Fantasy Sports Betting Is The new Daily Lottery
Sharp sport bettors will wager his or her play or plays for different dollar figures depending on strength of information and sometimes play the same wager more than once based on special circumstances or because they use multiple sportsbooks, bookmakers and point spreads. While at the the same time the successful fantasy player will submit up to dozens of entries into the same contest with certain staple players but also a buckshot of alternative and less used players all based upon probabilities and analytics. In other words the regular Joe Schmo fantasy players chances of winning large prizes and big money is slim to none or about as good as winning the lottery. But not unlike the traditional sports betting industry the sharp plays rely on a steady flow of the non-informed guppies donating to the money pool that the big fish feed from, with no real chance of ever winning long term. A traditional sports bettor unlike their fantasy counterpart would never placed dozens of wages daily, but the fantasy player who wins almost day in and day out are usually the extremely computer savvy and they do not need very much if any knowledge about athletes or coaching or game game strategy. Its a game of probabilities and analytics and the most successful players have knowledge of advanced math and programming. In other words most people who are cleaning up playing fantasy sports are not who you see on the commercials but more likely someone who has never played a sport in their life. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
The one common thread that does affect both the fantasy sports better and the traditional sports bettor alike is that a bad call in baseball or turnover in football or a a bad foul call in the NBA will affect you. These things as anybody who's ever played the game or wagered knows can change one's fortunes around quickly at times. Although the main difference is is that as a fantasy sports better a penalty, turnover or bad call might take you out of one prize and actually put you into another and actually help you instead of hurting you, while when your wagering traditionally and winning depends on one teams result there is never a doubt whether a particular event was positive or negative. Your running back fumbling or a huge turnover by your point guard down the stretch is never a good thing, unless your defense scoops it up for 6 the other way or the ball was stolen and jammed by another of your players on your fantasy team. Now your frown is upside down. Fantasy sports betting is sort of a bizarro world where something that was once obviously bad for you might actually be good. And you never know who's going to win first prize out of tens of thousands of entries until the last play of the last game of the night or the week. There is never a blowout or easy winner like you might get when betting on an individual team. Just think that you can win the prize with a team of individual players that can each lose their respective game that particular day. Never before in life could 6 losing athletes produce the winner but now it can.
While for centuries if not millennium the winning a wager was always attached to winning a contest. Well not anymore kids. After only a few years of fantasy sports being a part of the fabric of society the interest among the younger demographic is already showing to be less interested in local teams and the local teams performance as much as the national scene because of the fact that every week they are betting on teams outside of what they would normally care about. This might down the road have a major effect on the season-ticket holder and very few people really caring about the traditional ways opting to stay connected to everything at home on their computer. Rooting for players on opposing teams in the same contest was never a thought unless you were the parent of a Manning, Gasol or Upton. Just another example of the internet messing with the balance of nature. Oh, how times have changed.
