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We all know that NFBC veteran/champion Dave Potts won the top prize of $1 million this summer in the Fanduel Fantasy Baseball Championship. We're very proud of our former NFBC Main Event overall champion and what's even better is that he hasn't changed a bit with all this newfound money!!!

Now it's time to crown another champion in Fanduel's big-money championship and once again we have some familiar faces from our contests in line for the top prize. We have at least two NFBC/NFFC owners in line for the $2 million grand prize when 100 teams fly to Las Vegas this weekend for the $2 million Fanduel Fantasy Football Championship at the Cosmopolitan. NFBC veteran Richard Kulaski earned a qualifying team last weekend, while the trio of Shawn Childs/Rick Thomas/Scott Fleming earned two qualifying teams a week ago. First place is worth $2 million, but even 100th place is worth $15,000. We'll definitely watch this over the weekend and will be rooting on our top players in this contest.

I didn't see the complete list of 100 teams. I'm not sure if anyone else with ties here qualified, but I do know of those three teams. Good luck guys and let's take it down again!!! We like having millionaires in the NFBC and NFFC!!

Awesome news !

Good luck Richard & the Goodfellas trio

I will definitely be pulling for you guys.

How cool is that! Good luck Guys and I hope you take down the million. Nice early Christmas present.

That is pretty awesome. Best of luck guys.

Great to hear!!

Good luck Rich

Congrats to NFBC/NFFC veteran Richard Kulaski for winning $60,000 in the Fanduel World Championship of Fantasy Football in Las Vegas today. It looks like Rich finished 16th with 142.28 points. The NFBC/NFFC triumvirate of Shawn Childs/Rick Thomas/Scott Fleming had two teams going today and won $40,000 by finishing 52nd and 54th ($20,000 for each team). NICE JOB GUYS!!! Not a bad showing at all and nice paydays, too.

Awesome.

https://www.fanduel.com/contest/fffc-li ... /91255878/

Rich won an extra 10k with that Tennessee/Delanie Walker lateral to finish that game. Funny stuff!

Congrats Rich, Shawn/Rick/Scott !

Great job, Strong work

Related - one of the real good guys in the industry, Drew Dinkmeyer, has a good shot at the final Draft Kings million.

Amazing the guy took down the FanDuel 2MIL with a goose-egg from Moncrief.

Ando wrote:Rich won an extra 10k with that Tennessee/Delanie Walker lateral to finish that game. Funny stuff!

Matt, next year Rich brings the beer to the Lambeau Field tailgate party and it better be good premium beer!!! Nice job Rich. What a Christmas present for you, your wife (who was with you in Las Vegas) and the family. Enjoy and GREAT JOB!!

Also congrats to Drew Dinkmeyer, an NFBC veteran, who won the $1 million Draft Kings Fantasy Football contest last night. Drew is recognized as one of the top Daily Fantasy Sports players and the championship is well earned. Good job Drew.

Here's an interesting read on some of the characters in the DFS space:

http://www.fsta.org/news/204309/The-Men ... otball.htm

Very interesting story in today's USA Today on the daily fantasy sports space. Give it a read:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/20 ... /21165279/

For those of us old enough, we remember what fantasy sports used to be like. We would get box scores for both football and baseball and post those numbers weekly in our leagues on Monday, Tuesday, maybe even Wednesday or Thursday.
We wished for the day when we could get those numbers more expediently.
Then, internet happened.
Fantasy leagues started slowly. But, with each passing year, more and more started arriving. Still, we wished there was more fantasy content. Most baseball and football stories pertained to real baseball and we were left to translate those stories for our own fantasy use.
Soon, even fantasy stories became as plentiful as 'real' stories. Magazines and writers for sites started writing stories for our fantasy tastes.

Now, we have fantasy coming out of our ears. Every sport has some kind of fantasy fix for its fans.
A golfer, in 66th place on the final day of a tourney, missed a putt, and was yelled at by a fan because it hurt his fantasy golf team.
We have gone from too little fantasy focus, to too much.
There are daily games that can be played almost every day of the year. Besides shysters proclaiming themselves as 'experts' in how to bet a sports game, they now want money in advising fantasy players in who to play for their fantasy games.
There are more fantasy football magazines than real football magazines at our book stores.

Most of us got to play during the 'Golden Age' of fantasy. That era when fantasy was small. Quaint. Fun.
Now, fantasy sports is a steamroller. We want everything now. If a site is behind in its software or does not have the latest technology, that site is ridiculed for not being up to date.
Fantasy sports folks now have to do due dilligence before forking money over to a site. Too many sites have just plain taken the money and ran.
Even local leagues will use the internet to play in leagues. Its become too much 'work' for a Commish of a league to do stats.
Instead, a site, mostly for a price, does the figuring for a Commish.
We used to want a sport, any sport, to acknowledge the fantasy players.
Now professional sports organizations are buying or partnering in fantasy sites themselves.
Buying and partnering in sites!
The irony.

We have to be selective now, also, in which sites and sources we get our information as players. Some sites will focus on numbers or news that is somewhat irrelevant for our use.
While other sites fall right in line with our way of thinking.
For folks new to the NFBC, I reccommend Mastersball. Simply because it is written by folks familiar with the NFBC and they give a true NFBC slant to most stories and numbers.

Fantasy info, invitations, and sites are now everywhere we go. We used to have to look for ANYTHING fantasy. Now, it smacks us in the face.
When a fella would tell me the local Rockies score, I would instantly asked "How did they score?"
Fantasy meant more to me than the score itself. Now, I'll just nod, whip out my phone, and see how they scored myself.
It is more business like. That is what it has become.
A blend of technology and money has made fantasy sports what it is today.
In short, technology has taken away most of the work. We arrive at a fantasy destination everyday.
To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, I adored the journey, more than the destination.