Information on fantasy sports and news providers
Fantasy sport is a fairly recent development in the field of virtual games in which the people participating in that specific game act as owners of the game and build teams that compete against each other on the basis of statistical data which is generated by these people or teams. Fantasy sports have now become so well liked that these virtual games have become more lifelike and therefore are being modeled on actual games that 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 face to face challenge there are weekly games that are played between the opponents while in the total points challenge, it is the total points accrued through the entire season that determines the winner.
Fantasy baseball is perhaps the oldest of all the fantasy sports and is particularly considered to be one of the most difficult games. It is also a great deal more time consuming than its other counterparts owing to the 162 games played each season and also because of the inconsistency of the players. With this game too, players manage their imaginary teams competing against 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 as the latter is played primarily once a week against baseball which is played on a daily basis. This gives the team owners a lot 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. 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. Considered to be 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 hugely popular show called the NBA Fantasy Hoops which gives information and news from 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 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 offer 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.