http://www.oneseason.com/

OneSeason.com is a relatively new site that describes itself as “a virtual sports trading platform with social features and content for sports fans. The system provides sports enthusiasts with a way to compete, interact and have a vested interest in their passion(1).”¹ Run by E-Global Sports Network, inc. OneSeason.com allows users to create accounts, and pay real money to participate in a market trading in sports players. Users are offered a ten dollar incentive to start an account, but can then begin buying, selling, and trading athletes in real time. The market is open from 9am to 12am and athletes are modeled as IPOs, users trade in shares just like a real market. There is also news page with two side-by-side columns; one column displays sports news, one column displays news on OneSeason.com’s sports market. The site employs an entirely open market, with prices determined by supply and demand, and new sports players are being made public every week.

This is a very interesting form of a market. The players themselves have no inherent value (they are assigned by OneSeason based on demand when players go public) yet their worth in OneSeason and therefore the number of SOIs (Synthetic Ownership Interests, OneSeason’s version of a stock share) are determined by the users based on any fact they wish, such as performance on and off-court, net worth, salary, etc. This site presents an interesting opportunity as a betting strategy. Player performance is certainly a large factor in their value, however because of the wide scope in which players may be valued, using this market as a strategy for betting may be hazardous, but not implausible.

1http://www.oneseason.com/page/about_us/