What's more fun than playing fantasy sports with your buddies?
How about playing fantasy sports for cash.
All of your dreams have come true with this relatively new website. To play, you need to join and make a deposit into your account. They'll give you a small percentage bonus for joining (I believe 20%) and you can then play instantly. Best of all -unlike most other sports-gambling websites- it is 100% completely legal. The Supreme Court has defined Fantasy Sports as a game of skill and is thus not considered gambling.
Types of Leagues:
1. HR Derby: Each team chooses 6 or so players and tracks the HR totals for a period of time (usually a week. At the end, the winner is the team with the most HRs.
2. Point Based: This works as every other old point league; you choose some players and add up the points. The person with the most points at the end of the day or the week wins.
Types of Drafts:
1. Salary Cap: I like this type the best because I don't have the time to do a traditional snake style draft every afternoon. They give you $100 thousand (in play money) and you choose your players based upon the prices they set for each player.
2. Snake Draft: Each player drafts in this traditional style draft at the designated time. Like I said earlier, this is probably more fun and I wish I could do it, but sadly I don't have the time.
Prizes:
Each league has a prize, whether its a weekly, HR Derby, or even a 3 person league daily. They take a 10% cut on every entry fee so if you're in a league with 3 people and an $11 entry fee the prize pool will be $30. The math gets a little more complicated as the size of the league increases but they have a formula to pay 2nd 3rd 4th and so on player that you can check out on the website.
If you don't want to pay to play, you can still play in free leagues and earn "street-cred" points that you can later trade in at their store for prizes.
Opinion:
This website is fun and most importantly legal. But, you're not going to make the kind of money to pay you're rent. Still, I would definitely throw $20 into it and see if you can make a little bit of cash. If you really believe in your fantasy sports skills you can enter into the big big leagues and even make $2000 in one night.
I personally have stuck to the smaller 3 or 10 person leagues because they give me a better chance of winning. Sadly though, I'm 0-4 so far so we'll have to wait to see what happens when I actually win. Till then, I urge you all to click on the banner link on the top of the page and give it a go. Heck, choose all the players on your favorite team and when you watch the game tonight, it'll be quite a bit more exciting.
Also of note, they do leagues for the basketball and football season as well.
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