Fantasy Sports, Chess and Optimization Problems

When chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen rose to #1 in fantasy football rankings, people started drawing parallels between fantasy sports and chess. It turns out, there are a few similarities between the two. I’ll go over two of the important ones in this article -

1. Both chess and fantasy sports are games where there is no obscured information. That means any 2 players x and y at any point in time, have access to all of the same data. In chess, the chessboard is in front of both players. In fantasy sports, all data whether historical or predicted is…