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I would argue it's not a proper market place, fantasy or not, without such ability. (meaning, whatever values or data that comes from this is of near zero utili

by pyvpx 12y ago

I would argue it's not a proper market place, fantasy or not, without such ability. (meaning, whatever values or data that comes from this is of near zero utility without the ability to short)

nodesocket 12y ago
You can only short public companies, so why should you be able to short any company in fantasy investing?
- eru 12y ago
  Why not? No need to restrict our fantasy investing to what people think is proper.
  - taylorwc 12y ago
    I'd guess the comment was less about 'what people think is proper,' and more about the fact that there are typically no mechanisms by which to short very early stage private companies.
    - eru 12y ago
      Yes. I guess I think games ought to be more awesome than life.
- pyvpx 12y ago
  because fantasy investing is fundamentally a prediction market (IMO)
gcb0 12y ago
last time i checked, every single fantasy football site also didn't allow you to borrow money from money sharks to try to bet against on a bad line up.