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	\| name = ArmchairGM
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	Tagline: All Sports, All You\|
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	\| commercial = No
	\| type = Wiki
	\| registration = Optional
	\| owner = ]
	\| author = Dan Lewis, David Pean, Rob Lefkowitz, Aaron Wright
	\| launch date = 2006
	\| current status = Inactive
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	'''ArmchairGM''' was a sports-forum and ] site created by Dan Lewis, Aaron Wright, Robert Lefkowitz and David Pean. It was introduced to the public early in 2006. While the site was initially US-based, it sought to improve its links to sports associated with Britain in particular over its first year. From September 2010 to February 2011, ] began absorbing the site's encyclopedia articles and blanking all of its old blog entries, effectively discontinuing ArmchairGM in its original form.

	== History ==
	The site's main developer on the technological side was David Pean. While the site was based on the ] software used on ], other features were developed, including anxIn late 2006, the site was bought by ], a company founded by ], for $2 million.<ref>{{cite news \|title = Amazon puts Time and Money into Wikia \|url = http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16181879.htm\|publisher = ] \|date= 2006-06-12 \|accessdate = 2007-02-18}}</ref> After the purchase was made, Pean, Lewis, Lefkowitz, & Wright applied ArmchairGM's architecture to other Wikia sites.

	=== Other activities ===
	For ], the site made charity donations for every comment posted. The main hub of this commenting was done in a of ].<ref>{{cite news \|title = Online Sports Community ArmchairGM Seeks to Turn Super Bowl Sunday into Charitable Fund Raiser \|url = http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/2/emw502081.htm\|publisher = ] \|date= 2007-02-02 \|accessdate = 2007-02-18}}</ref>

	An AGM contributor operating under the pseudonym Manny Stiles auctioned his blogging services on ] in xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with information of being the Sports Wiki for SI.com.

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