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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of assets, including but not limited to property plant and equipment, intangible assets and equity in securities of subsidiaries or equity method investee.

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Revenue from multiple-deliverable arrangements that include licensing fees and maintenance revenue. Licensing revenue is consideration received from another party for the right to use, but not own, certain of the entity's intangible assets. Licensing arrangements include, but are not limited to, rights to use a patent, copyright, technology, manufacturing process, software or trademark. Licensing fees are generally, but not always, fixed as to amount and not dependent upon the revenue generated by the licensing party. An entity may receive licensing fees for licenses that also generate royalty payments to the entity. Maintenance revenue is derived from maintenance services provided under contracts or arrangements with clients. Services may include the maintenance of software, plant and equipment, and facilities.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Organization (Details Textual) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands			1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 08, 2015	Sep. 03, 2015	Aug. 28, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Organization [Line Items]
Loss on sale of assets				$ (144)
Terminated asset purchase agreement, description		The RO Agreement provided for the sale of the DraftDay.com Business to RO for a purchase price of (i) cash equal to the sum of (a) $4,000 and (b) $10 per day for the period starting July 15, 2015 and ending on the closing date and (ii) a three-year warrant to purchase 500,000 shares of RO Common stock at an exercise price of $1.00, a three-year warrant to purchase 500,000 shares of RO Common stock at an exercise price of $1.33, and a three-year warrant to purchase 500,000 shares of RO Common stock at an exercise price of $1.66.
Description of asset purchase agreement	In exchange for the acquisition of DraftDay.com, Viggle paid MGT Sports the following: (a) 1,269,342 shares of Viggle's common stock, since renamed Draftday Fantasy Sports, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDAY), (b) a promissory note in the amount of $234 paid on September 29, 2015, (c) a promissory note in the amount of $1,875 due March 8, 2016, and (d) 2,550,000 shares of common stock of DDGG. In addition, in exchange for providing certain transitional services, DDGG issued to MGT Sports a warrant to purchase 1,500,000 shares of DDGG common stock.
License and Services Revenue				$ 102	$ 86
Class of Warrant or Right, Exercise Price of Warrants or Rights				$ 0.25
Licensing revenue				$ 90
Gioia Systems, LLC [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Cash payments			$ 35
Mgt Interactive [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Loss on sale of assets				$ (144)
Viggle, Inc [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Equity interest	49.00%
Fair Market Value Price Per Share				$ 0.40
DraftDay Gaming Group, Inc [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Loss on sale of assets				$ 387
Equity interest	11.00%
Share Price				$ 0.40
Class of Warrant or Right, Exercise Price of Warrants or Rights				$ 0.40
Fair Value Assumptions, Risk Free Interest Rate				0.65%
Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Volatility Rate				98.00%
Sportech Inc [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Equity interest	39.00%