DOUGHBOYS wrote:I'd like to say one more thing.
For those of you who are calling on Greg, or Tom, or whoever to disassociate themselves from the daily game, please stop.
Like it or not, we are all in the same cauldren.
If Greg called a nation-wide press conference disassociating the NFBC from daily. meh.
Most politicians don't know the difference anyway.
The distinction between daily and seasonal or the luck/skill aspect of both mean little.
And in the end, it won't matter a hill of beans whether we're wit 'em or agin 'em.
(Edit: When will I learn to never say never. Idiot.)
I shouldn't even address Glenn's request to stop running Fanduel contests because I know an onslaught of criticism is coming, but Chad took the same question to the NFFC boards and I responded there. The post is below. It's obvious that I'm not happy with the direction the industry lawyers are taking to compare DFS skill to season-long skill, but I'm even more upset to these over-reaching AGs who seem to be putting special interests ahead of common sense. I'm just amazed that more of us aren't going crazy over the power that we've given to a legal opinion by one person without any law being passed, or any hearings taking place, or due process playing out. I'll leave it at that, but I have no problem supporting due process over the rest.
Here's my response to Chad's question:
Cocktails and Dreams wrote:
This contest exists why? Fanduel is completely throwing full season under the bus.
This contest exists because it is a a legal, skill-based game that provides enjoyment and great prizes to our customers. The people who are throwing our entire industry under the bus are the over-reaching state Attorney Generals who have so much power that with just one opinion they can shut down an entire industry. Forget due process. The AGs can shut down an entire industry without any hearings or anything else.
I'm more aghast at that than anything else. And if anyone thinks this is just going to affect DFS and not season-long, you're totally wrong. It's already impacting the entire industry.
Are we upset with Fanduel and DraftKings for extrapolating their position that DFS is a skill-based game by stating many times that DFS is an even MORE skill based game? Of course. Heck, the FSTA lobbyist has said the same thing and we're upset there, too. You can see that the entire industry right now is trying to save DFS and few realize that their analogy is harmful to season-long game operators who have had a legal ruling on this almost a decade ago.
It all sucks. If you don't want to support anything Fanduel right now then don't play this week. If enough NFFC owners don't play this week to fill the contest we won't offer it going forward. But for the last 10 weeks we've had a great, skill-based DFS game with a partner we enjoy working with and that isn't changing because of what the New York AG has done this week. I'm all for due process and I think you'll see a lot of facts come out that will change the narrative in New York and hopefully resonate throughout the country.
Walk away from this contest if you don't like it. I'm in support of DFS, of Fanduel and for freedom of choice on how we spend our discretionary income. You folks decide which games to play. I'm supporting due process and the right to choose.
