Fanduel Website Review

I would like to post a brief review of the FanDuel website and my experience with using this site. It's something that I use quite often during the NFL and NBA season with a my best friend.  For those that don't know about Fanduel, it's a sports betting site and daily fantasy leagues.  Fanduel was founded in 2009 as a daily fantasy sports provider mainly for football.  As it gained popularity in 2015 Fanduel acquired Kotikan app developer so that they would have a mobile app.  Fanduels main competition is Draftkings for daily fantasy leagues.  In May of 2018 Paddy Power BetFair acquired Fanduel and is listed on the NYSE as PDYPY.  

Fanduel Usability:

Using Fanduel under the Fantasy icon you can scroll through the different current sports that are going on such as Baseball, WNBA, Golf, Nascar, or Soccer.  From there you can choose a sport and look up different contests that are coming up.  Some of these contests are free and some cost anywhere from pennies, to hundreds of dollars.  These contests vary from single entry to multi-entry where you can enter as many lineups as you want but each lineup costs money.  The website is easy to navigate through, but the app takes more searching to find the contest that you want to enter.

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Fanduel Design:

The design of fanduel is simple with minimal color changes, white background with blue, black, and green text.  The blue and green represent being interactive.  Fanduel design uses different programming languages such as Javascript, Python, React, Kotlin, and Swift.  

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Fanduel Functionality:

Fanduel has been created mainly as a daily fantasy sports provider.  This means that during sports seasons that have games every day, instead of having one team and one league for the season, you can be a part of a daily contest and select your team.  Each contestant has the same budget for players, better players costing more money so no team is filled with top players.  In a basketball contest players would earn points for assists, rebounds, blocks, steals, and made baskets, and points would be taken away for turnovers.  These points are added up for the team on your lineup and if you have a top score you can win money if its a paid entry.  Not all states allow paid entry because its considered gambling in some states and in other states its considered a game of skill.  The skill comes in when budgeting your team and doing research from other sites like Rotowire.com or Numberfire.com which compiles a bunch of statistics through out the season, and algorithms for predictions on certain games.  

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Recommendations:

The recommendations I have for the app it it's harder to navigate then the website and the app freezes up a lot right before kickoff or tip off so its difficult to make last minute changes.  It would also help if the app sent out notifications on players that were last minute scratches so that changes could be made in time otherwise the entry turns into a wasted lineup having a zero for a player. 

 

Conclusion:

This web/app is fun if you enjoy daily fantasy teams and like following sports.  I enjoy it and it keeps me connected to some of my friends through the daily contests.

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