My advice for the non-HN crowd (which these sites are clearly aiming for in their carpet-bombing advertising on sports channels):<p>If you want to play fantasy sports, play one of the free non-betting sites that have been around for years. The new DFS sites you see on ESPON are full of sharks that will eat you alive.<p>On a meta note: it&#x27;s funny to contrast the NY Times coverage of DFS with ESPN&#x27;s. I think the NY Times is doing a public service here. Although it probably largely goes over the head of the audience that would most benefit by it, it has already clearly filtered in the larger public debate.<p>Meanwhile, I actually saw front-page coverage a few weeks ago of a protest by DFS advocates against the Attorney General&#x27;s decision to reign in DFS sites. I wonder who even organized that protest.