Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
Great job posting this, mickey.
Of course, what they won't tell you:
1) The books are going to data mine your plays. If you win, they will know your tendencies.
2) Since no organization with actual living humans at the helm is airtight, if someone wins and is data mined, and if people access the tendencies used to win, that information will be co-opted and used by others ("piggybacking").
3) The major books may share the information across data bases and jurisdictions to try to tease out what were "real plays" and what may have been middle shots.
4) They want to know about your social relationships so they know who is in partnership with whom. Without this information, and if partnerships exist, the data mining they are doing is worthless.
5) And finally, can you imagine if someone won, say, 75% of their plays one season and the data mining revealed no tendencies? What do you think would be the conclusions ? And can you imagine, furthermore, if all of the plays involved just two or three college teams? What conclusions then?
Now, they can cloak all of their eye-spying in language that it's "to prevent cheating" and all that. The truth is, it's to X-ray winning. The claim is they are doing it to ensure honesty at every turn. LOL. Draftkings and fanduel were two of the most dishonest enterprises on the planet. Maybe they still are.
My job is to frustrate data mining at every turn. And I happen to be very good at specifically that. People can cross reference me from here to Neptune, and they are not going to be able to data mine me. Billy Walters was very good at that. I think I might be better.
The bottom line: your privacy is yours. If they want to X-ray your decision-making, give them a hard time and have some fun with it.
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