DraftKings announced Monday that it has instituted changes to its limitations on multiple-entry tournaments in a clear move to comply with the regulations proposed by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey last week.
In an email sent to customers, the company said, “we have thoroughly re-evaluated our multi-entry limits in guaranteed contests at all stakes and have implemented changes that will result in lower multi-entry limits in most contests types, especially at lower stakes, with a maximum of 3 percent of the field across the board.”
A DraftKings representative on the RotoGrinders forum clarified that there are exceptions to the 3-percent rule for contests with fewer than 100 total entries and that no contests will allow more than 500 entries.
Those limitations mirror the following recommendations set forth by Healey:
- 12-team field or smaller: 1 entry per user
- 13-36 teams: No more than two entries per user
- 37-100 teams: No more than three entries per user
- For all contests with 100 or more teams, no user would be allowed to submit more than 3 percent of all entries in the contest.
Additionally, the site is raising limits on the number of head-to-head contests players can enter in lower-stakes levels.
From the DraftKings email:
These limits apply to single-entry non-guaranteed contests (includes all H2H and league contests). They do NOT apply to our guaranteed prize pool (GPP) contests.
For the past 2+ years, our limits have been a max of 40 single-entry non-guaranteed contests per game set at $1 and $2 stakes.
Beginning with contests posted on Monday, November 23, our new limits will be 50 single-entry non-guaranteed contests per game set at $1, $2, $5, and $10 stakes. For example, you can have 50 entries of H2Hs at each of those stakes – i.e. 200 entries total – but any further single-entry non-guaranteed contest entries would need to be at stakes greater than $10.
A public hearing has been set for the proposed regulations in Massachusetts for Jan. 12.