Fantasy Sports Employees Bet at Rival Sites Using Inside Information

Re:Fantasy Sports Employees Bet at Rival Sites Using Inside ... by startswithaj on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:33AM (#10337048)

I guess, the trivial inconvenience of the user having to return, recreate the lineup from scratch and remember the 10 digit number/salt (or pull from local memory/localStorage if its the same device) . They would have to do this after the start of the first game but before the end of all the events in the event group. I.E before winners are calculated. If you didn't force the players to do this early on, you wouldn't be able to see live rankings which would take some fun out of it I guess. There would be other problems I guess to with edit lineup functionality.

It is a good idea though and would certainly curb this kind of thing happening.

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Re:Fantasy Sports Employees Bet at Rival Sites Using Inside ... by bluecalm on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @05:14AM (#10337593)

Of course the hash posting and remembering the digits would be done by a DFS client you are using. There could also be intermediares to which you "deposit" your line-ups and they post them for you once the deadline arrives - all is needed is a line-up matching the hash, no authorization from the player required.

Editing the functionality is easy as well, you just replace the hash again. It just requires a local client to do so instead of doing it on the server directly.

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