Dueling with Kings: High Stakes, Killer Sharks, and the Get-Rich Promise of Daily Fantasy Sports
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NHEU3MW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 536 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole into a billion-dollar industry by allowing sports fans to bet piles of cash constructing fantasy teams. Yet as Barbarisi quickly realized, what should have been a fun companion to casual sports viewing was instead a ferocious environment infested with sharks, a top tier of pros wielding complex algorithms, drafting hundreds of lineups, and wagering six figures daily as they bludgeon unsuspecting amateur "fish". Dan
Meet MaxDalury and Condia I can't give a stronger recommendation. I saw pre-publish outline for this book authored by a former Boston Globe writer and decided to wait two weeks for the release. The book is a combination auto-biography and documentary of the DFS industry. The book is well structured with early engagement on DFS players such as MaxDalury and Condia who made their profits from the author and I. The author decided to take a sabbatical and embed himself to become a . Inside Look at Daily Fantasy Sports Dueling with Kings by Daniel Barbarsi is an excellent book by a former Wall Street Journal staffer. Barbarsi enters and writes on the DFS (Daily Fantasy Sports) industry. He meets and befriends the top players (The Sharks and Whales) to learn their secrets. He explains how they became sharks by their computer scripting, multiple entries, juggling lineups, etc., and how the novice player (you and me) has absolutely no chance against them, at least not i. Sports, glamour, politics--this book has it all! Barbarisi does an excellent job of weaving together multiple perspectives to give a 360 view of the world of daily fantasy sports. Through Dan the DFS player, the read explores firsthand what it is like enter this new world and ponders the relationship between fish and sharks in the games. Through Dan the reporter, the reader learns the intricacies of the DFS business, the legal issues, and the political strategies of the companies. The friendships Dan