Fantasy sport is a fairly recent development in the field of virtual games where the people taking part in that particular game behave as owners of the game and build teams that compete against one another 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 the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. This association has a base covering large media corporations to its smaller and much more recent counterparts and is primarily in charge of 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 types of challenges. In the head to head challenge there are weekly games which are played between opponents while in the total points challenge, it’s the total points accrued through the entire season that determines the winner.
Fantasy baseball is perhaps the oldest of all of the fantasy sports and is particularly considered to be one of the most difficult games. It is also a great deal more time intensive than its other counterparts due to the 162 games played each season and also because of the inconsistency of the players. In this game too, players manage their imaginary teams competing with each other using the real life statistics, score points and performances of the baseball players. The popularity of fantasy baseball was taken over by fantasy football since the latter is played primarily once a week against baseball that is played every day. This allows the team owners much more flexibility and time.
Fantasy baseball was the original source of inspiration behind fantasy basketball. It was in the 1990s that fantasy basketball was given internet exposure as a result of its immense popularity. Players participating in this game compute the basketball statistics of the actual NBA players. This game became so well received that NBA has launched a global 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 actual NBA games from 30 selected participants selected from the 9000 applications which come from around the globe. The NBA has also launched a very popular show called the NBA Fantasy Hoops which supplies information and news on the world of fantasy basketball.
Yahoo! Sports offers comprehensive and detailed information and news regarding fantasy sports, scores, statistics and standing. Yahoo! Fantasy Sports came to be in 1997 following the purchase 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 going on in this world and brings it to their viewers.