Friday, June 15, 2007 |
The Frauds Are At It Again: Appealing CBC vs. MLBAM
“So, now we have a limitation (referring to the use of associating a player to their statistics), and now I come around to, ‘This isn’t about statistics’ -- the basic war of the brief .MLBAM is purely slime here, and there's no two ways about it. This is rent-seeking behavior at some of its lowest.‘This is about names,” you say. ‘This is about statistics,’ they say.
And I understand the practicality of the war because the statistics are in the public domain. And it seems to me, it’s clearly a use of public information to figure out that if you’re going to have an ongoing fantasy sports league over the life of a real professional sports league – clearly a collateral market – you have to have an opening set of statistics and evolving statistics that will allow competition and trades and so forth.
And so where do you get those statistics?
Well you can’t take the 1923 Philadelphia Athletics because that doesn’t evolve over a season. So you take these statistics that are in the public domain.
And as I translate the argument in this case.. ‘Well, we won’t argue with that (referring to the use of statistics without player association), but don’t you dare put a name next to those statistics.’
Well, of course that’s ridiculous.
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