Speed Survivor vs DraftKings
Speed Survivor vs DraftKings
DraftKings is two businesses most people know by one name: a sportsbook and a daily fantasy operator. Speed Survivor is neither. This page lays out how each works, side by side, without comparing prices.
How DraftKings works
Among DraftKings' products are a sportsbook and daily fantasy. On the sportsbook side, DraftKings sets odds on outcomes, sides, totals, player props and parlays, and a winning wager is paid at the odds it was placed at. The book takes the other side of every wager and builds a margin into its prices, which is what a house is.
On the fantasy side, DraftKings runs salary-cap lineup contests: you pick a roster of real players under a budget, and their statistics across a slate decide where you finish against other users. Neither product is a question-by-question contest inside one live game.
How Speed Survivor works
Speed Survivor is a survivor pool compressed into one live game. Twelve yes-or-no questions arrive during the game, one about every five minutes of game clock, generated from what is happening on the field. You score for being right and score more for being fast, cuts remove the bottom of the field at set points, and the entrants left standing at the final whistle split a prize pool funded by the entries. There are no projections to beat and no multipliers: your result depends on how you place against everyone else in the contest.
Side by side
| DraftKings | Speed Survivor | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A sportsbook and a daily fantasy operator | A skill-based contest inside one live game |
| Who sets the terms | The book sets the odds | Speed Labs sets the question, never a price |
| Who you play against | The house on the sportsbook; other users in fantasy | The other entrants in the contest |
| What you decide | Wagers, or a lineup before the slate | Yes or no on what happens next, during the game |
| Speed matters | No | Yes, faster correct answers score more |
| Elimination | No | Yes, cuts and lives |
| Where the payout comes from | The book, at its odds; or a fantasy prize pool | A pool funded by entries, held by a custodian, may be topped up |
| Settled | Per wager, or after the slate | The same night |
Who each one suits
If you want to price outcomes and take a position against a book, that is a sportsbook. If you want to build a lineup and follow it across a slate, that is fantasy. If you want to be tested on the game in front of you, one play at a time, against everyone else watching it, that is Speed Survivor, and there is no house in it.
Try it
Speed Survivor is free to download and code SPEED unlocks the first-deposit match, the referral credit and the free Perfect 36. How it works has a full game walkthrough, and where to play has the state list. The FanDuel comparison covers the same two product lines.
DraftKings is a trademark of its owner. Speed Survivor is not affiliated with DraftKings. The description of DraftKings above is of how the product type works in general and was accurate to the best of the Speed Survivor team's knowledge on the reviewed date; check DraftKings for its current rules.
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