Seven months after FanDuel officially unveiled its FanDuel Picks peer-to-peer fantasy game, the U.S. gaming giant announced on Friday that it is shutting down the product in all active states.
“Last year, we launched FanDuel Picks to give customers a new way to compete with friends through peer-to-peer contests,” said the company in a March 27 blog post. “We’re proud of the work that went into building this experience and the creativity behind it.
“After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to sunset FanDuel Picks and reallocate resources to other areas of our business where we see the greatest opportunity to serve our customers. Through this transition, we’re committed to making it easy for customers to wrap up their contests and withdraw their funds.”
SBC Americas reached out to FanDuel seeking more information on the motivation behind the decision to shut down the product, but none was offered beyond the blog post and information on the company’s websites.
FanDuel Picks to exit 17 states
FanDuel officially unveiled FanDuel Picks as the latest product in its suite last August, after it had first soft-launched it in five states in April 2025.
Similar to the prop-style fantasy games popularized by companies like Underdog and PrizePicks, FanDuel Picks allowed users to make more than three picks (anywhere up to eight for NBA and MLB main slates, predicting whether or not each player would score more or less than their projected stat lines. Customers could enter their lineup into contests to compete against others with the same number of picks, and either split a cash prize with other winners or get guaranteed prizes in the event of a 100% success rate.
As of the time of writing, FanDuel Picks is available in 17 states:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Mexico
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Utah
- Wisconsin
All contests already paid and entered by customers will run as scheduled and settle as normal, and all winnings will be credited to customer accounts once contests are completed and settled.
After that, the last FanDuel Picks contests will be available on April 23 and the final day for contests being settled and winnings being credited will be the following day. Customers will be able to access their accounts and withdraw funds until May 29, at which point the product will shut down entirely.
FanDuel’s leading rival, DraftKings, offers a broadly similar Pick6 product in more than 30 U.S. states and territories.
FanDuel picks and chooses
FanDuel will retain a fantasy contests presence via its FanDuel Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) app, available in various states across the U.S.
Picks was the operator’s first foray into P2P pick’em-style fantasy contests, although it already had (and will continue to offer) a P2P gaming product through FanDuel Faceoff. Faceoff offers both free play and real-money options that allow users to compete head-to-head through a variety of contests, including word and puzzle games.
FanDuel noted on Friday that any outstanding Picks funds can be used on that DFS platform or the Faceoff app. Picks funds earned through winnings on those contests can be used on FanDuel Sportsbook, FanDuel Casino, DFS, Faceoff, and horse racing, depending on the state-by-state availability of those products.
The abandonment of the Picks experiment also comes amid shifting focuses for FanDuel. At the time that the company soft-launched the pick’em fantasy game in spring 2025, it likely had no firm expectations that by the end of the year, it would have poured so much into the then-nascent prediction markets vertical.
FanDuel has fully embraced prediction markets since last summer. FanDuel Predicts launched in late December in partnership with CME Group, catapulting the U.S. sports betting market leader into the world of event contracts. It expanded FanDuel Predicts’ reach to all 50 states in January of this year, and offers sports trading in 18 states in which it is not licensed as a state-regulated sportsbook.
