And if you get good at it, you can start to win some serious money from the Daily Fantasy variety of it at sites like http://www.frafty.com
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Play Fantasy Even If You Hate Football
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#12So the TLDR is if you invest a lot of effort, you could win a game that doesn't matter, that you don't care about, all to impress people you don't care about?
Its a good article in that if you've already decided to do something like it, FF is a sort of interesting, unusual choice.
One minor failing of the article is failing to deal with the issue of FF being extremely slow paced. Like playing pac man by submitting punch card jobs on an ancient mainframe.
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#13So in the author's words, deceive your co-workers and troll them. Because they're sports fans. Got it.
Troll, yes. Deceive? Eh, everyone knows I'm clueless, but I can now maintain a conversation.
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#14So the TLDR is if you invest a lot of effort, you could win a game that doesn't matter, that you don't care about, all to impress people you don't care about? Its a good article in that if you've already decided to do something like it, FF is a sort of interesting, unusual choice. One minor failing of the article is failing to deal with the issue of FF being extremely slow paced. Like playing pac man by submitting pu…
You're forgetting the part were you have fun doing it.
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#15This is dead on. Another developer and my self reluctantly joined our office's league this year, despite knowing nothing about football. We're both dominating. He's 7-1 and I'm 6-2. I'd be 7-1 too if I'd have known what a 'bye' week was and paid closer attention to my team.
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#16Some tips for "hacking" fantasy football... * Don't draft a kicker before the 16th round There is very little difference between the #1 and the #10 kicker and predicting future performance from past performance is a crapshot. Plus if you draft a kicker early, you will be exposed as a fraud :) Every year there are no-name players that have breakout seasons, so use your late round picks trying to hit the lottery. * Try…
This is all good except the part about not talking shit.
Talking shit makes fantasy sports even better. There is, however, one rule to this: only do it in leagues with your friends. Yes, you're an asshole if you're in a league with 11 other random internet people. With your friends it's just fun.
Re: Play Fantasy Even If You Hate Football
#17Some tips for "hacking" fantasy football... * Don't draft a kicker before the 16th round There is very little difference between the #1 and the #10 kicker and predicting future performance from past performance is a crapshot. Plus if you draft a kicker early, you will be exposed as a fraud :) Every year there are no-name players that have breakout seasons, so use your late round picks trying to hit the lottery. * Try…
This is all good except the part about not talking shit. Talking shit makes fantasy sports even better. There is, however, one rule to this: only do it in leagues with your friends. Yes, you're an asshole if you're in a league with 11 other random internet people. With your friends it's just fun.
Sure - with friends it's fine. With strangers and coworkers, I'd just be careful :) The OP was about office leagues so I erred on the side of caution!
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#18Enjoyable post, made me laugh throughout.
I'm a Fantasy Football (not egghand) player myself and a big football fan in general.
Funny enough, Fantasy Football is what taught me how to code, I wanted to enhance the crappy official website ( http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ ) with nice tools so I went from knowing html to deploying my own rails apps ( http://www.insidefpl.com ) in a year. I'm still learning everyday and new tools ideas are what make me push myself to learn more.
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#19I've had this exact thought. I could create an api for ESPN with Nokogiri or Capybara or whatever and get the relevant stats for everyone. If it's really just points, then it would be an incredibly simple thing to write.
Will probably do exactly this next year, just for fun and the opportunity to wreck my coworkers.
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#20Seems like the short version is "apply principles of 'Moneyball' to American fantasy football, and win".
American football still holds no interest to me, and I'm still the guy at the office who would rather discuss F1, rugby, and proper football with Brits and Aussies in the building.
As an aside - if anyone has a good "cricket for dummies" recommendation, I'm open to suggestions. As much as I try, the rules still don't really make sense to me. Perhaps I'm permanently damaged having grown up on baseball.