Fantasy sport is an electronic sport in which the competitor becomes coach of a virtual team based on the real world in which each one scales his team according to his best strategy, passing through his knowledge of the sport, the understanding of the market and the acquired skills.
Each virtual team will score according to the performance of athletes and teams in the real world, resulting in points that, added or subtracted, will make up the player's performance in the overall ranking.
Fantasy sport has attracted a legion of fans of electronic sports and in Brazil it is no different, even more so when it comes to one more element to stimulate the traditional national football.
The Brazilian Association of Fantasy Sport (ABFS) had access to the report "Fantasy Sports Market by Product, Platform and Geography - Forecast and Analysis 2023 - 2027", by TechNavio, a leading company in market research with global coverage, which analyzes the market status and global and regional trends for eSports.
The report points out that football is the preferred sport among fantasy sports players and its practice is directly encouraged by electronic games. Fantasy football sport contributed 38.97% to the overall market in 2022.
Fantasy sport football was the largest segment of the market in 2022 and will continue to be the largest segment in 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 6.07% between 2022 and 2027.
Fantasy football sport will be the third fastest growing segment in the overall market and will grow from USD 8.7 billion in 2022 to USD 11.6 billion in 2027. It will contribute 36.54% of the incremental growth in general market between 2022 and 2027.
Fantasy Sport market share in 2022:
Fantasy football sport will provide significant opportunities in the global fantasy sports market as it will make the most contribution to the growth in the overall market between 2022 and 2027.
In Brazil, the ABFS found that football is the sport with the highest participation of competitors. "Fantasy sport is not new in Brazil, but it has been developing and growing in recent years, especially among fans of traditional sports and Brazilian and international football," comments the president of the Association, Rafael Marcondes.
"The Brazilian Championship is, without a doubt, the greatest opportunity for the segment in Brazil and we are seeing more and more interaction between fantasy sport competitors and the teams that are chosen by them. modality and its peculiarities, including its legal contours in the country," completes Marcondes.
Fantasy sport is a booster of traditional sports, as fans can even get emotionally involved with the games, but in their virtual lineup they end up selecting those athletes who can perform better during the match, whether due to skill, performance, opponent, history. of the athlete or even analysis of the moment the athlete is facing.
The competitor's interaction with real athletes during the Brasileirão demonstrates the great incentive that this electronic sport can be and the benefits that traditional football can reap.
Source: GMB
