Fantasy sports company fires employee who cheated in high-stakes games

The operator of a high-stakes fantasy football platform has fired an Ivy League-educated employee for allegedly manipulating digital timestamps to cheat on behalf of players, the company announced.

The National Fantasy Football Championship hosts dozens of games each week, some with six-figure prizes, but now a former employee has revealed that the public is not aware of the time-twisting scam. He announced that he had been tipped off by people.

“Sad. Disappointed. Shocked. Angry. Very angry,” NFFC founder Greg Ambrosius said in a lengthy post this week. “However, we can never allow something like this to happen. We are currently putting safeguards in place to alert multiple people if something like this happens again. There will be no such thing. .”

Fantasy contests typically involve participants selecting soccer players from a set number of positions on the field. Contest participants will be awarded points for players in categories such as rushing, passing, receiving yards, and touchdowns.

Ambrosius said the platform, owned by Sportshub Holdings, “publishes the timestamp of each transaction for each contest,” and these markers are “visible by all participants on a contest-by-contest basis.” .

So the most basic and most obvious form of cheating is manipulating timestamps and putting a player into the contestant lineup after he has already gained significant yards or scored.

“Recently, with the help of reports from public sources, we were able to uncover post-deadline activity in one of the NFFC Postseason Hold’em contests. This was detected and quickly confirmed. As a result, SportsHub was able to take immediate action to resolve this issue, which was resolved without affecting the outcome of the contest,” Ambrosius said.

“As a result of an internal investigation, the employee has been terminated and the contestant has been banned from playing on our platform in the future,” he said.

The company has not disclosed the identities of the fired employees.

Ambrosius wrote at length about the fired worker, describing him as a friend who attended an Ivy League school and was battling undisclosed “demons.”

“He was fired. His life was ruined. His dream job was gone. He let everyone down,” Ambrosius said. “He let down his children, who he loves more than anything in this world. He let down his wife, who he’s been with since high school.”

The platform’s founder sent a text message to the fired employee Wednesday saying, “Let’s let him know we all love him and we all want to help him,” but did not immediately respond. He said there was no response.

“I heard he tried to contact me but couldn’t. He was so ashamed of what he had done and was too embarrassed to talk to me,” Ambrosius wrote. There is. “I just talked to him on Sunday and we talked about the Packers loss. I didn’t expect it to be the easiest loss of the weekend.”

Ambrosius could not be reached for comment Friday.