Rob Huntze won $1 million in a DraftKings daily fantasy contest. Until he didn’t.

As explained by David Purdum of ESPN.com, a change to the official statistics from Monday night’s Bears-Rams game robbed Huntze of the jackpot he believed he’d won.

It appeared Monday night that a DraftKings player had won $1,000,000 in a contest with a Monday Night Football lineup with Jared Goff, Cooper Kupp, Gerald Everett, Josh Reynolds and both the Los.

1. Jade Roper, a former 'Bachelor' contestant, allegedly colluded to win $1 million in a daily fantasy DraftKings contest during NFL Wild Card weekend.
2. A $20 entry in this week’s DraftKings Millionaire contest had a 22% chance of winning anything (the smallest prize is $30) and a one-in-294,117 chance of winning $1 million.
3. Jade Roper Tolbert, a model and former contestant on the TV show “The Bachelor,” won $1 million in a DraftKings $20 buy-in contest over the first week of the NFL playoffs.
4. This is just the most brutal thing ever. It appeared Monday night that a DraftKings player had won $1,000,000 in a contest with a Monday Night Football lineup with Jared Goff, Cooper Kupp, Gerald.

After the game ended, DraftKings’ official tabulation showed that Huntze had scored the most points out in more than 175,000 entries — and that he’d won $1 million. Then, 30 minutes later, it all went away.

The result changed because the NFL changed a sack that occurred late in the fourth quarter to a running play. As explained by Purdum, Rams quarterback Jared Goff faked a handoff to the right and ran a bootleg to the left. The Bears tackled Goff three yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Listed as a sack at the time, the official scorer changed the designation upon noticing that receivers appeared to be blocking.

“Plays such as this one are routinely discussed by the Stats Crew and updated accordingly,” NFL spokesman Michael Signora told Purdum via email. “In this instance, because the play happened so close to the end of the game, it was reviewed by the Stats Crew and then updated prior to publishing the Game Summary, commonly referred to as the Game Book.”

Huntze instead won $3,554.

The morale of the story? Don’t count your chickens until they’re hatched — and until it’s verified that they are indeed chickens and not ducks.

Post-game stat change costs daily fantasy contestant $1 million prize originally appeared on Pro Football Talk

DraftKings is giving away a shipload of money in NFL Week 1. And you don’t need to know anything about fantasy sports to win.

In a new promotion, presumably designed to get fantasy players fired up for the new DraftKings Sportsbook app, DraftKings is hosting a free $1 million Team Pick’em contest for the first week of regular season NFL games. Instead of picking players, as you’d traditionally do at DraftKings, you’re picking teams to win their respective matchup. Back to basics.

Pick more than half of the games correctly and you’ll win at least a little cash prize, splitting the $1 million pool with the rest of those participating.

The slate for this contest includes the 15 games on Sunday and Monday. The Thursday night game on Sept. 6 between Philadelphia and Atlanta won’t count. Each game picked correctly will award 100 points.

Week 1 Prizes

• 1,500 points (15 winners) — Split $300,000
• 1,400 points — Split $200,000
• 1,300 points — Split $150,000
• 1,100-1,200 points — Split $200,000
• 800-1,000 points — Split $150,000

In the event that nobody picks 15 winners, or even 14 winners, the top tier(s) of the prize pool will be redistributed over the next tiers. Here’s how it is explained by DraftKings:

Draftkings 1 Million Dollar Contestants

For example, if no Entrants select fourteen (14) games correctly in Week 1 (Prize Tier 4 with prizing of $200,000), that Tier 4’s prizing shall be redistributed evenly over Tiers 1, 2 and 3, so that those Tier’s prizing would become $216,666.66, $266,666.66, and $216,666.66 respectively. Tier 5’s prizing would remain at $300,000.00. If multiple prize tiers are not reached, they shall be similarly adjusted and redistributed over the lower tiers.

So no matter how it plays out, $1 million will be going into the hands of customers in Week 1.

Draftkings 1 Million Dollar Contestants

Pick’em for the whole season

There’s a season-long aspect to this, too. Basically, this is nothing like the DraftKings we know.

The Team Pick’em challenge will span across the entire NFL regular season, with a new contest and prizes every week, and additional prizes will be awarded to the players who score the most total points through the end of the season on Dec. 30. Weekly Bonus Points will also be given to players for completing tasks during any given Challenge Week. More details on that will come later.

Season Prizes

Draftkings 1 Million Dollar Contest Sweepstakes

• 1st: $10,000
• 2nd: $5,000
• 3rd: $2,500
• 4th: $2,000
• 5th: $1,500
• 6th: $1,250
• 7th: $1,000
• 8th-9th: $750
• 10th-14th: $500
• 15th-24th: $400
• 25th-39th: $300
• 40th-59th: $250
• 60th-89th: $200
• 90th-134th: $150
• 135th-194th: $125
• 195th-274th: $100
• 275th-294th: $75
• 395th-544th: $60
• 545th-744th: $40
• 745th-994th: $20

For the full terms and conditions, visit DraftKings.

Draftkings Free 1 Million Dollar Contest

If you don’t already have a DraftKings account, sign up using the links below and find the Pick’Em promo on the Promotions page to make your picks. Plus, new players will receive $20 free when making their first deposit.