Daily Jeopardy

[DOUGHBOYS]

I'm sickened by what has happened to fantasy sports lately. I don't play the daily game. Greg and others embraced the daily game. The thought being that some of these daily folks would be interested in the season long game.
So far, it has been my experience that more folks have LEFT our season long game than have come over from the daily game.
Even in that way, the daily game has not helped us.

Aside from participation coming over from the daily game, we have the larger issue. The issue of daily games putting fantasy sports, as a whole, in danger.
Our hobby walks the tight wire of being gambling. Everybody knows that.
It just was not shouted to the Heavens until FanDuel and DraftKings started their advertising blitzes.
For 80 years, baseball was exempt from the anti-trust act. They never 'flaunted' being exempt. They knew that that exempt status made the game, a better game. Especially for the owners who got rich from the status. Loyalty from players to their teams was vital for baseball to grow.
In two words, baseball knowing that the justice system was doing them a favor knew to 'Shut Up'.

FanDuel and DraftKings did the opposite. They went so public that even my almost 90 year old mother-in-law asks me about fantasy teams. In their quest to make as much money as possible, they were not looking at the big picture.
That what we are doing can be considered gambling. And can be shut down with a few strokes of the right pens.
Their Publishers House type advertising made things worse.
"I spent $35 and made over two million dollars".
Crap, why do they make this so easy for anti-gambling types?

I remember telling a friend that daily games would be the death of fantasy sports. I was half joking, wishing that ESPN, MLB, NFL, and all those other abbreviations had thrown their money into the season long game.
Now, I really wish they had.
I cannot see Greg and Tom using flood advertising in the use of an influx of money.
Instead, they would probably have tried to upgrade what they already have.
Thinking of their customers first.
The daily games thought about new customers and new money only.
It's a mistake that we may all end up paying for.