The Future of Fantasy Football is — NFTs
Fantasy sports have melded with NFTs and the future will forever be changed.
This new industry of “Fantasy NFT” play will not only start to carve out its own niche, but will become dominant within fantasy sports within 5 years.
Not into NFTs? Not into fantasy sports? Read on. Because what NFTs are doing to fantasy sports, they will inevitably do to something in your life in the near future (see below for an NFT giveaway).
2021 saw the first serious attempt at creating and running fantasy leagues (football) within the NFT realm. Keep in mind these NFT projects are all pioneers and true trailblazers and thus had initial pains trying to program all intended functionality.
As someone with decades of fantasy sports experience and nearly two years of experience in the NFT space, I was excited to participate in The Owners Club (ToC) and NFTdraft.io — arguably the two biggest and best NFT fantasy projects available.
ToC and NFTdraft.io are distinct from each other in their core playability and scoring. Additionally, while both ToC and NFTdraft.io stage no cost tournaments, NFTdraft.io has paid tournaments as well (cheap entry point via the cryptocurrency WAX token). However they share the same foundation.
Essentially you buy packs (or singles on the secondary market) with multiple NFTs of teams and positions. You then assemble your team(s) from the NFTs you own and enter those teams in tournaments within each respective ecosystem.
They then correlate to real players on game day (because neither NFTdraft.io nor ToC have licensing and trademark agreements with the NFL and NFLPA). When the player does well, you get points. From here it follows a mostly traditional fantasy scoring system.
Though I enjoy both NFT fantasy options, my heart lies with NFTdraft.io. Want to see what I mean? Join their Discord community here and you will know why.
Immediately upon joining this community you will feel you are an insider, not an outsider. The community is engaging, helpful, and insightful.
If you are like me, you pour yourself into a fantasy sports league. Studying the league until you reach an understanding of the project in the overall scheme of things within the fantasy sports world (and in this case the NFT world as well). A type of coping mechanism I know, but also providing a calming influence when NFT projects become painful or crazy or simply don’t work.
In 2021, NFTdraft.io allowed owners to enter a maximum of 50 teams per tournament and they held three tournaments per week (all of this is subject to change for next season). I enjoy NFTdraft.io to such a degree that I entered 40–50 teams on a weekly basis.
To field this many teams required much time, both strategizing and entering the teams into their system. Unfortunately the mechanics around team building were clunky and time consuming. Since the conclusion of the 2021 season, NFTdraft.io has signed a development team with excellent credentials. Expect a significant improvement to the user experience for the 2022 season.
However, just know that every technical issue that is yet to be fixed presents an opportunity for you to benefit before the system operates without glitches. Chaos (even a little) presents opportunity. For example, taking advantage of hurt players as they are announced during the week and summitting their replacement right away can assure a cheaper cost to play them, thus allowing you to stack more superstars.
Now why did I enter 40–50 teams a week? Well, part of it is my love of football and my love of fantasy competition. But another BIG part of it was the payout. NFTdraft.io would award WAX tokens each tournament to a set number of finishers — usually the top 30–50 entries.
This payout is phenomenal, it’s possible to actually make money. Lots of it.
During 2021 I averaged over 300 in weekly WAX token prize earnings. Having only missed one week during the 2021 NFL season, this translated into over 5,000 worth of WAX tokens for the entire season. The WAX token varies constantly against the U.S. dollar but at the time of this writing, 5,000 WAX was equivalent to about $1,700.
5000 WAX was my earnings from just weekly winnings. But what of my investment — the packs purchased directly from NFTdraft.io as well as my purchases on the secondary market at Atomic Hub?
Initially, I bought $700 in packs, then another $300 in secondary market purchases throughout the season for a $1000 cost outlay.
Within those packs purchased was a #3 mint pack I subsequently traded for more packs. Then I sold a number of my rarest NFTs on Atomic Hub, grossing roughly $2,100. All told, my estimated net profit (selling on Atomic and winning each week) was $2,700. I still hold over 2,500 NFTs from the project including some sweet rares, super-stars, and single digit mint #s.
Please realize these results are NOT indicative of the average person’s experience. It is not.
I am good at fantasy football, having won multiple tournaments overall and placing in the Top 10 over 21 times. The above winnings are NOT normal but rather illustrates my personal journey.
With that said, this NFT project has a TON of potential to earn winnings for owners. My advice is fourfold:
- Visit NFTdraft.io’s website here to get a feel for the experience
- Visit NFTdraft.io’s Discord here and engage with an incredibly helpful community (It’s okay if you are new to fantasy sports, NFTs, or both. And come find me as user Hawkwind — I have gained so much from this community and love to give back, just know that I brag a lot. Especially when I win as much as I did this past season)
- Buy NFTs on Atomic Hub cheap during the current fantasy off-season — these cards are playable next year and are at an all time low (As a bonus all Season 1 cards, which is everything produced thus far and currently for sale, never degrade in points like subsequent years will. See their website or ask in their Discord for more understanding of this awesome statement)
- Start playing this September but start strategizing and accumulating NFTs NOW
I am involved in well over 20 NFT projects and not one of them offers a greater combination of prize earnings and entertainment than NFTDraft.io.
And how do I stay up to date on over 20 NFT projects? By belonging to the community I helped create, RadishNFT, a community built on sharing NFT knowledge and opportunity.
If you would like to know even more about NFTdraft.io, RadishNFT will be hosting a live Discord talk on Thursday 24 February 2022 at 2100 EST which will include NFT giveaways.
To hear the live talk which will include a Q&A at the end, join our Discord community here.
To help you start your NFTdraft.io journey, we will randomly select at least 20 new members to the RadishNFT community to receive a free NFTdraft.io player
To qualify for the giveaway (and they wont be the crappy ones but from my personal collection), simply do the following:
- Join the RadishNFT Discord community here
- Go to channel #giveaways
- Click on the Touchdown emoji
- Remain in the RadishNFT community until the random draw which will occur on 3 March 2022 EST.
That’s it!
If you are one of our lucky community members randomly selected for a prize, you will have to provide your WAX wallet address (and create one if you haven’t previously done so, but don’t worry, it’s not hard and we will walk you through it!).
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Thank you.
- The Oracle at RadishNFT
Disclaimer: We are not financial advisors and the information here is not financial advice.
