Over the next few weeks, I'm going to spell out who (or what) I think are SCORE OS stakeholders, along with the positives and negatives that may result with a successful launch. I plan to break down a particular category per post with both how the industry can benefit from an open source fantasy sports platform and the threat that such a system might pose. Here are the groups for the future topics:

• Fantasy Contestants (users, team owners)
• Fantasy League Commissioners (league runners, league organizers)
• Small and Large Fantasy Sports Hosting Firms (fantasy sports businesses)
• Fantasy Game Developers (hobbyists, code shops, in-house technology departments)
• Fantasy Sports Vendors (stat providers, ad networks, fantasy content providers, etc)
• Advertisers and Sports Media Firms (marketers and sports-based content providers)
• Search Engines and Content Providers (news agencies, info-based firms, and portals)

The easy analysis will tell you that the big guys (ESPN, CBS, Fanball) will view open source fantasy sports as a threat to their market share, but we're going to show that open source, in many cases, will only be good for the industry (even the big guys) and why support for SCORE OS is in the best interests of almost everybody.

Want to get involved with SCORE OS? We need all sorts of folks. Shoot us an email to get involved.