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@4castpicks @Fanatics Some teams are probably better than others but the Saints jersey I have is awful - wrong shade of gold, shit material, etc

@SharkByteSports @Fanatics I had an OK experience with Ujersey. For being a $40-$50 jersey, it’s pretty damn good

Everyone knows @Fanatics sucks in every way. What’s the best “fake” jersey site out there? I’ve tried Ujersey and it’s not bad, and everyone talks about DHgate. #jerseys #mlb

Got word earlier that today is effectively the last day of PFF’s consumer product as we know it with mass layoffs amid their sale to Teamworks. A couple weeks ago I walked through the PFF office one last time before it closed for good to reminisce with former coworkers and play one last game of beer die on the roof. I came across an item collecting dust on the wall that I found incredibly telling: the PFF MVP Belt that used to be given out every year but hadn’t been updated since 2021. That coincided with the year that Neil Hornsby was forced out of the company he founded. His departure was followed by Austin Gayle and Eric Eager leaving the following year - the leaders of PFF’s Consumer and Analytics products respectively. I often think back to those times with equal parts nostalgia and regret. Nostalgia for when PFF was truly the most passionate football company in America. Say what you want about the grades and the stats, but there was no company outside of football teams that cared more about ball circa 2021. Unfortunately, PFF operated as if that was a given for the industry and made the common error of valuing outside talent and new revenue sources (i.e. the PFF app) as more important than the people that got them to where they were. It’s to my great shame that I didn’t advocate more forcefully for those guys in negotiations on their way out. To make things worse, I then proceeded to take the cowardly way out myself. After numerous disputes with management that spring, I left the week before the 2023 NFL draft with no job lined. Instead of rallying the troops and becoming a leader at the company, I ran away and I regret it to this day. The passion I had felt only a couple years earlier was gone by then. The story of PFF is just that: a company that lost its passion. Instead of empowering those who cared the most, they often stifled them and took them for granted until they checked out or left. There’s no substitute in any organization for people who will do whatever it takes to get the job done and there was a time where that described every single employee at PFF. Even after seeing all the negative effects of their inability to retain employees that truly give a shit, they again showed even more guys that fit that description the door today. I still believe in the ethos of PFF. Better analysis, smarter fans. It’s a brand that can very easily be revived if they started putting people first again. Until then, though, the half-decade long tailspin will only continue.

MLB: Pirates ML Cubs -1.5 White Sox +1.5 Rangers ML

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Action packed this morning 🏆 Model is calling for Akron to cover and possibly win outright along with Santa Clara. Should be interesting!

@CircaSports @TheFan965 Love those blue golf hats. Where were those in Vegas?!

The #CircaSports Missouri team is here for a March Hoops viewing party & a broadcast from @TheFan965 at International Tap House in Kansas City! 🧢🏀🍻 Let’s go! Who are you rooting for today?

@vsininsights You just said it though, Illinois plays at slow pace and Maryland is 278th in PPP.. formula for an under

Illinois plays at a slow pace but leads the nation in points per possession on offense and allows the fewest free throw attempts. Maryland ranks 278th in points per possession and 313th in points allowed. Pick: Illinois vs. Maryland Over 145.5. Greg’s Handicapped Total 150.5.

@SportsProphet__ @cashwright91 @juice_reel Can also vouch for JuiceReel

@cashwright91 @juice_reel Thank you

Can anyone recommend a good 3rd party bet tracking service? I’d like to do a better job of having that info up to date/available. I can’t for the life of me keep my spreadsheet updated, time is not something I have in abundance at this point in my life. Thx in advance for any response.

Love when @Jason drops the pod on Friday mornings. Great listen on the commute!

@4castpicks Kind of agree I mean its good until the actual Final Four

@SharkByteSports March madness is overrated after the first weekend

Masters, MLB Playoffs, NFL Playoffs. Argue with a wall

@__tinygrad__ @austingriffith Great attempt at selling tinyboxes but you can do plenty for under $10k

@austingriffith your machine doesn't have ram bandwidth so it's slow. and you need the bigger qwen to be on par with sonnet. local AI is real and decent, but you need $50k minimum for a machine. budgets below that are larping

⚙️ Are the "local ai" guys basically just larping? 🐏 I have a machine with 128GB of RAM 🤖 I downloaded qwen3.5:122b 🤣 It takes 3 minutes to incorrectly do what sonnet 4.6 can do in seconds 😅 Am I doing it wrong? Do I need more RAM?

@FezzikSports Not gonna lie, when I saw this I was tempted. But as a first stab $10k would be ballsy haha

I have a $10,000 verbal commitment for someone willing to bet he can hit 57% ATS in Circa Millions this year! Let's go! Very excited. Details may follow (he may want to remain anonymous)

🌊 Rolling with the AI Parlay today (blue dots) since we aren’t calling for any upsets

@nickypancakes @Promos319 @Novig Please come to Louisiana 🥲

@Promos319 You don't need a boost when there's no vig. @Novig

FanDuel 30% Soccer Parlay Boost Token ⚽️ Fair value +434, +13.4% EV. Would go up to 1 unit 🔥 Link to the bet will be in the replies below ⬇️

@choffstein @richardcraib Have you guys considered bringing this to sports prediction markets?

Crowd-Sourced Alpha with Numerai (S7E28) Today, I’m speaking with @richardcraib, the CEO and founder of Numerai. If you’ve heard of Numerai before and thought of it as an interesting experiment at the intersection of data science and crypto, it’s worth updating that mental model. Over the last few years, Numerai has quietly grown from roughly $60 million in assets to over $600 million. JPMorgan has invested and secured $500 million of capacity, and Numerai recently raised a Series C at a $500 million valuation led by top university endowments. This is no longer a toy project. It is a real, institutional-scale market-neutral hedge fund with a very unconventional engine. In this conversation, we go deep into how Numerai actually works. Richard walks through the core insight behind Numerai’s design: that crowd-sourced alpha only works if incentives are aligned, not just participation. Simply opening up data and ranking models creates incentives to game the system, not to produce durable signals. That realization led to the introduction of the Numeraire token. By forcing researchers to stake real capital behind their predictions, Numerai shifts from a leaderboard-driven experiment to a capital-weighted signal engine. Instead of rewarding activity, the system rewards conviction, accountability, and uniqueness, creating a self-filtering model that naturally reduces noise and discourages the behaviors that caused earlier crowd-sourced platforms to fail. We also talk about portfolio construction and risk management, including how Numerai neutralizes common factor exposures, what went wrong during the 2023 drawdown, and how those lessons reshaped their approach to diversification and concentration. Finally, we look forward, covering the limits of crowd-sourced modeling, the next frontier for Numerai’s research ecosystem, and how Richard sees AI agents reshaping model development. Please enjoy my conversation with Richard Craib.

shark, bitten 🧐

@potatokmish 😏

@SharkByteSports I think Houston covers.

I played 1 game for tomorrow. BYU +3.5 2 units Looked at 5 other games but passed, I believe I have the most conviction on this one. Anyone else like anything strongly?

✅ pleasure doing business 🤝