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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
its nice that you had that little manifesto prepared, but all those words are completely irrelevant to you being wrong when implying that it does not matter to him if dfs is banned in different states: it is a fact that he is impacted in a noticeable way.
I asked a question, I'm not sure what implications you put into that, nor what you mean by "manifesto prepared" or even how asking someone(else) a question is somehow "wrong" of me. But, I get it, you are anointed to speak for "all of us" to explain why the GPP format defines what DFS means and label me as a heretic perhaps for asking a question of your article of faith.
So, before you nail me to the cross of "wrong", let me explain, in an extemporaneous fashion I assure you, my substantive point about the limits of your myopic view of what entertainment value means, to sports content consumers, outside the prize-chasing GPP grinding population.
What I was getting at, after your response about "gpp" as the defining DFS characteristic for "all of us" is that
1. DFS, or ingameFS for that matter, is NOT dependent upon the "GPP" format alone,
2. The entertainment component of DFS is not dependent upon the mega-prizing of nationwide GPPs,100 different formats, and
3. Rather it derives from the entertainment value of analysing potential picks, making picks AND then watching sports content with greater intensity and range of meaningful content to watch..... with some reward for doing the picks better than someone else.
None of these three entertainment elements requires a massive, megaprized GPP format, however much professional prize chasers might prefer shooting all the fish in one massive barrel.
You do not seem to grasp that even people who do not WIN a massive GPP prize derive entertainment value from picking players and watching sports content. If legalization of DFS has the effect of making massive GPPs less likely or spurs presentation of other entertaining formats, too bad for GPP grinders sucking the marrow from the carcasses of 97% of those folks who value/desire sports entertainment more than you might appreciate.
Sorry, but the Pareto Optimal sports entertainment solution might NOT be massive GPPs for DFS. It may be some different format(s) offering a longer term, sustainable solution, which doesn't tax entertainment value so heavily in favor of GPP grinders.... or even, gasp, involve direct legalized sports betting like they allow in Europe, Asia and most places outside the US.
To be fair DFS' rise in popularity has added prizing for performance-driven proposition betting as away to get more entertainment from otherwise boring content, effectively expanding betting opportunities and reasons to watch game, much like invention of the betting line by Charles McNeil*.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._McNeil
Last edited by Geezer Soze; 04-13-2016 at 07:45 PM.