A member posted in the Need Help section of this site. No member name was called out yet the member wanted to know how to get his money. This was thru a fantasy league and the league was not handled at this site.
Is that right? Am I the one who closed the thread because my point was being argued?
The thread that was closed was not about you nor I yet you continued your butthurt. The thread asked for help. More butthurt continued by you as these threads keep popping up. I'll let this thread stay and I help the cause:
The original thread:
http://forums.softballfans.com/showthread.php?p=17432781#post17432781
You can see based on your posts you are good at contradicting yourself and creating this e-butthurt because you know you were wrong based on posts by stork and myself.
Granted, stork and I bot posted articles about the legal side but there was information in both posts suggesting the possibilities of being illegal.
Stork's post (information written in 2003):
http://forums.softballfans.com/showpost.php?p=17432781&postcount=10
AJ22's posts (links with information from 2011 and August of 2013):
http://forums.softballfans.com/showpost.php?p=17432871&postcount=13
http://thelegalblitz.com/blog/2011/11/16/is-your-fantasy-league-a-federal-crime/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/31/gaming-laws-pose-risk-for-fantasy-football-craze/
If you READ Stork's post and my link the exact same wording is used -
While the overall regulatory structure allows for-money fantasy football, individual states my vary:
Nevertheless, some states’ regulations may be stricter than federal law. Under most state laws, fantasy football contests are illegal if they involve three elements: consideration (e.g., an entry fee), reward (e.g., a prize) and chance. Here, the precise definition of ‘chance’ varies by state. In a majority of states, play-for-cash contests are only illegal if they involve more chance than skill (“predominant purpose test”). By contrast, in a few other states, fantasy football contests are illegal if results are based even in the smallest part on chance (“any chance test”). Edelman says that Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Iowa, and Tennessee could pose the greatest legal risk.
And AJ22's post:
"In many cases, state regulations are stricter than federal regulations," law professor Marc Edelman told FoxNews.com. "Some fantasy agreements -- especially those in any chance states -- violate state law."
"Chance states" are those that prohibit or limit the legality of a player getting paid if a game involves an entry fee or prize, or if the outcome of the game relies on an element of chance.
The argument some make, though, is that the victor of a fantasy game is determined through skill, not chance.
Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana and Vermont are among the "chance states,"
said Edelman, a law professor at City University of New York, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business.
