Daily fantasy sportsbook has by no means actually ventured critically into the realm of tennis. Till now.
DraftKings sportsbook introduced that it could offer daily fantasy tennis for this yr’s Wimbledon, which will get underway with the principle draw on Monday.
“We’ve got all the time prioritized providing probably the most compelling video games throughout the widest array of sportsbook,” stated Mark Nerenberg, DraftKings’ Vice President of Sport Operations and Improvement. “By increasing into tennis, now we have a possibility to supply a brand new and fascinating expertise for our present buyer base whereas broadening our attain to draw tennis followers, globally. Over 25 million folks within the U.S. alone tuned into watch Wimbledon final yr, and we need to be part of that.”
Contests will spawn within the DraftKings foyer later in the present day.
Tennis, a brand new frontier
Tennis has been a troublesome nut to crack for daily fantasy firms due to the character of tournaments. A significant tennis event lasts two weeks, and gamers advance in a knockout style.
However with the evolution of DFS has come an answer: contests based mostly on a single day or spherical of tennis play. The mannequin is already in place for golf, the place DFS firms supply single-round daily fantasy golf contests. (Golf tournaments normally consist of 4 rounds.)
DraftKings and FanDuel have already boiled down DFS in different sportsbook to single video games. Now you can enter DFS contests based mostly on single NFL, NBA or Main League Baseball video games, amongst different sportsbook.
FanDuel doesn’t supply tennis, at the moment.
DraftKings has persistently gone into area of interest verticals, together with esports (League of Legends) and the Canadian Soccer League, for instance. However tennis has the possibility to be a reasonably main providing, if the format catches on.
How fantasy tennis works
Tennis works very like different daily fantasy sportsbook, the place you choose a roster of gamers (six) beneath a wage cap. Each participant has a man-made “wage” connected; the perfect gamers will normally have the best salaries. Each males’s and girls’s gamers can be found for choice.
Tennis is a sport crammed with statistics, and DraftKings is utilizing these to create its contests. There’s a scoring bonus for girls’s matches, that are the perfect of three units, whereas males’s matches can final 5 units.
There are additionally a wide range of bonuses obtainable for sure participant achievements, like profitable a match in straight units.