Facebook Soon Introducing Fantasy Sports, Predictive Games

Social media monster Facebook is dipping its toes into fantasize sports and prognostic games, revealing a rooms of offerings pertaining to pop culture, sports, and television system shows.

The number 1 spirited introduced by the troupe is Pick & Play Sports, launched inwards partnership with Whistle Sports. Participants accrue points for accurately predicting the winner of a important game, points scored by principal players, or match-specific events. Users put up earn incentive points past going on streaks and correctly predicting outcomes o'er multiple days.

In the upcoming months, we will innovate young games with TV shows ilk CBS’s Survivor and ABC’s The Bachelorette, sports leagues the likes of Major League Baseball and LaLiga Santander, and premier digital publishers like BuzzFeed,” said Book of the Prophet Daniel Fletcher, Facebook senior product manager, in a statement.

Facebook users can buoy make their own pubic and common soldier leagues, or simply control where they rank on a larger public leaderboard. The games are usable inwards the US and Canada on the Facebook app for iOS and Android.

Facebook, Betting Combination

Facebook doesn’t say if cash in or other prizes testament follow awarded to top side players. That indicates the Fantasy Games platform is potential to a greater extent around fun and user fundamental interaction on the social media political program than it is a potentiality precursor to Saint Mark Zuckerberg’s keep company wading into the humanity of betting.

Some gaming companies are dynamic in the prognostic sports space because it’s an efficacious way of life to obtain data and place new sports betting customers inward states permitting that activity. Users the likes of these offerings because free-to-play (F2P) games require no financial risk, spell many offer up cash or other compelling prizes to winners.

Popular examples of free-to-play prognosticative games with hard currency prizes include FOX Bet’s “Super 6” app, which features a slew of games spanning the NFL, college football, Major League Baseball, NASCAR and more. The upcoming NFL Sun Challenge on Sept. 12 has a top out appreciate of $1 billion for the user (s) that accurately promise the outcome of VI NFL games and the margins of victory in those contests.

Comcast’s NBC Sports has the Predictor app, powered past Aboriginal Australian gaming companion PointsBet. That political platform features free-to-play games with immediate payment prizes pertaining to the NBA, NFL, MLB, NASCAR, PGA Tour, and the English people Premier League. William Penn National Gaming’s Barstool Sportsbook has Jackpot Races, a hebdomadary NASCAR contest with a $25,000 top off prize. To win that cash, users most correctly predict the whirligig finish inwards v groups of drivers, as swell as the teetotum triad finishers inwards a particular proposition race.

Survivor, Bachelorette Games Coming

Facebook also plans to vagabond out prognosticative games for the MLB playoffs and Spain’s LaLiga Santander season, as fountainhead as TV shows, including The Bachelorette and Survivor.

Each week, fans will select a place of Castaways to follow on their Fantasy Survivor team and respond a series of questions around the upcoming episode. Fans testament and then incur points based on the events that spread in that week’s episode,” said Fletcher

Moving away from sports isn’t uncommon with free-to-play games. For example, FOX Bet before this year offered a competition involving The Masked Singer, and its weekly “Quiz Show” game features questions involving sports, financial markets, and soda pop culture.