Fantasy islands
Sept 21, 2015 20:39:25 GMT -5
Post by Evelyn on Sept 21, 2015 20:39:25 GMT -5
Probably not as many, but women do play fantasy football! As to "marketing" - he fails to mention that advertising to a local audience(except for the TC and BC) is vastly different and probably too expensive. That's another reason for a National Racing Organization.
Fantasy islands
Jay Cronley
ESPN
Horse racing could learn something from fantasy football. So too could the managers of the national debt.
It's hard to guess who loves fantasy football the most, males or television advertising account executives.
Fantasy football is advertised on television more than Kentucky Fried Chicken Two, the makeover, and Kentucky Fried Chicken Three, the apology. The NFL.com fantasy football TV commercials use actual active National Football League players, which raises several interesting questions. One, is fantasy football gambling? And two, if it is, is the NFL okay to have its players gambling their guts out on what amounts to their own sport? Of course fantasy football is gambling. You wager on players, similar to the way the horse people bet on horses. You try to pick a winner. A gamble is a risk taken with the intent of making money. Our new national obsession of trying to make money off football must get around state anti-wagering laws by being classified as a game of skill. Brady zips one in for six from the twenty-yard line, your skillfulness in picking him for your team is rewarded. You're allegedly building a football player portfolio the way Wall Street gamblers pick stocks. You have to admit guessing at what a player might do is more skillful than scratching off lottery cards.
What could horse racing learn from fantasy football?
How to market.
Horse race tracks have forgotten how to make the fan feel special.
FanDuel says it will pay out $2 billion this year, and dozens of millions per week. The DraftKings pool requiring a $20 entry fee has a pot of more than $7 million To get you playing, these skill-game sites will match your first deposits. Here's what a person needs to remember about these gigantic numbers. They don't show on the TV commercials the losers having another shot of straight whiskey. You need to remember who is paying the select few big winners shown dancing around with checks almost as large as a billboard: the losers, the Oklahoma alumni who drafted Sam Bradford to quarterback their fantasy teams -- pay the winners, minus the house take. This industry has grown so big so quickly, house-cut information is not readily available. But you might guess that the people who drew up the idea for these companies are taking in plenty of profit. Prime time TV commercials don't come cheap. So far in the TV commercials, this appears to be a male dominated game of skill. No women have been shown exchanging high-fives or fist bombs. But some women do extremely well at horse racing, so soon we should see a mixed crowd of celebrants carrying around a check for what, a trillion a week?
There are many similarities in fantasy football and horse race handicapping, and even team sports handicapping.
A fantasy football team owner can be victimized by bad beats, a bad ride, so to speak, when a coach chooses to throw on first and goal from the one-foot line, with a sure-thing runner on your team. There's no refund on fantasy football injuries; there's just another game, another contest. The chief similarity between horse racing and fantasy football is the lure of the obvious. Every fantasy manager wants to draft players from teams with sorry defenses, like the Steelers. How many fantasy managers did Drew Brees playing at home versus the lowly Bucs drive to the ATM machine? Anybody can pick favorites. It's the long shots that are fun. You need to be on Brandon Weeden the week he throws five touchdowns at the Patriots.
Very little in any sport happens the same way twice running. In fact the only past performance based system I have ever seen work fairly well was one in pro football based on the premise of everything changing one week to the next. A horse player who never considered an animal's most recent race showed me the pro football system. If a team lost on the road then came home to play a team off a big win on its own field, you took the loser returning to friendly environs. This system usually involved the skillful player investing money on a team that had just gotten its brains beaten out, versus a big winner. In pro football, beware of losers returning home to play a big winner hitting the road.
What the fantasy player can learn from the horse player is playing the obvious is usually no fun.
Fantasy islands
Jay Cronley
ESPN
Horse racing could learn something from fantasy football. So too could the managers of the national debt.
It's hard to guess who loves fantasy football the most, males or television advertising account executives.
Fantasy football is advertised on television more than Kentucky Fried Chicken Two, the makeover, and Kentucky Fried Chicken Three, the apology. The NFL.com fantasy football TV commercials use actual active National Football League players, which raises several interesting questions. One, is fantasy football gambling? And two, if it is, is the NFL okay to have its players gambling their guts out on what amounts to their own sport? Of course fantasy football is gambling. You wager on players, similar to the way the horse people bet on horses. You try to pick a winner. A gamble is a risk taken with the intent of making money. Our new national obsession of trying to make money off football must get around state anti-wagering laws by being classified as a game of skill. Brady zips one in for six from the twenty-yard line, your skillfulness in picking him for your team is rewarded. You're allegedly building a football player portfolio the way Wall Street gamblers pick stocks. You have to admit guessing at what a player might do is more skillful than scratching off lottery cards.
What could horse racing learn from fantasy football?
How to market.
Horse race tracks have forgotten how to make the fan feel special.
FanDuel says it will pay out $2 billion this year, and dozens of millions per week. The DraftKings pool requiring a $20 entry fee has a pot of more than $7 million To get you playing, these skill-game sites will match your first deposits. Here's what a person needs to remember about these gigantic numbers. They don't show on the TV commercials the losers having another shot of straight whiskey. You need to remember who is paying the select few big winners shown dancing around with checks almost as large as a billboard: the losers, the Oklahoma alumni who drafted Sam Bradford to quarterback their fantasy teams -- pay the winners, minus the house take. This industry has grown so big so quickly, house-cut information is not readily available. But you might guess that the people who drew up the idea for these companies are taking in plenty of profit. Prime time TV commercials don't come cheap. So far in the TV commercials, this appears to be a male dominated game of skill. No women have been shown exchanging high-fives or fist bombs. But some women do extremely well at horse racing, so soon we should see a mixed crowd of celebrants carrying around a check for what, a trillion a week?
There are many similarities in fantasy football and horse race handicapping, and even team sports handicapping.
A fantasy football team owner can be victimized by bad beats, a bad ride, so to speak, when a coach chooses to throw on first and goal from the one-foot line, with a sure-thing runner on your team. There's no refund on fantasy football injuries; there's just another game, another contest. The chief similarity between horse racing and fantasy football is the lure of the obvious. Every fantasy manager wants to draft players from teams with sorry defenses, like the Steelers. How many fantasy managers did Drew Brees playing at home versus the lowly Bucs drive to the ATM machine? Anybody can pick favorites. It's the long shots that are fun. You need to be on Brandon Weeden the week he throws five touchdowns at the Patriots.
Very little in any sport happens the same way twice running. In fact the only past performance based system I have ever seen work fairly well was one in pro football based on the premise of everything changing one week to the next. A horse player who never considered an animal's most recent race showed me the pro football system. If a team lost on the road then came home to play a team off a big win on its own field, you took the loser returning to friendly environs. This system usually involved the skillful player investing money on a team that had just gotten its brains beaten out, versus a big winner. In pro football, beware of losers returning home to play a big winner hitting the road.
What the fantasy player can learn from the horse player is playing the obvious is usually no fun.
