I wrote a piece about Daily Fantasy Sports for the Irish Times this week, published Wednesday April 29th 2015. Spoke to a lot of people for this one. And, pleasingly, those nice editor people included a big photo of Statto.

With daily payouts DFS is a huge growth area in the US but can it be expected to take hold of Europe in the same way considering we have quick, easy access to online sports betting? Not that I’m saying Daily Fantasy Sports is some sort of sports gambling trojan horse in the US. Heaven forbid.

It’s over 20 years since Fantasy Football League arrived on our television screens.Frank Skinner and David Baddiel on the sofa with Statto (Angus Loughran) hovering at the kitchen counter in a dressing gown. Two decades hence, fantasy sport is big business. But can it conquer Europe?

There were over 40 million fantasy sports participants in the US in 2014, with Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) the fastest-growing sector. Instead of choosing players and managing that team over an entire season DFS games are compressed into considerably shorter engagement times – with big money to be won.

In the US there are two main DFS players, Fanduel and DraftKings…

Read More: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/fantasy-sport-an-increasingly-real-business-success-1.2192295