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As per KPMG, the Indian online gaming sector revenue is already worth $43.8 billion and is expected to touch $118.8 billion by FY23, with a CAGR of 22.1 percent. The online Indian fantasy sports sector, is evolving at a CAGR rate of 32 percent, the report said, and its worth is likely to be $3.7 billion by 2024.

 

A plethora of online fantasy sports platforms has made their place in the market in the past few years. We have listed some of the key fantasy sports platforms such as Dream11, MyTeam11, My11 Circle, FanFight, 11Wickets, and many more.

 

Models of Fantasy Sports Games Including Fantasy Cricket

 

In the fantasy sports world, two types of models are offered to the users by these aforementioned fantasy sports platforms.

 

Free to play: In this model, fantasy users play free contests, which may have cash prizes or no cash prizes associated with this model.

 

Pay to play: In pay to play model, users pay a certain amount as an entry fee to participate in paid contests. Fantasy sports operators charge a certain amount as a service fee, generally 15-25 percent from the total pool winning amount.

 

An imperative facet in filling the gap between real sports and fantasy sports has been digital technology. The count of fantasy sports operators has been increasing. By leveraging cutting-edge digital technologies, operators are amplifying their fantasy sports product offerings and scaling real-time fan engagement levels.

 

For example, earlier Dream11 did a partnership with CleverTap whose cohort analysis feature helped Dream11 to get an in-depth understanding of how its users engage with the app. And now once again Dream11 acquires AI-Driven Fantasy Sports Startup FanDuniya.

 

Also, there are lots of advisory video platforms that have expanded on the YouTube platform overtime offering fantasy users fantasy gaming tips and their predictions on team creation.

 

Here, we would be talking about one such implementation of technology in online fantasy cricket.

 

The thriving fantasy sports market-led Bengaluru-based tech startup has launched a cricket manager platform SuperCric in the recent past to tap this growth opportunity. It is a cricket simulation platform that assists fantasy cricket users to make better decisions while creating their own cricket team.

 

This cricket simulator works with worldwide historical cricket match data. Such type of platform would add a thrilling element. Online fantasy cricket fans can now cross-check how each choice they make in the match affects the results of the match.

 

By testing choices made and computing possible outcomes via this AI-based tool, fantasy cricket players have a chance to improve their probability of winning bigger. With the help of such type of tool or feature, fantasy gamers can make wiser choices, and offer them the winning probability with a 90 percent accuracy rate.

 

Key features of AI-Driven Cricket Manager Tool

 

One of the pivotal features of SuperCric is that it assists fantasy cricket users to simulate a cricket game and its combinations in lots of many ways with the help of a wide array of settings and features. These include:

 

 Tournaments: Where online fantasy cricket users can play as their favorite team and even play the whole league with the same playing XI.

 

Tournament Rewards: This fascinating reward feature will give awards to the top teams, leading batsmen, top wicket-takers, highest sixes, most stumpings, and lots more.

 

Weekly Leaderboards: In this feature, all points are earned during a live league contribute towards the weekly leaderboard.

 

MSD Quotient: Well, every cricket fan is quite familiar with the name of this feature. Yes, named after MS Dhoni, this provides a fantasy user with an idea of the risk they are taking with every decision in the fantasy cricket platform.

 

Play-by-play Mode: This mode gives a real-time feeling to the users as if they are in a field where they require to plan and manage their resources smartly.

 

Virtual Cards: In this card system, three virtual cards are provided to every fantasy player who steps into the cricket tournament. With these cards, fantasy gamers can get a pitch report before the start of the match, multi-fold the aggression level of play when needed, and swap one player after the toss.

 

Decision Review (DR) Screen: With the DR screen feature, fantasy users get machine learning-driven insights into their game decisions at the end of the match, which assists them to come up with better decisions in the upcoming matches.

 

The tool is developed on the back of historical data. It unboxes the power of AI to match a player’s strong areas/weakness against a particular bowler. And this is not all, fantasy users can also see the bowling skill type. The AI-enabled cricket manager application also shows the current form of all players and constantly offers updates as the tool fetches more data.

 

Wrapping Up

The real money game (RMG) industry has seen a huge growth in terms of the number of technology providers that offer analytics services to fantasy users and gaming operators.

 

As we have discussed the AI-powered Cricket Manager application, if you are willing to enhance your online fantasy cricket platform, introducing a tool similar to SuperCric could increase the engagement level by adding another layer of excitement. Fantasy cricket users can create their own squad with a data-driven approach. Such an AI application could make your fantasy cricket platform enthralling.

 

Or if you have your own custom fantasy cricket app idea, share it with Appinop. We would be glad to convert your conceptual idea into a high-end fantasy cricket app. We have been delivering fantasy cricket app development projects to our esteemed clients with appealing design, robust and impeccable features.