Subtitled " What Pujols and Peyton Can Teach Us About Wookiees and Wall
Street". The world of fantasy sports is no longer the purview of nerds
and stat geeks. In fact, versions of the game are currently played by
tens of millions of people worldwide. But while fantasy sports may have
begun as a light-hearted diversion, to many of its participants winning
or losing is no laughing matter. The book takes readers on a journey
from the casinos of Atlantic City to charred Connecticut campgrounds,
from the Last Supper to the Constitutional Convention that started our
country down the road to democracy, from the back rooms of Wall Street
to the jury rooms of our judicial system. In doing so, Mass demonstrates
that winning fantasy advice can come from anyone and be found almost
anywhere��_��_��_the wit and wisdom of William Shakespeare, the scientific
genius of Stephen Hawking, or the futuristic whimsy of a galaxy far, far
away. Ultimately, How Fantasy Sports Explains the World is not a
book about how to win your fantasy sports league. Instead, it is a
collection of conversation starters and hypothetical scenarios that get
right to the core of what makes fantasy games so compelling in the
high-speed information age: how to process and make use of the
bottomless pile of data presented to us on a daily basis. Indexed 210
Pgs. Hardcover 2011