From the title I foolishly thought that maybe he built a machine learning system to optimize player selection by training on the results of hypothetical fantasy football teams from previous seasons, or something, and I thought "well it might not be in the spirit of the competition but at least he's having fun tinkering."

No, he just handed it off to an "agentic" system and lets it play for him because he couldn't be assed. Why even bother?

One of the saddest things I ever experienced in corporate life was when we had a dumb fitness contest that we split into teams for. We were asked to pick a fun name, usually a pun. I made ours but then out of curiosity put the same prompt into ChatGPT. Every other team name was an AI response. Sigh.

Everyone who uses AI are the biggest losers in the world, so…. Yes.

I am generally not interested in sports things, so I had no idea what fantasy football is… I thought about Gandalf kicking uruk heads into fire pits, hobbits running circles around Ents and so on.

But nooooooo.

Can I just say how GLAD I am we don’t have big bulky crts anymore?

am I reading this wrong, or does the article's author seem to think that the term "sportsball" only refers to baseball?

Yes

No, elon

I'd actually find it kind of interesting to run a league between a bunch of LLMs, Cleverbot, and so on. I'm not enough of a dipshit to take credit for any of the results, of course.