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World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

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Re: World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

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Post by ly »

koolba wrote: post #17
hhmc wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s known as fantasy football to anyone outside of North America.

I’d wager the majority of both the readers and commenters on this site are American legal residents so using “soccer” would be the democratic choice.

Your comment got me curious about this. The closest thing I could find is an old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905

According to that one ~2/3 of HN visitors are not from the US. It’s old though, and now I’m wondering what the current statistics would look like.

Re: World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

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Post by thom »

brianwawok wrote: post #20
drekembe wrote: post #12

I'd love to see him take on Magic: the Gathering, especially formats like vintage or legacy.

The top MTG players have mostly gone on to poker, where the prizes are much more lucrative.

Of course a lot of those players have in turn gone on to gambling and hedge funds.

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Post by ZhuanXia »

thom wrote: post #23
brianwawok wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The top MTG players have mostly gone on to poker, where the prizes are much more lucrative.

Of course a lot of those players have in turn gone on to gambling and hedge funds.

I often wonder about this in the context of musicians and actors. You would have to be a fool to pick such careers, as the prospects are so dim. Yet because of this dimness the selection pressure is very high on the pool of contenders. So our best actors and musicians are fool/geniuses.

Which implies the most innately talented potential musicians and actors are working at a hedge fund or Google DeepMind. And perhaps the odd personalities of musicians and actors is more to do with the bottlenecked selection than some relationship between talent and impulsivity: Only the egotistical and impulsive would step into such fray.

And so we are left not with the best but with the best of a bad lot!

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Post by ZeroFries »

ZhuanXia wrote: post #25
thom wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course a lot of those players have in turn gone on to gambling and hedge funds.

I often wonder about this in the context of musicians and actors. You would have to be a fool to pick such careers, as the prospects are so dim. Yet because of this dimness the selection pressure is very high on the pool of contenders. So our best actors and musicians are fool/geniuses. Which implies the most innately talented potential musicians and actors are working at a hedge fund or Google DeepMind. And perhaps…

Or, you know, they enjoy the craft/art-form, and want to do it professionally. There's definitely some weird selection pressure in show-biz, and impulsiveness/ego may play a small role, but there's a million ego-maniacs for every Tom Cruise.

Re: World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

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Post by scarejunba »

vages wrote: post #7
thom wrote: post #4

Interesting that he mentions a stats-based approach, calling out provider Opta by name: https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1204105872668016642

Sounds like a clever marketing scheme from Opta.

Sure, but you can't fake winning.

Re: World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

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Post by mcv »

rsync wrote: post #26

Just to clarify, as I myself was confused, this Fantasy Football is not American Football, but ... actual football which Americans refer to as soccer.

But with Orcs and wizards? I'd expect something like Blood Bowl from that name.
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