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RealTime Fantasy Sports operates RTSports, an online platform for season-long fantasy leagues, best ball, and daily fantasy contests.
Also known as RealTime Fantasy Sports · RealTime Fantasy Sports, Inc · RTSports
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026RealTime Fantasy Sports, Inc. operates RTSports (rtsports.com), an online fantasy sports platform offering season-long money leagues, best ball formats, daily fantasy sports (DFS), and commissioner-run private leagues across football, baseball, and basketball. Season-long football offerings include head-to-head points and PPR/SuperFlex leagues, auction and trading leagues, dynasty/keeper leagues with rookie and free-agent drafts, survivor-style elimination leagues, four-team touchdown-only and home-run formats, and customizable "design your own" leagues with 8-14 teams and rosters ranging from 16 to 40 players. Baseball products include 5x5 rotisserie leagues (mixed, AL-only, NL-only), half-season leagues running from Opening Day to the All-Star break, head-to-head points leagues, and best ball formats; basketball products focus on NBA-playoff draft and salary-style contests.
The platform hosts branded tournaments with posted prize pools, including the Fantasy Life Championship (a $500,000 overall grand prize with $1,600 of prizes per league), Best Ball Championship formats with $25,000 grand prizes, a "Beat Howard Bender" best ball contest with a $10,000 grand prize, and multi-league tournaments with expanded playoffs for the 2025 season. Entry fees span roughly $10 to $10,000 per team depending on format, with multi-team entry discounts. A DFS Pick'em product lets users select "more" or "less" on two to six player stat projections across multiple sports and categories for payouts advertised up to 100x the entry, alongside salary-cap and draft-style DFS contests in head-to-head, 50/50, and GPP formats.
Supporting features include online and slow drafts with configurable clocks, SMS and email draft alerts, overnight draft pause, FAAB waivers, live scoring, trading, and lineup changes up to kickoff. Some baseball contests are branded as official FantasyGuru leagues and referenced on Elite Sports SiriusXM channel 87.
Business model
The platform is consumer-facing and paid-entry: users buy into leagues and tournaments at published per-team prices (roughly $10 to $10,000), with advertised league prizes and overall grand prizes distributed to top finishers. Multi-team purchase discounts (for example, three championship teams for $850 instead of $900, or three teams for $75) are offered. A free mobile app supports the paid platform rather than being monetized directly.
Traction
The iOS app holds a 4.3 rating from approximately 1,300 ratings on the US App Store. Contest capacity limits published on the site indicate scale of individual tournaments, such as a best ball championship capped at the first 1,000 entries, a 144-team limit on one tournament, and 180-team classic events.
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Technology
RTSports runs a web platform plus a free iOS app (RTSports) published by RealTime Fantasy Sports, Inc. The app supports lineup submission, live scoring, drafting, push notifications, waiver claims, trades, message boards, player notes, league scoreboards and standings, NFL/MLB/NBA scores and box scores, and management of multiple teams from a single account, with web access for remaining league features. The web platform provides mobile-optimized drafts, automated league scheduling tools for commissioners, FAAB waiver processing, and live rotisserie and points scoring.
Go-to-market
Direct sign-up through the rtsports.com website and the free iOS app, with distribution support from fantasy-media tie-ins including the Fantasy Life Championship branding, official FantasyGuru leagues, a contest branded around analyst Howard Bender, and promotion on Elite Sports SiriusXM channel 87.
Recreational and high-stakes fantasy sports players in football, baseball, and basketball, including league commissioners running private leagues and entrants in paid tournaments ranging from $10 casual best ball to $10,000 high-buy-in leagues.
Risks & controversies
App Store reviews dated 2018 through 2022 criticize the mobile app and mobile site, citing drafting failures on smartphones, difficulty performing add/drop and waiver moves, scrolling and navigation problems, missing projected points in certain views, absence of dark mode, and dissatisfaction with the automated league scheduler.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- Fantasy Football Baseball Basketball and DFS | RealTime Fantasy Sportsrtsports.com · web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does RealTime do?
- RealTime Fantasy Sports operates RTSports, an online platform for season-long fantasy leagues, best ball, and daily fantasy contests.
- Who are RealTime's investors?
- RealTime's investors include MPG Fund.