Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea...
by nradov on Thursday December 24, 2015 @08:24PM
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It's not really like the stock market since with stocks the majority of players "win" when measured over a sufficiently long time scale. A better analogy would be playing the derivatives market, which is zero sum (minus broker fees).
Indeed, the stock market and fantasy sites are extremely similar, with the same fundamental issue -- a small number of people with a technical and information advantage are essentially skimming the table clean of the entry fees of a lot of people picking randomly or emotionally.