Fantasy football fever, today, has topped temperatures of yesteryear–and growing furiously each season. The three major players of Yahoo, CBS, and ESPN comprise what’s a $1.5 billion industry, per research firm IBISWorld. The internet, virtually since its inception, spurred the stunning interest and growth of fantasy football’s fan-driven participation. The NFL, for their part, helped […]
The Walt Disney Co. is investing $250 million in DraftKings Inc., an online fantasy sports business. Finding a league to play fantasy sports is not a difficult task, however what makes DraftKings unique is that it is not like the leagues that ESPN, Yahoo, or CBS have. DraftKings, allows people to compete for real money. […]
According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, there were 41.5 million fantasy sports users in 2014, with the favorite being fantasy football. Recently, we have seen the emergence of daily, or in the case of fantasy Football, weekly fantasy games. Two sites have emerged as the industry leaders for this: DraftKings and FanDuel. The NHL […]
