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Lineups need to be posted ahead of time for the purpose of Betting on sites likes Draftkings

Pentimento··2 votes·513 views

In every major sport lineups are posted ahead of time. When people are betting on daily fantasy sports they need to know who is playing ahead of time because there are sites like Draftkings that list multiple players for a position (example Haru/Bubbling, junglers for CJ Entus) and without knowing who is playing ahead of time it's impossible to choose who we should have in the starting lineup, thus making it even more of a guessing game. There should be some standard in regards to starting lineups. I'm sure there is a rule in place that they need to be locked in X amount of time before the game so the other team knows who they're playing against and that information should be made public as well so that people can accurately set up lineups accordingly. It seems pretty minor/easy to implement and it will help betting on games tremendously.

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Miror B1 votes

Or they could leave it as it is, and not have gambling tarnish yet another childhood pasttime of mine.

Pentimento1 votes

Yeah man gambling is going to ruin League like it ruined the MLB NBA NHL AND NFL. Oh wait it never did. Betting on sports helps grow the game because it gets more people invested and it's pretty harmless overall. It's a really sheltered mindset to think that having people wager $10 on some league games will ruin the integrity of the sport. It's 2016 not 1920 bro.

Miror B1 votes

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Yeah man gambling is going to ruin League like it ruined the MLB NBA NHL AND NFL. Oh wait it never did. Betting on sports helps grow the game because it gets more people invested and it's pretty harmless overall. It's a really sheltered mindset to think that having people wager $10 on some league games will ruin the integrity of the sport. It's 2016 not 1920 bro.

The difference though being accessability. I'm fine with people wanting to waste their cash on stuff like that, the problem is that this essentially a game in which most of its playerbase is youth. I'd make a long and tedious argument with multiple links on how this is essentially the "selling cigarettes/alcohol to kids" of the 21st century, too tired though, gonna take a nap.

Pentimento1 votes

Is it though? Is there numbers to back that up somewhere that say most of the playerbase is under 18 (where it's legal to gamble where I live)

Bluedpie1 votes

Well i had a similar problem when i was doing draftkings. I can help you make your lineups if you would like, but they usually make most of their changes very late at night for lpl lck and lms. na and eu usually really early in the morning like an hr or 2 before the game begins. And sometimes not at all. I used to win draftkings all the time, til they decided to ban it in NYS. When you make your line ups you should be going for the sure-thing. If you want any advice just add me in game and ill help u win.

Pentimento1 votes

I appreciate the offer but I'm already a pretty high earning player on Alphadraft I just wish DK would adopt the same formula they use for games

Bluedpie1 votes

If you dont mind me asking what are you making a week for it? Alpha draft is fun but i want another flex.

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