Draft Kings, the controversial but popular fictional sports service, announced its launch in the U.K.
The Boston-based company has paid more than a billion to its 6 million registered players. Still, it is also embroiled in legal issues and concerns over whether it is a form of gambling – and how it should be managed.
The service allows players to participate in one-day competitions, in which they select teams in a particular sport and compete based on a variety of statistical metrics. This formula has proven to work well with NFL and NFL-based DragKings and rival Edinburgh-based FanDuel, a statistical game, and an imaginary game.
But the Draft Kings already offer games for the NBA, NHL, Major League Soccer, and Golf, among other sports, and expect fans to have one last chance to make their mark in European football and the Premier League.
Fantasy games are also prominent in the U.K., but they traditionally include month-long competitions at the end of the season.
Service said it would partner with Arsenal, Liverpool, and Watford football clubs to announce the new service before it launches on a large scale before the 2016/7 Premier League season in August. He said it would “work to bring the players into action as much as possible” and also look for ways to bring “some healthy competition between North American and British players.”
Draft Kings says it has already opened an office in London as part of the U.K. launch, the British gambler reports.
Although the site is a massive success in the United States and is now valued at over $1 billion, there are fears that it could be staged in several U.S. states where online gambling, online gambling Poker, including, is banned but is not currently a fictional game, meaning it must be diversified in other markets. In New York, the attorney general’s office pointed out that most players – about 90% – lost money between 2013 and 2014. However, the announcement focused on a small number of players rather than making big money.
Draft Kings was also the subject of a recent controversy in which employees were accused of using data at work to help launder money from other sites.
In an interview with The Wired, Jeffrey Haas, a senior international officer at Draft Kings, said their product is a skill game, not a chance, and should not be compared to a direct bet – although the service is a U.K. function. By the way, yes, gambling commission. “You don’t bet on individual club results; all you do is use your statistical skills to understand and analyze the probability that individual players from multiple teams and multiple sports will win games,” he said. “To create the best lineup in each of our competitions. You don’t enter the competition based on game results but on individual players’ results during games and the imaginary numbers of millions of players. There are combinations you can use to win. Continue building the app.
He noted that although football is considered a lesser sport than most other sports in the United States, it has essential characteristics that have already made football-based recruitment successful in the states. “It encourages players to follow the rest of the game,” he said. Because a clean sheet at the end of the game is also appropriate, so if this game loses 3-1 or loses 3-0, you are totally interested in the future because there are different players than you who have clean sheets, and that is your raw score with the end of the result.
