Controversy Over National Fantasy Football Championships
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00:03 OK, now this is another troubling one,
00:05 because on my show, Fantasy Sports, today,
00:08 we use a lot of discussion on the NFFC, the National Fantasy
00:12 Football Championships, and also the NFBC, the National Fantasy
00:16 Baseball Championships.
00:17 They have these huge contests, live drafts in New York City
00:20 every year, and in Las Vegas.
00:22 They're coming up again.
00:23 And to me, I mean, not as certainly disturbing
00:28 as this story about LSU, but this is just another one
00:32 that makes you want to question a lot of things,
00:34 without a doubt.
00:35 There was an employee that was involved
00:37 in a contest for the National Fantasy Football Championships
00:40 that allowed a player to swap in to a lineup
00:45 after he had already scored a touchdown,
00:47 and he thought he was going to get away with this.
00:49 And Matthew, I understand that this company is going
00:51 to come out, they're going to make statements,
00:53 and they're going to say all the right things here,
00:55 but you would be so naive to not want to go take a look back
00:59 at every contest that's ever been happening
01:01 at the NFFC and NFBC.
01:03 I'm sorry to say, that to me is--
01:05 I would look at all the things that I lost,
01:07 and I would want to go back and see, hey,
01:09 was there anything screwy going on?
01:11 Yeah, absolutely.
01:13 I mean, it's another just unfortunate situation.
01:16 And the fantasy sport industry has had a bunch of these
01:18 lately, where companies are just up and disappearing
01:22 with people's money, not paying them back, what have you.
01:25 And now you get something like this,
01:27 where you can't even trust the staff of these companies now.
01:32 And yeah, it leads to that skepticism.
01:35 It leads to that perception that, well,
01:37 if something went wrong here, when else did it happen?
01:40 Where else could it have happened?
01:42 How much money did I lose because somebody missed this?
01:45 Because look, this seems like a really dumb thing
01:49 to try to do, too, because the changes are time-stamped,
01:52 according to Sports Hub.
01:54 So I don't know how anybody thought
01:56 they were going to get away with this,
01:58 unless maybe just enough people weren't looking at it,
02:01 paying attention.
02:03 This is something that we need to hear more about as well.
02:06 The fantasy industry has taken some lumps lately.
02:09 And when you talk about competitions
02:11 that are as big as this, we're not
02:13 talking about casual players.
02:15 We're not talking about people that
02:17 are throwing $5 down on a 50-50 with their friends
02:20 on DraftKings.
02:21 We're talking about real money, real players.
02:25 And it's just crazy, Craig, if I'm being honest with you,
02:29 because you'd hope that this kind of stuff does not happen.
02:33 You trust that these companies have everything
02:36 under wraps and secure.
02:39 It feels crazy to me to still be talking about fantasy sports
02:43 scandals like this.
02:46 Nine years after DraftKings and Fando
02:48 had a scandal of their own, it just
02:52 makes you wonder how something like this could have happened.
02:54 And again, to your point, if it happened now,
02:57 when else did it happen?
02:58 I think that skepticism is completely fair.
03:02 I think Sports Hub coming out and defending and saying
03:05 that this is the only time that we've seen it,
03:08 I think that's completely fair too.
03:09 But we have to do more than say it, right?
03:11 I think people want to know for sure.
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