FanDuel and DraftKings Merger Confirmed
FanDuel and DraftKings have finally confirmed the rumors that have been circulating for months: a merger between the two companies is imminent. Today’s news comes straight from the horses’ mouths via...
View ArticleThanksgiving Specials and Big Contests for NFL Week 12
Thanksgiving football is always a beautiful thing, but this year’s Thanksgiving lineup looks especially enticing with all six teams boasting records of .500 or better and every game holding meaning....
View ArticleBest Fantasy Sites and Contests for NFL Week 13
Last night’s Packers vs. Eagles game brought a long Week 12 to its final conclusion and now brings us into a new week of fantasy football. Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay set the tone early with a...
View ArticleNFL Week 14: Biggest Fantasy Contests and Best Value Picks
The bye weeks are all over and we have four more weeks of regular season play in the NFL. That means four more Sunday Millions at FanDuel, four more Millionaire makers at DraftKings and four more...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy Wrap: NFL Week 15 Best Tournaments and Value Picks
NFL Week 14 is done and gone. If you had Le’Veon Bell on your lineup, congratulations. He lit up the Bills for 236 rushing yards, 62 receiving yards and three touchdowns for a 50+ fantasy point game....
View ArticleDFS Roundup: NFL Week 16 Value Picks and Big Money Contests
NFL Week 15 is over and now we have just two more weekends of regular season games. Right off the bat, let me remind you that this week’s games mostly happen on Saturday and not on Sunday. The big NFL...
View ArticleNFL Week 17: Daily Fantasy Preview and Advice
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the end of the 2016/2017 NFL regular season is upon us. NFL Week 17 gets underway this Sunday with a 16-game slate that will finalize the postseason picture....
View ArticleNFL Wild Card Week DFS Contests and Best Player Picks
Well, the last week of full game slates is behind us as we enter the 2016-17 NFL playoffs. We will be limited to smaller Sunday slates from here on out, but that does not mean the daily fantasy season...
View ArticleIntroducing Maryland’s New Fantasy Sports Regulations
Daily fantasy sites in Maryland will be operating under new rules in 2017 courtesy of regulations that went into effect earlier this week. A series of regulations first proposed by Maryland Comptroller...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy NFL: Divisional Round Preview, Contests and Picks
The 2016/17 NFL season is winding down, but the big fantasy football sites are still going strong with a full lineup of contests on offer for this weekend’s Divisional Round games. Only eight teams are...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: 2016/17 NFL Conference Championships
Well, here we are: the last weekend of pure daily fantasy football. Just three games remain this season and two of them happen this Sunday. Because federal law states that contests must involve two or...
View ArticleYou Can Play DFS Super Bowl Games Online – But You Need to Act Quickly
Yes, you can play in Super Bowl 51 fantasy contests at DraftKings and FanDuel this year, but you need to act quickly because lineups must be submitted by January 29th, 2017. That’s because this year’s...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy News Updates for February 2017
The football season has come and gone, but the big daily fantasy sports sites of the world have no offseason. Industry developments over the last month are encouraging as they show increasing interest...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy News Updates for March 2017
This month’s daily fantasy news roundup will have a distinctively legislative flavor as we catch up on legal updates from across the US. In fact, some of these stories were first reported on by other...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy News Updates for April 2017
Welcome back to another round of our daily fantasy sports news roundups. This month, we have four stories of particular interest: Arkansas Formally Legalizes Daily Fantasy Sports DFS Bill Moves Forward...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy News Updates for May 2017
Our topics of discussion today are divided between updates in the USA and updates in the rest of the world. Daily fantasy is still a young industry in the United States, but we’re already seeing DFS...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy News Roundup: June, 2017
This month’s daily fantasy roundup is dominated by one key piece of news that broke just hours ago: the FTC will challenge the proposed merger between DFS giants FanDuel and DraftKings. Rumors that the...
View ArticleFanDuel and DraftKings Call Off Proposed Merger
The proposed merger between FanDuel and DraftKings is off. Just hours ago, both sites sent notice that they were cancelling merger talks and will proceed forward as independent, competing companies....
View ArticleDaily Fantasy News Roundup: July, 2017
For the second month running, the much-anticipated merger between FanDuel and DraftKings dominated daily fantasy news. We reported last month that the FTC was planning to sue to block the merger...
View ArticleFanDuel Has Left the UK Market
FanDuel is withdrawing from the United Kingdom. FanDuel sent out an e-mail to all UK-based players informing them that the daily fantasy site will not be hosting contests for UK players this season and...
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