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"AFL" --> Australian Football League "Footy" --> Football "Nutter" --> Crazy person "Isterling" --> OK, that's just a stupid name.

• mattmaroon 18y ago
  Apparently tipping is some market based form of betting. I'm guessing the whole thing is similar to betfair.
  • whatusername 18y ago
    actually not really similar to betfair at all. As far as I know there was never any betting (although since the article states that tatts owned it - it might have been planned) For years coworkers / friends have run contests to pick the winners each week of the season.. (8 games a week x 22 rounds). I've seen various bits of specialised software / spreadsheets to track this over the years. The site manages all of that for you - so that the IBM comp that I was in a couple of years back had about 1500 people.. I think they mainly make money from advertising - on the site and occasional emails. Off memory there was a freemium option to pay extra money to remove the ads from your office comp (or something like that) Do you have similar kinds of sites (or offce competitions) in the US?
    • mattmaroon 18y ago
      Office competitions here are typically 1. Football (NFL) pools. You pick the winner of each game, usually using the spread, and get points for each correct. 2. NCAA brackets. 3. Fantasy Sports, usually football but sometimes baseball. Often played online. Other than that it's mostly just good old fashioned offline p2p wagering.