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Lädt ... Dueling with Kings: High Stakes, Killer Sharks, and the Get-Rich Promise of Daily Fantasy Sportsvon Daniel Barbarisi
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In the spirit of Bringing Down the House and The Wolf of Wall Street, "an engrossing and often hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the characters, compulsions, and chaos inside the fantasy sports gold rush. It's the perfect meld of a sports and business book, engagingly written like a fun, page-turning novel" (The Wall Street Journal). Daniel Barbarisi quit his job as a New York Yankees beat writer and began a quest to join the top one percent of Daily Fantasy Sports ("DFS") players, the so-called "sharks," in hopes to discover the secrets behind this phenomenon--and potentially make some money along the way. DFS is fantasy sports on steroids. It's the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole into a billion-dollar industry by allowing sports fans to bet piles of cash constructing fantasy teams. Yet as Barbarisi quickly realizes, what should have been a fun companion to casual sports viewing was instead a ferocious environment infested with sharks, a top tier of pros wielding complex algorithms, drafting hundreds of lineups, and wagering six figures daily as they bludgeon unsuspecting amateur "fish." Barbarisi embeds himself inside the world of DFS, befriending and joining its rogue's gallery as he tries to beat them at their own game. In a work equal parts adventure and rigorously reported investigation, Barbarisi wades into this chaotic industry at the very moment its existence is threatened by lawmakers sick of its Wild West atmosphere and pushy advertising. All their money made FanDuel and DraftKings seem invincible; but, as Barbarisi reports, they made plenty of dubious--perhaps even scandalous--moves as they vied for market supremacy. In Dueling with Kings, Barbarisi uncovers the tumultuous inside story of DFS, all while capturing its peculiar cast of characters, from wide-eyed newly minted millionaires, to sun-starved math geeks, to bros living an endless frat party of keggers and Playboy Bunnies. Can he outwit them all and make it to the top? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The story in infectious; a man bored with his job as a sports journalist stumbles upon a world he never knew of, DFS. He starts cautiously and carefully, researching the history of it and interviewing people involved with DFS, but like a kid whose discovered a new video game, he eventually can't help himself and almost recklessly jumps in with both feet and almost immediately it becomes part of who is he and what he thinks about daily. Seeing this as a form of gambling, Barbarisi does stop to look inward several times to consider the ramifications of being a gambling addict and whether he is one or will become one. All the while, he is giving us a sorted history of DFS and how the governmental opinion and legal status of the DFS is still evolving and changing. I immediately found myself cheering for Barbarisi and wanting to get to know as many of the characters of DFS as possible, from his teachers, to his fellow competitors, to the DFS gurus who now educate more than play, to his wife, who happily helped him and put up with her former journalist/current fulltime DFS player of a husband through all of his succesSes and failures along the way. The climax of the book, where Barbarisi is trying to win a major DFS tournament, was great; I found myself reading fasting and harder towards the end and even audibly reacting a couple of times.
A entertaining book written in a style that anyone can understand and connect to. While I'm not a big hockey fan and that was Barbarisi's sport of choice in the world of DFS, he gave me enough that I understood and followed all of his ups and downs. If you've every played fantasy sports, and most of us in the United States have by now, you will enjoy DUELING WITH KINGS.
Thank you to Touchstone, Daniel Barbarisi, and Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! (