DraftKings Replacing Scoreboard App in Oregon

The Beaver State Lottery’s often critiqued “Scoreboard” nomadic betting app is nearing its utmost days. DraftKings is poised to suit the commonwealth lottery’s exclusive sportsbook provider this month.

The gaming troupe and the Beaver State Lottery made the proclamation today, noting DraftKings Sportsbook testament put back the electric current Scoreboard app. The modulation commences on Tuesday, Jan. 18, at which time electric current Scoreboard users testament follow capable to create DraftKings accounts and carry-over funds.

For current Scoreboard customers, the app testament do work as usual until the change to DraftKings Sportsbook begins on January 18—after the migration most functionality on the Scoreboard app will live removed,” according to a statement.

Oregon is the sec nation in which DraftKings inked an scoop drawing accord, having previously done so inward New Hampshire in 2019.

In New Hampshire, DraftKings tin can unfastened upward to 10 retail sportsbooks, and its contract with the nation runs through and through 2026, with way for two-year extensions. The statement regarding the operator’s OR entry doesn’t hold details nigh get length or brick-and-mortar sportsbooks.

Not Necessarily End of Controversial Era

Sports betting’s been unrecorded inwards Beaver State for nearly 2 years, and the state’s go through with regulated sports wagering has been a germ of controversy.

Oregon Lottery and SBTech, the provider of sports betting data and services to lotteries and gaming providers around the world, antecedently came below discharge for not revealing the terms of their agreement. In Jan 2020, the technology society sued the state and its largest day-to-day newsprint to prevent those inside information from being made public. That was after SBTech won a controversial and financially rewarding single-source contract bridge to powerfulness the Scoreboard app in too soon 2019.

The Oregonian newspaper pushed for inside information almost the pact, but SBTech resisted.

Following a contrary merger with a blank-check keep company that paved the right smart for it to turn public, DraftKings became the parent fellowship of SBTech and the latter’s founder — Shalom Meckenzie — remains a plank member, and unity of the gaming company’s largest shareholders.

The controversies don’t remainder there. In March 2020, SBTech was bang by a cyberattack that resulted in the Scoreboard app beingness offline for several days. The accompany had to countersink aside $30 billion inwards cash for potential judicial proceeding stemming from the military issue so that its merger with DraftKings could proceed.

Bettors Call Bad Odds

Another germ of disputation with Scoreboard and other lottery-controlled sports betting apps is lousy odds. To follow fairish to Oregon, it’s an issuing that’s been highlighted inward other areas, including Treasure State and Washington, DC.

In June 2020, Scoreboard was criticized when a better claimed the app changed betting odds from -110 (bet $110 to win $100) to -150 (bet $150 to win $100) when he attempted to station a $550 wager on a NASCAR race.

Part of that tilt stemmed from non just now the exchange inwards odds, but the fact odds on winners of events such as auto races and golf tournaments usually sway “plus money” on all participants. For example, even out a high-ranking NASCAR driver could get betting odds of +250 (bet $100 to win $250) at a cart track he’s got a register of dominating.

It remains to follow seen if DraftKings testament follow to a greater extent bettor-friendly inward the Pacific Ocean Northwest.

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