RealGM
RealGM.com is a sports website created in 2000. The site was originally a basketball site but has since expanded its scope to provide information about ice hockey, baseball, and American football. According to Alexa, the site ranks in the top 5000 of most visited sites, as of January 2009. The site features forums that are popular by users. [1] The site is noted for its trade checker,[2] a system developed to analyze hypothetical NBA trades according to the collective bargaining agreement. A professional version of the Trade Checker has been licensed to several NBA teams.[3]
The site includes basketball team forums as well as off-topic, media, and graphic arts forums. On April 1, 2007 it added NHL, MLB, and NFL team boards. The site also offers the sale of sporting event tickets. It focuses its news mainly on players and their movement and actions in their respective leagues. The website is particularly popular amongst Canadian Toronto Raptors fans and Derrick Rose fans. [4]
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- ^ "Traffic Details from Alexa". Alexa Internet. 2009-01-09. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/realgm.com. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
- ^ Longdin, Brett (December 21, 2001). "Site tackles the business side of sports". Archived from the original on 2007-02-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20070213013939/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=6838. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
- ^ Rovell, Darren. "An Unlikely Sports Business Success Story". CNBC. http://www.cnbc.com/id/28257612. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
- ^ Grange, Michael (September 2, 2007). "Broadcasters await bandwagon viewers". The Globe and Mail (Toronto). http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070209.RAPTORS09/TPStory/Sports. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
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