After the pandemic breakout, the lockdown across the country has shifted the sports enthusiasts' perspective of seeking sports activity.
Now, sports is not only about playing on the ground or gully, it is now available on your phone screens. And now, 2022 has become the year of Fantasy Sports. Sports like fantasy cricket, fantasy football, kabaddi, etc, are entertaining players and along with that provide an opportunity to win huge money.
We have run our resources and done research to study and analyze the user interest in different fantasy sports. Let’s check out the results that we have found out from research about fantasy sports which are going to be very popular in 2022.
Here are the top 6 Fantasy Sports that will keep entertaining the sports fans in 2022:
Cricket, Football, and Kabaddi
Fantasy Cricket
Nothing and no other game can replace the craze of cricket among Indians, whether it's online or offline. In 2022 also, Fantasy Cricket is going to entertain sports fans. Interesting leagues like IPL makes it the most followed fantasy game in the country. IPL 2022 is on its way and sports fans are eagerly waiting to showcase their talent.
Fantasy Cricket is not that popular in the US.
Fantasy Kabaddi
Fantasy Kabaddi is the second most played fantasy sport in India. It is the domestic game of the nation and followed by most of the countrymen. The Pro Kabaddi League is going on and we can see sports fans participating in each match.
The sports will keep entertaining the fantasy users till the end of the year.
Fantasy Football
It is the most popular Fantasy sport in the United States with a user base of 45.9 million alone in the past year. Even 78% of the US Fantasy user base plays Fantasy football. However, fantasy football is not that popular across the world like the US, in India it is the second most played fantasy sport.
Due to its popularity, the game has become highly competitive. Platforms like Vision11 organized many small and big contests to provide numerous opportunities to the fans.
And with the number of leagues, Fantasy Football is going to be one of the most played fantasy sports in 2022 too.
The reason for the popularity of Fantasy sports is the types of leagues and attractive reward money.
Fantasy Baseball
39% of Fantasy Sports platform users invest their time in playing Fantasy baseball. Fantasy baseball was quite popular at the beginning of the Fantasy sports industry and was eventually overtaken by Fantasy football. The reason being this overtake is the frequency of gameplay. The occurrence of Fantasy football matches every week gives enough time to the fantasy users to do research and increase the chances of winning matches. Whereas, fantasy baseball demands to play matches every night to keep holding the position in the running league, which is hectic.
Baseball is not that popular in India and is rarely played by Indian fantasy users. But with its craze and old history in America; Fantasy Baseball will be the next popular game that is going to entertain sports fans in 2022.
Fantasy Basketball
Even after being followed by a huge number of sports fans, only 19% of fans play Fantasy basketball which is quite strange. The NBA claims that they are more popular than the MLB and have roughly 40 million more followers. The reason for such a low user base of Fantasy Basketball might be the reason for the number of games frequency in a season.
The focus and knowledge required to create a Fantasy Basketball team that might demotivate the sports to play the online basketball leagues. Indeed the game is very interesting to play and watch, participating in big leagues will give you enough time to create a potential team.
And this year, we are expecting more Fantasy Basketball online users than ever before. Platforms are like Vision11 covering all sorts of Basketball leagues to make the game more interesting.
Fantasy Hockey
The first fantasy hockey league was formed in 1976 which makes it one of the oldest fantasy sports games. The game has long-running leads and stats are updated every night in a typical pool. The game is not everyone's cup of tea and needs passionate hockey fans to play it on the Fantasy Sports platform.
I Hope, we will see new participants in fantasy hockey in 2022.
Conclusion
Fantasy Sports worked like huge support to all during a pandemic. Moreover, now sports enthusiasts have realised that fantasy sports are not only for entertainment, they can extract money out of the platform by using their knowledge and skills. 2022 is the year of Fantasy Sports platform users.