How do you think your favorite athlete will do this season? Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?

OneSeason has created a stock market for athletic performance where you can actually trade shares of favorite players or teams. It operates in a similarly to the real stock market.

  • Use real money to acquire and trade virtual sports shares called SOI’s
  • Free market system driven by supply and demand
  • Values based on public perception
  • Realize gains and losses based on your skill trading

I imagine this could turn into a big thing with sports fans, but not so much with investors. Athletes tend to do unpredictable things such as get injured, arrested, retire unexpectedly, or just go into huge slumps. However, sports fans tend to know more about their players and teams than some investors know about their company’s.

Here’s what a player stock looks like: (I tried to look up a local player, but oddly enough no one is requesting any Chiefs related stock)

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[ via -TechCrunch ]

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