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Wonder if we'll ever get numbers of dollars played wk4 vs wk5I'm not taking advice from someone that can't spell irrelevant. I'm saying people's money is safe and they need to stop panicking. Completely relevantInsulting irrelavant braggadocious straw man argument, great.
Take the job and get as much ownership info as possible. Hopefully you're decent at DFS so you can profit in the short time you have left. You just don't know when the AG will shut them down.
So no employees of Footballguys, Rotogrinders, Rotoworld, etc etc can play. Yeah right. More lies.
We'll see. It's huge if so. But I suspect the fine print will define third party sites as DK, fantasy fued, yahoo, etc. Sites that specifically run their own daily contests.
But that has ramifications like the FBG Fanduel thing where people compete against the FBG staff. I know that's small potatoes in the grand scheme, but still.
I figured as much but had to dig at them a little. Even their attorneys crafting press statements are sloppy.
poor dodds can't play there anymore. Wonder what he will do now.
Yes. Not letting employees play is just a PR move -- probably a necessary one, but it doesn't really solve anything. The real solution is to encrypt all the sensitive data and don't allow anyone to access it until it is made public. If it's impractical not to allow anyone to have it, then make it publicly available from the outset.
There are problems with this approach -- it will give everyone an incentive to enter dummy lineups until the last second to throw off the ownership percentages, for example. But I think those problems are smaller than the current problems where people don't know which insiders have what secret info.
The site would crash at the last minute when all the whales made last minute changes. I kind of like the thought of big money getting caught up in trying to publicly move the numbers. Funny to me anyway. I prefer transparency by a wide wide margin to any other solution.
DFS is a great concept. Too bad some compulsive gamblers are going to ruin it completely.
It can't be that difficult or impractical to keep anyone from having access. Financial institutions of all ilk manage to do it. Obviously controls, encryption, etc. can be bypassed by a rogue employee given sufficient time and expertise, but that's true of so much of the information that so many entities collect from us for myriad reasons. I "trust" my bank for example, but I don't "trust" every employee at the bank. I take it on some faith that my bank has sufficient controls in place to keep employees out of my personal financial information. Part of that trust that we have in our banks stems from government oversight and regulations. We can debate the efficacy of that oversight and those regulations, but they help the vast majority of us sleep at night when virtually all of our financial worth is held by massive multinational entities employing thousands of folks across multiple continents.
why not just enter the free contests if you're worried about the "compulsive gamblers"?
There's a level of geekery here that would strongly interest some computer nerds that hate football. The guy that says "who is Tom Brady" might be an interesting type for them to hire here. With all their $, even if not in this instance I think they need this type of individual around and will soon find a need.
This would be tough. The DFS sites might even prevent anyone from gaining access to ownership percentages prior to kickoff. It would be risky to do after what happened. Also there is hardly any benefit as you don't need to know exact percentages only rough estimates of ownership percentages in GPPs.Ramblin Wreck said:
You're confusing compulsive gamblers with advantage gamblers. Those are two very different sets of people.Ramblin Wreck said:
To be fair he answered every question directly and said the right things. It was just the involuntary non-verbal responses from someone who probably has never dealt with anything even close to this. Guy is maybe 30.
34, but yeah, he's not exactly a seasoned executive: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-robins/1/70b/262
Yup. That's why I was laughing at the idea of them trying to hide their work. The effort screws it up for them too.
Ugh. I tried to argue with this and didn't like my take after more consideration.
That's where they screwed up. Once you lose trust you're screwed with many customers. And they can't really get that trust back without totally changing the concept of the game which will turn off others.
