FANALYTICS: Navigating Our Short Attention Spans

The fastest growing game in the industry right now is the daily fantasy competition.

Ray Murphy recently wrote about his first foray into the format. He said it is a game that is "entertaining for those with short attention spans. (However,) I don't see how you could play these every day if you take them at all seriously... On the continuum of skill vs luck, this slides further down the 'luck' side than a full-season game; and any one night is probably a crapshoot. But if you played regularly and applied sound principles, I would think your results would eventually reflect it."

The comment about "short attention spans" is not so much a diss than a reality check. We have become a society with limited patience and highly splintered...

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