New IBM watsonx AI-Powered Insights Help Elevate ESPN Fantasy Football for 2025 Fantasy Football Season
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and ESPN have enhanced their fantasy football partnership by introducing new AI-powered Fantasy Insights built with IBM watsonx for the 2025 season. The feature will serve ESPN's 14 million fantasy football players with personalized recommendations derived from over 36 billion insights throughout the season.
The new AI-powered insights include several categories such as Buy Low Sell High, Diamond in the Rough, Trade Bait, Predicted Top Boom/Bust, Hot in the Media, and more. These features leverage watsonx.data to centralize information from various sources and deliver unique, fan-focused recommendations to help fantasy managers make more informed roster decisions.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) e ESPN hanno potenziato la loro partnership nel fantacalcio introducendo nuove Fantasy Insights alimentate dall'IA costruite con IBM watsonx per la stagione 2025. La funzione servirà ai 14 milioni di giocatori di fantasy football di ESPN con raccomandazioni personalizzate derivate da oltre 36 miliardi di insight durante la stagione.
Le nuove insight alimentate dall'IA includono diverse categorie come Compra a basso, Vendi alto, Diamante grezzo, Esce per lo scambio, Top Boom/Bust previsto, Caldo nei media e altro. Queste funzionalità sfruttano watsonx.data per centralizzare informazioni provenienti da diverse fonti e offrire raccomandazioni uniche, orientate ai fan, per aiutare i gestori fantasy a prendere decisioni più informate sul roster.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) y ESPN han mejorado su asociación de fútbol de fantasía al presentar nuevas Fantasy Insights impulsadas por IA construidas con IBM watsonx para la temporada 2025. La función atenderá a los 14 millones de jugadores de fútbol de fantasía de ESPN con recomendaciones personalizadas derivadas de más de 36 mil millones de insights a lo largo de la temporada.
Las nuevas insights impulsadas por IA incluyen varias categorías como Comprar bajo, Vender alto, Diamond en bruto, Anzuelo de intercambio, Top Boom/Bust previsto, Caliente en los medios y más. Estas características aprovechan watsonx.data para centralizar información de diversas fuentes y ofrecer recomendaciones únicas centradas en los aficionados para ayudar a los gestores de fantasy a tomar decisiones de plantilla más informadas.
IBM(주식상장코드:IBM)과 ESPN은 2025년 시즌을 위해 AI 기반 Fantasy Insights를 IBM watsonx로 구축하여 판타지 축구 파트너십을 강화했습니다. 이 기능은 ESPN의 1,400만 판타지 풋볼 선수에게 시즌 내내 360억 개의 인사이트에서 파생된 개인화된 추천을 제공합니다.
새로운 AI 기반 인사이트에는 Buy Low Sell High, Diamond in the Rough, Trade Bait, Predicted Top Boom/Bust, Hot in the Media 등의 카테고리가 포함됩니다. 이러한 기능은 watsonx.data를 활용해 다양한 소스의 정보를 중앙화하고 팬을 위한 독특한 추천을 제공해 판타지 매니저가 로스터 의사결정을 더 잘 내리도록 돕습니다.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) et ESPN ont renforcé leur partenariat en fantasy football en présentant de nouvelles Fantasy Insights alimentées par l’IA conçues avec IBM watsonx pour la saison 2025. La fonctionnalité servira aux 14 millions de joueurs de fantasy football d’ESPN avec des recommandations personnalisées dérivées de plus de 36 milliards d’insights tout au long de la saison.
Les nouvelles insights alimentées par l’IA comprennent plusieurs catégories telles que Acheter bas Vendre haut, Diamant dans le Goudron, Appât de Trade, Top Boom/Bust prévu, Chaud dans les médias, et plus. Ces fonctionnalités utilisent watsonx.data pour centraliser les informations de diverses sources et offrir des recommandations uniques axées sur les fans pour aider les gestionnaires fantasy à prendre des décisions de composition plus éclairées.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) und ESPN haben ihre Fantasy-Football-Partnerschaft gestärkt, indem sie für die Saison 2025 neue KI-gestützte Fantasy Insights eingeführt haben, entwickelt mit IBM watsonx. Die Funktion wird den 14 Millionen ESPN-Fantasy-Football-Spielern personalisierte Empfehlungen liefern, die aus über 36 Milliarden Insights während der Saison stammen.
Die neuen KI-gestützten Insights umfassen mehrere Kategorien wie Buy Low Sell High, Diamond in the Rough, Trade Bait, Predicted Top Boom/Bust, Hot in the Media und weitere. Diese Features nutzen watsonx.data, um Informationen aus verschiedenen Quellen zu zentralisieren und einzigartige, fanorientierte Empfehlungen zu liefern, damit Fantasy-Manager fundiertere Kaderentscheidungen treffen können.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) وESPN عززا شراكتهما في كرة القدم الخيالية بإطلاق إحصاءات خيالية مدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي جديدة مبنية على watsonx من IBM لموسم 2025. ستخدم الميزة 14 مليون لاعب كرة خيالية من ESPN بتوصيات مخصصة مستمدة من أكثر من 36 مليار فكرة/إطار تحليلي على مدار الموسم.
تشمل الإحصاءات الجديدة المدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي عدة فئات مثل اشترِ بسعر منخفض باعِ بسعر مرتفع، الألماس في العراء، طُعم الصفقة، أفضل/أسوأ متوقعة، الترند في الإعلام، وغيرها. تستفيد هذه المزايا من watsonx.data لتجميع المعلومات من مصادر مختلفة وتقديم توصيات فريدة موجهة للمشجعين لمساعدة مديري الفرق في اتخاذ قرارات تشكيلة أكثر اطلاعا.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) 与 ESPN 通过为 2025 赛季引入新的 由人工智能驱动的幻想洞察（AI-powered Fantasy Insights），以增强他们的幻想足球合作。该功能将为 ESPN 的 1400 万幻想足球玩家 提供基于整个赛季超过 360亿次洞察 的个性化推荐。
新的人AI驱动洞察包含多个类别，如 低买高卖、隐匿的钻石、交易诱饵、预测的顶级繁荣/崩溃、媒体热度 等等。这些功能利用 watsonx.data 将来自各种来源的信息集中起来，向球迷提供独特的、以球迷为中心的推荐，帮助幻想经理做出更明智的名单决策。
- Partnership reaches over 14 million ESPN fantasy football players
- AI system processes over 36 billion insights throughout the season
- Expansion of existing IBM Player Insights with new AI-powered features
- Integration helps ESPN drive platform engagement
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IBM expands its ESPN partnership, showcasing watsonx AI capabilities to 14M+ fantasy football users while demonstrating enterprise AI applications.
IBM has significantly expanded its partnership with ESPN for the 2025 fantasy football season, launching new Fantasy Insights Built with IBM watsonx to ESPN's 14+ million fantasy football users. This implementation showcases IBM's AI technology in a highly visible consumer application while strategically demonstrating the same capabilities it markets to enterprise customers.
The technical integration is substantial - IBM's system processes massive datasets to generate over 36 billion insights throughout the season, delivering personalized recommendations through several sophisticated features. The new AI-powered categories like "Buy Low Sell High," "Diamond in the Rough," and "Trade Bait" leverage complex data analysis to identify players based on opponent defense strength, performance patterns, and roster percentages.
What makes this partnership particularly valuable is how IBM leverages watsonx.data to centralize ESPN's disparate data sources, creating a showcase for IBM's enterprise data management capabilities. For IBM, this represents more than just a marketing partnership - it's a large-scale demonstration of watsonx's practical applications in a high-profile consumer environment.
The partnership serves both companies strategically: ESPN gains exclusive AI features to drive user engagement and differentiate its fantasy football platform, while IBM demonstrates its AI capabilities to millions of potential business decision-makers who play fantasy football. By analyzing defensive matchups, player performance patterns, and even media sentiment, IBM is demonstrating how its enterprise AI tools can process complex, multi-variable datasets to deliver actionable intelligence - exactly what it wants to showcase to potential corporate clients.
Fantasy Insights Built With IBM watsonx appears on the home page of ESPN Fantasy Football, giving fantasy managers a quick, AI-generated overview of players that are of particular interest on any given week. It uses a set of series of data-driven categories, each with specific criteria, to identify those players. These build on the suite of AI-powered IBM Player Insights, which include Waiver Grades, Trade Grades, Boom and Bust probabilities, and the Trade Analyzer, all designed to transform massive volumes and varieties of data into actionable insights for fantasy managers.
"Fantasy football is all about optimizing decision making, and AI is helping fans make them with deeper insights," said Jonathan Adashek, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications, IBM. "With Fantasy Insights Built With IBM watsonx, we're putting the power of watsonx into the hands of millions of people on the ESPN Fantasy Football app, helping them make smarter, more informed decisions while also showcasing the same capabilities businesses around the world use to scale AI."
A series of categories within IBM Player Insights build on "boom/bust" and other data points, then aggregate them into actionable insights helping fantasy managers make more informed roster decisions. Notable for 2025:
- Buy Low Sell High: Players whose recent opponent defenses were strong, but whose upcoming opponents are in the bottom 25th percentile.
- Diamond in the Rough: Players rostered by less than
85% of leagues who boomed by scoring in the 85th percentile for two consecutive weeks. - Trade Bait: Players who have underperformed for two straight weeks and are rostered by a majority of leagues.
The feature uses AI models built with watsonx to identify players across several other categories, including:
- Predicted Top Boom: Players predicted to over-perform for the upcoming week.
- Predicted Top Bust: Players predicted to under-perform for the upcoming week.
- Hot in the Media: Players who are the most popular in media discussions.
- Media Darlings: Players whose positive media sentiment has increased by 10x and are rostered by less than
50% of leagues. - Risky Business: Players with a high scoring projection, coming back from injury, and rostered by a majority of leagues.
- Sure Thing: Players with a stable floor when contrasted to their projection.
- Game Breaker: Players that have a high chance of outperforming their scoring projection.
Together, IBM and ESPN enhance the fantasy football experience while also helping ESPN drive engagement across their platforms. ESPN uses watsonx.data to centralize data from disparate sources, preparing it for analysis by AI models to deliver unique, fan-focused features.
To play ESPN Fantasy Football, sign up at ESPN.com/FFL or download the ESPN Fantasy App from the App Store and Android stores.
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