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So in a game where there are 30,000 entrants are you suggesting that 2 or 3 people could own all 6000 teams that finish in the top 20%?
what about 300k?
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So in a game where there are 30,000 entrants are you suggesting that 2 or 3 people could own all 6000 teams that finish in the top 20%?
Well, aside from being incredibly vague, that still doesn't provide me with enough relevant information......
So in a game where there are 30,000 entrants are you suggesting that 2 or 3 people could own all 6000 teams that finish in the top 20%?
I've seen this a lot..picking under played players might be an advantage in the huge tournaments, but there are 50-50 and double up games to be played..nit to mention head to head. With these, you need to pick players that will score the most points, usage is not a factor.
My thoughts are that there is SO much media bandwidth needing to be filled I'm OK with a new angle to cover. I'm already pretty good at blocking out the insipid and tribal journos out there, this is just one more thing for me to block that others presumably enjoy.
It is definitely gambling, but to me it isn't gambling on the NFL, it's gambling on a bunch of numbers generated as a side effect of the playing of NFL games. It's kind of like the difference between an individual bad mortgage vs. CMOs where good mortgages were mixed in with the bad mortgages. The real problem is just like the great financial crisis: you're creating a risk/exposure by having the good mortgages getting dragged down by the bad mortgages and having the entire system crash.
Apparently the NFL has convinced itself that any one player or small groups of players can't swing the stats enough to rig the game. IMHO they are stupidly exposing themselves to the risk that players can find a way to rig games, which could be the NFL's equivalent of the Black Sox Scandal.
Your comments made me think of this from the Bloomberg article linked earlier:
Seems that over time this has to become well known and that will chase away the casual fan, no? It'll become nothing but an arms war to develop and harness the best analytical models.
I have to respectfully disagree. Given that there are hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through these businesses during the football season, I have no problem with the FBI investigating this industry, and the obscenely cozy (incestuous) relationship between the leagues, the networks and the DFS's.
How is it incestuous?
The leagues (including our very own Bob Kraft) are heavily invested in the DFS's. The networks are heavily invested in the DFS's. The leagues and networks are partners. The DFS's are spending tons of money on network advertising during ball games.
