If Sports Betting was legal in the USA would you still bet fantasy sports?

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I think people will still do the leagues, but it's hard to imagine fantasy sports not taking a huge hit.
 

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I like fantasy leagues way more than sports betting. But like sports betting way more than daily fantasy sports
 

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Most of the people that I know that do fantasy football leagues do not bet on sports.........

I don't have that problem because I hate fantasy sports.......

I hope they ban fantasy sports in the future because of all the fixing going on, lmao......like a group of guys pay off qb to throw a few int's so he does bad & their fantasy team wins, lol!

I wanna see a bigger scandal than what's going on with FIFA.....& then the commissioners of all major sports finally ban fantasy & publicly say that legalized straight wagering should only be allowed in all 50 states :)
 

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I don't do it......Fantasy is a big business though.
 

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More than 30 million Americans participate in fantasy football leagues, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.

Together they spent an estimated $11 billion on the activity last year.
 

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Been doing Fantasy since 1978...love 'em both
 

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I feel like there is a big difference between being in a decades old fantasy football league with your old high school buddies and playing Daily Fantasy Sports for money. Just my take.
 

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Most of the people that I know that do fantasy football leagues do not bet on sports.........

I don't have that problem because I hate fantasy sports.......

I hope they ban fantasy sports in the future because of all the fixing going on, lmao......like a group of guys pay off qb to throw a few int's so he does bad & their fantasy team wins, lol!

I wanna see a bigger scandal than what's going on with FIFA.....& then the commissioners of all major sports finally ban fantasy & publicly say that legalized straight wagering should only be allowed in all 50 states :)

Lol, can't really see this happening at the pro level. Not enough $, however, Fantasy college football has been getting bigger and bigger the last few years. Some weeks on the late slate you have these guys from the Mountain West that are really good plays. The totals on a lot of these games are in the 70s. Many of these guys have limited futures beyond college, so if it were to keep growing at the rate it has grown then that is somewhere to potentially look for corruption.
 

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Hey, I forgot about college sports daily fantasy contests, etc.....

College football w/o a doubt will only get bigger......college basketball fantasy contests will probably be big as well, especially during march madness.....but the fantasy contests can't compete with the bracket of march madness IMO.
 

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To get a player to rig march madness would be a lot more difficult than to get a player to rig a Mountain West game starting at 10pm that like 200k people are going to watch. So this is where I could see some shenanigans but even that is just a theory.
 

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I do both now, I doubt anything would change fo me
 

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Hey, I forgot about college sports daily fantasy contests, etc.....

College football w/o a doubt will only get bigger......college basketball fantasy contests will probably be big as well, especially during march madness.....but the fantasy contests can't compete with the bracket of march madness IMO.

Also, while it would be funny, I wouldn't be hoping for any type of scandal like the one you are describing. Likely people would just freak the hell out and then sports betting becoming legal gets even further delayed.
 

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Also, while it would be funny, I wouldn't be hoping for any type of scandal like the one you are describing. Likely people would just freak the hell out and then sports betting becoming legal gets even further delayed.



Sports betting should have been legal in all 50 states since the 90's......only reason it hasn't is the mob is making billions, & football is their cash cow.

Judges are being paid off by the suitcase......in Delaware alone, a judge declared straight sports betting legal several years ago, & they set a date & everything, & then with a week before the casinos were about to take their first ever straight wagers, another judge shuts it down & says only parlays will be allowed......

Lmao@ crooked politicians & judges......big money was being paid to someone to over turn another judge......I still can't understand why they allowed that judge to overturn the other.

IMO, the reason why the leagues love fantasy sports is because its too difficult for anyone playing fantasy sports to fix a game, unlike a group of guys paying 20k to a college kid to fumble a few times in a west coast late game like you stated.
 

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Sports betting should have been legal in all 50 states since the 90's......only reason it hasn't is the mob is making billions, & football is their cash cow.

Judges are being paid off by the suitcase......in Delaware alone, a judge declared straight sports betting legal several years ago, & they set a date & everything, & then with a week before the casinos were about to take their first ever straight wagers, another judge shuts it down & says only parlays will be allowed......

Lmao@ crooked politicians & judges......big money was being paid to someone to over turn another judge......I still can't understand why they allowed that judge to overturn the other.

IMO, the reason why the leagues love fantasy sports is because its too difficult for anyone playing fantasy sports to fix a game, unlike a group of guys paying 20k to a college kid to fumble a few times in a west coast late game like you stated.

The reason it is legal is because at the time of the exemption for fantasy sports in the UIGEA in 2006, nobody really saw fantasy sports taking it off like it did. The exemption was supposed to be for people playing $50-500 fantasy leagues with their friends, some minor contests by major sports sites, etc....Not an actual come 1, come all site that runs million dollar contests on a weekly basis. Then once it happened, the leagues eventually got behind it...

“The carve-out, as I recall, was considered a kind of footnote,” Jim Leach, the now-retired Republican congressman from Iowa who co-authored the bill, said in an e-mail. “It was never much discussed during consideration of UIGEA because it was considered like horse racing, already part of the American betting scene.”


 

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I don't think bookies/underground would be totally screwed if it became legal though. Not like the license holders are gonna let you bet on credit and if it were legal it would probably have 1099 issuing for big scores which would blow (not single bets either, net winnings for the year so much harder to avoid taxes)

So Vinny The Wrench and the Alabama Hustler should still do OK.
 

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