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Originally Posted by NDfan
I absolutely believe anyone who plays DFS regularly can predict ownership percantages closely enough to the point that is relevant.
The focus on ownership percentages is missing the forest through the trees. What is essentially being scandalized here is that employees have access to significant and important insider information. Ownership percentages are one, but there are others which would be worse:
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Haralabos Voulgaris @haralabob Oct 3
I don’t really care about that as much as the ability for employees to view what the sharps are playing and copy.
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Nate Silver @NateSilver538 19h19 hours ago
Bigger problem probably not a DraftKings employee playing at FanDuel but leaking lineup info to his buddies, who use it on DraftKings.
You might argue there's no definitive proof that this happens, and I could grant that there is no definite proof.
But by the same token I think you probably have to grant the skeptics larger point, that the uncertainty of who has access to what data is problematic for game integrity. The uncertainty is not comforting.
As others have said, there are far smaller businesses for far smaller industries which seemingly have better and more transparent data protection policies. I work in the IT space that interacts with customer data and we have strict contracts we sign with every client of ours for how we handle their customer data (e.g., names, addresses, emails) and there is strict protocol as to who has access to it, and we're liable (e.g., we would get sued) for mishandling the data.
It's not clear what the protocol is for the DFS industry but it's not hard to look mightily skeptically at guys who seemingly have insider information and are crushing the games. Of course the guys within the industry are also the kinds of people who would otherwise be sharp players, granted. So I wouldn't say there's some definitive case of cheating. But the optics surely are poor.