Fantasy cricket ipl details

Digital sports competitions are on the rise. The success of fantasy sports is largely due to the link between the virtual team performance and the actual performance of the players of the respective team on the field.  For example, in cricket fantasy league, people are allowed to create their own dream team, and they get points based on the actual performance of the players involved.

It is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other virtual owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport. In the case of fantasy cricket ipl, probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points that are compiled and totalled according to a jury selected by the BCCI. These point systems are typically simple enough to be manually calculated by a “league commissioner.” More complex variants use computer modelling of actual games based on statistical input generated by professional sports.

According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association demographic research, there were more than 33.5 million Americans and 3.1 million Canadians participating in virtual sports, in 2013. Of these, 80 percent of participants are male, with about 78 percent of all participants holding a college degree or better. FSTA data states, on average over a 12 month period, virtual sports players spend about $111 on competition related costs, single player challenge games and tournament related materials. Of these costs, players pay about $52 on league fees alone. In India, fantasy cricket ipl offers ten million virtual dollars to players for buying their team.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win. Golf is a simple fantasy game to administer and keep tabs on, since you are concerned only with the scores of your team members without anything else to complicate it. But it was never organized into a widespread hobby or formal business.In 1960, Harvard University sociologist William Gamson started the “Baseball Seminar” where colleagues would form rosters that earned points on the players’ final standings in batting average, RBI, ERA and wins. In india, IPL started cricket fantasy league in 2013.

The seminal moment for the growth of fantasy sports was the rise of the Internet in the mid-1990s. The new technology lowered the barrier to entry to the hobby as stats could quickly be compiled online and news and information became readily available. In early October 1995, what would become a popular fantasy hockey website was released by Molson Breweries. It was part of the company’s “I am Online” strategy and centred on it’s “I am Canadian” advertising campaign; it would focus on music, entertainment and hockey. The website allowed visitors to register accounts and participate in hockey leagues of nine teams in which the visitor would be the general manager for one of those teams. Internet boom was seen a little late in India, but fantasy cricket ipl is believed to make up for the lost time.