FANALYTICS: This game is illegal
Jul 10 2014
According to the Powers That Be, daily fantasy games are perfectly legal. They are games of skill; they are not gambling.
If only it was that cut and dried.
Back in 2005, I introduced a game called Quint-Inning. It was a fantasy contest built around a single major league game. It contained most of the same elements that are a part of today's daily games.
But Quint-Inning is illegal.
Well actually, I'm sure a bunch of us could play it in my basement without the feds crashing in, but it would be shut down pretty quickly if I tried to run it as a commercial operation.
Even though the core of the game is no different from what you'd find at FanDuel or DraftStreet.
Here is a Quint-Inning rules summary (also see page 48 in this year's...
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