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Fantasy Baseball ruling

Posted by Rob (#1) on August 10, 2006 07:56 CEST

Neil has a good short summary of the Fantasy Baseball ruling:

If they're going to publish stats in newspapers across the country, then people get to use those stats, including the player names.

I recall this has been a debate in Europe as well, mostly about football games. I'm not sure whether FIFA won or not, but plenty of unlicensed fantasy games (or pools, or betting) do exist.

There might however be a limit to the extent of player name usage. Most games featuring all players tend to be made by big publishers who very well might have made a deal with FIFA. On the other hand, not having the full dataset of player names might simply be a matter of practicality for smaller players.

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Bonds cheating after all?

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Posted by Rob (#1) on June 21, 2006 08:23 CEST

Reading about sea-based X-band radar and noticed something funny:

Her radar is described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco from the Chesapeake Bay (approximately 2900 miles). The radar will guide land-based missiles from Alaska and California, as well as in-theatre assets.

As of 2006, the system has undergone six successful intercept tests (since 2002).

Of baseballs over San Francisco? Maybe Barry Bonds has been cheating after all!