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However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football. HN users probably aren't much into footb

by kd0amg 14y ago

However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football. HN users probably aren't much into football, but they do seem to enjoy finding out about strategy involved in things they haven't thought much about.

dfc 14y ago
"HN users probably aren't much into football" Why do you think this? Are we too busy cleaning our pocket protectors and playing Dungeons and Dragons?
- thetabyte 14y ago
  Additionally, why can't we play Dungeons and Dragons and watch football? I heavily enjoy both. Not to mention Fantasy Football, which is a strategy nerds dream, that they can actually play with their non-nerdy friends. Come to think of it, why don't we have HN Fantasy Football leagues?
  - nekojima 14y ago
    Post an Ask HN next August (or however its appropriate) and if I see it, I'm in.
  - famousactress 14y ago
    Some friends of mine and I talked about doing one where we wrote bots to manage our teams instead of managing them manually. Then that turned into "We should build a platform that supports that for leagues..." and got lost on beer napkins or something. I still think it'd be fun.
    - Evbn 14y ago
      You may find SimBase interesting. Don't know if it was ever open sourced, though.
    - burntsushi 14y ago
      It would be loads of fun. Unfortunately, I think the primary reason why there aren't a lot of cool ideas like this already implemented is for legal reasons. From what I've heard, starting your own fantasy league by using NFL data is just pretty much impossible.
  - aderaynal 14y ago
    I'm also at the intersection of HN and fantasy football, which led me to create http://app.pickemfirst.com http://app.pickemfirst.com a browser extension to manage your fantasy teams
    - thetabyte 14y ago
      I'm loving the product so far, thank you very much!
- DanBC 14y ago
  Because sport tends to be shallowly, but intensely, interesting. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
fusiongyro 14y ago
Hit the nail on the head for me. I don't really give a damn about football, but I found the article interesting, came here to blow smoke about it, found jerf had beaten me to it. My wife and I love the show "The League," but I wouldn't be able to watch it without her there to explain the football references, which are plentiful. I find myself idly wondering what it would take to write a fantasy football site and what the benefits could be. I inferred the existence of high quality geeks who care a lot about football from my geologist friend, who told me a few years ago that every year somebody releases a modified ROM of NES Tecmo Superbowl with updates for the current season.

by kd0amg 14y ago

dfc 14y ago

"HN users probably aren't much into football" Why do you think this? Are we too busy cleaning our pocket protectors and playing Dungeons and Dragons?

thetabyte 14y ago
Additionally, why can't we play Dungeons and Dragons and watch football? I heavily enjoy both. Not to mention Fantasy Football, which is a strategy nerds dream, that they can actually play with their non-nerdy friends. Come to think of it, why don't we have HN Fantasy Football leagues?
- nekojima 14y ago
  Post an Ask HN next August (or however its appropriate) and if I see it, I'm in.
- famousactress 14y ago
  Some friends of mine and I talked about doing one where we wrote bots to manage our teams instead of managing them manually. Then that turned into "We should build a platform that supports that for leagues..." and got lost on beer napkins or something. I still think it'd be fun.
  - Evbn 14y ago
    You may find SimBase interesting. Don't know if it was ever open sourced, though.
  - burntsushi 14y ago
    It would be loads of fun. Unfortunately, I think the primary reason why there aren't a lot of cool ideas like this already implemented is for legal reasons. From what I've heard, starting your own fantasy league by using NFL data is just pretty much impossible.
- aderaynal 14y ago
  I'm also at the intersection of HN and fantasy football, which led me to create http://app.pickemfirst.com http://app.pickemfirst.com a browser extension to manage your fantasy teams
  - thetabyte 14y ago
    I'm loving the product so far, thank you very much!
DanBC 14y ago
Because sport tends to be shallowly, but intensely, interesting. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

fusiongyro 14y ago

Hit the nail on the head for me. I don't really give a damn about football, but I found the article interesting, came here to blow smoke about it, found jerf had beaten me to it. My wife and I love the show "The League," but I wouldn't be able to watch it without her there to explain the football references, which are plentiful. I find myself idly wondering what it would take to write a fantasy football site and what the benefits could be. I inferred the existence of high quality geeks who care a lot about football from my geologist friend, who told me a few years ago that every year somebody releases a modified ROM of NES Tecmo Superbowl with updates for the current season.