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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,
by 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 agoPost an Ask HN next August (or however its appropriate) and if I see it, I'm in.
- famousactress 14y agoSome 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 agoYou may find SimBase interesting. Don't know if it was ever open sourced, though.
- burntsushi 14y agoIt 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 agoI'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 agoI'm loving the product so far, thank you very much!