FanDuel Plays in The Big Leagues
FanDuel plays in the big leagues
By.
Douglas Fraser
Business/economy editor, Scotland
If your fantasy is to develop a billion dollar company, why not create it out of dream?
That's what Nigel and Lesley Eccles have actually done as co-founders at FanDuel.
It's a storming success that's outgrown Edinburgh University. Alongside Skyscanner, the travel search site, it's the huge customer hope for the Scottish tech sector.
Yet few have actually heard of it near to home. All its clients are in the USA and Canada, and that's where they've been for the 6 years given that it started.
Online users play everyday and weekly fantasy sports, throughout American football, baseball, basketball and ice-hockey.
They can be in public leagues, or having fun with good friends, and pay stakes proportionate to the prizes.
The concept is to research players in your chosen league, using the wealth of information in US sports, developing up a team with the constrained budget plan you have actually been set. That research and option of team is what is considered to make this a game of ability.
Then the real players take to the field, and you score points depending on how well the genuine gamers do, when their efforts are awarded to your fantasy team.
FanDuel has sponsored collaborations with 13 expert basketball league teams and 16 American football teams, and is official partner of the National Basketball Association. So it's a brand that's recovering understood in the nation's sports stadiums and its sports sites.
Giveaways
There are reckoned to be more than 40 million gamers of dream sports online in North America. FanDuel leads the field in everyday plays. By last year, it had hit a million regular active users. Since last summer, the number of active users was up four-fold.
FanDuel plays in the big leagues
By.
Douglas Fraser
Business/economy editor, Scotland
If your fantasy is to develop a billion dollar company, why not create it out of dream?
That's what Nigel and Lesley Eccles have actually done as co-founders at FanDuel.
It's a storming success that's outgrown Edinburgh University. Alongside Skyscanner, the travel search site, it's the huge customer hope for the Scottish tech sector.
Yet few have actually heard of it near to home. All its clients are in the USA and Canada, and that's where they've been for the 6 years given that it started.
Online users play everyday and weekly fantasy sports, throughout American football, baseball, basketball and ice-hockey.
They can be in public leagues, or having fun with good friends, and pay stakes proportionate to the prizes.
The concept is to research players in your chosen league, using the wealth of information in US sports, developing up a team with the constrained budget plan you have actually been set. That research and option of team is what is considered to make this a game of ability.
Then the real players take to the field, and you score points depending on how well the genuine gamers do, when their efforts are awarded to your fantasy team.
FanDuel has sponsored collaborations with 13 expert basketball league teams and 16 American football teams, and is official partner of the National Basketball Association. So it's a brand that's recovering understood in the nation's sports stadiums and its sports sites.
Giveaways
There are reckoned to be more than 40 million gamers of dream sports online in North America. FanDuel leads the field in everyday plays. By last year, it had hit a million regular active users. Since last summer, the number of active users was up four-fold.