Originally Posted by 1Hit1der View Post
Ah, again, but contests are for grade school. And, there are only so many problems with elegant solutions. In other words, getting good at the contests is a per se pursuit, only for the sake of itself.

Deep down, we all want to stay in grade school, but, life can't guarantee such security.
Ah, a philosophical response. Well, if you'll notice, most of these contests are available to anybody in the public who wants to play. So, year after year, I simply enter and report results. Anybody can enter. Very dry; very Dragnet. Very much also, "I can do this, and you can't."

To say that the contests are a pursuit without application shows how little you understand. It takes about three neurons to figure out that if someone is killing a no-spread contest, they are likely also killing moneyline wagers involving toss-up games. That's the obvious if unstated consequence of consistently outperforming 95% and up of the public in these no-spread contests. What I love is that, despite these unstated consequences being obvious, they remain unstated by the luminaries here.

It's unquestioned that Max and account and Axel and so on all understand the direct gambling implications of outperforming almost everyone at picking toss-up NFL games. But rather than pointing out the obvious real-world applications, they've spent virtually every post pooh-poohing the "contest results." It's pretty funny. As "APs," they are undoubtedly aware of the real-world gambling applications and consequences.