The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee has under its consideration a bill that would define fantasy sports contests as activities based on skill rather than pure luck and make them legal in Kansas. The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission now considers fantasy sports leagues illegal if they involve a buy-in fee and award cash […]
Each year, we bid farewell to board members who have completed their terms, and we welcome new directors who will lead FSTA through the coming years. To fill these open slots, we solicited nominations and opened elections up to members. The results from the elections are in and FSTA welcomes the following new directors
STATS LLC, the world’s leading sports technology, data and content company, announced today a new product aimed at one of the fastest-growing segments of the industry-daily fantasy sports. Starting with baseball and expanding into other sports later this year, STATS is introducing a robust package of daily fantasy tools to its media clients, including projections for every player that will enable value plays, optimal lineups and player rankings.
As many as 12 million viewers will tune into the NFL combine at some point to watch draft prospects do nothing more exciting than run sprints and lift weights. Other than coaches, general managers and scouts, who makes time in the middle of the day to devote to projecting a kid’s future? The answer won’t surprise anybody with a fantasy football team. For them, the combine has become must-see TV.
Dailyfantasylobby.com opened its doors this week to the world of Daily Fantasy Sports. Superlobby enables users of Fan Duel and Draft Kings to go to one place to compare and contrast every detail of Daily Fantasy Sports Contests.
The fantasy sports industry is riding a wave of growth, and industry experts at the Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s 2015 Winter Conference on Jan. 15 and 16 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas see a tsunami coming.
OK. Mike Trout goes first. But who follows, and in what order? The 2015 Fantasy Sports Trade Association Winter Conference kicks off on Thursday, January 15 at 4 p.m. PST at the Bellagio in Las Vegas with the 2015 Experts League Fantasy Baseball Draft. The Draft will be broadcast live on Sirius XM radio.
Fantasy Alarm announced February 15 the launch of a new web platform today, featuring refreshed branding and an improved user experience, optimized for any device.
One of the most important roles the Fantasy Sports Trade Association champions on behalf of its members is to maintain the game’s status as legal and non-gambling. The FSTA advocates for its members and the nearly 41 million players in the U.S. and Canada. That effort continues.
Even as Derek Harper and his development team prepare to launch Daily Ace, the latest entrant into fantasy sports’ rapidly-growing daily game space, he sees the success of companies like Draft Kings and Fan Duel as helping to lead growth for the whole industry.