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This is a real treat because we will get the see the attributed greatness* that previously only coaches, players and NFL Films could verify.
* The type of players for which coaches make adjustments, a week before the game, to account for.
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Additionally, why can't we play Dungeons and Dragons and watch football? I heavily enjoy both. Not to mention Fantasy Football, which is a strategy nerds dream, that they can actually play with their non-nerdy friends. Come to think of it, why don't we have HN Fantasy Football leagues?
I'm also at the intersection of HN and fantasy football, which led me to create http://app.pickemfirst.com a browser extension to manage your fantasy teams
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I have enjoyed Football for a while -- good sport, fun to watch. I REALLY got into Football a few years back when I hopped on the fantasy football bandwagon -- a lot of strategy (projections, history, weekly match up, e.g., do I start Tom Brady against Baltimore or RG3 against StL?), statistics, a random element (injuries, x-factor players breaking out, coaches benching people), etc. There is quite a bit of crossover…
You should try Fantasy Baseball. The stats go so much deeper and there is so much more data to process than with football. The strategy involved for informed players can be quite incredible.
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All other sports make their own equivalent of it available allowing fans to see every mistake made by every player. What other sports do that?
MLB.tv and TNT Overtime(NBA) both allow you to watch games online with your own choice of camera angles. The MLS seems to be lacking this option.
TNT Overtime is probably not available in my country (Uruguay), and most live streams are still mostly unwatchable here, but I'd really like to have the option some day :) .
I really like living in the age when cable tv is being replaced by Netflix and equivalent internet broadcasts :) . Sadly my hope that I could enjoy the same stuff being broadcast in the US, Europe and Japan still hasn't come to pass (they've managed to region-encode the Internet :P and proxies are not a long-term answer)
There's already a budding aftermarket... A gif that demos why Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Heath Miller is such a great run blocker: http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1198471/steelers3.g...
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Additionally, why can't we play Dungeons and Dragons and watch football? I heavily enjoy both. Not to mention Fantasy Football, which is a strategy nerds dream, that they can actually play with their non-nerdy friends. Come to think of it, why don't we have HN Fantasy Football leagues?
Some friends of mine and I talked about doing one where we wrote bots to manage our teams instead of managing them manually. Then that turned into "We should build a platform that supports that for leagues..." and got lost on beer napkins or something. I still think it'd be fun.
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You should try Fantasy Baseball. The stats go so much deeper and there is so much more data to process than with football. The strategy involved for informed players can be quite incredible.
I'm always tempted to try it but Fantasy Baseball always seems like too much of a full time job to me. Do you set your lineups on a weekly basis or is it something that requires daily attention?
But I think it's worse than daily attention. The MLB isn't like the NFL in that its schedule is spread out all over the place. It has to be constantly on your mind to make sure you have the right relief pitchers started, etc.
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Additionally, why can't we play Dungeons and Dragons and watch football? I heavily enjoy both. Not to mention Fantasy Football, which is a strategy nerds dream, that they can actually play with their non-nerdy friends. Come to think of it, why don't we have HN Fantasy Football leagues?
Some friends of mine and I talked about doing one where we wrote bots to manage our teams instead of managing them manually. Then that turned into "We should build a platform that supports that for leagues..." and got lost on beer napkins or something. I still think it'd be fun.
I've thought for a while now that the NFL network - their TV presence, the website - is the future of how sports will be. It's an incredibly good product if you're a football fan (as I am - go Niners). The TV channel is well done for the fan, a mix of informality with information - bunch of faces that make us nostalgic due to their past achievements combined with solid anchors who have personality but don't try to ou…
Of course, an entire business model is in my way, but alas, I don't share your perspective. The NFL is way behind IMO.