FanDuel is offering thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin to users competing in its upcoming NFL fantasy sports playoffs, in what the company says will be the first fantasy football contest to award Bitcoin to winners and the first sports tech company to award cryptocurrency in a consumer promotion. During Week 2 of the NFL […]
Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani is a rare two-way hitting and pitching talent who only signed with the Los Angeles Angels a week ago, yet has been posing a dilemma to fantasy baseball developers for months. In 2016 with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, Ohtani batted .322 with 22 home runs while also making 20 starts […]
DraftKings will now try its hand at live streaming sports. The daily fantasy sports giant announced Tuesday that users will be able to live stream select EuroLeague Basketball games through its app, marking the company’s inaugural foray into the streaming world. Starting in 2018, users in the U.S. and Canada will have access to one […]
The creators of ePlay’s forthcoming augmented reality game are taking players’ headshots and molding them onto 3D models to create life-size avatars that will be dispersed throughout streets, shops and cities. Hold your phone up to see Stephen Curry and higher still to see the much taller LeBron James, or at least a reasonable digital […]
NEW YORK — While analytics have already permeated the basketball discourse enough that anyone can identify that the most efficient shots are close-range 2-pointers and 3-pointers, those broad parameters lack pertinent details in evaluating the quality of a shot: the defender’s proximity and wingspan, his matchup history with the shooter and even his passing options. […]
