Facebook? How does anyone working in DFS even have friends?

I know this has been said before, but I’m taking Deadspin articles trashing daily fantasy (particularly DraftKings) with a grain of salt because the Deadcast STILL is running their ads. The fucking baseball one saying the season is "here at last" is the main offender that comes to mind.

Which is why it’s been likened to insider trading. Obviously, they aren’t trading stocks. But they (allegedly, since we don’t know if they actually used the info) know who/what to “buy” in the game/market based on material, nonpublic information. So I don’t see how likening it to insider trading is “not quite right.”…

Enter Promo Code: WEAREFUCKED

I hated the creep of fantasy sports into the actual reporting of the sports. I literally cannot care about how many fantasy points some QB threw for. Tell me how many yards he had or whatever. But when I watched an NFL pregame show and they broke down everyone’s line up and salaries or whatever nonsense term...that…

Totally agree. I don’t give one iota about fantasy; daily or not. I don’t care what people blow their money on. But the sheer volume of commercials inundating every god damn thing I watch and listen to has made me a Draft Kings hater. Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell.

This is wrong. First, insider trading is notoriously undefined by the law, and courts struggle to map its precise boundaries, so there is no “literal” definition of it. See the recent denial of cert in Newman, for instance. Second, the employees weren’t using nonpublic information about their companies to “trade” on…

of course someone is on FB

One small issue with this: the advantage of what Ethan Haskell purportedly knew was not what players would constitute a good value with respect to the salary cap, which is baked into the public salaries themselves, but rather which players had the best chances of not being on other teams altogether.

The government already successfully regulates legal gambling. Why can’t they regulate this too?

The avalanche of ads the past few weeks certainly caught the attention of the Internal Revenue Service. They are going to have some questions about all of this money changing hands in daily fantasy games. They will get answers, and money. Then the ads will go away.

Whatever has to happen for there to be about 99.9% less of their commercials on television, I’m all for it.

One thing I think people need to understand about the use of algorithms and such that the pro types do: these systems absolutely give them an edge, but it’s a small edge that they can take advantage of because they have bankrolls sufficient to take advantage of them. I think some people are reading things like the…

This isn’t related to the article really. But I need to let the people know. If you are in Manhattan, food carts that advertise DRAFT KINGS on the side always have food worse than their non advertising competitors. Avoid them.

It’s been likened to insider trading, but that’s not quite right. What the employees of DraftKings and FanDuel are accused of doing is using information obtained through their jobs, but unavailable to the public, to increase their chances of winning on the competing sites.

When reached for comment the CEO of ScamDuel said:

Maybe you are confused. This is a list of teams you can root for in the playoffs.

Dammit, it’s October, 2015 and we still have to deal with this shit. Eventually, people will stop making jokes and laughing about a very cruel and serious subject. I, like many people who comment on this website, can’t stand hot takes; but in this particular situation I’d much rather read a strongly worded, over the…

Mendoza is one hundred times better at this than Kruk and Schilling are.

To be fair, I don’t want anyone with titties calling baseball games for me either, which is why I’m thrilled that Curt Schilling is still suspended.