Why does anyone play fantasy football? This is not a trick question, although it’s also not particularly difficult to answer. Perhaps they do it for money, or they enjoy football, or they want a shared activity to help stay in touch with friends or family. Whatever the reason, the fun is in picking your guys and managing your little team and hoping you win more often than you lose. Some people have a healthier relationship to this endeavor than others. Still, if none of it appeals to you, then you can always not do it.
From the title I foolishly thought that maybe he built a machine learning system to optimize player selection by training on the results of hypothetical fantasy football teams from previous seasons, or something, and I thought “well it might not be in the spirit of the competition but at least he’s having fun tinkering.”
No, he just handed it off to an “agentic” system and lets it play for him because he couldn’t be assed. Why even bother?
It’s like wben xbox talked about implementing AI into games so it can play the games for you. People rightfully so thought it’s dumb. But apparently there ia a market.