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What amazes me is the schtick ads with the next 50 callers get free entry into out tournament. They have free entry right on the damn site... FOR EVERYONE!

 
Insein said:
What amazes me is the schtick ads with the next 50 callers get free entry into out tournament. They have free entry right on the damn site... FOR EVERYONE!
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The free entry is of no cost when it means they got you to sign up. If you are already on the site home page then you already know FD and were probably thinking of signing up. They need the deposit.

The average cost I remember to acquire a player is around $75.

 
shadyridr said:
BoltBacker said:
MattFancy said:
Congress Is Going to Examine Fantasy Sports & Gambling

Anyone who watched a game this weekend was inundated by commercials for fantasy sports websites, and its only the first week of the NFL season, said Ranking Member Pallone. These sites are enormously popular, arguably central to the fans experience, and professional leagues are seeing the enormous profits as a result. Despite how mainstream these sites have become, though, the legal landscape governing these activities remains murky and should be reviewed.
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I just wish they would extend this to everyone else. How many times have you been watching a sporting event and seen insurance commercials over the course of your lifetime? There are a bunch of actuaries locked in a closet somewhere to make sure you(or most people) never come out ahead buying insurance as well. Guess I have missed the outrage toward those folks.
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that's not what actuaries do moron
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Ah, you may be right and I may be wrong. I am not an actuary. What do actuaries do?

 
RUSF18 said:
BoltBacker said:
MattFancy said:
Congress Is Going to Examine Fantasy Sports & Gambling

“Anyone who watched a game this weekend was inundated by commercials for fantasy sports websites, and it’s only the first week of the NFL season,” said Ranking Member Pallone. “These sites are enormously popular, arguably central to the fans’ experience, and professional leagues are seeing the enormous profits as a result. Despite how mainstream these sites have become, though, the legal landscape governing these activities remains murky and should be reviewed.”
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I just wish they would extend this to everyone else. How many times have you been watching a sporting event and seen insurance commercials over the course of your lifetime? There are a bunch of actuaries locked in a closet somewhere to make sure you(or most people) never come out ahead buying insurance as well. Guess I have missed the outrage toward those folks.
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So you want DFS to have a similar level of regulation as the insurance industry? You sure about that?
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I would lose somewhere between 1/1,000 and 1/1,000,000,000 seconds of sleep if that was the case.

Why? Are insurance companies having a tough time staying afloat due to regulation?

 
Fantasysports1 said:
ILUVBEER99 said:
At this stage i think DFS is all about finding tourneys with overlay. Why people play on Fanduel and Draftings is beyond me.

There were tons of sites where the tourneys only filled up like 40% where you only had to come in the top 60% to cash.

Granted i wouldn't waste time looking around myself but a friend sent me links to different tourneys with huge overlay and it would have been hard to not cash.

not a fan of DFS in general as it's a super shady industry but there is a lot of free money out there on the smaller sites.
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Fanduel and DK are the main sites and offer the biggest prizes and are the easiest to use. It is mainstream, other sites have different salaries, rules where good information is harder to find.

Overlay is good but ultimately you have to be able to win with no overlay. Overlay is good in GPPs because it is easier to get into the top 15% or so you need to min cash. As a result you can be more aggressive in GPPs because you have a better chance of getting part or all of your entries back. Still the goal is to win a GPP and overlay does not matter there.
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I disagree with this statement.

If for whatever reason you're only playing to a) win a GPP, but not necessarily b) make money long-term or c) just have fun and #### around (all valid reasons!), those overlays are going to keep you from being drained faster than you normally would. Which means more entries in tournaments, which means more shots at the white whale.

BTW my favorite part of the DK commercials is the completely unrealistic lineups that they show on-screen. Rodgers, Luck, Antonio Brown, Jamaal Charles and Adrian Peterson!!!

 
BoltBacker said:
shadyridr said:
BoltBacker said:
MattFancy said:
Congress Is Going to Examine Fantasy Sports & Gambling

Anyone who watched a game this weekend was inundated by commercials for fantasy sports websites, and its only the first week of the NFL season, said Ranking Member Pallone. These sites are enormously popular, arguably central to the fans experience, and professional leagues are seeing the enormous profits as a result. Despite how mainstream these sites have become, though, the legal landscape governing these activities remains murky and should be reviewed.
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I just wish they would extend this to everyone else. How many times have you been watching a sporting event and seen insurance commercials over the course of your lifetime? There are a bunch of actuaries locked in a closet somewhere to make sure you(or most people) never come out ahead buying insurance as well. Guess I have missed the outrage toward those folks.
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that's not what actuaries do moron
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Ah, you may be right and I may be wrong. I am not an actuary. What do actuaries do?
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if an insurance company is always in the red they wouldn't exist so who would pay the benefit? There are tons of regulations and state filings. Our goal is to benefit the policyholders all while maintaining the company sets aside the right reserves and remain profitable.
 
shadyridr said:
BoltBacker said:
shadyridr said:
BoltBacker said:
MattFancy said:
Congress Is Going to Examine Fantasy Sports & Gambling

Anyone who watched a game this weekend was inundated by commercials for fantasy sports websites, and its only the first week of the NFL season, said Ranking Member Pallone. These sites are enormously popular, arguably central to the fans experience, and professional leagues are seeing the enormous profits as a result. Despite how mainstream these sites have become, though, the legal landscape governing these activities remains murky and should be reviewed.
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I just wish they would extend this to everyone else. How many times have you been watching a sporting event and seen insurance commercials over the course of your lifetime? There are a bunch of actuaries locked in a closet somewhere to make sure you(or most people) never come out ahead buying insurance as well. Guess I have missed the outrage toward those folks.
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that's not what actuaries do moron
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Ah, you may be right and I may be wrong. I am not an actuary. What do actuaries do?
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if an insurance company is always in the red they wouldn't exist so who would pay the benefit? There are tons of regulations and state filings. Our goal is to benefit the policyholders all while maintaining the company sets aside the right reserves and remain profitable.
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:lmao:

 
Finally caved and dropped $50 into DraftKings (after already being a FanDuel customer).

I must say, the interface for FD is a trillion times better than DK. Yikes.

 
MattFancy said:
Are DraftKings and FanDuel Bombarding Fans With Too Many Ads?

"DraftKings was the single biggest advertiser on television in the last seven days as of Monday: 5,800 airings for about $20 million, according to ad tracker iSpot.tv. Since Aug. 1, DraftKings has spent $81 million on ads that have aired more than 22,000 times, according to iSpot.tv. FanDuel, for its part, has spent $20 million on 7,500 airings since Aug. 1."

5,800 commercials over 7 days?! My math may be shaky, but that's ~829/day or ~35/hour.
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That's pretty much how many it feels like.

 
Good Posting Judge said:
FWIW:

http://deadspin.com/espns-matthew-berry-sells-credibility-to-draftkings-1731566734?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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would bet my life he's getting paid an insane amount of money to pimp Draftkings. They are throwing money all over, his backing is probably worth millions to them. Look at their advertising this season, Berry is worth a ton to them with his influence in FF.

Don't think he's a sellout at all, he's honest about it and taking advantage of a great sitution. He built up a big following, props to him.

 
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ILUVBEER99 said:
"Good said:
FWIW:

http://deadspin.com/espns-matthew-berry-sells-credibility-to-draftkings-1731566734?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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would bet my life he's getting paid an insane amount of money to pimp Draftkings. They are throwing money all over, his backing is probably worth millions to them. Look at their advertising this season, Berry is worth a ton to them with his influence in FF.

Don't think he's a sellout at all, he's honest about it and taking advantage of a great sitution. He built up a big following, props to him.
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You can be honest. Berry is an unfunny doush who sucks at fantasy football.

 
Honestly...what is starting to annoy me more is having to wade through all the DFS articles on the FBG subscriber site. I really wish it was organized to just split the two up. They should have a section for "General Player info," one for Normal Fantasy, and one for DFS. The strategies are completely different, and having the DFS stuff in there is starting to piss me off because every other article I click on isn't even relevant.

 
They are pretty well separated.

On the Week 2 content page, for example, all the DFS stuff is over on the right. All the non-DFS stuff is on the left.

Or are you referring to other stuff, like having FanDuel as a scoring option in the drop-down menu for projections?

 
ILUVBEER99 said:
"Good said:
FWIW:

http://deadspin.com/espns-matthew-berry-sells-credibility-to-draftkings-1731566734?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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would bet my life he's getting paid an insane amount of money to pimp Draftkings. They are throwing money all over, his backing is probably worth millions to them. Look at their advertising this season, Berry is worth a ton to them with his influence in FF.

Don't think he's a sellout at all, he's honest about it and taking advantage of a great sitution. He built up a big following, props to him.
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He's only being honest now that a ton of people called him out on it and complained. He posted his Week 1 column without any disclosure and it read just like a giant advertisement for DK. It was only after people complained that he disclosed that he was being paid by them.

I think it's sickening that ESPN has a huge partnership deal with them and will be "integrating" them into all their content.

 
GroveDiesel said:
ILUVBEER99 said:
"Good said:
FWIW:

http://deadspin.com/espns-matthew-berry-sells-credibility-to-draftkings-1731566734?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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would bet my life he's getting paid an insane amount of money to pimp Draftkings. They are throwing money all over, his backing is probably worth millions to them. Look at their advertising this season, Berry is worth a ton to them with his influence in FF.

Don't think he's a sellout at all, he's honest about it and taking advantage of a great sitution. He built up a big following, props to him.
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He's only being honest now that a ton of people called him out on it and complained. He posted his Week 1 column without any disclosure and it read just like a giant advertisement for DK. It was only after people complained that he disclosed that he was being paid by them.

I think it's sickening that ESPN has a huge partnership deal with them and will be "integrating" them into all their content.
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Yeah. At the same time, i think it's pretty evident that ESPN doesn't have much interest in retaining any sort of integrity when it comes to being a news organization. This kind of thing can't come as a shock to anyone who remembers "Playmakers" being ####-canned.

 
Was watching an episode of The First 48 that I recorded this week last night.

I was doing something on the computer and I noticed that a Fan Duel ad had been running for a long time. I thought maybe the show stopped recording and my TV automatically switched back to live TV to a sports channel.

Nope. They literally bought the entire 5 minute ad break with one big giant infomercial.

Crazy.

 
My favorite now is the sports talk radio live reads. "Let me tell you about my friends at Fanduel, they're the #1 daily fantasy site." Then literally after that is a commercial for Draftkings.

 
Between banner ads, podcast mentions, content, and referrals how much do you think FBG is bringing in from the DFS sites in revenue? Low 5-figures, low 6-figures, 7-figures? I imagine DFS has to be the largest sponsor revenue this site has ever seen. I have no idea how much any of the guys get paid but I hope they are making some coin from DFS, they have earned it.

 
chauncey said:
Between banner ads, podcast mentions, content, and referrals how much do you think FBG is bringing in from the DFS sites in revenue? Low 5-figures, low 6-figures, 7-figures? I imagine DFS has to be the largest sponsor revenue this site has ever seen. I have no idea how much any of the guys get paid but I hope they are making some coin from DFS, they have earned it.
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yeah it's gotta be a goldmine for this website. They are making a mint from the DFS advertising boon.

 
chauncey said:
Between banner ads, podcast mentions, content, and referrals how much do you think FBG is bringing in from the DFS sites in revenue? Low 5-figures, low 6-figures, 7-figures? I imagine DFS has to be the largest sponsor revenue this site has ever seen. I have no idea how much any of the guys get paid but I hope they are making some coin from DFS, they have earned it.
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It has been advertised here an obnoxious amount

 
Slapdash said:
chauncey said:
Between banner ads, podcast mentions, content, and referrals how much do you think FBG is bringing in from the DFS sites in revenue? Low 5-figures, low 6-figures, 7-figures? I imagine DFS has to be the largest sponsor revenue this site has ever seen. I have no idea how much any of the guys get paid but I hope they are making some coin from DFS, they have earned it.
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It has been advertised here an obnoxious amount
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Can you blame them though? would be crazy not to take advantage of this advertising gold rush.

 
I wish they would make this illegal so we wouldn't have to see these commercials anymore.

Car, car insurance, and DFS commercials and that's about it these days.

 
Really weird advertising. Bunch of dudes fake celebrating together in the cheesist way imaginable. Seeing a commercial for it every 5 minutes doesn't make me more likely to play either.

 
Looking for a fantasy football website that takes a stance and bans all of this DFS crap. Nothing against FBGs, but I hate this DFS bombardment.

 
Kevrunner said:
Looking for a fantasy football website that takes a stance and bans all of this DFS crap. Nothing against FBGs, but I hate this DFS bombardment.
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Here here! And while we're at it can anyone recommend a weather app that isn't so ####### obsessed with forecasts!? It's getting a little ridiculous already, day after day after day!!!! This #### never stops.

 
TenTimes said:
Doctor Detroit said:
I wish they would make this illegal so we wouldn't have to see these commercials anymore.

Car, car insurance, and DFS commercials and that's about it these days.
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If these replace beer/pizza ads I'm okay with it.
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I never realized how much people would miss the commercials for very crappy food, alchohol, and the rest. DFS may suck, I haven't played in a few years, but it kills a lot less people than plenty of the advertisers.

Weird that people seem to be losing their minds over this.

 
FYI, in the DC area on The Fan, the afternoon guy, Chad Dukes, keeps dropping his ALF impression in the middle of his Draft Kings live reads.

I find that amusing.

 
hot take: the ads don't bother me that much. I rarely listen to commercials in general and I've gotten pretty good at tuning them out over the years. furthermore, I enjoy playing DFS and have actually turned a nice profit over the past year of playing. it is not something I look to do for a living, but it is a fun mental exercise that I have enjoyed.

 
(HULK) said:
FYI, in the DC area on The Fan, the afternoon guy, Chad Dukes, keeps dropping his ALF impression in the middle of his Draft Kings live reads.

I find that amusing.
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Big O and Dukes were on in Phoenix about 10 years ago, they were funny as #### back then.

 
I surrender, not only has the DFS craze taken valuable time from the staff writers at FBGs (redraft/dynasty info/articles are suffering), but all of my favorite podcasts have been infiltrated also.

 
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