The world of online gaming has seen a massive amount of growth over the past few years. From the number of participants to the number of players in the market running the fantasy sports leagues. With such a level of competition, sports gaming operators need every kind of advantage to stand out in the eyes of fantasy sports players.
This is where some fantasy sports operators are winning the race by using Sports APIs to fuel their growth in the market. APIs for data sports have emerged as the backbone of the fantasy gaming industry. Sports Feed APIs help Fantasy sports run in an efficient and fast manner and with this blog you will learn how to leverage Sports APIs to have the best fantasy sports app.
If you are thinking about starting your own app, you must already know what is fantasy sports. You can skip to the next part but for those who have only a vague idea about fantasy sports read on.
Fantasy sports are online games that would involve predictions. To participate, players would need to create their own virtual team from a list of proxy sports players. Based on the performance of the players in real-time matches their proxies would fetch fantasy points. And simply the one with the most fantasy points in the competition would win. Now given the popularity of fantasy sports, players have multiple choices when it comes to choosing the app. As an operator, you need to have a thorough understanding of what customers need and provide that to beat the competition.
As per the fantasy sports trade association in India alone 18 crore people know about Fantasy sports and enjoy taking part in it. With such a big market there come a lot of opportunities as well, and you can too cash in on the craze and increase your revenue over time.
Coming on to the next topic, sports API! What is it? How is it beneficial for the operators?
Sports API is essentially an interface that connects two applications so that transfer of sports-related data like live scores, player stats, team stats, match details, and other such detailed information can take place at a faster rate. Some sports data providers will also give you access to customized plans which will further make things easier. You can even easily expand your business offerings as well with access to different types of formats. The aim is to cut down the time taken to integrate and keep interference to the minimum.
Now that the basic two terms are clear, how can you get started with the fantasy sports business?
Sports API makes it easy for you to run your business, first, you need to decide what sports categories would you be offering. Please note that you need to exercise caution in this area as well. You need to observe the behavior of the audience and do thorough research on which sports would have a maximum reach, and which sports have the most sports loyalty which would in turn make it easier to pitch fantasy sports to them and maximize return.
Once the sports categories are locked in, you can start searching for a reliable sports data provider that can give you the required API for sports scores. There is a number of options for sports data providers thus selecting the right one is all the more difficult.
Data is one of the most basic offerings of any fantasy game thus you need to secure a reliable and trustworthy source of the data provider. Further, it could be a costly affair to switch as well later in the future therefore a well-researched-based selection would reap future benefits and would save you money in the long term.
Now, there are a few attributes that sports data providers need to meet:
Firstly, we have a Comprehensive Sports Catalogue, taking the future into account select the sports data provider that has a vast sports catalog which would essentially make expansion easy for you later down the line.
The second is accuracy. The degree of quality of data you offer would vastly affect your business, low data quality could even hurt your credibility in the market and cost you your clients’ trust which is hard to re-earn.
Third, Live data. Since fantasy sports are directly dependent on live data, you need to test the Sports API beforehand to check the rate of latency. For a successful fantasy sports app, you need to deliver quick and reliable data to the end users while elevating their experience.
Last, support and integration service, the sports live scores API needs to integrate into the system quickly and it needs to be easy, many providers even offer open documentation to make this step easy for you. Also, their support service needs to have a fast turnaround time so that any technical issue should not affect the day-to-day business operations.
The list above is not exhaustive there are a lot of other pointers, like affordability what other add-on services are they offering, and so on. This is where Data Sports Group comes in we offer the best sports data from a wide range of international, and Domestic competitions. With 70 sports offerings, we have the widest coverage you can get at a budget-friendly rate and give your fantasy sports app rich in quality data it needs.
