Fantasy football leagues in the dark donate pots to support Damar Hamlin

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CNN
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As the football world hopes for more good news from Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlins’ recovery, some fans are wondering how to deal with the small elephant in the room: What to do about unfinished fantasy football leagues?

Monday was the last day for many leagues, and when the NFL decided not to replay Monday’s Bengals-Bills game, the problem of declaring a winner arises. Some leagues have decided to forgo determining champions and instead donate their pot to Hamlins’ charity via GoFundMe.

[A] many fantasy football leagues donate their prize pools to a fundraiser. You can find at least a handful by using the league’s name as the donor’s name, a GoFundMe spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday.

I was just scrolling through the list of top donors as Damar Hamlin’s GoFundMe surpasses $7 million, and among the many celebrities donating, I noticed another group starting to show up in fantasy football leagues, tweeted Jon Scott, Buffalo Bills beat reporter for Spectrum News 1 Thursday. What a great way to unselfishly handle a unique championship ending.

Hamlins two years old GoFundMe page donations topped $7.7 million as of Friday morning. Hamlin originally created the toy drive in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, through his charity The Chasing Ms Foundation. The player’s representatives have taken over the page, which had an initial goal of $2,500.

As the situation evolves, please continue to report any fundraising updates. We are also working with GoFundMe to email all donors with more detailed information on the use of funds as the information becomes available, Hamlins’ team wrote on the page Wednesday. We were hopeful of Damars future involvement in paying the incredibly generous donations.

For other leagues still trying to declare a winner, writer and programmer Nathan Braun came up with an online pot sharing calculator.

The unfortunate events surrounding BUF-CIN on Monday night have left many Fantasy Football leagues in limbo, wrote Braun, himself a fantasy league commissioner. on the site. I thought I’d use the Fantasy Math probability model to give a fair way of distributing payouts based on current results and who’s left.

The model takes into account factors such as player correlation, variance and recommended odds to determine Probability based winners and losers. A calculator released Wednesday may help clear up some of the confusion in fantasy leagues as players struggle to determine winners without points from Monday night’s game.

At this point it’s pretty much set. Everything had already been played except for the Monday night game, so it was just Buffalo and Cincinnati players, and there were good players,” Braun told CNN. So it wasn’t really decision making, it was more about what was your actual probability of winning? and then put that into a calculation of how much you get if you win and how much you get if you lose.

The counter had 15,000 visitors on the first day as fantasy league members across the country try to crown a winner after the sudden, unexpected end to the season.