That's why Fantasydraft will be a big player in this biz . They have deep payout zones , so more people can win . They pay out a min of 25% of the field . They have a low rake, and do no advertising. They use a very effective affiliate comp program to spread the word, and give that money they don't have to spend on TV, back to the players . Also limiting the amount of lineups each player can have , per contest, levels the playing field from the Sharks who enter 100s of lineups
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FanDuel for sure and I think DraftKings too, will offer 50/50 newbie contests [bases and hockey is what I did]. You will get 50 in each sport before "graduating". These newbie contests are pretty easy to win money in. I was up over $300 in FD and a bit less in DK playing very small entry amounts. But when I continued, I lost most of my profit and cashed out. I just tried to grind and never did play what I consider the lottery games.
Is kind of fun, but not worth the hassle IMO. Ease of money movement is the best thing about it, but the more folks that play this stuff the further we will go down the rabbit hole in terms of traditional on line sports betting. A new generation will soon know only this.
Is kind of fun, but not worth the hassle IMO. Ease of money movement is the best thing about it, but the more folks that play this stuff the further we will go down the rabbit hole in terms of traditional on line sports betting. A new generation will soon know only this.
That sounds like a pretty fair assessment.
I'd say it isn't worth the hassle for most other than entertainment. You aren't going to just make mediocre lineups and win (infact, winning is getting harder than ever as information is disseminated better)
It does seem like people get a lot more entertainment out of it playing $20-50 a week than they would at say sports betting though. In general I think people are more into interactive based gaming rather than just pushing a button or two.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't rocket science at all.
But if you aren't into fantasy sports then you probably wouldn't enjoy it and if you don't enjoy it you can't really win at it. Similar to any other game you are trying to get an advantage out of. You gotta atleast somewhat like poker to win at it, etc...
Obviously there are exceptions but I think you get what I'm saying.
But if you aren't into fantasy sports then you probably wouldn't enjoy it and if you don't enjoy it you can't really win at it. Similar to any other game you are trying to get an advantage out of. You gotta atleast somewhat like poker to win at it, etc...
Obviously there are exceptions but I think you get what I'm saying.
Not sure on those #s. Sports betting the house edge is pretty small so a lot of people can be short-term winners but have no real edge as far as implied odds go. Then the market being efficient makes their floor pretty high. So they can win in the short-term. There are so many different ways to bet sports that it is tough to quantify something like that. For instance, people bonus whoring 12 years ago were all making $, people betting at -105 do better than people betting at -110, some people win but then can't get action down anymore without it being a pain in the ass etc
For the DFS side, the sheer # of people in the GPPs probably makes the 1.8% number right. Most people will just lose a small amount. As far as day to day people grinding a profit though, I don't have published info but I would say a decent portion of them are atleast some level of profitable. If you weren't then you would find something else to do pretty fast.
