Fantasy Cricket – The New Craze In Fantasy Sports Arena
Posted by in Cricket on September 14, 2011
Fantasy sports, a huge phenomenon in the American online interactive gaming world, have tickled the interests of millions of sports enthusiasts world-wide. Sports and media are working in tandem to provide new entertainment options to the global cricket fans and fantasy sports are one example of this trend. Fantasy sports have successfully bridged real on-the-field action with virtual games. In virtual reality, friends can compete with each other at any place, any time. This social aspect of the game is one of the web 2.0 trends. Sports fans find that spending time with friends, while watching a game, is one of the best ways to relax. Fantasy sports bring the entire fun-filled experience to the cyber world. Every dedicated follower of popular professional sports, be it soccer, football, baseball or cricket, loves to create his/her own dream team and even brag the team’s performance to like-minded friends. Fantasy sports give a chance to such a fan to enter the virtual world and see his/her dream-team compete with that of his/her friends in a fun-filled as well as challenging simulated atmosphere.
In fantasy cricket games, like all other fantasy sports, a gamer gets to follow up a live tournament/series and build his/her team from the players participating in the tournament. The performance of the team would then be based on the on-field performances of the players selected. A few of the fantasy cricket games allow gamers to form leagues with friends as on http://www.cricketshowdown.com, whereby a person gets to create a league and then invite others to join the league. In such a scenario he/she becomes the league manager who coordinates with the rest of the league members. Each member can make a “wish-list” from the list of actual players participating in a live match. The wish-lists are then processed automatically using a unique algorithm called “draft” to create teams for the league members wherein no two teams get the same player. Thus it becomes a challenging task to create a clever wish-list so that the gamer gets to see his/her favourite player in his/her team at the end of the draft! Finally, the team that earns the maximum points wins the game. Read the rest of this entry »
Fantasy Sports Betting
Posted by in Sports Betting on September 7, 2011
Successful strategy for sports betting begins with an honest determination of the seriousness of the commitment of the bettor. Recreational betting on greyhound or horse racing or sports is fun and adds spice to daily activities. Nevertheless, this fun exercise has to be regarded as a method to include some punch to the viewing experience.
Regardless of the betting lines, recreational bettors tend to play their favorite teams. There isn’t anything wrong with enhancing your viewing pleasure with watch bet or a recreational wager.
Be Ready for Everything
The recreational bettor has to stay prepared to lose and must confine the bets to a level which is highly manageable. And with more than 12 million baseball fans taking part in fantasy leagues on various websites such as Google, new online gambling frontier is just round the corner.
And the concept remained right from the eighties, soon after the free agency made it highly impossible for the fan to count on the long term association with the favorite player. In order to combat this, a group of editors and writers created what is now known as the Rotisserie League. Now, several major sports from ice hockey, baseball, cricket, NASCAR to soccer have fantasy leagues which range from legions of international online organizations and investment bankers to informal groups of school kids. Read the rest of this entry »