Five percent of players are the big fish they lost $1,100 on entry fees of $3,600 on average.These contestants accounted for 23 percent of all entry fees and 77 percent of all profits. The rest of the top 1.3 percent of players paid, on average, $9,100 in entry fees and profited $2,400 each, for a 27 percent return on investment, which is extremely impressive.The winningest player in our sample profited $400,000 on $3 million in entry fees. They accounted for 17 percent of all entry fees. The top 11 players paid, on average, $2 million in entry fees and profited $135,000 each.If you would like information about this content we will be happy to work with you. We strive to provide individuals with disabilities equal access to our website. In the first half of the 2015 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, 91 percent of DFS player profits were won by just 1.3 percent of players (exhibit). Another tournament in May set a record for the largest live poker tournament ever, with 22,374 entrants-pros and weekend warriors alike.ĭFS affords a huge advantage to skilled players. Indeed, on June 13, 2015, at the World Series of Poker, a 51-year-old football coach from Jupiter, Florida, defeated seven pros in the final table of a $5,000 tournament to win $567,000. Poker thrives because an amateur can beat the best players in the world. Chess is popular, but almost no one plays it for money, because it’s far too skill based the better player wins almost every time. For a real-money contest to achieve sustained popularity, it needs the right balance of skill versus luck.
With sponsorships in every US major league, DFS advertising will soon exceed the levels of online-poker sites PokerStars and Full Tilt during the pre-2011 poker boom.īut investors are overlooking a fundamental operating challenge: the risk that the skill element of daily fantasy is so high that DFS pros will wipe out recreational players in short order. DraftKings’ exclusive advertising deal with Disney reportedly guarantees $250 million in advertising on ESPN. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, Comcast/NBCUniversal, and others have invested in FanDuel, whose valuation now exceeds $1 billion. Yahoo announced on July 8 that it will join the fray. In 2014, 1.5 million Americans paid more than $1 billion in tournament entry fees, and FanDuel grew 300 percent in active customers.
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