Have to disagree. My point is that MLB's stats are just one (their own commissioned) version of historical fact, for which they claim intellectual property. One way to undermine this - while using the same tool they selfishly are employing - is to provide different versions of historical fact. I can't see any legal barriers to a fantasy league providing its own version for the sake of virtual competition.
MLB stats are not facts. MLB hires official scorekeepers to record (and make judgment calls that become) its official stats. In many cases, for example, it is up to the official scorekeeper to make a judgment on whether a hit ball is a hit (favorable to the batter's stats) or an error on the fielder (negative to the batter's stats) in the same way that an umpire in the game determines whether a pitched ball is in or out of the strike zone. Like it or not, then, MLB's stats are subjective and biased and a direct product of the hired scorekeepers. As such, they have a strong argument about owning their own stats as intellectual property.
What's being missed out on here is that this just opens up the opportunity for Fantasy Leagues to hire their own statisticians to record the own judgments as stats. One Fantasy League's would differ from another's and, thereby, certain leagues would gain a competitive advantage over others based on the perceived reliability of their stats. It would be nice to see a statistician rise through the ranks of the fantasy leagues and get hired by MLB based on past performance.
The Onion's previous format really fit; now - well, yuck.
It's another case of a self-proclaimed expert forcing their own perceived expertise on the end-user without bothering to take the end-user into account. I've run into a couple of these. While the good ones can be good, the bad ones lack insight and just move on making the same mistake. Unfortunately, they also have a tendency to move up the corporate ladder.
I really, really, really want to run linux consistently, but I just don't have the time to put in to feeling comfortable with it. I learned windows from 3.1 by trial and lots of error and - "settled" with job, wife and kid I don't have the freedom to spend the time on becoming a competent linux user. I've installed it several times, but feel like an idiot concerning issues such as security. The idea of running linux behind my adsl connection, while not knowing shit about how to secure my pc, keeps me booting up windows instead of my linux installation.
I'll see your two cents and raise it to four. Not only can we speed up our journeys or product-transports (where are we going so fast anyway?), but we should also be able to speed up the decline of a number of marine species - thump a few whales on the noggin while speeding across the Atlantic.
Unfortunately savants are often known as such because their one area of their total knowledge is "measured" as exceptional. This calendar proposal has some merit, but ignores/discourages other issues. One of my favorite "secrets" was the discovery of the meaning behind the names of our days - Sun day, Moon day, Tyr's day, Wodin's day, Thor's day, Freyia's day and (sorry, Saturday escapes me). This heritage, to me, represents a well-deserved slap in the face to present-day Christian moralists and is a key to a better understanding of who we are/where we come from. Our day names stem from a time when there was one group from which many of today's nationalities sprang, thus uniting us in the past. Time and again we see that issues with concrete measurements (be it time, money, efficiency) triumph over valuable intangibles. It would be a shame to lose such a valuable key to knowledge just in the name of efficiency.
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Have to disagree. My point is that MLB's stats are just one (their own commissioned) version of historical fact, for which they claim intellectual property. One way to undermine this - while using the same tool they selfishly are employing - is to provide different versions of historical fact. I can't see any legal barriers to a fantasy league providing its own version for the sake of virtual competition.
MLB stats are not facts. MLB hires official scorekeepers to record (and make judgment calls that become) its official stats. In many cases, for example, it is up to the official scorekeeper to make a judgment on whether a hit ball is a hit (favorable to the batter's stats) or an error on the fielder (negative to the batter's stats) in the same way that an umpire in the game determines whether a pitched ball is in or out of the strike zone. Like it or not, then, MLB's stats are subjective and biased and a direct product of the hired scorekeepers. As such, they have a strong argument about owning their own stats as intellectual property.
What's being missed out on here is that this just opens up the opportunity for Fantasy Leagues to hire their own statisticians to record the own judgments as stats. One Fantasy League's would differ from another's and, thereby, certain leagues would gain a competitive advantage over others based on the perceived reliability of their stats. It would be nice to see a statistician rise through the ranks of the fantasy leagues and get hired by MLB based on past performance.
The Onion's previous format really fit; now - well, yuck.
It's another case of a self-proclaimed expert forcing their own perceived expertise on the end-user without bothering to take the end-user into account. I've run into a couple of these. While the good ones can be good, the bad ones lack insight and just move on making the same mistake. Unfortunately, they also have a tendency to move up the corporate ladder.
I really, really, really want to run linux consistently, but I just don't have the time to put in to feeling comfortable with it. I learned windows from 3.1 by trial and lots of error and - "settled" with job, wife and kid I don't have the freedom to spend the time on becoming a competent linux user. I've installed it several times, but feel like an idiot concerning issues such as security. The idea of running linux behind my adsl connection, while not knowing shit about how to secure my pc, keeps me booting up windows instead of my linux installation.
I'll see your two cents and raise it to four. Not only can we speed up our journeys or product-transports (where are we going so fast anyway?), but we should also be able to speed up the decline of a number of marine species - thump a few whales on the noggin while speeding across the Atlantic.
Unfortunately savants are often known as such because their one area of their total knowledge is "measured" as exceptional. This calendar proposal has some merit, but ignores/discourages other issues. One of my favorite "secrets" was the discovery of the meaning behind the names of our days - Sun day, Moon day, Tyr's day, Wodin's day, Thor's day, Freyia's day and (sorry, Saturday escapes me). This heritage, to me, represents a well-deserved slap in the face to present-day Christian moralists and is a key to a better understanding of who we are/where we come from. Our day names stem from a time when there was one group from which many of today's nationalities sprang, thus uniting us in the past. Time and again we see that issues with concrete measurements (be it time, money, efficiency) triumph over valuable intangibles. It would be a shame to lose such a valuable key to knowledge just in the name of efficiency.