{"id":1068,"date":"2007-09-12T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/09\/okay_so_how_about_a_fantasy_or\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:36:36","slug":"okay_so_how_about_a_fantasy_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/okay_so_how_about_a_fantasy_or.php","title":{"rendered":"Okay, so how about a &#8216;fantasy orchestra&#8217; league?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public radio&#8217;s &#8221;Marketplace&#8221; ran <a href=\n\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2007\/09\/06\/fantasy_football\/\">a quick segment last week<\/a> on the rise and wealth of &#8221;fantasy football&#8221; leagues. These are formalized networks of fans who create their own fictional teams, and analyze the stats of their real-world players to determine the winners and losers.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual leagues make real money, drawing membership dues, internet subscriptions, and other service fees from 15 to 30 million fans (there&#8217;s even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsta.org\/\">a real professional association for the fantasy sports industry<\/a>, for goodness sake). And, of course, the professional teams love the energy, the attention, and the obsession with the game that such leagues attract and advance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a form of fandom now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/13936\">being studied in academia<\/a>, as well. Researchers at UW-Madison are exploring how such leagues convey knowledge and insight about the game, and how educators might take advantage of that type of learning.<\/p>\n<p>How can arts managers ride the wave? I haven&#8217;t figured it out yet. Anyone out there have an idea or an example of engaging arts enthusiasts in a similar fantasy pursuit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public radio&#8217;s &#8221;Marketplace&#8221; ran a quick segment last week on the rise and wealth of &#8221;fantasy football&#8221; leagues. These are formalized networks of fans who create their own fictional teams, and analyze the stats of their real-world players to determine the winners and losers. The virtual leagues make real money, drawing membership dues, internet subscriptions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}