Can you make money at DFS?

Posted on by John Sparrow

Every fall, there’s a lot of talk about Fantasy Football…it seems a requisite notch in your Man Card is to play in a league. Fantasy sports has largely grown into a game of skill in the past few years. One manifestation of that is the growth of Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS). If you’re not familiar with DFS, do a google search and you’ll find an industry that very much resembles online poker just before the Moneymaker Effect. Just like poker, there is a wide distribution of results. The outliers are making decent money (mid 6-figures/yr), skilled players produce decent ROI, and just like poker, the majority of players are being grinded away by fees and their own mediocrity. On top of all of this, it is completely legal in 45 states (sorry Montana, Washington, Iowa, Arizona, and Louisiana) thanks to a loophole in the UIGEA.

I’ve been studying DFS for a while. When I speak to other sports bettors about DFS they pretty much all agree that it is not worth a shift in how they operate now. DFS is sports betting…but it’s not sports betting. It’s a different discipline. Only 1% of fantasy sports players play DFS…but the industry’s major sites are now experiencing a 400% year-over-year growth rate. There’s a lot more dead money that will soon be flooding into the pool. Is DFS the next big thing?

Being an affiliate to DFS sites has become an industry of its own. There are hundreds of popular sites that target the casual sports fan to suck them into becoming the next DFS superstar. I started this blog because, in my opinion, these affiliate sites are missing the true DFS heavyweights, the established sports bettors and advantage players.

My goal is to provide written content that will educate and ease the transition from mainstream sports betting to DFS betting. If you find value in my content, please use my affiliate links, this is my revenue stream for this project. If you don’t like my content, please write snarky comments in my comments field…the more clever you are, the more traffic I’ll get. In summary, if this blog is good, you win at DFS and I win at affiliate marketing. If this blog sucks, you win at shaming me and I win at affiliate marketing.