Draftkings/Fanduel Scandal breaking: Goodell's downfall?

[yoyoyo1]

I would love to see the fantasy algorithms for soccer

Was just a subtle giovinco cross away from my scrub defender scoring and getting 1000 plus get to meet taylor twellman plus tickets to the MLS Cup Final at Red Bull Arena (and another 1000 in airfare if the red bulls arent SS winners and get to the final, which is unthinkable tbh)

Giovinco hit the ball a bit too hard and there went my 20 points

On the real though MLS has a lot of free or low cost entries that arent shark infested, fall well short of the user limit () , are mostly guaranteed, and having all the algorithms in the world aint helping you. Sounds like a commercial, but its just a niche thing.



But thats why i advocated for private coil groups, too obvious and i called all this from the start ESPECIALLY with the " dk/fd employees can enter 'for experience' and not take home the money if they win" which is hilarious.

 

[Jx2]

If u couldn't tell it was a scam by them infomercial type of commercials they were dropping, then u dumb as fukk.

Bob from Delaware: " I've started off with just $35 and now I'm at $2,000,000"

As the tubby motherfukker reads it all of a teleprompter just off to the side of the camera. .

If you believe in fanduel, I have some great snake oi..facial cremes for you to check out

 

[Commander in Chiefin]

Try Disney, ESPN, Fox, and the NFL

I was just down in Miami over the weekend and there is a Draft Kings sports bar at the Clevelander. Right under the ESPN studio for Highly Questionable

 

[LV Koopa]

Everyone who wins those fanduel/draftkings big money prizes works for either fanduel or draftkings...it's basically a bunch of insiders using data and the money they win to enter hundreds of times into a single game.

it's usually $20-$25 to enter a single million dollar prize game, but those guys have insider information and have the money to enter that shyt 500 times.....it's a scam.

Yup. It's really that the employees get to see the betting sharps data and lineups - then go to other sites using that information -> profit. With no one stopping employees from using the best players' stuff on other places it's just craziness.

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

nah a lot of the DFS pros play stuff down to like $10 head to heads because they see it as going against low rolling novices and literally free money

maxdalury's FanDuel Recent-results Game Results

thats a pro, and you can see he enters head to heads from 10K to 10 bucks (and winning damn near every one of em). no real way of knowing who you are up against, and even if its another low rolling novice, youre gonna be raked at -125 in a 50/50. youd have to win more than 55% of your head to heads to see profit with that rake, which is a real uphill battle if youre at best 50%. i lasted like one week on draftkings, because i knew almost instantly i had zero shot at winning anything because i was going against guys with 200+ entries sometimes in the big tourneys. was in a baseball 100K pool tourney, and the same guy was 1st-14th place. i withdrew right then

now THAT is some bs

 

[keond]

How are Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones allowed to own stake in companies that bet on their own teams games

 

[Geek Nasty]

No... the government about to get involved breh

The government already got involved. These people lobbied for an exemption to allow them to create Draft Kings and FanDuel. But, now with all the commercials it looks like a lot of congressmen are aware of what they created (if they *ever* knew what they signed off on). There are already some of the publically calling for repeal of the exemption.

 

[LV Koopa]

I don't think it's that much. I just seen a match up for 215 each and the total pot was 400. I wasn't mad at it honestly. What do you think though?

rake is the price you pay for playing at their site. 215 with a $400 pot makes sense. When you see "-125", "+110", "215" they mean that for every $100 you bet (-125, 110) you have to give up 25, or 10. For 215, same thing - every $200, 15 comes out for rake. Thats why in the $215 heads up the pot was $400. $215 x 2 = $430. $200 went in to the pot, $15 rake from each person went to the site. For some games you need to estimate the rake to know if you're winning or losing money. This is especially true in poker.

 

[Absolut]

Well, the difference between insider trading in the stock market is that the trader know the changes coming up, so he knows the outcome. In football, you can have some insider information, but that doesn't guarantee you are going to win though because there are multiple chances of losing because you are picking an entire team to win. A player to do well might get injured, or a player not slated to do well, might perform well. Unless a player is getting paid to throw the game and fumble a ball or something.

No it's not 100% guaranteed, but it is a massive edge and advantage over everyone else. If they see top tier names like aj green, Peterson etc are like 8% owned you can key those guys in lineups around other good low owned players and you increase your odds of winning cash ten fold. Also whos to say they can't edit lineups after they lock? This guy rattled off a month of MLB DFS which was pretty much impossible, and the guy couldn't win shyt at DFS before he started his work at draftkings. He's clearly up to something shady, we just don't fully know exactly what yet

 

[Absolut]

Just so you know that guy works for a casino he has a clear bias against dfs.

I'm not bias against DFS per se. I'm against it being gambling and backed by the leagues, legal and unregulated while my industry (sports betting) is being sued by the leagues to be kept illegal when it now looks like DFS is way more shady than anything involving legal/regulated sports betting. The legal books in Nevada have uncovered many a illegal point shaving etc that goes on in the illegal/unregulated betting world.

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

No it's not 100% guaranteed, but it is a massive edge and advantage over everyone else. If they see top tier names like aj green, Peterson etc are like 8% owned you can key those guys in lineups around other good low owned players and you increase your odds of winning cash ten fold. Also whos to say they can't edit lineups after they lock? This guy rattled off a month of MLB DFS which was pretty much impossible, and the guy couldn't win shyt at DFS before he started his work at draftkings. He's clearly up to something shady, we just don't fully know exactly what yet

Ok I see where you are coming from here. I always thought that was possible, During NBA season some of the winning lineups just seemed impossible like who would even think of picking that guy. Guys picking Jon fukking Leur on the night he has the game of his life

 

[HOLOGRAM PAC]

Where can I buy one of these alithograms

 

[Absolut]

Ok I see where you are coming from here. I always thought that was possible, During NBA season some of the winning lineups just seemed impossible like who would even think of picking that guy. Guys picking Jon fukking Leur on the night he has the game of his life

the marketing is also very shady and disingenuous. all the way from the snake oil "just pick your team and collect your cash" type nonsense, to the pretending its a 100% skill based game and not gambling (ive literally seen it compared to chess and spelling bees by the draftkings ceo himself), to the "deposit 200 bucks and we will match it" which isnt true at all since your match bonus unlocks as you play, typically having to risk into the thousands of dollars to get your bonus fully unlocked etc. instead of fighting along with sports betting to become legal and regulated nationally, it shunned sports betting as some nefarious underworld activity while passing itself off a skill game thats beyond reproach, even though its looked into by zero third parties and its obviously privy to quite a bit of seedy innerworkings

 

[lotteryplaya]

Remember all of the poker sites?

This story did remind me of the poker cheating stories. I thought those scandals would kill all the poker sites. The government approved ones are still around.
The Online Poker Cheating Scandal That Keeps Going and Going
How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters

 

[yseJ]

the marketing is also very shady and disingenuous. all the way from the snake oil "just pick your team and collect your cash" type nonsense, to the pretending its a 100% skill based game and not gambling (ive literally seen it compared to chess and spelling bees by the draftkings ceo himself), to the "deposit 200 bucks and we will match it" which isnt true at all since your match bonus unlocks as you play, typically having to risk into the thousands of dollars to get your bonus fully unlocked etc. instead of fighting along with sports betting to become legal and regulated nationally, it shunned sports betting as some nefarious underworld activity while passing itself off a skill game thats beyond reproach, even though its looked into by zero third parties and its obviously privy to quite a bit of seedy innerworkings

shyt, I'd say poker takes more skill than fantasy football. The only fantasy game that has some skill involved is roto baseball imo. And that's a year long struggle.