Fantasy Gambling
Daily fantasy sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel spent several years in a mostly successful state-by-state effort to convince legislatures that their product did not constitute gambling, a la sports betting that was mostly outlawed in all but Nevada. Supreme Court in 2018 threw out a 26-year-old federal law that banned that sports betting, and suddenly the distinction hardly seemed to matter. Fantasy sports-betting has been around for a long time but in the last few years it has absolutely exploded in popularity. Millions of people have signed up, drafted their own teams and are competing for real money. If you’re not one of them, you’re missing out. But which of the online fantasy sports betting sites is best?
Daily fantasy sports — a spin on traditional season-long fantasy sports contests — has been around since 2007. Many people just started hearing and learning about daily fantasy sports (DFS) in the past two years since the start of legal US sports betting. What is DFS, and what should you know about it?