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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 rhnmhdv »

room271 wrote: post #13

People may not understand how big an achievement this is. Yes you need a lot of good fortune, but there are 7m players of FPL. For most, getting into the top 100k is seen as a good result for the end of the season. Magus is clearly a massive football fan though - he talks about it a lot on his livestreams etc.

It's mind-boggling to me. I've been a huge/obsessed fan all my life and never got in the top 200k

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

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Post by fgonzag »

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.

5.7 billion people refer to it as football, 300 million refer to it as soccer. Any time you see the word football and any non American person, it's probably talking about association football.

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

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Post by JamesBarney »

ly wrote: post #21
koolba wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Based on that post more than 50% would use the term soccer.

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

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Post by JamesBarney »

fgonzag wrote: post #35
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.

5.7 billion people refer to it as football, 300 million refer to it as soccer. Any time you see the word football and any non American person, it's probably talking about association football.

But that doesn't correctly represent the proportions of hacker new readers that would call it soccer. Since this web site was started in the u.s. and is almost entirely English speaking that heavily selects users from English speaking countries, both north America, and in particular the u.s., and especially silicon valley.
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