New NYT Sports Columnist

Honestly, I'd be stunned if most of them write the code. I'm assuming most of them simply buy it or acquire it. Even if you want to quibble with me about whether it's technically cheating, they're at the very least gaming the system. There's nothing legally wrong with that, but if you aren't one of those players, you have no chance of being successful over the long haul. You can't study hard enough to beat them.

None of that changes my point that DraftKings and FanDuel have earned a long look from the NYT and other credible news organizations. It's not a "weird war" as you put it.

 

Is Theo Epstein cheating? Is Theo Epstein "gaming the system"?

 

The story is behind a paywall for me, but one thing I immediately noticed in the first two grafs was the phrase "... the company said ..." twice.

 

What does Theo Epstein have to do with it? Is he playing DFS?

 

The hours of code, and hundreds of lineups.... that is certainly not the impression of how to win based on the commercials.

Its real guys... like you and me... throwing together a lineup, and hitting it big.

 

So you don't think that, were the company lying, the big boy law firm and former United States Attorney partner who led the investigation would call them on it?

 

Why is it cheating to use software to win fantasy sports, but not to win real sports?

 

I'm shocked, shocked to find that there's a mismatch between the commercials and the reality!

 

This sounds like cheating in the same way counting cards at blackjack is cheating.

 

Yeah, if the big winners were actually taking money from the companies (instead of just the pigeons), the companies wouldn't stand for it.

 

As I said, the article is behind a paywall, so I don't know the details.

It just struck me that the lead is that "DraftKings says ..." not "big boy law firm and former United States Attorney partner who led the investigation says ..."

If you don't mind PMing me a copy/paste of the article, I'd be interested to read it.

 

Right. The law firm isn't going to violate attorney-client privilege and release the report. The privilege belongs to the company to waive.