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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