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Daily Fantasy Points added to Game Finder, player pages

Posted by Hans Van Slooten on May 14, 2015

We've extended the Daily Fantasy Points to the Play Index Game Finders as well as adding a chart to the player pages showing their DFS points over the current season. These statistics are located towards the far right of the table. DFS (DK) stands for DraftKings points, while DFS (FD) stands for FanDuel points.

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We'd also like to take this opportunity to remind our users that a $15 deposit on a new DraftKings account through this link will come with a free year of Play Index access (normally $36/yr). More details on this offer can be found here.

We hope daily fantasy players enjoy this new feature and would love to hear about any other features you would like to see.

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6 Responses to “Daily Fantasy Points added to Game Finder, player pages”

  1. Chuck Says: May 16th, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    Look, I get that DraftKings are spending an assload of money to spend on marketing and whatnot, but I do not love how their influence has infiltrated into game stats. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see what the historical DraftKings value on a player has anything to do with their performance on a baseball field.

  2. Matt Says: May 18th, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    Agreed. This is a crappy move and I hope the braintrust at the site things better of this. I'll get my stats elsewhere and give someone else the pageclicks.

  3. sean Says: May 18th, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Matt and Chuck,

    thank you for your feedback. We are adding these stats because there is a lot of demand for them.

    Yes DraftKings does pay us for advertising on other aspects of the site, but we are not including the #'s here as part of any advertising contract.

    We've gotten a lot of requests to add these numbers to the player gamelogs and I suspect they get a lot more use than RE24 or WPA which has a small, albeit dedicated audience.

  4. Chuck Says: May 19th, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    That's all well and good, Sean, and there's a lot to be said about giving the people what they want. There just seems to be an insidiousness to the native advertising that DraftKings (essentially an ESPN sister company) is carpet-bombing us with, across every sport and on all platforms, forcing us to witness their fantasy value data being injected into the reporting of sports alongside the performance on the field and the statistics that reflect it, as though it were actual content. It elevates the fantasy to the level of reality, blending the two until you don't see where one ends and the other begins. Maybe that's the future of sports, which is nothing more than a leisure activity anyway. But I believe the crowdsourcing of valuation that serves as the core of fantasy sports works at cross-purposes against the reality of performance that should serve as the real source of valuation, and this ultimately serves to confuse rather than to illuminate.

  5. John Autin Says: May 27th, 2015 at 10:06 am

    Making the fantasy data available is one thing, but I'm truly disappointed to see that stuff placed so high on B-R player home pages. It feels very wrong that I have to scroll past non-baseball info to get to basic things like fielding stats.

  6. John Autin Says: May 27th, 2015 at 11:53 am

    I'll add that, whereas a porn website might draw more eyes and make more money, you've chosen instead to run a baseball stats website ... for which I am eternally grateful and supportive. Placing the fantasy stats prominently among real stats is a step in the wrong direction.