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This Week In DFS: ESPN’s Matthew Berry And FantasyPros Feud Conveniently Leading Up To Draft Week

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Welcome to a Fantasy Football edition of This Week In DFS, infused with drama sprinkled atop the industry in the past week or so, and wars waged over average draft position.

Beyond the scope of social media disputes and occurrences, we’ll also touch on any news from the Daily Fantasy landscape in the recent days past, as well as big subscriber wins.

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Social Media Happenings

ESPN’s Matthew Berry & FantasyPros Staff Put The Gloves On At A Perfectly Placed Time

As fantasy football continues to annually outdo itself with slews of newcomer participants, the land of content providers has become a chippier place to exist with territory sought after and subscribers to garner. Turn-key tools have become all the rage for up-and-comer sites who at one point could stay afloat by means of player rankings and mediocre projections.

When the aforementioned tools are cast aside and we’re looking at bare-bones content in its raw form, there’s a marketability in the character behind it. There are some who keep nose-to-grindstone and avoid the Twitter wars at all costs. There are some who gravitate towards the mud as well, and to each their own.

But when the Jerry Springer contestant in all of us rises to the surface amidst shots-fired across the bow of social media, even the mighty can stoop below their hallway of achievements to toss on the giant cartoon gloves and throw blows.

While I was wishing in my heart of hearts that the landmine of Twitter beef had to do with Tight End half-point PPR rankings, it turns out that more serious situations were brewing beneath it all.

Oddly enough, the Thanos Of Positivity in ESPN’s Matthew Berry had some ongoing resentment for the ownership behind content provider FantasyPros, and however they may have plagiarized their content over recent years.

Perhaps this was a war that couldn’t simply be settled on who holds the longest Fantasy Football Marathon with arguably the two most profitable weeks in the industry approaching as fantasy football draft content will be saturating the timelines of many.

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And maybe the “Tight Ends half-point PPR rankings” insinuation wasn’t actually all that far off to begin with (what are the odds of that?)…

Clearly Matthew Berry has harbored the feelings of resentment towards FantasyPros for some time now, and if he’s right about the plagiarism then the sentiment is justifiable. However, timing and placement when it comes to nearly everything is of the essence to some varying degree, and slanging shade from social media is by far and away one of them. But so is marketing.

While I’m a major sucker for irony, at the same time I harbor a resentment of my own for sheep-herding by means of publicity stunt (and very much why I hate politics).

And what a better way to ring the dinner bell than to open up a can of worms in a comment about why where a site ranked Cam Akers and Ronald Jones can be detrimental to your fantasy health, along with how it coincides with how you’ve condemned that site for some time?

When it comes to waning publicity, any news is good news (as Major League Baseball also discovered more recently). Apparently the phone call mended the two souls, and thank God for that, because now we can all look ahead to Fantasy Draft Week(s)…together!  

 

Action Network’s Rob Perez Hired By FanDuel 

A content superstar among NBA fans across social media, Rob Perez was recently hired by FanDuel in an apparent effort to bring the adjacent shores of sports media and sports betting closer together. The hiring comes just following FanDuel’s deal reached with Pat McAfee, who is similar to Perez by equivalent household name value to the NFL fanbase (compared to that of NBA).

Given the number of FanDuel advertisements placed throughout the NBA Playoffs, they’re noticeably making waves at the right times with NFL around the corner and an NBA season already slated to return before the Super Bowl (by the sounds of the recent Adam Silver interview with Rachel Nichols).

Other Rumblings

Another Adam Twitter Joke At The Seige’s Expense

Big Awesemo Winner Of The Week

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