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Subject: New affiliated site: Daily Joust
Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 11:01
I've been promoting a new daily contest site in this week's blurbs: Daily Joust Probably the newest daily contest site on the web, Daily Joust was created and developed by a team of dedicated and passionate fantasy sports professionals. Free and real money contests are offered daily. Their scoring formula is quite similar to FanDuel’s formula, although the Joust formula does include a few extra statistical factors. The site layout is intuitive, and includes some useful statistical data right on the contest entry screen, including fantasy point averages (full year and recent). Rosters are similar to FanDuel's as well, although outfielders are not differentiated by left, center, and right.
Perhaps the most unique feature of Daily Joust is the Solo Contest, where you are not competing against another roster, but only against a preset target score, which is currently set at 50 points. This takes some of the randomness out of the contest by eliminating a variable competitor. Of course, that can cut both ways.
DailyBaseballData and RotoGuru have also expanded their tools to incorporate Daily Joust salary, position, and statistical data. Daily Joust positions can now be highlighted in the Batter vs Pitcher report, and the sortable stats and daily point recaps now include Daily Joust as a game option.
To register at Daily Joust, please click on the banner above or on one of the Daily Joust links in this discussion. (The referrer field should have “rotoguru” already filled in.) Currently, Daily Joust is offering a 25% bonus on initial deposits, plus a free Solo contest. Note that there are some participation requirements to fully collect on this offer, which are clearly spelled out on the deposit page. |
| 1 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 11:02
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Now you get a chance to try it out for free. Daily Joust has announced a freeroll contest for Friday, June 17. If you haven't yet registered at this new site, use the Daily Joust link to register (the referral field should say "rotoguru" - fill that in if it doesn't). If you are already registered, then go to the "Tournaments" link on the main menu bar at the site and you'll find the MLB tournament. This is a traditional one-day tournament which includes all night games. There are only 14 night games on Friday, so the afternoon Yankees@Cubs game is excluded. The payout pool is $500, with an unusual twist. The top team will win $200, and the second place team will win $100. After that, prizes will be paid out for places 3-20, with most getting either $10 or $5 - but with the 11th place finisher getting $50. I asked, and found out that's not a typo. Daily Joust is hoping to counter the impression that "only the pros can win the top prizes." So, if you don't expect to win one of the top two prizes, shoot for #11. Or at least root for it, once the games begin. One final caveat on the prizes. They are all awarded as "Bonus Bucks", which means they cannot be directly cashed out, but can only be used to enter other contests at the site. Of course, any prizes won in those other contests can be cashed out at any time. If you're good enough (or lucky enough) to win a prize, you ought to be good enough to convert it to real money!
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| 2 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 19:56
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Sortable stats now reflect player salaries for the freeroll contest.
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| 3 | holt
ID: 3044420
Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 21:29
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I'm in. Didn't take too long to throw a team together. Thanks!
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| 4 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 10:06
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There are 4-5 games today with potential weather issues. Just a heads up.
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| 5 | Jon
ID: 44632213
Fri, Jul 22, 2011, 14:03
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Just a heads up, but one thing you may have to watch out for is that the 'Solo' contest is illegal. I'm not sure you can really get in trouble playing it, but I know that the site, Daily Joust, will eventually have to shut that game down and may face legal charges. The 2006 UIGEA states that winning outcomes of fantasy contests must be determined by accumulated players statistics. When you fail to hit the 50 points, Daily Joust is the official winner. How did they win, did they accumulate players stats? No.
Just a heads up.
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| 6 | holt
ID: 566231915
Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 16:46
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anyone else get this weird email today? my email was one of the 500 or so that got cc'd. Seems ironic that the "confidential" mail list got sent to all 500 of us.
The cc is the mail list. Obviously very confidential.
I need to run - I was playing around with ways to load this into a spreadsheet or something - was hoping you could do it faster than me.
I am at a couple investor meetings this morning - but will call around 1:30 ish your time.
thx,
mike
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| 7 | Donkey Hunter
ID: 53751821
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 20:54
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I got the email too. Currently in second in the freeroll resulting from it. Loaded up on Rays but now they are all getting pulled from the ball game.
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