TBH, the whole &quot;game of skill&quot; thing (notice how obsessively often this particular phrase pops up) is just a way to sneak fantasy sports through a loophole in anti-gambling laws. For your average Joe, it&#x27;s indistinguishable from gambling - including all the addiction and collateral damage that causes gambling to be heavily regulated in the first place.<p>But it <i>is</i> a good game for bored STEM undergrads, just like online poker is a good game for bored computer science undergrads. I had a few guys on my year who lived completely off online poker games while in university. They deployed custom-made scripts to automate playing on multiple tables at the same time, and probably did some other things that they didn&#x27;t tell me. It&#x27;s the same thing with fantasy sports, except you spend most of the time maintaining complex spreadsheets.