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Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycleswww.wired.com/story/men-are-betting-on-wnba-players-menstrual-cycles/
478 sats \ 8 comments \ @jakoyoh629 10 Oct Stacker_Sports
Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."
The“woosh” of a dildo flying past your face. Tribalistic chants. Men making bets on your bodily functions. This isn’t a cult—this is a day in the life of a modern-day WNBA player. That last indignity on the list? It’s a sports betting strategy that’s been getting increasing play over the course of this WNBA season, which is wrapping up as the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury face off in the finals. Dozens of dedicated gamblers online are making bets on players’ potential performance based on their “predictions” (or, rather, assumptions) about their menstrual cycles. Some actually call it “blood money,” because … of course they do.
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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10 Oct
Wait, does it raise or lower in-game performance?
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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @jakoyoh629 OP 10 Oct
From there, FadeMeBets analyzes players’ metrics over their history in the WNBA and even in college. He tracks players’ stats over the course of a 24- to 38-day menstrual cycle, looking for dips and surges over the monthlong cycle. If someone is missing a lot of baskets at a certain time every month, he might assume they’re on their late luteal phase, citing a study that showed menstruating athletes self-reported worse performance during this time. He hasn’t asked any players directly about their cycles.
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60 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 15h
That's amazing.
It makes sense that you could pick up "seasonality" as we might call it, but not necessarily know which season is which.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14h
Sounds like you found your new betting niche
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 14h
It sounds like I've been beaten to the punch.
I actually do have a neat econometricsy idea for an advanced analytics metric. I just need to take the time to scrape all the boxscore data.
I'm thinking that I'll do something similar to your research in public series once I get started.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14h
That would be neat. And I'm sure there would be a huge audience for open sports analytics
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 10 Oct
What stage of fiat is this?
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10 Oct
late luteal phase
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