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The Significance of Targets in Fantasy Football

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When you’re evaluating pass-catchers in fantasy football, you have to understand targets, BetWinner Brazil . There aren’t going to be receiving yards, touchdowns, or receptions without a target. 

When you’re building a fantasy football roster, you want players who are going to earn targets. Picking winners is part art, part science , BetWinner APK download .When it comes to reading daily fantasy articles and doing your research, you’ll see that targets are what’s ultimately going to set receivers apart from one another. 

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Fantasy Football Waiver-Wire Watchlist: Sleepers For Week 15

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The playoffs are officially upon you in Week 15. Whether it be the quarterfinals or the semi-finals, many owners are focused on making the perfect start ‘em, sit ‘em decisions for this week. One fatal error could cost you from making the championship and winning the prize pool. It’s smart to add a matchup-based player, or a high-rising handcuff to avoid worrying about owners with higher waiver wire claims. 

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Scandal Erupts in Unregulated World of Fantasy Football

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By JOE DRAPE and JACQUELINE WILLIAMSOCT. 5, 2015

A major scandal is erupting in the multibillion-dollar industry of fantasy sports, the online and unregulated business in which players assemble their fantasy teams with real athletes. On Monday, the two major fantasy companies were forced to release statements defending their businesses’ integrity after what amounted to allegations of insider trading, that employees were placing bets using information not generally available to the public.

The statements were released after an employee at DraftKings, one of the two major companies, admitted last week to inadvertently releasing data before the start of the third week of N.F.L. games. The employee, a midlevel content manager, won $350,000 at a rival site, FanDuel, that same week.

“It is absolutely akin to insider trading,” said Daniel Wallach, a sports and gambling lawyer at Becker & Poliakoff in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “It gives that person a distinct edge in a contest.”

The episode has raised questions about who at daily fantasy companies has access to valuable data, such as which players a majority of the money is being bet on; how it is protected; and whether the industry can — or wants — to police itself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/sports/fanduel-draftkings-fantasy-employees-bet-rivals.html?_r=0

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We Are not Joking ,Pallone Calls for Congress to Investigate Fantasy football leagues

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Ridgewood NJ , Not worried about ISIS, jobs, immigration, Veterans or taxes Democrat Frank Pallone is concerned  that Fantasy Football leagues are undermining the moral fabric of western society.

 On September 14th New Jersey’s own Congressmen Frank Pallone , sent a letter to his Republican counterparts on Monday, asking the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to “hold a hearing examining the relationship between professional sports and fantasy sports to review the legal status of fantasy sports and sports betting.” (https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/hearing%20request%20Fantasy%20Sport%20Sept14.2015.pdf )

Pallone called on Congress to investigate fantasy sports websites that have thus far evaded restrictions on online gambling. Pallone has cited FanDuel and DraftKings as particularly prominent daily fantasy sites. In a recent letter to Fred Upton Chair of the House Energy and Commerce committee  “Anyone who watched a game this weekend was inundated by commercials for fantasy sports websites, and it’s only the first week of the NFL season,” he said in a statement Monday. “These sites are enormously popular, arguably central to the fans’ experience, and professional leagues are seeing the enormous profits as a result. Despite how mainstream these sites have become, though, the legal landscape governing these activities remains murky and should be reviewed.” (https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/hearing%20request%20Fantasy%20Sport%20Sept14.2015.pdf )

Pallone also conjured concerns that players might use fantasy sports to bet on games. “Team involvement in daily fantasy sports also raises questions of whether players or league personnel, who may be able to affect the outcome of a game, should be allowed to participate in daily fantasy sports,” he wrote in a September 14 letter to his GOP counterparts on the committee. “Given the professional sports leagues professional players [sic] deep involvement with fantasy sports, this Committee, as the committee with jurisdiction over professional sports and gambling, should examine the relationship between fantasy sports and gambling and the relationships between professional sports leagues, teams, players, and fantasy sports operators.” (https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/hearing%20request%20Fantasy%20Sport%20Sept14.2015.pdf)