Dan gives his thoughts on the Bachelor couple potentially breaking the rules in winning the DraftKings Millionaire Maker.
6One of the most respected and preeminent voices in all of daily fantasy, Dan Back (db730) has over ten years experience as a high-level DFS player and content leader. Dan hosted a long-running DFS show on SiriusXM Radio and also owns an FSWA award for “Best Podcast”. His biggest passions in fantasy sports are both College and Pro Football and Golf. After years of hard work and dedication, Dan has climbed the ranks to become the Senior VP of Operations of Better Collective Tennesee. When he’s not pulling the strings behind the scenes, Dan loves speculating on Futures markets in Sports Betting.
The long-time host of the popular Morning Grind, Stephen Young is also one of the top NASCAR, NFL, NBA and MLB analysts in the industry. The RotoGrinders lead NASCAR analyst is a multiple time finalist for the Fantasy Sports Writer Association Racing Writer of the Year. He has qualified for multiple live finals.
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I self-excluded on DK, and I’m still upset. I’m most upset by people outside of the industry commenting on things they don’t understand (such as Yahoo article comments).
Check Tanner’s IG. The photo of him with the sign saying Fantasy football stuff is there. She comments with the context that the question was “what does your husband do that you hate?” That was just 8 weeks ago. Pretty clear that she’s not a Grinder.
It’s way too hard to police all the cheaters in DFS. Sucks having to compete against all of them. I try to stay in single entry contests. But I would like to see more live drafts. Maybe for football, DK can host live contests at the DK bar every Sunday or something like that. More live tourneys would weed out alot of the cheaters, in my opinion anyway.
For the bigger cities anyways. I know this would not be relevant for people in smaller towns/cities. I’m in Chicago, I would think they could get a good showing every week.
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Lol… “let’s grind the optimizers together” may have just become code for something else in our household…
I do agree that competing against ‘syndicates’ sucks. And I also do the single entry/3 max thing. I’d suggest, though, that I do not think policing the cheaters is too hard. I’m a compliance manager in the pharmaceutical industry, and I’d imagine the means of ensuring transparency in your product is similar across industries…you have transfers of value, piles of data that tell the story of each one, and automation + operators flagging suspicious trends in the data. For sure, it’s required to properly staff the department and develop meaningful procedures to enforce your regulations…The Pharmaceutical industry (hated as it is) is (justifiably) heavily regulated…DFS? Not as much.