Why we've taken on a new daily fantasy sports site

You don’t read about many new DFS sites launched in this mature and highly competitive market, but 2017 is looking a little different so far. We had Fanball resurrected in August this year and just a month later a new and very different DFS platform was launched in Draftboard. Draftboard is the brainchild of well-known poker Pro Phil Galfond of Runitonce fame. If you know Galfond you will have read his opinions on the issues facing the poker economy and the need for fairness and a level playing field.

These translate easily to Daily Fantasy Sports and he and CEO Dan Quinn shaped Draftboard.com based on a desire to provide an entertaining and fair DFS experience. The Draftboard experience is indeed slick. The site is beautiful. A lot of thought has been put into making engagement top shelf. Take a look at this brief video showing their interface.

Another difference you will notice right away is that you build your line-up first and then enter it to a contest. Draftboard has several features that protect new players, all branded under Fair Match. Separate high and low stakes lobbies prevent users from playing $50 and $1 contests on the same day in a given sport. Right now Draftboard is focused on NFL and NBA but this will extend to hockey when it launches.

Contests are formed using a random opponent selection process. This eliminates the problem of experienced DFS player targeting newbies. An innovative multi-entry system matches first entries in a contest with only other first entries. It then matches second entries with second entries, third with third and so on. So you won’t see one player with more than one entry in a single contest. One of the biggest threats to the future of the DFS economy is that there is no place for new players to hone their craft before taking on the pros, and Draftboard provides that.

Draftboard serves Canada and about 30 US states. The best way to judge Draftboard is to try it for yourself. Right now you can do so for free. Sign up an account and they will credit you $1 to try. No deposit required. It is a low cost way to check out the site. It is also a way to take a run at their $10,000 NFL Record Breaker prize, which awards the highest all time line-up score.

Check out Draftboard today.