How Fantasy Sports Explains the World

What Pujols and Peyton Can Teach Us About Wookiees and Wall Street

De: A J. Mass

Narrado por: Todd Ellis

An entertaining, anecdotal exploration of how the skills used in evaluating fantasy sports talent are one and the same with the skills we all use every day of our lives.

The world of fantasy sports is no longer the purview of nerds and stat geeks. In fact, versions of the game are currently played by tens of millions of people worldwide. But while fantasy sports may have begun as a light-hearted diversion, to many of its participants winning or losing is no laughing matter. The book takes readers on a journey from the casinos of Atlantic City to charred Connecticut campgrounds, from the Last Supper to the Constitutional Convention that started our country down the road to democracy, from the back rooms of Wall Street to the jury rooms of our judicial system. In doing so, Mass demonstrates that winning fantasy advice can come from anyone and be found almost anywhere - the wit and wisdom of William Shakespeare, the scientific genius of Stephen Hawking, or the futuristic whimsy of a galaxy far, far away. Ultimately, How Fantasy Sports Explains the World is not a book about how to win your fantasy sports league. Instead, it is a collection of conversation starters and hypothetical scenarios that get right to the core of what makes fantasy games so compelling in the high-speed information age: how to process and make use of the bottomless pile of data presented to us on a daily basis.

©2011 AJ Mass (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Waste of your time

Don’t bother wasting your time on this one. There’s nothing special about this author other than being the one random dude that happened to get a fantasy sports book published. Just hours of gibberish and drivel about nothing in particular. He tries to talk both fantasy and the world at large and ends up kind of doing neither so you just get a lot of hot air about nothing. I gave this a try because it was in Audible‘s free list, but it turns out even that was overpriced.