Victiv
Daily Fantasy Sports for Real Money
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Daily Fantasy Sports for Real Money
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We remind ourselves every day, this is just the start. We've built a team that's passionate about the game and is incredible from a technical standpoint. We look forward to bringing our full vision to the market.
2. Thanks!
3. I'd say that the term "new" is relative here. Is the game unique? No, at least not the one that we're releasing right now. Is the game new? Depends. There are over 40 million American and Canadians that play fantasy sports; however, a fraction of those are currently daily fantasy players. The market is certainly still in its infancy, so it's new to many fantasy sports players.
That being said, your point has been taken and the design team is already throwing around new adjectives to utilize in replace.
4. That's not how it's suppose to work. Could you email beta@victiv.com so we can quiz you a little further to try and fix that issue?
Thanks for the feedback! Would love for you to take part in the $5k freeroll for tomorrow's NFL games and give us your impression of the in-play experience.Anchor for AndroidVictivAnchor for Android
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In the above chart, what we see is the following:
Gronkowski [39 games since 2011] Average 13.4 points & 20+ points in 11 games (28.2%)
Graham [57 games since 2011] Average 11.3 points & 20+ points in 7 games (12.3%)
Gronkowski averages 2.1 more fantasy points per game when he plays, has a higher ceiling, and is more than twice as likely to post 20+ fantasy points in a given game. Based on that assessment, we suggest that Gronkowski is priced fairly compared to Graham.
The counterargument, of course, is that Gronkowski is fragile. But we're dealing with daily fantasy sports pricing. We would contend you're correct in a diminished value for season long formats given relativity to Graham's solid track record of starting in games.
But, when Gronkowski is on the field, he consistently outperforms Graham (who consistently outperforms all other TEs), hence the pricing difference for our format.
Our Chief Information Officer, Earl Mitchell (our resident physicist and previously a Director at Wolfram Alpha's consulting arm) has spent significant time building a set of salaries that are algorithmically geared towards being as predictive as possible of actual athlete performance --- there is no systematic bias across positions. The algorithms are retrained regularly and the methods used are state of the art. We're extremely excited to be offering what we feel will be the sharpest regular season salaries in the industry.
TL;DR --- Gronkowski is better than Graham, historically, in a daily fantasy sports variant. We know this because our resident physicist says so.Startup TVVictiv