Here’s How The One Day Fantasy Sports Industry Hits $2.5bn By 2020


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While forecasts for online poker and casino revenue continue to be cut, one-day fantasy sports is on a torrid growth path that could push the industry past $2.5bn in total annual revenue by 2020.

That’s the bull case of projections from Adam Krejcik of Eilers Research:

Chart - DFS Revenue Projections

What has to go right for DFS

As with any bull case, there are a number of conditions to Eilers’ eye-popping projection, including:

Who will lead the market in 2020?

In all three cases, the story is broadly similar: FanDuel and DraftKings will continue their duopoly.

 

Market shareFanDuelDraftKingsOther
Bear case58%40%2%
Base case50%46%4%
Bull case48%46%5%

That’s an aggressive assumption, in that it requires many powerful players (ESPN, commercial casinos and the NFL come immediately to mind) to either sit on the sidelines for the next five years even as DFS continues to experience stratospheric growth or to partner with FanDuel / DraftKings.

Should one or more of those players enter on their own, they could easily fragment the market in a way that might inhibit growth.