Welcome to the Section FAQs

This is where you’ll find answers to all the section-specific frequently asked questions. Didn’t find your answer? Send us an email: support@fantasysportsmatrix.com.

Dashboard

What is the Dashboard?
The Dashboard is your home page on FSM. You can check your inbox, invite friends, join groups, manage your content, and proceed to take a community action, such as creating an avatar, blogging, submitting and voting on article links, posting or commenting on discussion forums, submitting videos, creating a poll.

What can I do with the Dashboard?
The Dashboard allows you to control your experience on FSM. You can check you messages in the Message Center. You can manage your content and that of your friends and group members. You can take an action such as adding a blog post, running a poll, and submitting article links and videos. You can also invite friends to FSM, check which competitions you are enrolled in, and edit your profile in your Dashboard.

How do I use the Dashboard?
Your Dashboard is divided into three main sections. On the left, you can check your messages, inbox, invite friends and submit site feedback and comments. In the center of the page, this is the dashboard overview and it has tabs to manage content (content from your friends and groups), edit your profile, and make changes to your account settings. On the right-hand of the page, you can take any of the prescribed actions to add content to the site, check the status of your competitions and also to see which of your friends is online.

Can I customize my Dashboard?
Currently you may not customize your Dashboard layout. If you would like to customize your Dashboard, please give us your feedback in the forums or via email, feedback@fantasysportsmatrix.com.

News

What is the FSM News section?
The FSM News section is a comprehensive news resource that uses the power of RSS feeds. FSM aggregates all of the top news and blog sources from the sports world on our site and it is updated regularly to ensure the most updated information is presented to our users.

What is an RSS feed?
RSS stands for “really simple syndication” and is basically a web feed of a news source, whether it be blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
An RSS feed provides the latest updates from a website for easy subscription. Learn more

Can I add new feeds?
The RSS feeds displayed in the News section have been determined by FSM Staff. If you think a feed is missing, please let us know by sending an email to feedback@fantasysportsmatrix.com or through the feedback form in the left sidebar of your Dashboard.

Buzz

What is the Buzz section?
The Buzz section features links and stories submitted and voted on by the users of FSM. All users may submit links.

How many times can I vote on a link?
All users may only vote once on a link. Voting on the check-mark registers +1. Voting on the ‘x’ registers -1.

How many links can I submit?
You may submit as many links as you want.

How do I submit a link?
To submit a link, simply click on the quicklinks (once logged in) at the top or go to the Dashboard and click on ‘New link’ in the right sidebar.

How do I edit a link?
Select “edit” above your link or go to the manage content tab in your Dashboard to edit your poll. You can also edit all of your content posts via the Dashboard, each post listing has an edit link.

How do I delete a link?
Select delete above your poll or go to the manage content tab in your Dashboard to delete your poll. You can also delete all of your content posts via the Dashboard, each post listing has an edit link.

Why does the number go down 2 points when I vote down after I already have voted?
If a link has zero votes and you vote on the check-mark, it will go +1. If you click on vote ‘x’ after you already voted, it will go down to -1.

Videos

What is the Videos section?
This is where users can submit sports videos from all over the web, via the embedding capabilities of Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, and more.

How do I submit a video?
From your dashboard, click on “New video” and you will be taken to a form where you enter a title for your video. Next, copy and paste the ‘embed’ link provided by the video site.

Can I tag videos?
You can tag your videos so that your topic can be searched by the key word elements of your topic. For instance, if you are blogging on Michael Vick, you may enter on the tag line: “MichaelVick” and “Atlanta Falcons” (without quotes).

How do I edit a video post?
Simply go to your video post and click on the “edit” link above the post. You can edit the post and then make sure to hit “submit” to save your changes. You can also edit all of your content posts via the Dashboard, each post listing has an edit link.

How do I delete a video post?
Simply go to your video posting and click on the “delete” link above the post. You will be asked if you want to delete the post. Click “yes” if you are sure you want to delete the post and “no” if you do not want to delete the post.

Can users comment on video posts?
Yes, just click on the “comment” link located below any video post to comment on it.

Blogs

What is the Blog section?
This is the weblog section of FSM where users can log their opinions on various sports topics. Some general guidelines for writing a good blog post can be found here.

How do I write a blog post?
From your dashboard, click on “New blog” and you will be taken to a form where you enter a title for your blog post. You may begin writing your blog in the text box. When you are finished, select submit.

Can I tag blog posts?
You can tag your blog posts so that your topic can be searched by the key word elements of your topic. For instance, if you are blogging on Michael Vick, you may enter on the tag line: “MichaelVick” and “Atlanta Falcons” (without quotes).

How do I edit a blog post?
Simply go to your blog posting and click on the “edit” link above the post. You can edit the post and then make sure to hit “submit” to save your changes. You can also edit all of your content posts via the Dashboard, each post listing has an edit link.

How do I delete a blog post?
Simply go to your blog posting and click on the “delete” link above the post. You will be asked if you want to delete the post. Click “yes” if you are sure you want to delete the post and “no” if you do not want to delete the post.

Can users comment on blog posts?
Yes, just click on the “comment” link located below any blog post to comment on it.

Polls

What is the Polls section?
The polls section of FSM is where users can submit polls on sports-related topics and vote on user-generated polls.

What kind of polls can I run?
Any! As long as the polls is sports-related. You can take a look at our current poll section to get an idea of poll topics.

How many times can I vote on a poll?
You may vote on a poll only once.

How do I run a Poll?
Simply go to your Dashboard and select “run a poll” or go to the poll section and click on the “run a poll” link.

Can users comment on Polls?
Yes, not only may you vote on a poll, you can explain your choice or express your opinion about the poll or your selection. Just select “comment” beneath the poll to add a comment.

Can I rate a poll?
Currently we don’t allow the rating of polls are any type of content on the site. However, we do have plans to add it.

How do I delete my poll?
Select delete above your poll or go to the manage content tab in your Dashboard to delete your poll. You can also delete all of your content posts via the Dashboard, each post listing has an edit link.

How do I edit my poll?
Select “edit” above your poll or go to the manage content tab in your Dashboard to edit your poll. You can also edit all of your content posts via the Dashboard, each post listing has an edit link.

Can I vote more than once?
All users may only vote on polls one time.

Can anyone run polls?
All FSM users can run polls. To create a poll, use the quicklinks (once logged in) at the top or go to the Dashboard and click on ‘New poll’ in the right sidebar.

Forums

What is the Forums section?
The forums section is where users can post discussions on topics on sports or fantasy sports that interested them. You may start a discussion thread or you may also comment on a discussion thread started by someone else. Click here to go to the discussions forum.

How do I post a forum thread?
There are two main ways to post a forum thread. You may do so on the right-hand side of your Dashboard by clicking “post a forum thread” or by going to the Forums tab directly and clicking the “post a forum thread” button on the discussions forum page.

How do I edit my forum post?
Simply go to your forum post and click on the “edit” link above the post. You can edit the post and then make sure to hit “submit” to save your changes. You can also edit all of your content posts via the Dashboard, each post listing has an edit link.

How is the Forum section organized?
The Forum section is organized first by the general forums section, which is where announcements are made, and comments and feedback from users can be posted. After the general forums section, the forum is organized by sport in alphabetical order. If you think that we’re missing a forum, please let us know by sending an email to feedback@fantasysportsmatrix.com or through the feedback form in the left sidebar of your Dashboard.

How do I become a moderator?
If you would like to become a moderator, please send us email to support@fantasysportsmatrix.com

What are the Forum rules?
Complete forum rules under the Forums section.

Wiki

What is the Wiki section?
This is a collaborative effort to document the retrospective history of fantasy sports. Want to know the sleepers of 2003? Busts of 2005? What happened in fantasy football 2001? This is where you will find it.

Can anyone create wiki pages?
No, only site admins, moderators, and top users (soon) will be able to contribute to the wiki. If you are one of the above and would like to contribute, please email us: feedback@fantasysportsmatrix.com.