Wire Industries, the technology and media company behind sports betting marketplace WagerWire, has announced the expansion of its FantasyWire subdivision.
FantasyWire recently garnered recognition by winning awards from the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association (FSGA) for “Best Product Experience” and “Best Innovation”.
The award for Product Experience was attributed to the FantasyWire Pickem trading marketplace, which launched in partnership with RealTime Fantasy Sports in 2024 and broke ground as the first-ever secondary marketplace for users to buy and sell DFS (daily fantasy sports) Pickem entries.
Meanwhile, the Best Innovation win acknowledged FantasyWire’s pricing engine, which powers the dynamic marketplace by allowing players to evaluate a live suggested sales price and deal score on any lineup they wish to sell or buy.
The latest release introduces DFS Pools to the secondary marketplace for the first time. The DFS Pool marketplace will operate similarly to the Pickem marketplace. After a player builds a lineup and joins a particular pool, they will be able to sell a portion, or the entirety of the entry, within the marketplace directly embedded into the RealTime Sports platform.
“Our users fell in love with the Pickem marketplace and took to it right away. The results were astounding, so creating a new user experience to increase the action and engagement for our users was a no-brainer,” said Tim Jensen, COO of RT Sports.
“There is no other fantasy platform on the planet that allows you to turn your unique entries, both Pickem and pool-based, into an asset by leveraging the real-time value of that entry. RealTime Sports has been leading the way in terms of fantasy sports innovation since 1995, and our ultra-successful partnership with WagerWire solidifies that we’re still the market leader in game-play, winnings, and innovation.”
The FantasyWire experience is powered by the same pricing engine from Pickem, but now enhanced to accommodate the complexities of a DFS Pool. The platform’s dynamic suggested pricing and deal scores empower users with unparalleled insights, the company says, ensuring players can maximize returns on their assets.
The models are built on thousands of real-time simulations, which are constantly run both before the games and during the games as scores are changing, to calculate where entries will finish against their competitors within a specific pool.
Based on these simulations, WagerWire’s data science team models the calculated probability, as well as a live and real-time dollar value for an entry, to help buyers and sellers price and set the market accordingly.
“One of the main missions behind the creation and founding of WagerWire is to provide liquidity and value to every form of gaming asset, from betting tickets, to Pickems, to contests. And DFS pools were the next asset class to be utilized,” said Zach Doctor, CEO of WagerWire. Doctor was recently elected to the FSGA Board of Directors.
“Our industry recognition is proof that our products and offerings are truly cutting edge, reshaping the fantasy user experience and changing the expectations around the fantasy market forever.”
To use RealTime Fantasy Sports DFS Pools, please visit: https://rtsports.com/dfs.
Original article: https://www.yogonet.com/international/news/2025/03/28/99601-wagerwire-expands-fantasy-offering-with-launch-of-firstever-dfs-pool-marketplace
