Tell me if you’ve heard that one before...

My name is Dan Quinn and I’m obsessed with daily fantasy sports. Phil and I started Run It Once together many years ago, and he was nice enough to indulge my passion and launch Draftboard with me several months ago. While he focuses on the nascent launch of Run It Once Poker, I’m working on perfecting Draftboard.



We offer NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL contests and pride ourselves on having the most fair contest structure in the DFS industry. We also have real time animations that track your players as they accrue fantasy points.

We’re dedicated to building the DFS platform that players want, and that’s why we started this thread. If you have any ideas for new features, things that bother you about other sites, or you just want to tell us how badly we mispriced Kershaw, this is the spot for it.

If you haven’t tried Draftboard yet, we bonus $1 on sign-up so you can try us out risk free. Right now we are giving 2+2ers an additional $10 if you deposit $20 or more. Simply post your Draftboard username in this thread and we’ll credit your account within 60 minutes. Include an idea or suggestion for improvement along with your username and we'll double your bonus!



A couple things we know we have to address:

• Our mobile app is not completed yet. TLDR but we hired a high end studio to build out our iOS app, and their lead iOS dev resigned halfway through the project. We hired that individual directly and he decided to stop working entirely several months later. We then hired a Tokyo based developer who was nice enough to inflate his hours dramatically, so he’s gone as well. If any of you are proficient in Swift, shoot me a PM.
• We operate in a limited number of US states and Canada only. We’re very risk averse when it comes to interpreting state gaming laws (Phil and I are both small humans and would not last long in prison) and the fee structure in several other states ($50k + revenue tax for several) means that we simply can’t operate in them.
• Our contests are 10 or 2 man. We think this makes the experience more personal because you know every one of your opponents, but it does result in small prize pools. I don’t personally think DFS and lottery-sized payouts need to be combined, but if I’ve got that wrong we’re basically cooked as there’s no way we can approach the payouts offered by Fanduel and DraftKings.

Thanks for reading this far and I’m looking forward to your responses!
Dan

Just want everyone to know this thread has been approved to be in NVG.

As someone who doesn't care about DFS but is a potential future customer of RIO, this entire post is a big red flag to me. The fact that you are making a marketing play on Phil's original blog post "A poker site should" just shows that a big part of your team has not understood how incredibly naive and stupid the timing as well as the content of that blog post was, and how that resonates now with people given that there is no poker site but a DFS site instead, esp on this forum.

I would like a site to offer over/under point totals on specific players. It would be person vs person as one guy would take the over, and someone else the under. This would be nice for Monday night games to use as a hedge. Or even find two players who are priced similarly and let customers bet on one or the other.

Any chance of adding MMA offers in the future?

Best of luck with everything and to all... Would you rather a site with multiple offers or no site at all?
Realistically a new site either needs some strong partnerships or it has to offer other things besides poker.

All contests are 2 or 10 man?

That is a reason I would never bother with this site

The title was a (failed) attempt at self-deprecating humor. Sorry to offend.

We wouldn't be able to offer something like this on a single player under the current legal climate, but your second idea would be fine IMO. So basically a Westbrook vs. Harden H2H where users could take whichever side they want and we match them up?

Thanks for the kind words. MMA is definitely a possibility for the future but golf is next up. Still trying to come up with a compelling game structure there that works with the limited amount of data the PGA allows third-party access to.

For a number of reasons, we are intentionally doing things differently from the other sites, and if it means we're not right for you I totally understand. That said, if you dislike small fields due to the lack of upside, our two NFL Record Breaker winners binked $10k off a $1 and $2 contest, respectively. That's the idea - small contests with big upside provided by promotions that you're auto entered in by joining any contest.