Fantasy sports

Type the phrase “Fantasy sports” in the Google search engine and you get 75,900,000 results and for Yahoo, 588,000,000. What exactly is meant by fantasy sports and why has it become so popular in our age? Fantasy sports is defined as “ a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport.” Meaning? Well, let’s say you’re into fantasy basketball, as a participant, you get to be the ‘owner’ of a team in which you select players-not just any fictional characters like in most video and online games but REAL players playing in REAL teams in the professional sport. You could have all the NBA celebrity all stars on your side and just like a real sports owner, you get to select, trade your players with other fantasy sports owners then play against another fantasy players team and create your own NBA celebrity all star game. No wonder the popularity!

How are scores tabulated and winner’s determined? Commonly, the statistical performance of the real players is converted into points according to a record selected by the manager of the fantasy team. The results are then be manually calculated by what is called a ‘league commissioner’. Your teams’ success depends mostly on the individual NBA celebrity all star players performance which makes the sport more realistic, interesting and even addicting.

Just how widespread is fantasy sports? According to one survey by the Fantasy Sports Association, an estimated 29.9 million people age 12 and above in the U.S. and Canada played fantasy sports in 2007 compared with a survey taken in 2006 which only reported 19.4M players. Fantasy sports are also common in soccer, baseball, cricket and other sport leagues worldwide. So if you’ve ever dreamed of creating your ideal NBA celebrity all star game with your favorite players, fantasy sports might be for you.

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