Insider trading scandal erupts in unregulated world of fantasy sports
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[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/sports/fanduel-draftkings-fantasy-employees-bet-rivals.html[/url]
[quote=New York Times]A major scandal is erupting in the multibillion-dollar industry of fantasy sports, the online and unregulated business in which players assemble their fantasy teams with real athletes. On Monday, the two major fantasy companies were forced to release statements defending their businesses’ integrity after what amounted to allegations of insider trading, that employees were placing bets using information not generally available to the public.
The statements were released after an employee at DraftKings, one of the two major companies, admitted last week to inadvertently releasing data before the start of the third week of N.F.L. games. The employee, a midlevel content manager, won $350,000 at a rival site, FanDuel, that same week.
“It is absolutely akin to insider trading,” said Daniel Wallach, a sports and gambling lawyer at Becker & Poliakoff in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “It gives that person a distinct edge in a contest.”
The episode has raised questions about who at daily fantasy companies has access to valuable data, such as which players a majority of the money is being bet on; how it is protected; and whether the industry can — or wants — to police itself.
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You could've edited the OP of the previous thread. The two cover virtually the same thing.
[QUOTE=OvB;48844434]You could've edited the OP of the previous thread. The two cover virtually the same thing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I could've done that. Valid point considering people were asking for context, and considering I've done some omnibus threads where there were multiple articles dealing with relatively the same thing in a short amount of time (such as the new Nexuses).
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