mr. schoenke: it's the same game. mr. pallone: it sounds like the difference in one country they have a lot of smart lawyers or lobbyists that are, you know, defining things in one way and the other they're not. but the game is the same, correct? the game is the correct? mr. schoenke: it's still a game that has far more skill than luck. mr. pallone: all right. thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. -- burgess: the their chas the chair thanks the gentleman. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. mullin, for five minutes for your questions. mr. mullin: thank you for the panel for being here. a lot of interest in this. more so than members are interested in it. but chairman, appreciate you having a hearing. outside there's a lot of people wanting to get in. i think there's a lot of unknown facts that people are trying to get information and that's the whole point of this panel is, ok, what exactly is a way we're heading? what is the future? and how is this going to be benefit or negative? and so i'm goi

mr. schoenke: it's the same game. mr. pallone: it sounds like the difference in one country they have a lot of smart lawyers or lobbyists that are, you know, defining things in one way and the other they're not. but the game is the same, correct? the game is the correct? mr. schoenke: it's still a game that has far more skill than luck. mr. pallone: all right. thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. burgess: the chair thanks the gentleman. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. mullin, for five minutes for your questions. mr. mullin: thank you for the panel for being here. a lot of interest in this. more so than members are interested in it. but chairman, appreciate you having a hearing. outside there's a lot of people wanting to get in. i think there's a lot of unknown facts that people are trying to get information and that's the whole point of this panel is, ok, what exactly is a way we're heading? what is the future? and how is this going to be benefit or negative? and so i'm going to focus ju

mr. schoenke: it's the same game. mr. pallone: it sounds like the difference in one country they have a lot of smart lawyers or lobbyists that are, you know, defining things in one way and the other they're not. but the game is the same, correct? the game is the correct? mr. schoenke: it's still a game that has far more skill than luck. mr. pallone: all right. thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. burgess: the chair thanks the gentleman. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. mullin, for five minutes for your questions. mr. mullin: thank you for the panel for being here. a lot of interest in this. more so than members are interested in it. but chairman, appreciate you having a hearing. outside there's a lot of people wanting to get in. i think there's a lot of unknown facts that people are trying to get information and that's the whole point of this panel is, ok, what exactly is a way we're heading? what is the future? and how is this going to be benefit or negative? and so i'm going to focus ju

mr. schoenke, mr. john mcmanus of vice president general counsel and secretary of the mgm resorts international, mr. steve brubaker executive director of small business of fantasy sports association, dr. ryan rodenberg assistant professor at florida state university within their department sports management. mr. mark locke chief executive officer of genius sports group. lindsay slader. mr. jordan gnat senior vice president of strategic assist development of scientific games, mr. curt eggert professor of law at chapman university's fowler school of law. we do appreciate all of you being here this morning and we will begin our panel with mr. mr. schoenke and you are now recognized for five minutes for your opening statement. thank you. >> german birches ranking member schakowsky members of the 70 thank you for the opportunity to testify today. chairman burgess, -- [inaudible] i will try to work through peer chairman burgess ranked member schakowsky members of the subcommittee thank you for the opportunit

mr. schoenke: we as an industry are advocating for laws at the state level to prevent this from happening. i think that will be a big dennis incentive for any company to allow that -- disincentive for any company to allow that to happen. mr. pallone: i want you to get back to me on those questions because, again, the two companies didn't come and they say you can answer the questions so please get back to us. i'll send it in writing as well so you know. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. burgess: the chair thanks the gentleman. let me just -- a couple things for follow-up. i guess, mr. eggert, even off topic from what we've been discussing. the concept of the amount of data that -- maybe we can direct this to you. the amount of data generated seems to be at the nominal. is this useful for -- phenomenal. is this useful for anyone else in the sport? is a general manager interested in these performance statistics? it just seems like this has the potential for changing the way competition is handled by the -- how well you're able to manage these large data flows. would you meant on it? mr. eggert: