Daily Fantasy Skill Inequality

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There’s a reason why we have to remind the average daily fantasy player not to “quit your day job,” and that’s because of the imbalance of winners in the established daily fantasy sports market. In today’s established DFS markets, 92% of the total prizes are won by only 1.5% of its players. Pro DFS players spend hours researching stats and practicing in order to compete and make money. However, most of the average players on these platforms don’t have the necessary time or resources to compete with the pros, leaving them at a disadvantage. RankingBall believes that everyone should have the same opportunities to have fun playing daily fantasy and chances to win, instead of wasting your time and money.

Just like matchmaking for online video games, one of the first steps that RankingBall will take is setting up skill levels within its platform. RankingBall will keep track of each player’s performance on the platform, like the number of contests entered and won, and use this data appropriately match them up with players of the same skill level. Coming down to that newcomers will play with newcomers, average players will play with average players, and experienced players will play with experienced players.

While skill is still a factor when playing on, it’s RankingBall’s gameplay that sets it apart from the rest. Yes, there are elements in RankingBall that would be familiar to veterans of Fantasy Sports and DFS like drafting players and setting a lineup, but that’s where the comparisons end.

Here’s how RankingBall is different and tries to even the playing field. Contests on RankingBall are centered around a single live event. This means that players who enter the contest are all offered the same players on the two respected teams playing. There’s no salary cap rule in RankingBall, giving users the freedom to choose any player they like, as long as it’s one from each team, to fill up their roster. Finally there is the Bingo element itself. Instead of numbers being called, real game events like hits, touchdowns, 3-pointers, and goals are automatically daubed on the Bingo card that the users created themselves. Those big-time plays that happen in a real game, now have more significance to the points you can earn.

Sports and Esports fans can now enjoy a more fun way to play and watch live sporting events while using RankingBall. Users become more informed and stimulated due to RankigBall’s real-time stats and instant gameplay feedback.