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The NFL requires teams to report all injuries no matter how minor. https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf https://operations.n

The NFL requires teams to report all injuries no matter how minor. https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report...

ses1984 7y ago
Ok and? Is the report the same as being there?
- blackflame7000 7y ago
  Is reading a quarterly earnings report the same as being in the boardroom? Of course not. If perfect knowledge were attainable this whole money-making business would be a lot easier. In sports, you can get information on how a player has performed historically as well as recently in order to make educated guesses on how they will perform in the future. In business, you have no access to R&D information. You have no idea if a company's past success will bring future success. You have no way of knowing if they have hit a snag or a breakthrough in R&D until after it's hit the market and if you do, you are likely breaking insider trading laws. In sports, you can study your opponent to predict what they might do. In business, you can really only study what your opponent did during the actual game so to speak. For example, Microsoft can't wait for Sony to release the PS4 in order to develop a game plan for the Xbox. Both have to put forward their best effort regardless of what the competition may or may not do. In sport, you are training to beat 1 opponent, in business you are trying to appeal to the whims of the multifaceted consumer which aren't nearly as concrete.
  - ses1984 7y ago
    I'm not sure what your point is. The original post I responded to was saying that all information in sport is public, unlike boardroom meetings, and then ask if reading a quarterly report is the same as being in the boardroom, which it's not, which is my point.
    - blackflame7000 7y ago
      My point is that you picked an uncommon occurrence as evidence that sports are just as covert as wall street. I then rebutted your argument by pointing out that injury reports are public. Do people violate the rules? Yes, just like people inside trade. The point is that you can’t factor in cheating if you are starting with the assumption of a fair system. If it was utterly corrupt it would fail. If everyone is playing by the rules of the SEC/NFL then predicting future performance is much easier in the latter for all the reasons I previously stated.
      - ses1984 7y ago
        I don't think that occurrence is all that uncommon, there are plenty of variables in the NFL that are not regulated to be transparent, there are loads and loads of variables in sport, not just NFL, that are only known to insiders. Not every sport or league strives to be as transparent as the NFL.

ses1984 7y ago

Ok and? Is the report the same as being there?

blackflame7000 7y ago
Is reading a quarterly earnings report the same as being in the boardroom? Of course not. If perfect knowledge were attainable this whole money-making business would be a lot easier. In sports, you can get information on how a player has performed historically as well as recently in order to make educated guesses on how they will perform in the future. In business, you have no access to R&D information. You have no idea if a company's past success will bring future success. You have no way of knowing if they have hit a snag or a breakthrough in R&D until after it's hit the market and if you do, you are likely breaking insider trading laws. In sports, you can study your opponent to predict what they might do. In business, you can really only study what your opponent did during the actual game so to speak. For example, Microsoft can't wait for Sony to release the PS4 in order to develop a game plan for the Xbox. Both have to put forward their best effort regardless of what the competition may or may not do. In sport, you are training to beat 1 opponent, in business you are trying to appeal to the whims of the multifaceted consumer which aren't nearly as concrete.
- ses1984 7y ago
  I'm not sure what your point is. The original post I responded to was saying that all information in sport is public, unlike boardroom meetings, and then ask if reading a quarterly report is the same as being in the boardroom, which it's not, which is my point.
  - blackflame7000 7y ago
    My point is that you picked an uncommon occurrence as evidence that sports are just as covert as wall street. I then rebutted your argument by pointing out that injury reports are public. Do people violate the rules? Yes, just like people inside trade. The point is that you can’t factor in cheating if you are starting with the assumption of a fair system. If it was utterly corrupt it would fail. If everyone is playing by the rules of the SEC/NFL then predicting future performance is much easier in the latter for all the reasons I previously stated.
    - ses1984 7y ago
      I don't think that occurrence is all that uncommon, there are plenty of variables in the NFL that are not regulated to be transparent, there are loads and loads of variables in sport, not just NFL, that are only known to insiders. Not every sport or league strives to be as transparent as the NFL.