FanDuel blunder rocks fantasy football players right before Sunday NFL Week 1 kickoff
Week 1 is like Football Christmas for many fans, especially those who have been waiting for months to play fantasy football.They have done all their research and are nestled all snug on the couch, ready to enter lineups that could put coin in their pouch.But on the fantasy website there arose such a clatter, a splash message saying something was the matter.You were all ready for your teams to smash, but now you can’t edit players, and your lineup is trash.
When what to your wondering eyes does appear, a clocking ticking toward kickoff and a mounting sense of fear.Alas there is no Football Santa coming to leave gifts.
Instead, his sleigh broke down at the start of the trip.And many exclaimed as incomplete lineups locked in: That’s just great.Now I have no chance to win.Nursery rhymes aren’t as fun when they end with a giant lump of coal in your fantasy stocking.Users of the FanDuel daily fantasy site/app ran into some holiday jeer on Football Christmas.
Around 90 minutes before kickoff, some of the site’s functions stopped working.Users were unable to create or edit lineups.Since many users make changes up to the last minute — based on various factors, most notably injury news — this was a problem.
And those who reserved spots in contests (paid for a spot with an empty roster to be filled out later), they had issues completing those rosters — if they were able to at all.This means users had paid for entries with rosters that could be incomplete or not containing the players the user intended.Based on social media chatter, the issue was widespread, but FanDuel didn’t have a specific number of users impacted as of Monday afternoon.“A lot of users were having issues,” a FanDuel spokesperson said.
“Unfortunately, not all of those issues were mitigated before kickoff.”When trying to add or change a player on a roster, some website users got a message that said, “An unexpected error occurred.Please close this modal and try again.
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