Fantasy Focus (podcast)

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Fantasy Focus

Genre	Sports talk Comedy
Running time	~1 hour
Country of origin	USA
Home station	ESPN (2007-)
Starring	Stephania Bell Matthew Berry Eric Karabell Field Yates Tristan H. Cockcroft Doug Kezirian John Cregan Tom Carpenter
Original release	2007 – present

Fantasy Focus is a sports talk podcast devoted to fantasy sports. The show is available on iTunes, and ESPN Podcenter. The baseball show is hosted by Eric Karabell and Tristan Cockcroft, along with producer Daniel Dopp and injury analyst Stephania Bell. The football show is hosted by Field Yates,^[1] along with Bell, Dopp and Kyle Soppe. Matthew Berry hosted until 2022 when he took a position with NBC Sports. Nate Ravitz hosted until 2014, when he took on an internal position at ESPN, and was replaced by Yates.^[2] The basketball show was hosted by Doug Kezirian, John Cregan and Tom Carpenter until its completion.^[3]

The Fantasy Focus Football podcast is ESPN's most downloaded original-content podcast (and second overall behind only the podcast version of Pardon the Interruption). It consistently ranks among the top ten podcasts on iTunes and in August 2009, was the #1 audio podcast on all of iTunes. The show has won a total of five awards from PodcastAwards.com, including "Best Sports Podcast" in 2009, 2011, and 2012, and the overall "People's Choice" podcast in 2009 and 2012.^[4]