The next frontier in sports betting
On the same day that Major League Baseball kicked off its 2026 season this week, DraftKings introduced a way to gamble on hundreds of thousands of pitch outcomes from old MLB games, because everyone’s main gripe with sports betting is that there’s not enough stuff to bet on. The new in-app feature, DK Replay, looks like an arcade game: - Users have 15 seconds to bet on a simulated pitch being a ball, a strike, or in play.
- Good luck trying to cheat—the historical at-bats are anonymized as “Pitcher” vs. “Batter,” with bronze, silver, or gold player ratings based on their stats at the time.
DK Replay is only available in Oregon right now, but DraftKings plans to expand it. That could be tricky if other states view the feature as less of a sportsbook offering and more online casino gambling, which isn’t legal in most of the US. Endgame: DK Replay squares with DraftKings’s broader strategy to create a super app with sports betting, prediction markets, casino, lottery, and other methods of probably losing money wagering on your phone. Meanwhile…anti-prediction-market sentiment is mounting in Congress. Several representatives across the aisle introduced bills this week that would crack down on services like Kalshi and Polymarket. |
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