Virtual Sports at Crypto Sportsbooks Explained

Virtual sports sit in the sportsbook menu, use the vocabulary of sport, and have nothing to do with sport. They are software simulations, generated on a loop, with results decided by a random number generator the moment each event begins.

That is not a criticism of the format. It is the single most important thing to understand before betting on one, and it is routinely obscured by the fact that they look like football matches.

Virtual Sports Are Not Esports

Start here, because these two categories are confused constantly and they could hardly be more different.

Esports are real competitions between human players. A Counter-Strike match involves actual teams with actual form, roster changes, and preparation. Studying them can inform a bet in the same way studying football can.

Virtual sports are computer-generated events with no human participants. An animated football match runs for a few minutes, produces a scoreline, and that scoreline is determined by software and not by anything that happened on screen.

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