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Daily Fantasy Sports industry analyst Joe Brennan, Jr. tweeted Tuesday that the New York Times may have a hidden agenda when it comes to their scathing report on a recent scandal at DraftKings.
Both DraftKings and FanDuel were forced to release statements defending their businesses’ integrity after what amounted to allegations of insider trading, that employees were placing bets using information not generally available to the public.
The statements were released after an employee at DraftKings, one of the two major companies, admitted last week to inadvertently releasing data before the start of the third week of N.F.L. games. The employee, a midlevel content manager, won $350,000 at a rival site, FanDuel, that same week. The New York Times was among the first mainstream media outlets to report the story.
Brennan Jr. tweeted:
I wonder if the NY Times got so anti-DFS b/c former editor Dan Okrent invented fantasy & never made a dime off of it?
Brennan Jr. then went on to reference a report appearing in the New York Times on March 1996 detailing how Okrent invented Rotisserie League Baseball, not the Daily Fantasy element.
And it is Daily Fantasy Sports along with the sector’s big two companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, that have raked in millions, not Okrent.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
