Once upon a time, there used to be ‘an app for that’ world. Now, it’s ‘oh you don’t have an app for that?’ economy. By the end of this year, the number of app downloads is reaching 211 billion and would be 254 billion by 2017. The annual worldwide mobile app revenue is projected to be $77 billion by 2017.

Most million and billion dollar industries have converted or switched to mobile. And one such industry that’s fast catching up is the fantasy sports industry. In fact, many players are planning fantasy sports app development first or conceiving a mobile app for fantasy sports as we speak.

Almost all kinds of fantasy sports today are available on mobile applications simultaneously and in some cases only on mobile phones. Fantasy sports mobile apps such as Rotowire Fantasy Football Draft Kit; CBS Sports’ Fantasy Sports Mobile; ESPN Fantasy Basketball; CBS Sports’ Fantasy Sports Mobile; NBA Jam; Fantasy Cricket; WCC fantasy ; Golf Channel; Golf Zing; NASCAR Mobile; Fox Sports Mobile are some of the well known mobile applications in the field. What’s interesting is stand-alone fantasy sports mobile apps that have no association with any league or sports channels are competing well with those under the umbrella of noted leagues or channels.

Fantasy sports ‘mobile first’ is here

The Millennial generation of fantasy sports players is compelling entrepreneurs to create fantasy sports app development before web applications. Surveys last year showed that people are spending 88% of their smartphone time using applications. And in the world of fantasy sports, the next-gen mobile users are inclined to download a sports application simply because that’s the norm with or without prior experience of playing fantasy sports. This has suddenly opened the fantasy sports market to a larger user base that’s waiting to get the thrill from playing some kind of sports on mobile application.
The number of mobile apps download worldwide as of 2016 is 102,062 Million and experts believe it has just got started. That’s because smartphones are now becoming a norm with increasing number of people switching to smartphones due to affordability and easy availability. The Mobility Report by Ericsson is saying that by 2020, globally there will be 6.1 billion smartphone users led by a huge growth in less mature markets.

Fantasy sports mobile market offers variety

One of the best things about fantasy sports app developers is the sheer variety of sports that can be catered under one single umbrella. Take for instance, Fox Sports mobile application offers a number of sports apart from football and basketball. In addition, fantasy sports alone has several variety of league games such as BPL, NBA, NFL, 20-20 cricket.

Fantasy sports app developers today have tremendous scope to experiment and create mobile applications that can thrill the players. Entrepreneurs looking for fantasy sports app developers must make the selection based on how passionate the former are for fantasy sports.