FanDuel co-founder Nigel Eccles said: “With over 200 million people globally watching eSports, AlphaDraft gives those fans a way to engage with this burgeoning entertainment product that creates an enormous opportunity for us”. Now, they have the attention of most households in the United States. But it is possible for each to approximate the other’s revenue by tracking the number of entrants, and price to play, in every fantasy sports contest. DFS is now illegal in five states, but being inspired by an inundation of fantasy ads, U.S. Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey recently wrote a letter asking the House Energy and Commerce Committee for a hearing “to review the legal status of fantasy sports and sports betting”.
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The future of daily fantasy sports in Louisiana is still up in the air.
Obviously, gambling is a big no-no for athletes on any level. USC wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, meanwhile, would have cost more than any other receiver ($7,500), while dynamic freshman running back Ronald Jones was an apparent pregame bargain at $4,700.
There is one more weekend of football games before the earnings period closes, but DraftKings considers its lead to be insurmountable and is virtually certain that it will top its older, more established competitor for the first time ever.
Trouble could increase simply because there is little or no effort to prevent problems from occurring.
“Is it a form of gambling, is it a form of skill game, and I think there is some question about that”, said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey in an
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Cathie Perrault is executive director of Northstar Problem Gambling Alliance in Roseville.
