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Fantasy Football's Key Players Play Stack The Deck

  • NPR, Wednesday, October 7, 2015 8 AM

DraftKings and FanDuel are the monsters of fantasy football for cash prizes. And they spend monstrous sums on TV ads, to the tune of $500 million so far this year. Will their game get rained out by news of possible unethical behavior by an insider — a DraftKings employee who just happened to win $350,000 playing on FanDuel. What will happen? Probably nothing. Investors in these companies include the likes of the NBA, Time Warner, NBC, MLB, NHL, and Major League Soccer. They have a real interest in wanting the pair to succeed. 

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