If your takeaway from this article is "if only I had more time to write an algorithm" or "if only I could get my hands on some better data", you're missing the

If your takeaway from this article is "if only I had more time to write an algorithm" or "if only I could get my hands on some better data", you're missing the point here. That geeks with computers were going to win all the money should have already been obvious to anyone who hangs around here. The scandal here is that employees of these two sites have been effectively colluding with each other to dominate each other's contests. So even if you had implemented your can't-lose algorithm, you'd still be losing. As to buried ledes, how's this? Neither company would say how much its employees had won, but Justine Sacco, a spokeswoman for FanDuel, said DraftKings employees had won less than $10 million in her company’s contests. Infamous Twitter pariah Justine Sacco is working again. Good for her.