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Doog_de_Jour

Doog_de_Jour

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First off, I wasn't 100% sure what board this should be on, so mods feel free to move as you see fit.

I play "normal" fantasy football, but not the daily, Draft Kings/FanDuel variety, so I found this week's "Last Week Tonight" and the recent NY court rulings interesting.
 
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The defense of the two organizations is that customers use skill to pick multiple players, which, you know, is different than using skill to pick a parlay of multiple teams.
 
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Don't be successful in America
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That part bothers me. I don't begrudge their success.

If they'd toned down the ad campaign they might have pissed off fewer people.

The ads did this. Otherwise, nobody cares. And computer geeks with algorithms would keep fleecing typical sports fans like the drooling sheep they are.
 
Disruption: stealing market share by ignoring regulations that your more established competitors have to follow. Lather, rinse, repeat.
 
Don't be successful in America
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That part bothers me. I don't begrudge their success.

If they'd toned down the ad campaign they might have pissed off fewer people.

The ads did this. Otherwise, nobody cares. And computer geeks with algorithms would keep fleecing typical sports fans like the drooling sheep they are.
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Don't forget, another thing that brought this on was cheating by the employees of these two firms using betting intelligence to lay bets at the other firm and clean up.
 
Don't be successful in America
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That part bothers me. I don't begrudge their success.

If they'd toned down the ad campaign they might have pissed off fewer people.

The ads did this. Otherwise, nobody cares. And computer geeks with algorithms would keep fleecing typical sports fans like the drooling sheep they are.
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Don't forget, another thing that brought this on was cheating by the employees of these two firms using betting intelligence to lay bets at the other firm and clean up.
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This and the one before it.

Had these two companies quietly fleeced stupid people ... they'd be fine.

Greed ... is good ... but be smart about it.
 
If they would teach basic gambling strategy in elementary school and allow kids the fun of a little recess gaming... maff test scores would rise.
 
If they would teach basic gambling strategy in elementary school and allow kids the fun of a little recess gaming... maff test scores would rise.
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Funny thing is, they often sell raffle tickets (don't you dare call it a lottery) for school fundraisers.
 
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