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Comment Fantasy Leagues? (Score 1) 142

by pPnf on Thursday June 17, 2010 @08:09PM (#32608428) Attached to: Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball

I assume there is already some kind of decent metrics for rating players to enable fantasy leagues - the sort where average joe picks a bunch of players (from all teams) that he likes, and compares his "fantasy team" to all the other average joes who choose to spend their time doing the same. What metrics do these fantasy leagues use?

Aussie rules football (AFL) has very specific player scoring, developed from the work of Champion Data (not a large amount of detail there). These data and metrics are now used by every offical team, commentators and form the basis of most fantasy league scores. On the local news site which runs the largest fantasy league competition there is a lot more about how points are awarded, and performances of players through the season (about halfway through season 2010 at the moment).

Looking even more in depth, creating heat maps from player data, are some PHD students at my old university

I would have thought these kinds of data and analysis would be even more advanced in a sport that has much more history and far more fans around the world than AFL?

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 15, 2007 @05:57PM from the ftw-as-it-were dept.

simoniker writes "Designer Ben Schneider (Empire Earth, EyeToy: AntiGrav, Titan Quest) has written a new article exploring the possibility of enticing your players through the power of defeat. From the piece: 'Some of the most memorable moments in games depend heavily on reversals to kick their dramatic arcs forward, from Planetfall to Fable to Beyond Good & Evil to Deus Ex. And yet, as an industry, we clearly have a lot to learn — and a lot to invent. So, then, how do you draw a clear line between player failure and dramatic reversal? It is a question well worth pondering.' In other words, if the game forces the player to get his ass kicked, can the player ever forgive it, or is it the key to some really interesting moments when used in a positive way?"

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