PrizePicks announces star-studded cast for Daily Fantasy Sports championship, including Stephen A. Smith

Your favourite YouTuber and contented creator is astir apt going to beryllium competing successful nan Daily Fantasy Sports Championship.

PrizePicks, a Daily Fantasy Sports institution that boasts “pick ’em” lineups arsenic an replacement to accepted sports betting, tells The Post that Stephen A. Smith will beryllium hosting a monolithic title betwixt influencers for nan title of DFS champion.

The victor will snag a $100,000 expansive prize successful an arena featuring erstwhile UFC bantamweight Sean O’Malley, Nelk Boys’ Kyle Forgeard, and galore different online influencers.

Smith, champion known arsenic nan big of ESPN’s First Take, will besides compete successful nan arena to triumph $100,000 and scope champion status.

Stephen A. Smith is among ESPNs biggest personalities. NBAE via Getty Images

The arena will return spot successful Atlanta, wherever Smith, connected behalf of his podcast “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” will play big contempt his superior employer moving pinch a sports betting usability now named ESPN BET.

PrizePicks and Smith person had a long-standing sponsorship woody together that has been seen connected aggregate societal media platforms, though he has not competed successful nan arena before.

Forgaerd won nan 2023 PrizePicks Championship erstwhile his lineup put up nan highest full successful a six-player lineup.

“As nan defending PPWC champion, I americium excited to put my title connected nan statement and compete erstwhile again for glory,” Forgaerd told The Post. “This [is] each business, and we are coming for nan apical spot erstwhile again.”

Kyle Forgaerd is nan defending champion. PrizePicks

Typically, a lineup consists of astatine slightest 2 players and a statistical projection that a personification will determine to spell higher aliases little than nan number.

For instance, a two-player lineup could dwell of Patrick Mahomes throwing for much than 249.5 passing yards and Saquon Barkley moving for much than 64.5 rushing yards.

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If each those things hap successful a fixed lineup, you will beryllium paid retired a predesignated multiplier.

The day of nan tournament, Nov. 17, will characteristic a coagulated NFL schedule that includes Chiefs vs. Bills successful nan 4 p.m. ET model and nan Colts vs. Jets — again — successful premier time.