1. 01-07-19 08:16 PM #1
    Bluehorseshoe
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    FanDuel betting app crashes at the worst time

    The FanDuel Sportsbook app’s night started about as well as Alabama’s and Tua Tagovailoa’s.

    The betting app crashed right before kickoff of the national championship game between Alabama and Clemson — scheduled to kickoff at 8 p.m. — because of a “system maintenance upgrade,” according to the official FanDuel Customer Support account on Twitter.

    “We are working on getting back up and running as soon as possible,” FanDuel wrote on the account at 8:13 p.m. “We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.”

    The issue kept people from placing last-minute bets on the game, which saw Tagovailoa throw a pick-six on the Crimson Tide’s opening possession.

    About 15 minutes later, FanDuel encouraged people to log in and place bets on the desktop version of the sportsbook as it was working on getting the app up “as soon as possible.” The app was declared working again at around 9 p.m.

    DraftKings took a moment to needle FanDuel, placing a waving emoji in a retweet of Action Network’s Darren Rovell tweeting about the outage.
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  2. 01-07-19 08:23 PM #2
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    Yea my home sports book app crashed (we’re still in its second week of it going live, so ok) at 7:50 tonight. I couldn’t get my over bet in. Fuk it.
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  3. 01-07-19 08:26 PM #3
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    Isn’t Draftkings and FanDuel sportsbook the same place?
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  4. 01-07-19 08:27 PM #4
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    Obviously the amount of traffic.
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  5. 01-07-19 08:35 PM #5
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    What's annoying is, you have to be hooked to wifi in order to use your computer for location reasons. My desktop doesn't have a wifi connection. Why would that matter???
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  6. 01-07-19 08:39 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluehorseshoe View Post
    What's annoying is, you have to be hooked to wifi in order to use your computer for location reasons. My desktop doesn't have a wifi connection. Why would that matter???
    So someone doesn’t run a 76467864ft Ethernet chord underground to another state.
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  7. 01-07-19 08:48 PM #7
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    These son of a bitches need to invest in IT.
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  8. 01-07-19 08:55 PM #8
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    That’s not what you do
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  9. 01-07-19 09:03 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by WvGambler View Post
    So someone doesn’t run a 76467864ft Ethernet chord underground to another state.
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  10. 01-07-19 09:17 PM #10
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    Happens

    Software not perfect
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  11. 01-07-19 09:24 PM #11
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    Need to hire top notch IT.

    This could be big.
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  12. 01-07-19 09:27 PM #12
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    They have zero experience here. Everyone in the business knows you test any change to a website prior to actually going live. In the Sportsbook business they have a massive learning curve. Another poor decision was to go live on NCAA championship night. Customer experience is EVERYTHING these days.
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  13. 01-08-19 06:58 AM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by SBR Drew View Post
    They have zero experience here. Everyone in the business knows you test any change to a website prior to actually going live. In the Sportsbook business they have a massive learning curve. Another poor decision was to go live on NCAA championship night. Customer experience is EVERYTHING these days.


    They are still rookies for sure.
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  14. 01-08-19 11:15 AM #14
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    I love how Fanduel emphasized that they want nothing to do with Online Sportsbetting and look where they are at
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  15. 01-08-19 03:34 PM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joey Vigs View Post
    Isn’t Draftkings and FanDuel sportsbook the same place?
    NO! FanDuel is an excellent book. DraftKings sucks, high juice, will cut limits to near zero.
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