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RE: Gabriel's Horn - The shape you could fill with paint, but could never actually paint!

in #mathematics8 years ago (edited)

Found your fantasy football posts after seeing your Gabriel's Horn post and going back through old stuff. I actually meant to reply to your first fantasy football post but it is past payouts so commenting is frozen, I guess I'll just post it here.

Wanted to clarify something: the "scandal" with Ethan Haskell, the draftkings employee who won a large tournament on fanduel turned out to be a non issue. He submitted his fanduel lineup (immutable after it locks) then an hour after lock checked draftkings and publicly posted ownership %.

There was no insider trading, but unfortunately that is the way of scandals: news of it is all over tv and page 1 of every newspaper, while news of him being cleared is buried and sometimes never released.

Anyway, I play DFS for a living, hit me up in the steemit.chat or somewhere else so we can chat about fantasy, or math for that matter, was a math PhD student before dropping out for poker. I started an introduction to math proofs series, you could do one for calculus and/or other subjects too, could maybe even collaborate on some stuff. Anyway, seems like we have a lot in common, hope I see you in the chat!

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Yeah! We should definitely chat soon! On both math and fantasy! I'm branching out more into the DFS realm this season, admittedly very nervous to do so. I am going very low stakes as I am trying just to prove out my model for now. I'm sure it will need tweaking as the weeks progress and variables I am using are rendered insignificant after a more careful study.

It makes sense the media would twist the whole "scandal" into something it wasn't. I suppose it helped me realize I was playing more casually than I should have....DFS was just the side attraction for me the past few years to my season long leagues. Hoping to change that this year. I did start a #fantasyfootball channel, might be fun to get some banter going on Sundays during the season!

I'll give you a few tips to get you started. I played season long for years and the first season I spent transitioning to DFS was losing, but once I figured it out in late 2014 I started doing really well, well enough to focus entirely on DFS full time. Football season is great, I'll hop in the fantasyfootball channel too