Fantasy sport is a pretty recent development in the field of virtual games in which the people taking part in that particular game behave as owners of the game and build teams that compete against one another based on statistical data which is generated by these individuals or teams. Fantasy sports have recently become so well liked that these virtual games have become more lifelike and 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 more recent counterparts and is also 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 forms of challenges. Inside the head to head challenge there are weekly games that are played between opponents whilst in the total points challenge, it’s the total points accrued over the season that determines the winner.
Fantasy baseball is perhaps the oldest of all the fantasy sports and is particularly regarded as being one of the most difficult games. It is also a great deal more time consuming than its other counterparts due to the 162 games played each season as well as due to the inconsistency of the players. In this game too, players manage their imaginary teams competing with each other using the real world 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 weekly against baseball that is played on a daily basis. This gives the team owners a lot more flexibility and time.
Fantasy baseball was the original source of inspiration behind fantasy basketball. It was in the 1990s that fantasy basketball was presented with internet exposure owing to its immense popularity. Players taking part in this game compute the basketball statistics of the actual NBA players. This game became so popular that NBA has launched a global competition called the Premier Fantasy Championships through the NBA.com fantasy. Considered to be among the worlds most exclusive fantasy competition, this championship mirrors the actual NBA games from 30 selected participants selected from the 9000 applications that come from across the world. The NBA has also launched a very popular show called the NBA Fantasy Hoops which gives facts and information 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 after the purchase of Sportasy.com by Yahoo. They have a substantial part of the fantasy sport base with fantasy baseball being its most popular game.
ESPN Fantasy sports also provide news and reviews from the world of fantasy sports. The ESPN fantasy sports newsletter covers everything that is happening in this world and brings it to their viewers.