In the final of IPL 2025, only 22 players will play on the field today, but 11 crore people will bet on fantasy game apps. People who are dreaming of becoming a millionaire by forming a team for 49 rupees are less than 0.000008%.
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What is the whole story behind the fantasy games, who is becoming a millionaire from your 49 rupees and who benefits the most; Full story in Bhaskar Expluser…
Fantasy Games is the most famous in the category of ‘skill based’ online game in India. In this, one has to take part in a contest by giving entry fee. If your team wins, you get the amount of prize. According to the Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports (FIFS), around 22.5 million people in India use fantasy sports apps, but 85% of Indian cricket’s real games only invest.
How is the fantasy cricket team earn?
- On apps like Dream 11 and MPL, users choose 11 of the players of both teams who play in real cricket matches and form a fantasy team of them.
- If you want to join your team, then there is an entry fee. Most of the apps are played the most with entry fee of Rs 49.
- On the basis of your fantasy team players perform in the real match, the user’s team gets points in the app on the same basis.
- One of the teams of such crores of users who get the most points can get the amount of prize.
A big question is whether a prize of crores of rupees can be won by giving an entry fee of just a few rupees.
Is it difficult to win crores of rupees by spending 49 rupees or impossible?
Suppose a user wants to form a best fantasy team for the final match of IPL. In such a situation, he will have to choose 11 players of both teams and 11 out of 10 impact players, that is, a total of 32 players, the condition is that only 7 players can be selected from a team.
HOD Rajiv Jha of Maths Department of Elcon International School in Delhi says-
- If you apply the rules of probability of maths, out of a total of 32 players, about 11.1 crore teams will be formed.
- These also have to choose the captain and the vice-captains, which can have 110 methods. In such a situation, a total of 1221 crore unique teams can be formed.
- One of these teams will be such that the players will perform best, the possibility of winning the top prize of this team is 0.000008%.
It is also impossible for a single user to form so many teams, because after the last 11 players of both teams are declared, only 20 to 25 minutes to form the team, while it may take years to make crores of teams manually.
The condition of platforms like Dream 11 is also that only a user can form a maximum of 20 teams for a contest with an entry fee of Rs 49. That is, by making more and more teams, a user will be able to reach close to victory, this is just an illusion.
The possibility of victory is so low, then why do Indians loot crores of rupees every day?
Seeing a few people who win on the fantasy app, they are publicized on a large scale, user starts investing money in the hope of winning. For example, Rajkumar of Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh won a fantasy team during the IPL in 2024 and won a prize of 3 crores.
The Dream-11 team called him to Mumbai for a video shoot. When they did not go, the team came to Hardoi and shot them. Now thousands of people of his seen area started investing money on the fantasy app.
Sports Journalist Siddhanta Ane says, ‘Real Money Games have been designed in such a way that the hope of victory attracts people. The greed to get money quickly is the greatest strength of these games.
According to KPMG report, about 40% of people with annual income of less than Rs 3 lakh play fantasy sports 5 or more times a week. At the same time, only 12% of people with annual income of more than 10 lakh rupees play fantasy sports.
Dr. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Professor of Psychology at Bangalore’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), says, ‘Many users initially connect with real money gaming platforms due to curiosity and curiosity, but gradually they are trapped in’ Gamblers Faisi ‘. They hope that you will win after losing continuously.
According to Dr. Manoj,
Often people first see someone else winning, then start investing themselves due to their financial need or greed. They feel that they will change their luck, but despite the loss they keep on investing more money.
Everyday earnings from the wages of the 16 -year -old Prateik’s father’s father of Madhya Pradesh are around 200 rupees. After watching the add of the fantasy app, Prateek started making an account with the father’s ID and started investing on every match. Now he makes several teams on the app and loses 300 to 400 rupees daily. Prateek’s mother works as a laborer, Prateek takes money from them.
Many times people also lose a large amount on fantasy cricket. In March 2025, a 38 -year -old man in Bihar allegedly committed suicide after losing Rs 2 crore in fantasy cricket. According to the suicide note received from the spot, he was addicted to investing in fantasy cricket during Kovid.
According to a media report in May 2025, 35 -year -old farmer Surya Pratap Singh in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh has played about 19,500 games of Ludo and Fantasy cricket on the gaming app. Of these, he often bets more than thousand rupees.
Surya Pratap lost 1.5 lakh rupees in a single day. Surya Pratap says, ‘I need two to three thousand rupees daily to live, I know I will not win, but I can’t stop now.’
Who is earning crores from your 49 rupees?
Suppose 10 people put 50-50 rupees in a contest. If a person wins this contest, then his gross winning was 500 rupees, but he gets very little amount from it. Because out of these 500 rupees, the government and gaming company also take their share.
Part of the Government: 28% of 500 GST i.e. 140 rupees. Now the remaining 360 rupees.
Part of Gaming Company: The gaming company takes 20% of this 360 rupees i.e. 72 rupees. The remaining Rs 288 is called a net winning amount.
Government’s tax deduction: The government deducts 30% TDS at this Rs 288. Now only 201.6 is left, which the winning users get. Keep in mind, in this, the user has applied 50 rupees in all handirs. Real money won Rs 151.
That is, the government is the biggest benefit in fantasy games, followed by companies of fantasy games and most deficit users.
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