Games of Skill and Fantasy Sports in the United States of America The principal federal statute that deals with online fantasy sports in the U.S. is the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, 2006 (“UIGEA 2006”) which was enacted to combat internet gambling. The UICEA 2006 specifically exempts from its purview any fantasy sports games that “have an outcome that reflects the relative knowledge of the participants, or their skill at physical reaction or physical manipulation (but not chance), and, has an outcome that is determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of sporting