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Re:Will Supreme Court open a ‘dam burst’ of legalized sports... by billysbeanes on Sunday November 26, 2017 @10:13PM (#15784552)
Worth noting that this field is reaching diminishing returns due to analyses. You might be 2% better than a stock analysis, but that's usually not a sufficient edge to exploit profitably unless you're talking HUGE numbers.

Finding a problem someone has, solving it with analysis, and offering to license/sell it to them (once it's proven to work) is probably more lucrative.

Unless you're chasing the variable rewards skinner box. In that case, I'd probably just take up a cocaine habit -- it'll be cheaper.

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Re:Will Supreme Court open a ‘dam burst’ of legalized sports... by kodablah on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:53PM (#15790001)
Late response, but figured I'd mention that we have new variables now that we didn't always. Pitch FX, fielder location, etc. Not that it makes a huge different, but playing daily and averaging out over time, it can really affect matchups (again, over a large enough sample size).
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