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In response to "Here comes Congress for DFS -- (link)" by ML

Supposedly quant jocks can game the stats to win far more than the average schlub

Posted by jangles (aka chris) Sep 14 '15, 15:17

I would like to see a statistical comparison of players who genuinely tried to pick the "best" players each week versus a random selection of players from the same pool

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The article ML posted last week claims that virtually ALL the money is being won by sharks/quants -- nm - rollo Sep 14, 15:21 3
- Here's the money quote if you don't want to read the whole article -- (edited) - rollo Sep 14, 15:29
- So more like the blackjack players who memorize the odds charts -- (link) - jangles Sep 14, 15:25 1
  - More like math PHDS who work for hedge funds and use weather algorithms to know when is a good time to short wheat futures -- nm - rollo Sep 14, 15:32

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