By this point in the NFL season, fantasy football fans can tell whether or not they have a realistic shot of winning their league. The ones who drafted well will soon gain bragging rights. Those that were not that fortunate, the remaining games represent a lost season. Then the overall user experience tends to tail off due to certain individuals not having the same level of interest as draft day.
This reality opens a gulf of opportunities to disrupt the massive vested interest in fantasy sports.
(Bleacher Report)
“We really saw mobile happen in 2011,” said David Finocchio, Founder and Chief Content Producer of Bleacher Report and Vice President at Turner Sports.
Then, Bleacher Report amassed 22 million unique monthly users and 40 percent of that traffic derived from mobile. They debuted an iPad iteration of their popular Team Stream app as byproduct of where users have been consuming their content. The rapid upswing in readership and mass production of content collided to the point that it was imperative that their mobile presence catered and reflected to the demand at hand.
Nate Silver has changed the way people look at sports and politics (Ian Hill/Thinkstock/Penguin)
In the first installment of this series, Joshua Meredith dove head first into the technological background behind Daily Fantasy Sports.
In Part two of this series Meredith looked at the intersection of Internet Poker, Gambling and Daily Fantasy Gaming.
Today in Part 3 of this series, Meredith looks at the links between Daily Fantasy Sports, Wall Street Analytics and the impact data analysis is having on the industry.
Over the next several weeks, SportTechie is bringing Daily Fantasy Sports to the forefront. In the first installment, Joshua Meredith dove into how Daily Fantasy Sports works and its technological background. You can read it here: Today, in Part 2 of this series Meredith looks at the intersection of Internet Poker, Gambling and Daily Fantasy […]
Fantasy sports have certainly evolved. Gone are the days when you could wait hours to make a big waiver claim. All providers now have easy to use apps that can be accessed on-the-go and roster moves can occur with a click of the button. This has led to fantasy sports being as competitive and popular […]
