I doubt that fox considers any programmers as hd basketball employees.
I think the company has a few programmer,s who maybe once a year do a basketball project, more like once every couple of years though.
They also have all kinds of other sport sims, that these same types do projects on.
I would guess one customer service employee might be employed to do all WIS questions, not just HD. And that person might even in a broader sense, do CS for other fox related products.
I also thought someone in the know, said the reason for buying the WIS umbrella of products by fox was for the sim engine (not even directly tied to the game sim engine used for HD, but related), to be used for predicting results of nfl and nba games. I think that predictive engine has proven to be reasonably accurate.
I would guess the cash cow nature of all the sims, baseball, basketball, hockey, etc is that nobody is employed by the company on HD directly, but the game is absorbed into the indirect labor beast of Fox Sports - in a the programmer or customer service employee will be there either way, and be paid either way. So in this case, the 210K estimate, which would be near zero profit for a small business, is near 210k of contribution margin to a company like fox. Add in baseball, football and the rest, and the contribution margin is decent, esp since what they really bought was the NFL sim product for sunday football fantasy football types to use anyhow.