Phil Galfond involved with new DFS site "Draftboard", attempting to make things better for rec players

Here's Haley Hintze's article about it: http://www.flushdraw.net/news/phil-g...te-draftboard/

This is actually a good idea.

Draftboard is attempting to be the new "third option" for DFS (behind FanDuel and DraftKings, who hold 90% of the market).

The twist will come from a new system preventing pro players from running out hundreds or thousands of entries to crush recreational players.

They will accomplish this by "pairing" multiple entries to go up against each other.

For example, if a recreational player enters once, he will only be against the first entry of each player on the site, no matter how many other times they enter.

So what of the remaining multiple entries? They will go against other players with multiple entries! So a 2nd entry will compete against everyone else's 2nd entry, the 3rd entry will be against everyone else's 3rd entry, and so on. This greatly decreases the value of multiple entries, as your competition will be getting increasingly tough (presumably) with each additional entry.

Great idea, as the DFS bumhunters were basically ruining the entire concept of these sites by running complex analysis tools and then blanketing each tournament with hundreds or thousands of optimal entries (thus largely removing luck/variance which should otherwise be a huge part of DFS).

Will this catch on or be successful? Who knows?

Unfortunately, 20 US states are restricted from Draftboard. These are: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. Puerto Rico also cannot play on Draftboard. This is done in order to prevent legal issues with states where DFS is either illegal or questionable.

definitely applaud phil for trying to fix DFS because it is broken...and i'm not just talking about the mass multi entry guys who share lineups, research, and other shit...rake is spiraling out of control...used to be around 10ish% a few years ago, now for the big GPPs on DK and FD it has jumped to 16%...that's legit unbeatable for all but the topest of top pros...fish, they're better off buying a couple of lotto scratchers...

only issue I see is this...if each person's 1st entry goes against others first entries and on down the line how are the GPPs structured? are they all different GPPs? so it would be 'first entry GPP', then a separate 'second entry GPP', and so on down the line...if that's the case this will fail...while fish are getting raped by the pros in these GPPs, the allure of DFS is 'hey let's put in $20, make a few quick lineups and have the chance to win a million on any given sunday'...with this sorta tiered structure GPPs will never reach a large enough size to attract the rec players with the eye popping first place prizes...

I played a shitton of DFS the last three years especially when college football was still offered...I play almost zero now due to the rake, these fucking massive multi entry tourneys, bullshit scumbaggery of the top pros, and the like...whenever I do fire a tourney up it's usually a 5 entry max to where I'm not getting fucking hammered by the pros and their algos...ill never ship a 6 figure score, but when these guys are left to compete with only a few lineups some of their edge is taken away...not saying the top guys are winning just because of mass multi-entry...that's not the case at all, these guys are good at what they do; however 150 entries in the hands of a skilled player is dangerous as hell...

off topic: what DFS really needs is a PFA like site...fucking rotogrinders is such dogshit...it's one big circle jerk for the top players, some (not all) of whom are fucking scumbags (shocker I know)...but what can you expect from a pocket 5s clone...that site is fucking bigger garbage than 4...