Randle and Nyland’s article discusses the various outlets fans use to get information on their favorite sports teams. It todays world, people can look directly on their smartphones for the latest news or score of any game. With the rise in popularity of fantasy sports, the media availability of sporting news has become even more crucial. Through fantasy sports, fans can become even more involved with their favorite sport by drafting their favorite players and keeping tabs on the entire league. The study explained in this article was done to show if there is a relation to the increased popularity of fantasy sports and the advancement in sports media communication and increase in sports media consumption.
The findings were: there was a moderate positive correlation between playing fantasy sports and watching sports or highlights, the more people pay attention to their fantasy sports the more they will watch sports highlights, the more a person participates in team sports the more time they will spend playing fantasy sports, and the more internet use the more time spent playing fantasy sport. The findings in this study say that fantasy sports is associated with all kinds of sports media like newspaper, tv, radio, internet, etc.
The article also says that participants in the study believe that playing fantasy sports is important to being a sports fan. Personally, I can’t speak about fantasy football because I have never played it and I suppose it would be different than what I know since that is more of a weekly game. I’ve only played fantasy hockey and I find that I check out the status of my team every single morning during the season to see who is playing that night. Fantasy sports definitely add interest in other players and other teams other than the Flyers and I think it’s made me a more knowledgeable fan of the game. I’m more inclined to check out the stats and histories of players I may have never heard of before as well as watch other team’s games and watch their highlights if I see a player on my team has had a particularly strong night.
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