DraftKings, FanDuel could face first significant legal challenge after hearing request

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23. Yeah, but you're gambling on a collection of players from different teams

which is likely why the NFL is OK with it. You're not betting on any one team, but on a WR from the Cowboys, another from the Packers, a running back from the Eagles and a QB from the Patriots, say, that make up your particular fantasy team.

There's no way or incentive for the fantasy gamblers to affect the outcome of any particular game because all of his players are on different teams and every bettor has a different assortment of players. Therefore there's no threat to the "integrity of the game." And no one knows who has what players except the fantasy sites and they could care less who wins. They're just a clearinghouse that the bettors have to pay to join. They make their money with no care at all for who wins actual games.

So yes, it's gambling, but a very different kind of gambling from laying a couple hundred bucks on any one team to win/cover the spread.