ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ESPN are once again teaming up to enhance and improve the fantasy football experience with AI technology from IBM's watsonx. This season, the ESPN Fantasy Football app debuts the new weekly Fantasy Insights Built with IBM watsonx, giving the platform's more than 14 million fantasy football players personalized, AI-powered recommendations derived from over 36 billion insights throughout the season.

Fantasy Insights Built With IBM watsonx appears on the home page of ESPN Fantasy Football, giving fantasy managers a quick, AI-generated overview of players that are of particular interest on any given week. It uses a set of series of data-driven categories, each with specific criteria, to identify those players. These build on the suite of AI-powered IBM Player Insights, which include Waiver Grades, Trade Grades, Boom and Bust probabilities, and the Trade Analyzer, all designed to transform massive volumes and varieties of data into actionable insights for fantasy managers.

A series of categories within IBM Player Insights build on "boom/bust" and other data points, then aggregate them into actionable insights helping fantasy managers make more informed roster decisions.