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Fantasy sport

Index Fantasy sport

A fantasy sport (also known less commonly as rotisserie or roto) is a type of online game where participants assemble imaginary or virtual teams of real players of a professional sport. [1]

71 relations: Alan Schwarz, American City Business Journals, Amicus curiae, Bill James, Broadband Sports, CBSSports.com, Daily fantasy sports, Daniel Okrent, Dot-com bubble, Dow Jones & Company, DraftKings, Earned run average, Email, FanDuel, Fantasy auto racing, Fantasy baseball, Fantasy basketball, Fantasy Congress, Fantasy cricket, Fantasy F1, Fantasy football (American), Fantasy football (association), Fantasy football (Australian rules football), Fantasy golf, Fantasy hockey, Fantasy Sports Association, Fantasy sports stock simulation, Fantasy Sports Trade Association, Fantasy Sports Writers Association, Fantasy wrestling, George Blanda, Harvard University, Hockey Hall of Fame, I Am Canadian, Inside Sports, Keith Olbermann, LABR, Major League Baseball, Michael Lewis, MLB Advanced Media, Molson Brewery, Montana Lottery, Motorola, National Basketball Association, National Football League, New York City, Oakland Raiders, Oakland, California, Online poker, Peter Gammons, ..., Proposition bet, Ron Shandler, RotoWire, Rowan University, Run batted in, Sociology, Sports betting, STATS LLC, Strat-O-Matic, Thomas Dunne Books, Toronto Star, University of Michigan, Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, USA Today, USA Today Sports Weekly, W. W. Norton & Company, William A. Gamson, World War II, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo!, 1981 Major League Baseball strike. Expand index (21 more) »

Alan Schwarz

Alan Schwarz (born July 3, 1968) is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated National Correspondent at The New York Times best known for writing more than 100 articles that exposed the seriousness of concussions among football players of all ages.

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American City Business Journals

"." Houston Business Journal.

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Amicus curiae

An amicus curiae (literally, "friend of the court"; plural, amici curiae) is someone who is not a party to a case and may or may not have been solicited by a party, who assists a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case, and is typically presented in the form of a brief.

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Bill James

George William James (born October 5, 1949) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential.

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Broadband Sports

Broadband Sports is a social media and video sharing website focused on extreme sports.

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CBSSports.com

CBSSports.com (formerly CBS SportsLine.com and SportsLine USA) is an American sports news website operated by the CBS Interactive division of CBS Corporation.

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Daily fantasy sports

Daily fantasy sports (DFS) are a subset of fantasy sport games.

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Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet.

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Dow Jones & Company

Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial information firm that has been owned by News Corp. since 2007.

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DraftKings

DraftKings is a Boston, MA, daily fantasy sports contest provider.

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Earned run average

In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game).

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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FanDuel

FanDuel is a web-based fantasy sports game and with 6 million registered users FanDuel is the second largest daily fantasy sports company (as measured by entry fees and user base) in the daily fantasy sports industry.

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Fantasy auto racing

Fantasy auto racing is a type fantasy sports game based on motor sports.

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Fantasy baseball

Fantasy Baseball is a game in which people manage rosters of league baseball players, either online or in a physical location.

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Fantasy basketball

Fantasy basketball is sometimes kept track of stats by hand, it was popularized during the 1990s after the advent of the Internet.

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Fantasy Congress

Fantasy Congress is an online game structured like fantasy sports where data is gathered about congressional elections and converted into points.

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Fantasy cricket

Fantasy cricket is a part of the fantasy sports genre.

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Fantasy F1

Fantasy F1 is a game in which the participants assemble a collection of real life Formula One drivers and score points based on those drivers' actual statistical performance during the F1 season.

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Fantasy football (American)

Fantasy football is a game in which the participants serve as the general managers of virtual professional gridiron football teams.

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Fantasy football (association)

Fantasy football (less commonly referred to as fantasy association football worldwide but known as fantasy soccer in the United States) is a game in which participants assemble an imaginary team of real life footballers and score points based on those players' actual statistical performance or their perceived contribution on the field of play.

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Fantasy football (Australian rules football)

Fantasy football is a fantasy sport in which competitors score points based on the performance of players in the Australian Football League.

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Fantasy golf

Fantasy golf is a game in which the participants each assemble a team of real life golfers and then score points based on those players' performance in golf tournaments, with games typically following the US PGA Tour and the European Tour.

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Fantasy hockey

Fantasy hockey is a form of fantasy sport where players build a team that competes with other players who do the same, based on the statistics generated by professional hockey players or teams.

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Fantasy Sports Association

The Fantasy Sports Association (FSA) is a trade group that was found in 2006 to advance the interests of the fantasy sports industry.

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Fantasy sports stock simulation

A fantasy sports stock simulation is a type of fantasy sports game.

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Fantasy Sports Trade Association

The Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) is a Madison, Wisconsin-based trade group representing the fantasy sports industry, listing over 200 member companies on its web site as of January 2017.

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Fantasy Sports Writers Association

The Fantasy Sports Writers Association (FSWA) is an organization that represents journalists in the United States who cover fantasy sports.

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Fantasy wrestling

Fantasy wrestling is an umbrella term representing the genre of role-playing and statistics-based games which are set in the world of professional wrestling.

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George Blanda

George Frederick Blanda (September 17, 1927 – September 27, 2010) was an American football quarterback and placekicker who played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hockey Hall of Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame (Temple de la renommée du hockey) is an ice hockey museum located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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I Am Canadian

I Am Canadian was the slogan of Molson Canadian beer from 1994 until 1998 (via ad agencies Maclaren Lintas, then MacLaren McCann), and between 2000 and 2005 (by Bensimon Byrne).

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Inside Sports

Inside Sports magazine was a major general interest sports magazine in the United States.

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Keith Olbermann

Keith Theodore Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer.

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LABR

LABR was the first high-profile fantasy sports experts league of its kind.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Michael Lewis

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist.

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MLB Advanced Media

MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is a limited partnership of the club owners of Major League Baseball (MLB) based in New York City and is the Internet and interactive branch of the league.

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Molson Brewery

The Molson Brewery was formed in 1786 in Montreal, by the Molson family.

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Montana Lottery

The Montana Lottery is run by the government of Montana.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oakland Raiders

The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football franchise based in Oakland, California.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Online poker

Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet.

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Peter Gammons

Peter Gammons (born April 9, 1945) is an American sportswriter and media personality.

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Proposition bet

In gambling, a "proposition bet" (prop bet, prop, novelty, or a side bet) is a bet made regarding the occurrence or non-occurrence during a game (usually a gambling game) of an event not directly affecting the game's final outcome.

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Ron Shandler

In 1986, Ron Shandler began publishing the Baseball Forecaster, an annual publication focused on applying sabermetrics to fantasy baseball, and founder of, a website with the same focus.

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RotoWire

RotoWire.com is a company based in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. that specializes in fantasy sports news and fantasy-style games.

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Rowan University

Rowan University is a public research university in Glassboro, New Jersey, United States, with a satellite campus in Camden, New Jersey.

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Run batted in

A run batted in (RBI), plural runs batted in (RBI or RBIs), is a statistic in baseball and softball that credits a batter for making a play that allows a run to be scored (except in certain situations such as when an error is made on the play).

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Sports betting

Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome.

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STATS LLC

STATS is a sports data, technology, statistics, and content company founded in 1981.

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Strat-O-Matic

Strat-O-Matic is a game company based in Glen Head, New York, that develops and publishes sports simulation games.

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Thomas Dunne Books

Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, a division of Macmillan Publishers, publishes popular trade fiction and nonfiction.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) is United States legislation regulating online gambling.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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USA Today Sports Weekly

USA Today Sports Weekly is an American sports newsmagazine that is owned by the Gannett Company.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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William A. Gamson

William Anthony Gamson (born January 27, 1934) is a professor of Sociology at Boston College, where he is also the co-director of the Media Research and Action Project (MRAP).

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yahoo Sports

Yahoo Sports is a sports news website launched by Yahoo! on December 8, 1997.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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1981 Major League Baseball strike

The 1981 Major League Baseball strike was the first work stoppage in Major League Baseball since the 1972 Major League Baseball strike that resulted in regular season games being cancelled.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_sport

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