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by 0verc00ked 3917 days ago
Not true. If anything, it's even more useful than the article makes it sound. If you knew absolutely nothing about sports, but had access to this data and a fairly basic understanding of probability and statistics, you could use this data to be basically +EV in any large field contest you enter. The lottery analogy by slg is a great metaphor to understand it.
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This Deadspin article does a solid job explaining it: http://deadspin.com/draftkings-employee-with-access-to-insid...