Post by @CombatWombat@feddit.online

2026-10-09 00:19 UTC

Is This Guy Who Uses AI To Run His Fantasy Football Team The Biggest Loser In The World? Why does anyone play fantasy football? This is not a trick question, although it’s also not particularly difficult to answer. Perhaps they do it for money, or they enjoy football, or they want a shared activity to help stay in touch with friends or family. Whatever the reason, the fun is in picking your guys and managing your little team and hoping you win more often than you lose. Some people have a healthier relationship to this endeavor than others. Still, if none of it appeals to you, then you can always not do it.

Replies (4)

@nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2026-10-09 05:15

I am generally not interested in sports things, so I had no idea what fantasy football is… I thought about Gandalf kicking uruk heads into fire pits, hobbits running circles around Ents and so on. But nooooooo.

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@inbn@lemmy.zip 2026-10-09 00:37

One of the saddest things I ever experienced in corporate life was when we had a dumb fitness contest that we split into teams for. We were asked to pick a fun name, usually a pun. I made ours but then out of curiosity put the same prompt into ChatGPT. Every other team name was an AI response. Sigh.

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@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-09 02:04

From the title I foolishly thought that maybe he built a machine learning system to optimize player selection by training on the results of hypothetical fantasy football teams from previous seasons, or something, and I thought “well it might not be in the spirit of the competition but at least he’s having fun tinkering.” No, he just handed it off to an “agentic” system and lets it play for him because he couldn’t be assed. Why even bother?

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@Pratai@piefed.ca 2026-10-09 02:29

Everyone who uses AI are the biggest losers in the world, so…. Yes.

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