As the three co-founders of DraftKings, we want to speak to you directly about what has been going on.

Nothing says we want to get in front of this problem like playing it from the rear

We know that you play DraftKings because it’s fun and because it gives you a chance to showcase your skills against millions of other fans, and we know that you cannot do that without a level playing field.

Gambling is only fun when you are winning, and I am still trying to figure out the skill set tested? Your best skill is you can randomly select a group of people or that you are actually a sophisticated Bot who enters multiple variations of teams from multiple accounts spending $100,000 just to win $105,000?

The fairness and integrity of our contests has been at the heart of everything we have built since we started the company three and a half years ago.

Ah yes 2012 the golden years of business ethics

Over the past week, questions have arisen around an employee of ours who won a significant prize on a competitor’s site. While our internal investigation has reflected absolutely no wrongdoing on his part, this has still pushed us to reevaluate our processes.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. We only know the algorithms used by our competitors to determine lineup efficiency nothing a very skilled player like yourself couldn’t do on your own free time. I mean this is legal like trading stocks and thee is nothing illegal about insider trading right?

Long before this happened, the wheels were in motion for an external review of our policies and procedures. Given the pace of our growth, we felt that an audit was critical to ensure the security of our platform, so we hired an external law firm experienced with these issues to conduct a full review.

This is totally a coincidence we were already looking into this stuff before this information was pointed out. In Fact, we were thinking so hard about this issue we forgot to hire the law firm and auditors until after this came to light… swearzies. This has nothing to do with the class action lawsuit being filed against us for being as fair and balanced as FoxNews after 7pm Est.

But that is not enough. In addition to this audit, we have put in place a set of core measures that we believe are central to this process:

• We expanded our existing policy prohibiting DraftKings employees from playing on our site to prohibit participation in any public daily fantasy sports contests for money.
• We also will prohibit employees from any other Daily Fantasy Sports contest operator from participating in games on DraftKings.
• We are actively reviewing our organizational structure and will add resources to ensure compliance with all recommendations stemming from internal and external findings.
• We are working with multiple third parties to strengthen all internal policies and procedures.

Yeah, those first two steps are not even remotely possible to investigate or stop. All it means is IF they get caught we will ban them. Hope the employees don’t have different email addresses or friends who play right?
Those last two points are saying the same thing “We are looking at things and if we find things we will spend money to address them.” Basically this entire letter could be summed up with these two bullet points. So what the hell is the rest of this fluff?

The events of the past week have caused us to take a broader look and to ask those both here and externally to widen the scope of their analysis of our business.

Don’t for one moment think this stuff is purely a smoke screen to distract you from the fact we have more bots in our system than Ashley Madison

We are aware that there is room for growth, regardless of the strength of our current platform. We will work tirelessly to improve all aspects of our customer experience, which is every bit as important to us as the effort we put into our product.

Maybe there is room to make prop bets also a game of skill it does take years of research to predict how long a national anthem would last

You will no doubt continue to hear from the media about both DraftKings and the industry. It is our prerogative to keep driving that conversation ourselves. We will work to respond to your concerns in complete transparency and to inform you of the steps we are taking to inspire your full trust.

Trust us when we say if you hear about it in the news we have already been working on correcting this matter for months years since the beginning of TIME ITS SELF!

Please know how grateful we are for the passion and loyalty you have shown DraftKings throughout our history and especially over the past week. You remain our greatest priority.

Remember we cannot make money if you do not drop it into our account on the offshoot chance you think you can actually win a game like the hired actors who say they have won using our site

Thank you,

Jason Robins, Matt Kalish & Paul Liberman
Co-Founders, DraftKings

Paul Liberman is the guy who said in a conference last month at Babson College that some of the company’s employees made more off other fantasy sites than their salaries at DraftKings.