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Yahoo's fantasy football was super popular, why was no effort put in to make a competing product to Draft King? Tumblr acquisition was not a good one. It was t

by rw2 11y ago

Yahoo's fantasy football was super popular, why was no effort put in to make a competing product to Draft King? Tumblr acquisition was not a good one. It was too web oriented and users were moving more to mobile. It takes a long time to reverse momentum, and to try a lot of things.

sagarun 11y ago
https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/ https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/
perryh2 11y ago
I work on Daily Fantasy at Yahoo and would just like to point out that we do compete with DK/Fanduel :) https://yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/ https://yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/
- rw2 11y ago
  oops, in my defense, I have never seen that product till now. Draft king throw their ads everywhere.
- mateus1 11y ago
  Edited.
  - marblar 11y ago
    It looks like the parent comment removed it. It would be polite to edit yours as well.
    - mateus1 11y ago
      Of course. I was genuinely curious.
- akg_67 11y ago
  Daily fantasy has very annoying pop up on Yahoo! Sports. Also, I guess daily fantasy product resulted in killing of NCAAF and NFL picks against Yahoo! Experts and Yahoo! Users. The Picks link goes to message "something went wrong, we are working on it" page now for several weeks. Instead it Should be 404 and Picks link removed.
  - perryh2 11y ago
    don't know why this is broken, but I'll file a bug. thank you! One of these days, I'm going to run a bot that crawls all pages on yahoo.com and reports non-200 responses...
    - akg_67 11y ago
      Or let users help you identify such pages. Instead of showing a vague message that indicates temporary failure due to time out, show the 404 with option to report the broken link. I miss picks because that's how I kept track performance of results from my own algos and compare with supposedly experts and crowds.
    - 1024core 11y ago
      Why write a bot? Doesn't yapache log such events? Just run a Hadoop job on the error logs.
      - perryh2 11y ago
        I'd run it across the entire site. Sure, we do have logs, but it's not easy to access them for all *.yahoo.com. Logs from each property are ingested into different places. The infrastructure is way more complex than it should be making bare-minimum monitoring like alerts on non-200 responses on all properties difficult to maintain.
    - cpeterso 11y ago
      Shouldn't the yahoo.com servers already log when they return error responses? :)
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by rw2 11y ago

sagarun 11y ago

https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/ https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/

perryh2 11y ago

I work on Daily Fantasy at Yahoo and would just like to point out that we do compete with DK/Fanduel :) https://yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/ https://yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/

rw2 11y ago
oops, in my defense, I have never seen that product till now. Draft king throw their ads everywhere.
mateus1 11y ago
Edited.
- marblar 11y ago
  It looks like the parent comment removed it. It would be polite to edit yours as well.
  - mateus1 11y ago
    Of course. I was genuinely curious.
akg_67 11y ago
Daily fantasy has very annoying pop up on Yahoo! Sports. Also, I guess daily fantasy product resulted in killing of NCAAF and NFL picks against Yahoo! Experts and Yahoo! Users. The Picks link goes to message "something went wrong, we are working on it" page now for several weeks. Instead it Should be 404 and Picks link removed.
- perryh2 11y ago
  don't know why this is broken, but I'll file a bug. thank you! One of these days, I'm going to run a bot that crawls all pages on yahoo.com and reports non-200 responses...
  - akg_67 11y ago
    Or let users help you identify such pages. Instead of showing a vague message that indicates temporary failure due to time out, show the 404 with option to report the broken link. I miss picks because that's how I kept track performance of results from my own algos and compare with supposedly experts and crowds.
  - 1024core 11y ago
    Why write a bot? Doesn't yapache log such events? Just run a Hadoop job on the error logs.
    - perryh2 11y ago
      I'd run it across the entire site. Sure, we do have logs, but it's not easy to access them for all *.yahoo.com. Logs from each property are ingested into different places. The infrastructure is way more complex than it should be making bare-minimum monitoring like alerts on non-200 responses on all properties difficult to maintain.
  - cpeterso 11y ago
    Shouldn't the yahoo.com servers already log when they return error responses? :)

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