BassNBrew
Footballguy
I initially wanted to start a thread on DFS, but will leave it more broad to include more people. I wanted to get the opinions of the regulars on the shark pool about daily fantasy football, but feel free to weigh in on season long. Would like to know what you season long contest players are seeing in the industry.
Three (maybe four) years ago DFS came long like gangbusters. I'm just not seeing the interest in it like I had in years past and noticed this sometime last year well prior to the pandemic. The DFS forum is practically a ghost town.The week 1 thread has 12 posts. Last year and the year before it was two pages long and five pages the year prior to that. Personally I won money until last year when I lost a small amount. Fan dual has pushed the rake to 19% which is insanity IMO. In years past I would have had $200 to $500 in play most weeks. This year it looks like I'll have 50 cents in play. I dropped my FBG subscription down a tier because the quite honestly the tools weren't making a significant difference and the season long content was just as helpful. Another tell tale sign to back off my playing was David Dodds leaving Fandual to play at a lower rake site. Maybe I should follow along, but I wonder if the whales have moved to these sites. Honestly been too lazy to follow along.
I suspect DFS will be a slowly sinking ship with only the people chasing the lottery pots remaining. It's probably done irreversible damage to the season long formats and they'll won't experience a big bounce back. Given our shorter attention spans, I suspect that most of these players leaving dfs will migrate to straight up game and prop betting as it becomes more legal. The grinders will also have more success as the rakes are significantly less.
"Why manage a season long team when you can have instant gratification putting together a weekly team?" will become
"Why put together a dozen weekly teams and wait a day for gratification when you can bet the over on Preston Williams receiving yards an win in the first half?"
Three (maybe four) years ago DFS came long like gangbusters. I'm just not seeing the interest in it like I had in years past and noticed this sometime last year well prior to the pandemic. The DFS forum is practically a ghost town.The week 1 thread has 12 posts. Last year and the year before it was two pages long and five pages the year prior to that. Personally I won money until last year when I lost a small amount. Fan dual has pushed the rake to 19% which is insanity IMO. In years past I would have had $200 to $500 in play most weeks. This year it looks like I'll have 50 cents in play. I dropped my FBG subscription down a tier because the quite honestly the tools weren't making a significant difference and the season long content was just as helpful. Another tell tale sign to back off my playing was David Dodds leaving Fandual to play at a lower rake site. Maybe I should follow along, but I wonder if the whales have moved to these sites. Honestly been too lazy to follow along.
I suspect DFS will be a slowly sinking ship with only the people chasing the lottery pots remaining. It's probably done irreversible damage to the season long formats and they'll won't experience a big bounce back. Given our shorter attention spans, I suspect that most of these players leaving dfs will migrate to straight up game and prop betting as it becomes more legal. The grinders will also have more success as the rakes are significantly less.
"Why manage a season long team when you can have instant gratification putting together a weekly team?" will become
"Why put together a dozen weekly teams and wait a day for gratification when you can bet the over on Preston Williams receiving yards an win in the first half?"