Fantasy sport is a pretty recent development in the field of virtual games in which the people participating in that particular game behave as owners of the game and build teams that compete against each other on the basis of statistical data that is generated by these people or teams. Fantasy sports have now become so popular that these virtual games have become more lifelike and therefore are being modeled on actual games which are played in professional sports. This industry is represented by way of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. This association features a base covering large media corporations to its smaller and much more recent counterparts and is primarily responsible for ensuring this segment’s growth and expansion.
Some of the popular fantasy games are fantasy football, fantasy basketball, and fantasy baseball and fantasy cricket. Some of the other fantasy sports are fantasy ice hockey, wrestling and golf. Fantasy football has two main forms of challenges. In the head to head challenge there are weekly games that are played between the opponents while in the total points challenge, it’s the total points accrued through the entire season that determines the winner.
Fantasy baseball is probably the oldest of all the fantasy sports and is also regarded as being one of the most difficult games. It is additionally far more time consuming than its other counterparts due to the 162 games played each season as well as because of the inconsistency of the players. In this game too, players manage their imaginary teams competing against each other while using real world statistics, score points and performances of the baseball players. The popularity of fantasy baseball was taken over by fantasy football as the latter is played primarily once weekly against baseball which is played every day. This gives the team owners much more flexibility and time.
Fantasy baseball was the source of inspiration behind fantasy basketball. It was in the 1990s that fantasy basketball was presented with internet exposure owing to its immense popularity. The players taking part in this game compute the basketball statistics of the actual NBA players. This game became so well received that NBA has launched a worldwide competition called the Premier Fantasy Championships through the NBA.com fantasy. Regarded as being among the worlds most exclusive fantasy competition, this championship mirrors the real NBA games from 30 selected participants selected from the 9000 applications which come from across the world. The NBA has also launched a very popular show known as the NBA Fantasy Hoops which gives facts and information from the world of fantasy basketball.
Yahoo! Sports offers comprehensive and detailed news and information regarding fantasy sports, scores, statistics and standing. Yahoo! Fantasy Sports came to be in 1997 after the acquisition of Sportasy.com by Yahoo. They’ve got a substantial part of the fantasy sport base with fantasy baseball being its most favored game.
ESPN Fantasy sports also provide news and reviews on the world of fantasy sports. The ESPN fantasy sports newsletter covers everything that is happening in this world and brings it for their viewers.
