Comments on: Fantasy Sports Live: Daily Fantasy Sports for Profit

By: Matt Turner

Matt Turner — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:53:12 +0000

Fast forward almost two years from when the article above was written. Draftmix has closed their doors. FSL keeps chugging along and has grown their user base, but their contests are the same thing every day. I’ve played at FSL and it is a good site, no doubt. My favorite, however, is http://365fantasysports.com. They have a decent sized user base and the site is easy to navigate, but the best thing about it is the variety of their contests. I won’t go into them all here, but let’s just say that you will never get bored of that site. There’s so many different types of contests, each with a wide variety of buy-in levels. Their vig is as fair as any in the small community of daily fantasy sites. (WARNING: UNless you like paying twice as much for your wagers as you should, avoid SNAPDRAFT. Their fees are DOUBLE those of FSL and 365.) Overall, I’d rank 365 as the best daily site, followed by FSL…Fantazzle and Fanduel are tied at a distant 3rd / 4th place.

By: Draftmix

Draftmix — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:59:11 +0000

@kevin, I wouldn’t say our Alexa rankings are impressive at all yet. Stay tuned though.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:09:06 +0000

bobeubanks,

We actually market our products to Gorillas. I Stand by the spelling, lol.

Matt,

Your Alexa rankings are impressive. I think that traffic at sites like ours will be judged more like an online poker site. Traffic is how many contests (Tables) are open, and how many players are entered.

By: Draftmix

Draftmix — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:32:56 +0000

2 Things:
1. It’s hilarious that they can’t even answer the technology question. They use PHP/Linux. See, I’m their competitor, and I answered it for them.
2. We have more traffic than them. See Alexa.

By: bobeubanks

bobeubanks — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:54:16 +0000

I think it’s guerrilla marketing, not gorilla.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:51:31 +0000

Thanks for trying out the website. Live drafts have always been in the plans for FSL. For them to work properly you need multiplayer contests to form very rapidly (less than 1 hour typically), so that users can register, and then live draft in a reasonable amount of time. We don’t currently have the required traffic to support live drafts, but are getting there rapidly. Sit & Go style multiplayer live drafts rarely run on our competitor’s sites, because people are unwilling to wait all day (or days) for them to fill up and start drafting. We are always working on new draft methods to add to our contest variety, and have several other unique draft methods in the development queue.

We don’t currently offer projections, and other fantasy news on our site because there are so many other great resources on the web for this. We may offer this type of content in the future, but our current main focus is our Fantasy Sports Contests.