Download or read book Cognitive Bias in Fantasy Sports written by R.M. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Summary A cognitive bias is a mental process that leads us to make illogical and sometimes irrational decisions. Most of us are unaware of these mental processes, although they are operating constantly. Most of the time, believe it or not, its no big deal. In fact, there is no doubt that cognitive biases still exist because they help us succeed as a species! In this work, you will learn why and how cognitive biases come about as well as why they might just be beneficial from an evolutionary perspective. More importantly, youll also find out how they play into your management of your fantasy sports teams. Spoiler alert: its not all good! From Confirmation Bias to Omission Bias and the Pseudocertainty Effect, plus many more, youll learn how the biases affect your decision-making and what to do to overcome the subtle sabotage your brain may be exerting on your fantasy season.

Download or read book Fantasy Football for Smart People written by Jonathan Bales and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daily fantasy sports landscape is changing. Predicting player performance is only half the battle; in tournaments, top DFS players are exploiting weaknesses in public psychology to profit big. This requires a fundamental understanding of what drives public opinion-what motivates us to make decisions and where we go wrong-and the ability to accurately forecast how it all affects player ownership in DFS leagues. The Hidden Psychology of Winning DFS takes a two-pronged approach to turning you into a better daily fantasy football player. In the first section, you'll learn how various cognitive biases can shape your beliefs. Why do DFS players overvalue recent performance, overestimate their ability to make accurate predictions, and deal so poorly with risk and uncertainty? More important, how can you benefit from their mistakes? The second section takes a data-driven look at both daily fantasy football tournament ownership and value. Which metrics predict not only which players perform well, but which ones will be popular in tournaments? How much do the Vegas lines matter, when should you value recent production, and how can you find both undervalued and under-owned players at each position? You'll learn specific instructions on how to exploit inefficiencies in others' lineups to give you a leg up on the field. Using historical data to see what actually predicts daily fantasy football value and ownership, The Hidden Psychology of Winning DFS will equip you with the tools you need to leverage weaknesses in the way other players think and act into a major competitive advantage.

Download or read book Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry written by Nicholas David Bowman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into sports broadcasting and editorial coverage, sports marketing and promotions, and even into the very sports themselves with athletes and teams using the activities to draw fans further into the sports experience. This edited collection invites leading scholars and sports professionals from several different fields to share historical and emerging perspectives on the importance of fantasy sports as an artifact of theoretical and empirical importance to larger issues of sport and society. \

Download or read book The Athletic 2022 Fantasy Football Guide written by The Athletic and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide for your 2022 fantasy football team from the staff of The Athletic.Whether you're in a keeper, dynasty or SuperFlex league, this comprehensive preview features unmatched insight and analysis from industry leaders Jake Ciely, Brandon Funston, Brandon Marianne Lee, KC Joyner, Nando Di Fino, and the NFL staff at The Athletic.Highlights include award-winning projections for more than 450 players, expert insight from The Athletic's beat writers, comprehensive injury updates, detailed mock drafts, outside-the-box strategies for Dynasty and SuperFlex, and even cognitive science applications for fantasy football that will have you poised to dominate your league.Featuring expert evaluations of hundreds of players, this is a must-have resource for fantasy players and NFL fans.

Download or read book Why Baseball Matters written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.

Download or read book Dueling with Kings written by Daniel Barbarisi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Bringing Down the House and The Wolf of Wall Street, “an engrossing and often hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the characters, compulsions, and chaos inside the fantasy sports gold rush. It’s the perfect meld of a sports and business book, engagingly written like a fun, page-turning novel” (The Wall Street Journal). Daniel Barbarisi quit his job as a New York Yankees beat writer and began a quest to join the top one percent of Daily Fantasy Sports (“DFS”) players, the so-called “sharks,” in hopes to discover the secrets behind this phenomenon—and potentially make some money along the way. DFS is fantasy sports on steroids. It’s the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole into a billion-dollar industry by allowing sports fans to bet piles of cash constructing fantasy teams. Yet as Barbarisi quickly realizes, what should have been a fun companion to casual sports viewing was instead a ferocious environment infested with sharks, a top tier of pros wielding complex algorithms, drafting hundreds of lineups, and wagering six figures daily as they bludgeon unsuspecting amateur “fish.” Barbarisi embeds himself inside the world of DFS, befriending and joining its rogue’s gallery as he tries to beat them at their own game. In a work equal parts adventure and rigorously reported investigation, Barbarisi wades into this chaotic industry at the very moment its existence is threatened by lawmakers sick of its Wild West atmosphere and pushy advertising. All their money made FanDuel and DraftKings seem invincible; but, as Barbarisi reports, they made plenty of dubious—perhaps even scandalous—moves as they vied for market supremacy. In Dueling with Kings, Barbarisi uncovers the tumultuous inside story of DFS, all while capturing its peculiar cast of characters, from wide-eyed newly minted millionaires, to sun-starved math geeks, to bros living an endless frat party of keggers and Playboy Bunnies. Can he outwit them all and make it to the top?

Download or read book The Process 2020 Edition written by Tanner Bell and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Process - 2020 Edition The Process - Integrating Valuations and Biases into a Winning Fantasy Baseball Formula (thefantasybaseballprocess.com) is written by Jeff Zimmerman (Rotographs, Sportsline, two-time Tout Wars champion) and Tanner Bell (SmartFantasyBaseball.com, author of Using Standing Gain Points to Rank and Value Fantasy Baseball Players). The Process contains over 300 detailed pages on how to run a fantasy baseball team, including over 50 new pages of groundbreaking studies and research, over 50 additional pages of stats, projections, and useful information for the 2020 season. Some of the highlights are: Detailed analysis of how to use industry projections and when they should be modified. How to use valuation procedures to turn projections into rankings and dollar values. Take advantage of industry biases and norms to pull as much value out of a draft and auction. A groundbreaking study on when breakouts happen and how owners should take advantage of this information. Pages of hints and secrets to accumulate extra stats during the season. Basic Steamer hitter, starter, and reliever projections Standings gain points equations for various league sizes (12- and 15-team) and formats (average and OBP leagues, AL- or NL-only) from major industry leagues (NFBC, Tout Wars). Average league standings for the same leagues to help owners know what statistics are required to win a league and to help plan category targets for 2020. What Are Others Saying About the Book? What lies in these pages is the most thorough tackling of the larger questions of rotisserie baseball that you'll find anywhere in this world (physical or digital). Jeff and Tanner examine concepts such as cognitive biases and measurement of intrinsic value, they dig into the trick, inexact science of FAAB, and they also introduce new ideas and theories. ~ Clay Link, Rotowire, 2018 TGFBI Champion After reading 'The Process', I realize I will never write a book about fantasy baseball because Jeff Zimmerman and Tanner Bell wrote the book I would have written, only way better. ~ Rob Silver, NFBC Main Event Overall Champion Most books just tell you how the author won his leagues. What makes Tanner Bell and Jeff Zimmerman's effort so epic is that it not only shows their work in every step of their own methods, it gives the reader a great sense of how they could innovate further, and how they could build their own league-winning process. This is a must-read for any fantasy baseball lover. ~ Eno Sarris, The Athletic This is undoubtedly the most comprehensive fantasy baseball guide I have ever come across. Jeff and Tanner are two of the smartest minds in the industry and are part of the few I make sure to read everything from. 'The Process' will provide you with long-term value and make you a better fantasy baseball player not just for the upcoming season, but for many seasons to come. ~ Mike Podhorzer, Fangraphs, Projecting X 2.0, Former Tout Wars Champion 'The Process' is one of the smartest, most comprehensive fantasy baseball books to hit the market in years. If you're a valuation fanatic like I am, you'll enjoy and devour every page of this book. 'The Process' is an essential part of any fantasy player's bookshelf. ~ Mike Gianella, Baseball Prospectus, Former Tout Wars and LABR Champion

Download or read book The Process 2019 Edition written by Tanner Bell and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Process - 2019 Edition The Process - Integrating Valuations and Biases into a Winning Fantasy Baseball Formula is written by Jeff Zimmerman (Rotographs, Sportsline, two-time Tout Wars champion) and Tanner Bell (SmartFantasyBaseball.com, author of Using Standing Gain Points to Rank and Value Fantasy Baseball Players). The Process contains over 200 detailed pages on how to run a fantasy baseball team and over 50 additional pages of stats, projections, and useful information for the 2019 season. Some of the highlights are: Detailed analysis of how to use industry projections and when they should be modified. How to use the three main valuation procedures (standings gain points, z-scores, percentage valuation) to turn projections into rankings and dollar values. Take advantage of industry biases and norms to pull as much value out of a draft and auction. A groundbreaking study on when breakouts happen and how owners should take advantage of this information. Pages of hints and secrets to accumulate standing gains during the season. How to notice and use cognitive biases against opponents. Basic Steamer projections with additional projections for pitchers just starting or relieving, hitter handedness splits, and how Colorado pitchers perform on the road. Standings gain points equations for various league sizes (12- and 15-team) and formats (average and OBP leagues, AL- or NL-only) from major industry leagues (NFBC, Tout Wars, and The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational). Average league standings for the same league sizes and formats to help owners know what statistics are required to win a league and to help plan category targets for 2019. What Are Others Saying About the Book? After reading ''The Process'', I realize I will never write a book about fantasy baseball because Jeff Zimmerman and Tanner Bell wrote the book I would have written, only way better. ~ Rob Silver, NFBC Main Event Overall Champion There are two paths toward sustainable fantasy baseball success: 1) You have preternatural talent in scouting/projecting talent or 2) You build, maintain, and refine a winning process to maximize all the little advantages. I employ the latter path. I am not sure whether to be mad at Jeff Zimmerman and Tanner Bell for providing a cheat code to years of learnings/struggles or pleased that they will create smarter fantasy baseballers to better utilize Razzball tools/projections. I will go with the latter to increase the changes they use my blurb. ~ Rudy Gamble, Razzball, Two-time Tout Wars Champion Most books just tell you how the author won his leagues. What makes Tanner Bell and Jeff Zimmerman''s effort so epic is that it not only shows their work in every step of their own methods, it gives the reader a great sense of how they could innovate further, and how they could build their own league-winning process. This is a must-read for any fantasy baseaball lover. ~ Eno Sarris, The Athletic This is undoubtedly the most comprehensive fantasy baseball guide I have ever come across. Jeff and Tanner are two of the smartest minds in the industry and are part of the few I make sure to read everything from. ''The Process'' will provide you with long-term value and make you a better fantasy baseball player not just for the upcoming season, but for many seasons to come. ~ Mike Podhorzer, Fangraphs, Projecting X 2.0, Former Tout Wars Champion ''The Process'' is one of the smartest, most comprehensive fantasy baseball books to hit the market in years. If you''re a valuation fanatic like I am, you''ll enjoy and devour every page of this book. ''The Process'' is an essential part of any fantasy player''s bookshelf. ~ Mike Gianella, Baseball Prospectus, Former Tout Wars and LABR Champion

Download or read book The Skeptic s Guide to Sports Science written by Nicholas B. Tiller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global health and fitness industry is worth an estimated $4 trillion. We spend $90 billion each year on health club memberships and $100 billion each year on dietary supplements. In such an industrial climate, lax regulations on the products we are sold (supplements, fad-diets, training programs, gadgets, and garments) result in marketing campaigns underpinned by strong claims and weak evidence. Moreover, our critical faculties are ill-suited to a culture characterized by fake news, social media, misinformation, and bad science. We have become walking, talking prey to 21st-Century Snake Oil salesmen. In The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science, Nicholas B. Tiller confronts the claims behind the products and the evidence behind the claims. The author discusses what might be wrong with the sales pitch, the glossy magazine advert, and the celebrity endorsements that our heuristically-wired brains find so innately attractive. Tiller also explores the appeal of the one quick fix, the fallacious arguments that are a mainstay of product advertising, and the critical steps we must take in retraining our minds to navigate the pitfalls of the modern consumerist culture. This informative and accessible volume pulls no punches in scrutinizing the plausibility of, and evidence for, the most popular sports products and practices on the market. Readers are encouraged to confront their conceptualizations of the industry and, by the book’s end, they will have acquired the skills necessary to independently judge the effectiveness of sports-related products. This treatise on the commercialization of science in sport and exercise is a must-read for exercisers, athletes, students, and practitioners who hope to retain their intellectual integrity in a lucrative health and fitness industry that is spiraling out-of-control.

Download or read book The House Advantage written by Jeffrey Ma and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the notorious MIT Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic Bringing Down the House, Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later, Ma has inspired not only a bestselling novel and hit movie, but has also started three different companies—the latest of which, Citizen Sports, is an innovative marriage of sports, betting, and digital technology—and launched a successful corporate speaking career. The House Advantage reveals Ma's cutting-edge mathematical insights into the world of statistics and makes them applicable to a wide business audience. He argues that numbers are the key to analyzing nearly everything in the world of business, from how to spot and profit from global market inefficiencies to having multiple backup plans in anticipation of every probability. Ma's stories and business lessons are as intriguing as they are universally applicable.

Download or read book Fantasy Football for Smart People written by Jonathan Bales and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fantasy Football for Smart People: How to Win at Daily Fantasy Sports" is a data-driven guide to becoming a profitable daily fantasy player. Built around daily fantasy football but applicable to all sports, the book examines advanced DFS strategies, providing data on what's actually winning leagues. Gain access to the latest trends and numbers you need to give you a serious competitive edge in the world of daily fantasy sports."How to Win at Daily Fantasy Sports" brings "Moneyball" to daily fantasy football, applying a scientific approach to the game. The book will teach you:* How to properly allocate salary cap* Which lineup combinations are most optimal* How to use a contrarian strategy to win tournaments* Which positions/players to use in the flex* How to convert your season-long skill set into DFS success* A whole lot moreNo more guessing or making decisions based on conventional wisdom. "How to Win at Daily Fantasy Sports" provides the mathematical and game-theory-driven foundation you need to become a truly long-term profitable daily fantasy sports player.

Download or read book Fantasy Baseball for Smart People written by Jonathan Bales and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jonathan uses the latest data from daily fantasy sports, and beyond, to provide unique insights and actionable tips for every type of player. This book is completely fresh and maybe his best. It's Moneyball for DFS." - CSURAM88, DraftKings $1MM Champion There's been a shift in the DFS industry; more than ever, top players are utilizing game theory, psychology, and advanced modeling to predict player performance and ownership in order to find an edge. In Fantasy Baseball for Smart People: How to Use Math and Psychology to Win at DFS, you'll have access to all of the latest daily fantasy baseball data-performance analytics, ownership percentages, and more-as well as simple ways to implement the numbers and exploit public biases to make money. You'll learn how to: - Predict ownership (with brand new ownership percentages) - Use new advanced batted ball data to find a huge untapped edge - Exploit Vegas lines - Benefit from others' mistakes How to Use Math and Psychology to Win at DFS is your guide to competing with daily fantasy baseball's elite.

Download or read book Surfing Uncertainty written by Andy Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title brings together work on embodiment, action, and the predictive mind. At the core is the vision of human minds as prediction machines - devices that constantly try to stay one step ahead of the breaking waves of sensory stimulation, by actively predicting the incoming flow. In every situation we encounter, that complex prediction machinery is already buzzing, proactively trying to anticipate the sensory barrage. The book shows in detail how this strange but potent strategy of self-anticipation ushers perception, understanding, and imagination simultaneously onto the cognitive stage.

Download or read book Social Psychology written by Connor Whiteley and published by CGD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging 4th edition is perfect for psychology students and professionals alike! Do you want to learn why groups behave like they do? Do you want to learn how our groups influence us? Do you want to learn how our culture impacts our behaviour? If the answer to any of these questions and more is yes, then this is the book for you! In this book, you’ll learn about social and cultural psychology and how this affects our behaviour all in an easy to understand and engaging way. This fascinating 4th Edition includes lots of brand new chapters on interesting topics. For example, the social psychology of cheating, freeriding, social cognition, deception and plenty more! By the end of this book, you’ll learn: · What is social psychology? · How our culture impacts our behaviour? · Why groups behave as they do? · How persuasion works and why it can fail? · The psychology of aggression · And more. BUY NOW! Social Psychology Content: Introduction Part One: Introduction to Social Psychology Chapter 1: History of Social psychology Chapter 2: How Do You do social psychology? Chapter 3: What Groups for The Individuals? Chapter 4; The Social Cure Hypothesis Chapter 5: The Self and Self-Awareness Chapter6: Theories of The Self Chapter 7: Self-Esteem Chapter 8: Attitudes and Social Cognition Chapter 9: Cognitive Dissonance Chapter 10: Social Identity Theory Chapter 1: Individual and Collective Narcissism Chapter 12: Social Cognitive Theory Part Two: The Social Group Chapter 13: The Social Group Chapter 14: Formation of The Group Chapter 15: Roles, Gender and More. Chapter 16: Negatives of Social Groups and Why social Groups Can Be Bad For Us? Chapter 17: Group Decision Making and The Hidden Profile Chapter 18: Why the Hidden Profile Profiles and How to Overcome the Hidden Profile? Chapter 19: Group Memory and The Group Think Phenomenon. Part Three: Intergroup Relations Chapter 20: Intergroup Relations Chapter 21: The Outgroup Chapter 22: Ideologies Chapter 23: Introduction to Sexism Chapter 24: Sexism Chapter 25: Ideologies Of Meritocracy And Why Ideologies Are Important? Chapter 26 Categorisation Approaches, Intergroup Contact and Intergroup Apology Chapter 28: Collective Action Part Four: Social Influence Chapter 29: Social Influence Chapter 30: Milgram 91965,1975) Chapter 31: Why People Conform Chapter 32: Controversies of The Experiments Part Five: Persuasion Chapter 33: Persuasion Chapter 34: The Message Chapter 35: The Method and Models Of Persuasions Chapter 36: Persuasion Techniques and When Persuasion Doesn’t Work? Part Six: Aggression and Cultural Psychology Chapter 37: Aggression, What Causes Aggression and Aggression in Sport Games Chapter 38: Cultural Dimensions Chapter 39: Enculturation and Acculturation Chapter 40: Globalisation Including many more fascinating chapters on topics like freeriding, social cognition, deception and more. BUY NOW!

Download or read book A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication written by Richard Jackson Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fifth edition of A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication, author Richard Jackson Harris continues his examination of how our experiences with media affect the way we acquire knowledge about the world, and how this knowledge influences our attitudes and behavior. Presenting theories from psychology and communication along with reviews of the corresponding research, this text covers a wide variety of media and media issues, ranging from the commonly discussed topics – sex, violence, advertising – to lesser-studied topics, such as values, sports, and entertainment education. The fifth and fully updated edition offers: highly accessible and engaging writing contemporary references to all types of media familiar to students substantial discussion of theories and research, including interpretations of original research studies a balanced approach to covering the breadth and depth of the subject discussion of work from both psychology and media disciplines. The text is appropriate for Media Effects, Media & Society, and Psychology of Mass Media coursework, as it examines the effects of mass media on human cognitions, attitudes, and behaviors through empirical social science research; teaches students how to examine and evaluate mediated messages; and includes mass communication research, theory and analysis.

Download or read book You Are Not So Smart written by David McRaney and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how self-delusion is part of a person's psychological defense system, identifying common misconceptions people have on topics such as caffeine withdrawal, hindsight, and brand loyalty.

Download or read book Biased written by Henry Priest and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rational Man?Homo sapiens, the biological name for humans, literally means discerning, wise or sensible human being. But, are humans really sensible or rational? The Biased BrainResearch in psychology and economics has shown that human beings are systematically irrational. Not only do they misjudge situations, but they do it in fairly predictable patterns. Famous BiasesThis compilation of academic research by eminent psychologists and economists presents 50 famous cognitive biases that impair our judgment. These biases occur frequently and affect us all - from the baker to the banker, the pariah to the priest. 'Bias-in-Action' Alongside the biases you will find an easy-to-use tool or 'Bias-in-Action' to help you understand how the bias operates and prepare you for possible counter to them. FREE Bonus!Upon buying this paperback, you get a copy of its Kindle eBook, absolutely FREE!