Are Fantasy Sports Considered a "SKILL GAME"

Fantasy sport is “legitimate” to be known purely as “Skill game” as to win the game a person has to use its analytical mind, predication skills and make their strategy accordingly to choose their 11 member team which can make them win points and consequently prizes in the real world.

These are only skills of an individual which helps them keep track of their team members' performance like average game score, strike rate, injury, etc.

STUDIES:

Even we have proof from an MIT study where researchers have submitted their studies saying that fantasy sports games reward "skill” rather than “luck”. They've reached this conclusion after analyzing thousands of win/loss records of fantasy players over several seasons.

LEGAL ASPECT:

In India, the supreme court after going through a series of case studies has considered the term “game of skill” for fantasy sports. One such website, which I found was fair and non-biased to its players, is king11. Although one needs to be pretty wary of which platform they choose to go forward with, which is why amongst others my only trusted source is this only. Their legality die-hard and they are true to their policy.

As in India, where cricket is considered religion and is enjoyed by a population of over 1 billion people and with growing industry projections and getting legal recognization along with Internet penetration at an encouraging $300mn and online gaming at $200mn by 2010, Fantasy Cricket in the country has great potential. Sites that cater to the daily fantasy cricket user are popping up daily.

So if you are cricket or a football fan and wish to earn money using your personal skills of analysis and predication join an online league platform.

LUCK FACTOR:

In a different aspect LUCK might be considered as playing significant a role in these games, for example, Tracking stats of real players and what if they meet real injuries, they may perform this season/ daily match and they may not. There are just too many variables to fully track which can be categorize under luck. And many stats can be there which can be said as luck otherwise the only things that matter most is your ability where you put all together a virtual team of real-world players where you have to line up the stats and if they win you and your team earn points etc at the end of the league or season the one who scored highest gets to win the huge prizes.

 Also read: Why people play fantasy sports

So we can definitely say its a skill-based game since you need to have a certain aptitude relating to the fantasy sports you are keen on and in being able to correlate the performance of the real players, their performance, etc. To the fantasy team. You are basically playing a game of statistics; using regression analysis and extrapolation to find the best possible permutation of players that can bring about the highest probability of victory for the team.