I’m definitely no tax lawyer, but I thought you could only write off your losses up the amount that would offset your wins. In other words, you can only write off losses in order to bring your net income from gambling to zero, not make it negative.

No more than you “expect” a return at a poker table in a casino.

Not to mention that ~8% advantage is in the first round of a four-round playoff. So the effect on a championship is something like going from a 5% chance to a 4% chance.

Right, hence why I wrote everything in my second paragraph after the ellipsis. There are some actual skillful players in there, meaning it’s even worse for the average Joe than if it were based on pure luck.

One of your college friends finished 9th in my FanDuel tournament this week.

“All legal fantasy leagues should be either franchise mode or standard. No DFS bullshit, no PPR bullshit. no Flex option.”

Except for the part where slot machines and scratch tickets are entirely luck based.

I’d be curious to hear you try. (I’m not arguing; I’m genuinely curious why you disagree.)

Yes, I believe the only insider info here is the player pick distribution.

No more a grift than online poker was. Or casinos are.

Thank goodness. Until today, I had no idea what temperature my wireless meat was.

Thank goodness. Until today, I had no idea what temperature my wireless meat was.

“Candy Corn Is”

The numbers in that paragraph seem to be missing denominators.

You seem to be implying that something can’t be a fantasy league AND gambling.

Woke up one morning and found a confirmation email for a charitable donation I had made — apparently I paid for 4 dozen soccer balls to be distributed to poor children in Afghanistan.

They actually quoted the (ambiguous, but still) written rule, no?

He played in England for almost 20 years. It’s no more bogus than someone who moves to the South when they are 10 years old ending up with a Southern accent by the time the grow up and move away.

Yup.

“How in the world has science found an objective measure of attractiveness?”

She’s not “disproving the study”. She’s positing an alternative explanation for the effect observed by the study.