Timeline for Are questions about fantasy sports on topic?
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| Oct 24, 2014 at 18:40 | comment | added | user527 | @GlenH7 Agreed with that. I think that's the general consensus. The why part of my point is to promote "how to pick players...given a common situation" that has more lasting meaning than, "here are three guys, pick one." As you say, this becomes irrelevant quickly. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 18:21 | comment | added | user1122 | I think you need to be very careful in allowing questions that will have ephemeral meaning. "Which players to play" is meaningless after this round's pick. "How to pick players" has a lot more lasting meaning. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:51 | comment | added | Joe | I think this particular topic comes with a very small bit of potential good and a very massive amount of potential bad. :) | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:43 | comment | added | user527 | Sure. I think the bad that comes with the potential good comes with anything that serves itself to be useful and valuable. And I wouldn't be against such a proposal (although, unless it gets ample support, it will be merged here anyway). | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:38 | comment | added | Joe | I think that I see where you're going - there could be some valuable questions on the topic - but I think this is one of those cases where by allowing those few valuable questions you'd have a host of bad ones, and in this case I'd rather throw the baby out with the bathwater. Fantasy sports are sufficiently different from actual sports, that if they are interesting to have in SE, they probably should have their own site. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:32 | comment | added | user527 | If you can back up why with objective statistics, then one's "opinion" is backed up with expertise and knowledge...rather than "this is what I would do" scenarios. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:31 | comment | added | user527 | "Start A because his opponent has a weak defense and..." is actually something worth considering as fantasy football (depending on the league, I use ESPN) gives you statistics to corroborate such a claim. For example, Defense A has given up the most fantasy points to quarterbacks thus far this season. Quarterback B has the most fantasy points thus far this season. Quarterback B is facing Defense A. Thus, start B and sit A. This example shows the (rather extreme, I admit) strategy to start B and sit A due to previous objective statistics. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:29 | comment | added | user527 | Then, the ultimate answer is "no, fantasy sports is not on topic on Sports SE." This attempts to delve into this question which doesn't present anything objective outside of "who should I choose and here's my situation?" Sure, others may be facing similar situations, but the question as phrased only serves to help the person asking it...which doesn't make it very useful outside of the OP (granted, it is an "actual problem that someone faces"). | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:11 | comment | added | Joe | Second is that you have the issue that even the why is going to be inevitably an opinion (if any of us could give a correct answer it's either a really dumb question, or you should be making a living in Vegas) and will probably be very short-lived in utility ("Start A because his opponent has a weak defense and..."). A question about generic strategy - "How do I determine which player to start in Fantasy" - might be okay, but once you put actual names in it, I can't see it ever being useful. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 15:09 | comment | added | Joe | I think that there are two problems here. One is that if you start getting a decent number of these questions, you will end up with a lot of bad questions. Look at any site that caters to sit/start questions: flooded by bad questions inevitably. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 15:02 | history | answered | user527 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |