Here’s something the old and new can agree upon. Back in the day, when Major League Baseball tried to appropriate all rights to fantasy sports, Charlie Wiegert put his business on the line to challenge that notion.
You will have to look elsewhere for the history, but karma is paying back, as Charlie Wiegert has won the first Championship of Tout Wars Daily by FanDuel. That’s a $1,000 prize, and validation for the fact that the Daily Fantasy Games are not only the domain of the younger fantasy players.
Wiegert won the Tout Daily championship going away, riding the broad back of Clayton Kershaw. He was the only team to choose the day’s most expensive, and most productive, player.
Here’s how he did it:
