Fantasy Sports is all about skills, and it delivers a different approach to see sports. Participants figure out the essential factors and create a team on a virtual platform where points get awarded according to the performance of the players. In cricket, it’s about scoring and taking wickets, or in football, you pick players based on the goal ability and the other factors. The participant who grab the most points at the end of the game, rewarded as the winner.
In the last two-three years, the fantasy industry has evolved, and its financial values have overgrown. Sports lovers are taking fantasy as the best option to consume time, and they take it as another option to earn something. In this segment, we will talk about some amazing facts related to online fantasy sports that will blow your mind.
1. 1962 was the year when we heard fantasy sport for the first time. Wilfred Winkenbach joined his few friends and started a rule book for fantasy football.
2. Andy Mousalimas, the founder of GOPPPL, started the first Fantasy league, and it came out publically in 1969.
3. Fantasy sports developed in the 70s, and in the gap of one year (1888-1989), the number of user accounts crossed the 1 million mark. It was the first immense growth in this market.
4. In 1999, when Yahoo was leading the internet world, it is set up the first free fantasy football system. The Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) was also formed, and the growth of fantasy sports increased.
5. After 7 years, The Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act of the US gave a legal boost to fantasy sports.
6. 18% of the US's fantasy players are adults, and 34% of players belong to Gen Z.
7. In Canada, 19% of the total population takes part in fantasy sports, and 19% of players are adults.
8. Do you know who plays the most fantasy between male and female? 66% of the fantasy sports players are male, and 34% of fantasy players are female.
9. The surprising fact is that 51% of the fantasy players earn more than 75000 dollars in the US and see fantasy as another income source.
10. One fantasy player in the US and Canada spends around $556 annually on fantasy sports. More than 50% of the fantasy players spent more than 10 hours in a week only on the research.
11. 44% of fantasy players showcased full love for fantasy, and they claimed that they will continue playing fantasy sports for their lifetime.
12. At the end of the year 2020, the total amount of entry fees is expected to reach more than $5.3 billion.
13. 50% of users even claimed that fantasy has helped them to follow the different sports, and 64% of users have said that they watch live sports only because of fantasy sports. It really helped the broadcasters and sponsors.
14. Every year, around 118 million people put stakes on sports in the United States.
15. The value of the daily fantasy sports industry is at $2.6 billion.
16. There are 4.7 million active users of fantasy sport daily.
17. It was the fantasy sports’ power that theatre became the exclusive sponsor of the Yahoo fantasy football league recaps.
18. The leading sports website, ESPN, earns 17% traffic from fantasy users, having 90 million unique visitors every month. The good amount of traffic forced ESPN to launch a fantasy football show on television and online.
19. The most selected fantasy players in the 2017 and 2018 seasons were Harry Kane, Romeo Lukaku, and Dele Alli.
20. 7 million active users play DFS exclusively.
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