buy and Sell Your Favorite Athletes

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- November 18, 2008 -- By Laurance Scott

    Watch the full story here.
    http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/business/Buy_and_Sell_Your_Favorite_Athletes_Bay_Area.html

  • Profitable Players

    MUNCIE, IN -- November 13, 2008 -- By Liz Mensching

    Senior marketing major Joey Mitchell's stocks have been unusually lucrative lately, increasing in value by more than 500 percent in the past month. Mitchell has professional athletes such as Carlos Zambrano, Carmelo Anthony and Evan Longoria to thank for his success. OneSeason, launched Oct. 1, gives sports fans an online entertainment outlet to interact, compete and invest in athletes.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://media.www.bsudailynews.com/media/storage/paper849/news/2008/11/13/News/Profitable.Players-3540959.shtml

  • OneSeason: A new way to parlay your love of sports into cash

    BENTLEY UNIVERSITY -- November 6, 2008 -- By Michael Haggerty

    I recently was introduced to this website called Oneseason.com. What it is is a stock market for professional sports players. Currently there are approximately thirty professional athletes ranging from Kobe, to Michael Jordan (Yes, he's retired, but I'll explain in a second), to Sidney Crosby, to Adrian Peterson, and new players (IPO's) are released every so often based on member requests). I compare it to trading virtual baseball cards.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://media.www.bentleyvanguard.com/media/storage/paper141/news/2008/11/06/Business/Oneseason.A.New.Way.To.Parlay.Your.Love.Of.Sports.Into.Cash-3530736.shtml

  • Wine & Gold Notebook

    CLEVELAND, OH -- November 11, 2008 -- By Vince Grzegorek

    OneSeason.com, which went live just over a month ago, is a virtual market of athlete stocks. You put up real money to buy shares of your favorite stars, from Tony Romo to Tom Brady to Evan Longoria. Buy or sell to your heart's delight on this brilliant gift to everyone who ever dreamed about combining day trading and sports.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/79/wine-gold-notebook

  • Anatomy Of A Sports Market

    DUKE UNIVERSITY -- November 6, 2008 -- By Elad Gross

    Ever wanted to get your piece of Michael Jordan, Peyton Manning or Sidney Crosby? Ever reminisced on the old days of trading sports cards? Ever planned to make money? Look no further than OneSeason.com. The site is a pretty simple concept: Put money in, buy shares of professional athletes and watch as the prices rise and fall. You can buy stock in your favorite players and, if you don't see your homeboy there, you can request a player to be released in the future.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2008/11/06/Columns/Anatomy.Of.A.Sports.Market-3529248.shtml

  • Build Your Sportfolio Of Athletes At OneSeason

    October 4, 2008 -- By Michael Arrington

    Forget the stock market, it's falling apart. Invest your money in OneSeason instead, a newly launched San Francisco-based startup that lets you invest real money in professional athletes. Alex Rodriguez is a steal at $7.00 per share ($17.6 million total value). I just bought one share of Kobe Bryant for $7.48 (he's valued at $77.6 million).

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/04/build-your-sportfolio-of-athletes-at-oneseason/

  • Investing in favorite athletes, teams

    October 2, 2008

    If you've lost faith in the stock market, you may want to think about investing in your favorite athletes or teams. A new Web site called OneSeason is like a sports stock exchange. It allows you to buy shares in athletes and teams and make money as demand changes based on their performance, future prospects, as well as other factors.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/sports&id=6427314

  • Rules of the game

    CHICAGO, IL -- October 2, 2008

    OneSeason.com, a day-trading website where sports fans, traders and gamblers can invest real money in stocks representing U.S. athletes, teams, leagues and other sports personalities, launched on Wednesday.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=8e617f0a-2af8-46c4-9a20-5f4a810e4f6a

  • Trade your favorite sports figure and make money

    October 2, 2008 -- By Brian Osborne

    You might be losing out in the stock market, but there may be a way you can combine your love of sports with your skill at day trading. A new website called OneSeason.com actually gives people the ability to buy and trade shares of their favorite athletic players... Personally, OneSeason.com couldn't have launched at a better time. Sports fans will be able to make more sense of this sports trading market then they will of Wall Street. Heck, they will probably be able to make more money on this market right now.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.geek.com/articles/news/trade-your-favorite-sports-figure-and-make-money-thurs-2008102/

  • OneSeason.com Launches Day Trading for Sports Fans

    Make Your Living Room the Owners Box

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- October 1, 2008

    OneSeason.com, an online sports entertainment company, today unveiled the first sports trading platform in the United States that uses real money. Created by sports fans, for sports fans, OneSeason.com enables users to compete, interact and have a vested interest in their passion. Users showcase their sports knowledge by acquiring and trading virtual shares of their favorite players, teams and leagues realizing market returns based on their skill.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/OneseasonCom-905637.html

  • A new question for the financially savvy: How's your sportfolio doing?

    CHICAGO, IL -- October 1, 2008 -- By Eric Benderoff

    Here's a fresh idea for your money: invest in shares of your favorite baseball, basketball or football player. It's a new twist on fantasy sports, where real money is used to buy virtual shares in the performance of actual players.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/eric2_0/2008/10/a-new-question.html

  • Buy Tiger, sell Dolphins on new sports stock market

    CHICAGO, IL - October 1, 2008 -- By Ben Klayman

    Michael Sroka dreamed up a day-trading website for sports fans while still in high school, and the concept will finally come to fruition with the launch of OneSeason.com. The website, scheduled to debut on Wednesday, offers U.S. fans the chance to buy shares in such athletes as basketball star LeBron James and golfer Tiger Woods. The aim is to make a profit from trades, much like investors do when betting on the stocks of General Electric Co or Cisco Systems Inc. At OneSeason, users can trade real money based on the performance of athletes, teams, leagues and other sports personalities.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2629867320081001

  • OneSeason.com Raises Funds, Debuts Sports Stock Exchange

    CHICAGO, IL -- October 1, 2008 -- By Mark Hefflinger

    OneSeason.com on Wednesday launched its new Web-based sports stock market, developed with $250,000 in seed funding from investor Phil Drayer, Reuters reported. The site allows users to trade real-world money based on the performance of individual athletes, teams and other sports-related variables. It also features sports news and social networking elements.

    Read the full press release here.
    http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/10/01/oneseason.com-raises-funds,-debuts-sports-stock-exchange

  • ADDITIONAL ONESEASON NEWS

  • OneSeason Raises $3.5 Million For Its Sports Stock Market

    January 21, 2009-- By Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch

    OneSeason, the stock market for sports that lets users invest real money into their favorite athletes, has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Charles River Ventures. To coincide with the funding, OneSeason has also announced that CRV's George Zachary will join the company's Board of Directors. Hot or Not founder James Hong and 49er superstar Ronnie Lott will also be joining the company's Advisory Board.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/21/oneseason-raises-35-million-for-its-sports-stock-market/

  • More Funny Money: Sports "Stocks"

    December 5, 2008-- By Bruce Watson, WalletPOP

    Luckily, a fresh market has entered the breach. OneSeason is an online exchange that lets its users buy, sell, and trade "stock" in sports stars. For example, a share of Kobe Bryant (KOBE) is currently going for $0.88, while a share of Allen Iverson (IVER) is holding steady at $1. The value of these shares is based on the on-field performance, off-field drama, and overall prospects of the players.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/12/05/more-funny-money-sports-stocks/

  • 'Jock Market' Like Investing, or Trading Cards

    November 8, 2008-- By Zak Kurtz, SportsAgentBlog.com

    Tired of the ups and downs and economic instability of the stock market lately? As of last month, sports fans can now combine the "stock market" with their knowledge and passion for professional athletics. October 1st, was the day that Oneseason.com went public and unveiled the first sports trading platform using real money.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/11/08/tired-of-the-stock-market/

  • 'Jock Market' Like Investing, or Trading Cards

    November 8, 2008-- By Reg Wydeven, PostCrescent.com

    The new Web site that debuted last month allows users to trade virtual shares of sports stars. Founder and CEO Michael Sroka, a 27-year-old former hedge fund manager, wanted to provide investors with the opportunity to electronically buy and sell "synthetic ownership interests" in professional football, basketball, baseball and hockey players. Traders can deposit up to $2,500 into an account over a 12-month period to invest in the "jock market" as it's known, and hopefully beef up their "sportfolio." The site provides investors with data on each athlete, performance charts, shares outstanding (which start anywhere from 50-250 depending on demand, and can change when the stock splits, which happens if it hits $20), market cap and the current value of their portfolio.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20081108/APC0701/811080571/1436/APC03

  • OneSeason Seems Completely Awesome

    October 24, 2008 -- By AJ Daulerio, Deadspin

    OneSeason seems completely awesome: "Players are bought and sold under four-letter identifiers (Manny Ramirez, for example, is "MANY," Sidney Crosby is "CROS") known as synthetic ownership interests, or SOIs. Their prices are determined by supply and demand. If someone wishes to buy and sell SOIs, it's as simple as creating a username and password, dumping $10 into an account and deciding which players you wish to add to your "sportfolio." (WSJ)

    Read the full article here.
    http://deadspin.com/5068273/

  • Tired Of Losing In Fantasy Sports?

    October 24, 2008 -- By Mike Sheehan, Sons of Bill Simmons

    Are you sick an tired of injuries costing you money and a chance to win at fantasy sports ? Well, Michael Sroka of Oneseason.com has created a way in which you can trade and sell players, just like the stock market. Except there is no recession here.

    Read the full article here.
    http://mike100915.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/tired-of-losing-in-fantasy-sports/

  • New Sports Trading Market Uses Real Money

    October 23, 2008 -- By Jim Nguyen, Fantasy Sports 2.0

    The Wall Street Journal today covers a new sports market called OneSeason. OneSeason is a stock market game based on buying and selling shares of professional sports stars. It's not the first of its type, of course. ProTrade has a similar market, but this game trades on valuations and real money trades hands depending on whether you trade. Your gains and losses are real. You have a "sportfolio" and buy, sell, and trade players in the sports of football, baseball, and basketball. If other traders begin buying up Manny Ramirez, the value goes up. If there's a sell off on Alex Rodriguez, his value goes down.

    Read the full article here.
    http://fantasysports20.com/2008/10/23/new-sports-trading-market-uses-real-money/

  • New blog dedicated to OneSeason

    October 22, 2008 -- U Sports Network

    We have a new site in our USN arsenal. The OneSeasonTrader.com blog is a guide to trading sports stocks at OneSeason.com!!! Check it out and if you haven't already, get involved with OneSeason. Every sports fans dream. A mix between fantasy sports and the market.

    Read the full article here.
    http://usportsnetwork.com/2008/10/22/blog-dedicated-oneseason/

  • Tuesday 10-21 Edition of Roc and Manuch

    October 21, 2008 -- Roc and Manuch

    Roc discovered a new toy, Oneseason.com, it is a stock market with athletes. You can buy and sell players within the four major American Sports. Roc was up to end his first day, we will let you know when Roc has lost his savings account. R&M are interested to see if this will become a main stream web site.

    Read the full article here.
    http://rocandmanuch.com/tuesday-10-21-edition-of-roc-and-manuch/

  • Financial Crisis: You Have to Laugh, Because the Alternatives Stink

    October 17, 2008 -- By Jim Gardner, San Francisco Business Times

    There's no way to sugarcoat it: Anyone who has stocks has taken a beating these past few weeks. If you are swearing off stocks, but are still interested in trading, you might take interest in OneSeason, a new San Francisco-based online exchange that allows users to acquire and trade virtual shares in players and teams. Unlike other, similar sites, on OneSeason you're playing with real money. After funding your account, you can try to buy low and sell high in pro athletes like Kobe Bryant, Manny Ramirez and Reggie Bush.

    Read the full article here.
    http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/10/20/tidbits1.html

  • Building A 'Sportfolio'

    October 12, 2008 -- By Andrew Coen, Investment News

    Those who are fuzzy about how the stock market works can now learn the fundamentals of investing by relating it to sports. On Oct. 1, OneSeason.com launched a sports trading platform that has users build a "sportfolio" of investments in athletes, teams, leagues and coaches. The investments are all user-driven by supply and demand, and shares called "synthetic ownership interests" are traded based on factors such as game performance, off-field activity, endorsement deals and legacy prospects.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/REG/310139963/1017&template=printart

  • OneSeason.com - Trading Platform For Sports Fans

    October 10, 2008 -- By RogerH, Killer Startups

    OneSeason is a virtual sports trading platform that enables sports aficionados to interact and compete with each other. The basic premise of this trading platform revolves around virtual sports shares that go by the name of SOIs. These are purchased using real money, and there is a market system which is driven by supply and demand just as in real life. Registration must be carried out in order to take part of this virtual trading system. Currently, registration is limited to US residents. It would be very interesting to see an evolution of this concept and allow people from all over the world to interact - the potential this has could be unlimited. Other features of the site that merit mentioning include a comprehensive sports news section and a market news page.

    Why it might be a killer
    Sports fans are certain to take a liking to it.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/oneseason-com-trading-platform-for-sports-fans

  • Sports Investing

    October 8, 2008 -- By Brian, The High Contrast

    How do you think your favorite athlete will do this season? Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is? OneSeason has created a stock market for athletic performance where you can actually trade shares of favorite players or teams. It operates similarly to the real stock market.

    • Use real money to acquire and trade virtual sports shares called SOI's
    • Free market system driven by supply and demand
    • Values based on public perception
    • Realize gains and losses based on your skill trading
    I imagine this could turn into a big thing with sports fans, but not so much with investors. Athletes tend to do unpredictable things such as get injured, arrested, retire unexpectedly, or just go into huge slumps. However, sports fans tend to know more about their players and teams than some investors know about their companies.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.thehighcontrast.com/?p=840

  • OneSeason.com

    October 7, 2008 -- By Chris Masse, Midas Oracle

    This is a prediction market in which one is not predicting any particular events. Rather, one can buy or sell "Synthetic Ownership Interests," which are essentially ownership rights in nothing but the name of a team or player. As I discuss in my book, there is at least some evidence that a variant on this kind of market can function reasonably well, even though it is essentially a "Keynesian beauty contest." Pricing is ultimately arbitrary, but players in this market will look for "focal point" relative prices of sports players and teams, and therefore should be able to profit by accurately forecasting events that affect such focal points (such as team wins).

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/10/07/one-season-com/

  • Plenty of Diversions on Web From the Stresses of Real Life

    October 6, 2008 -- By Quincey Hobbs, Tucson Citizen

    The past week or so has been an exceptionally distressing one. The daily drama that is our national economy seems surreal. So if you're like me, you may need a diversion from the conversations of stock markets and bailout deals. This week we are going to look at some near therapeutic online diversions.

    There is also nothing that says you can't earn during a diversion. The third site is for the sports fan, but for our purposes it straddles the line as a diversion. Our intent is to momentarily forget about stock markets, banks, and financial issues, but oneseason.com is a stock market for sports fans. One Season allows you to use real money to buy stock in an athlete. The available athletes are the usual suspects from basketball, baseball, football and hockey fantasy leagues. Remember to buy low and sell high.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/frontpage/98612.php

  • Bulls Market - Day Trading Meets Pro Sports

    October 6, 2008 -- UrbanDaddy

    The recent antics on Wall Street don't exactly have you excited about trading stocks right now. Maybe it's time you switched to a market a little less volatile...like professional football. Say hello to Oneseason.com, launched last week by a couple of hedge fund analysts in San Francisco. Like Wall Street meets Sports Street (if there were a street named Sports Street), Oneseason lets you use real money to acquire and trade virtual sports stars, and through a free market system driven by supply and demand, you can realize real gains-i.e., make money.

    Read the full article here.
    http://urbandaddy.com/sfo/1742/Oneseason_com_San_Francisco_SFO_Bulls_Market_UrbanDaddy_Archives

  • OneSeason.com

    October 04, 2008 -- THE Hardcore Fantasy Show

    Mike Sroka fills us in on OneSeason.com, a sports related stock market, and our good friend Brandon Irons, king of the facial breaks down Elite XC card and offers up some great prizes for MMA pool.

    Read the full article here.
    http://hardcoresportsradio.com/podcast/default.aspx

  • OneSeason.com Debuts Sports Stock Exchange

    October 2, 2008 -- By Daniel Zeldovich, Zs Newsbits

    OneSeason.com on Wednesday launched its new Web-based sports stock market, developed with $250,000 in seed funding from investor Phil Drayer, Reuters reported. The site allows users to trade real-world money based on the performance of individual athletes, teams and other sports-related variables. It also features sports news and social networking elements. Michael Sroka, the 27-year-old founder of San Francisco-based OneSeason.com, told Reuters he thought annual revenue from the venture could hit $50 million to $100 million -- if the site reaches 3 million users after a few years. Similar ventures, such as the Cantor Fitzgerald-owned Hollywood Stock Exchange, allow users to trade in movie stars, musicians and other celebrities.

    Read the full article here.
    http://zsnewsbits.blogspot.com/2008/10/oneseasoncom-debuts-sports-stock.html

  • New Site Combines Sports With Stock Market

    October 1, 2008 -- RedOrbit

    A new site debuted on Wednesday giving sports fans the chance to buy shares in their favorite athletes. OneSeason.com is the brainchild of 27-year-old Michael Sroka, who came up with the idea when he was still in high school in Winnetka, Illinois. At OneSeason, users can trade real money based on the performance of athletes, teams, leagues and other sports personalities. The goal is to make a profit from trades in a similar fashion to investors on Wall St. "Daydreaming in my economics classroom, I mashed together my two favorite things, which were sports and trading," said Sroka. OneSeason allows users to build a portfolio - or "sportfolio" -- of shares in athletes. The shares, or "synthetic ownership interests," are delineated with ticker symbols, just like real stocks. A player's value is determined by his statistics on the field, as well as his behavior off the field.

    Read the full article here.
    http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1574502/new_site_combines_sports_with_stock_market/