Fantasy Sports stock simulations
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A fantasy sports stock simulation is a type of fantasy sport
game. It differs from standard fantasy sports games, which involve drafting teams and competing against another teams in a league in certain statistical categories. In a fantasy sports stock simulation, players and teams are stocks in a stock market which can be bought and sold, and which acquire earnings based on their statistics. While standard fantasy sports games typically require drafting a team at the beginning of a season to participate, fantasy players can join and participate in a fantasy sports stock market at any time during the season.
Fantasy stock simulations are similar to prediction games
and prediction market
s in that players speculate on the future of stock prices in a virtual world.
The format was largely developed by Wall Street Sports in the 1990s, with the game growing to 75,000 members by 1998. Wall Street Sports was later sold to Sandbox.com, which grew to an audience of 3.5 million players. However, Sandbox.com went bankrupt in 2002 and the game ceased operations and the domain name was sold to an off-shore betting site.
Fantasy sport
A fantasy sport is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport...
game. It differs from standard fantasy sports games, which involve drafting teams and competing against another teams in a league in certain statistical categories. In a fantasy sports stock simulation, players and teams are stocks in a stock market which can be bought and sold, and which acquire earnings based on their statistics. While standard fantasy sports games typically require drafting a team at the beginning of a season to participate, fantasy players can join and participate in a fantasy sports stock market at any time during the season.
Fantasy stock simulations are similar to prediction games
Prediction games
A prediction game is a game which allow users to guess at the outcome of future events. Prediction games are generally operated online and are free for users to play...
and prediction market
Prediction market
Prediction markets are speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions...
s in that players speculate on the future of stock prices in a virtual world.
The format was largely developed by Wall Street Sports in the 1990s, with the game growing to 75,000 members by 1998. Wall Street Sports was later sold to Sandbox.com, which grew to an audience of 3.5 million players. However, Sandbox.com went bankrupt in 2002 and the game ceased operations and the domain name was sold to an off-shore betting site.