Paying League Dues: ESPN Pairs with Kickstarter Firm Tilt (1 Viewer)

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I reactivated my ESPN FF league today to find a link to collect league dues through Tilt, which is a kickstarter firm.

Here are a couple of links about it:

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/08/07/espn-adds-tilts-group-payment-tech-to-fantasy-football-apps/

http://pando.com/2014/08/07/touchdown-tilt-partners-with-espn-to-power-payments-for-its-fantasy-football-leagues/

Has anyone an opinion on using this in an ESPN FF league over tried and true LeagueSafe? I used LeagueSafe last year and was pretty happy with it.

And here's an excerpt from the WSJ link:

ESPN is launching a new feature that lets Fantasy Football players bring real money to the virtual game–not placing bets, but paying dues and fees for their online leagues.

The enabling payment technology behind this feature comes from Tilt.com Inc., formerly known as Crowdtilt, a San Francisco startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz.

ESPN’s vice president of fantasy and premium product, George Leimer, said users of the sports network’s Fantasy Football Web and mobile apps had previously relied on a “patchwork of methods” to take care of league dues. That included paying each other in cash offline, sending checks, or using PayPal and other technologies that weren’t built into the user experience of an online fantasy league.

“We built this…to make it so our users don’t hit that pain point where those last two guys haven’t paid their dues at the end of the season,” he said. A league manager can click a Tilt button to set up an online payments option for their group in about a minute, he said.