In writing, the ASA mission is simple: Use quantitative analysis and the data at our disposal to make informed DFS decisions. In practice, not so much. ASA was formed in the pursuit of condensing the wealth of data out there into usable tools and objective processes. Our goal is to research the factors that DFS players must consider in their DFS play, and produce dynamic tools that can aid players in these considerations, and provide a framework for weighting the importance of the many factors that support optimal DFS strategy and process.

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Brandon Adams taught undergrad economics courses at Harvard for nine years in game theory, behavioral finance, and international macroeconomics. He's a regular in the biggest poker cash games and tournaments, and has appeared on Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, and multiple televised final tables. Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTiltPoker.com and similar Web sites.

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ASA’S GUIDE TO DAILY FANTASY FOOTBALL

Designed for experienced daily fantasy football players, Advanced Daily Fantasy Football is here to take your game to the next level. Advanced Daily Fantasy Football begins with Vegas data as a foundation and dives deeper into trends that can help you find the edge on Sunday. With several years worth of data, we explore questions such as:

• How many fantasy points will be scored in a game?

• How many fantasy points will be scored in a game?

• How do players correlate with each other?

• How can I dynamically change my lineups during a slate to maximize my winnings?

And many more! Advanced Daily Fantasy Football contains league-wide trends, but also includes granular analysis of many important team-specific patterns that can push your fantasy teams past the competition.

Brandon Adams

Brandon is a seasoned DFS and Poker pro, perrenially ranked in RotoGrinders Top 50 DFS players and a regular at high stakes poker tables. He has taught undergrad Economics courses at Harvard in game theory, behavioral finance, and international macroeconomics for nine years. Brandon has published and lead research for several books from the Big Short to ASA's daily fantasy football publication.

• Not exactly sure what Henry's target ceiling is, but pretty interesting to see how Henry vs. Allen target share is… https://t.co/miTlMGKRYv

STEWART GIBSON

Stewart is a seasoned statistics and data science pro, turning quantitative research and visualization into actionable DFS tools and insights through R and Python programming. He has studied undergatuate-level Economics and Anthropology and graduate-level Applied Statistics. Stewart has lead research for ASA's daily fantasy football publication.

• Pretty stoked, first successful development of a neural network! Predictions generated for NBA opening night.(Sti… https://t.co/8gMwdfh1aH

Poker is a thinking person’s game.Given that the brainy and strategically savvy among us usually prove to be the most successful on the felt, it should come as no surprise that many of them are moving from the best schools in the world straight to the elite levels of high-stakes poker.Here's our look at the five schools responsible for pumping out the most professional poker players.In many cases the pros-to-be didn’t make it all the way to graduation day but it’s tough to blame them. Most of us would trade a mortarboard for a million-dollar score seven days a week.

The Best Universities and Colleges for Poker Players

1. University of Waterloo, Canada

They don’t call Waterloo University the Poker Factory for nothing. This Canadian institution has produced what is arguably the biggest group of world-class players ever to come out of a post-secondary school.

So many successful players are from Waterloo, in fact, an article was written about it in one of Canada’s national newspapers.

Mike 'Timex' McDonald, who won an EPT major for over $1 million, happened to play his first dorm-room game at Waterloo with none other than Steve Paul-Ambrose, former million-dollar winner of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

Xuan Liu, Glen Chorny, Scott Montgomery, Matt 'Ch0ppy' Kay, Mike 'SirWatts' Watson and Nenad Medic all came from Waterloo as well and they’ve all had scores of well over a million dollars.

They take math seriously there. So much so that they were the first school in North America to create an entirely separate faculty for it.

• 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: Around $8,000
• Bonus Points: It’s really cold in Canada in the winter. You know where it’s not cold? In your room in front of 10 online poker tables.

2. UC Berkeley, USA

With local card rooms like Bay 101 and Lucky Chances and some of the best publicly-educated students in the country, UC Berkeley has a thriving poker culture.

Home games are common among sports teams and fraternities, and there's even a course in poker and blackjack.

Games are organized through word of mouth and social media and are usually in the neighborhood of $1/$2 to $2/$5 for cash and $20-$200 for tournaments.

A long list of successful poker pros cut their teeth during their time there including Joe Sebok, Prahlad Friedman, Bill Edler, Bill Chen, Ali Nejad and Lauren Kling.

Online poker must be a big thing at Berkeley seeing as how the school felt the need to create something called the Online Poker Addiction Forum. They use the word “Forum” pretty loosely considering the site consists of a series of five pages about the scourge of internet poker, and not a single place to discuss the issue.

Along the way it mentions that a walk through the Berkeley campus will reveal hordes of seemingly disciplined students hunched over their computers, not studying but rather trading bets and raises at their favorite online poker rooms.

UC Berkeley, you’re all right.

• 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $12,000 (In-State Resident)
• Bonus Points:Click here to see another kind of poker self-expression done at UC Berkeley.

3. Harvard University, USA

The words Harvard and poker have been spending a lot of time together lately and a big part of the reason why is Charles Nesson and his organization, the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.

Promoting the idea of using poker as a platform to teach strategic thinking, Nesson even appeared on The Colbert Report to spread the good word about the game we love.

Alumni of Harvard who number among the ranks of pro players include Andy Bloch and Richard Brodie. Full Tilt Pro Brandon Adams is also an economics instructor at Harvard.

• 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $33,696
• Bonus Points: If you can afford to go to Harvard you can probably afford to lose some money learning to be a good poker player.

4. Yale University, USA

Poker’s big at Yale. Whether it’s the proximity to Foxwoods Casino or the generally brainy student population, Yale pumps out gifted poker players.

Yale has a chapter of the Poker Strategic Thinking Society just like Harvard and the two schools have even created an annual tournament, carrying their long-standing rivalry over to the felt.

Alex Jacob went to Yale and he took down over $650k all the way back in 2006. Matt Matros has three World Series of Poker bracelets and has earned over $2.3 million in poker tournaments since he studied there.

Vanessa Selbst told us it was her introduction to the biggest cash game at Yale that was the difference in her making the leap to being a pro.

She’s already racked up more than $5.4 million in tournament earnings, including two WSOP bracelets and an NAPT title!

• 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $36,500
• Bonus Points: Living that close to Foxwoods and not playing poker just doesn’t make sense.

5. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Even Irish post-secondary institutions serve as breeding grounds for the next generation of poker pros.

Legend has it that it was with an organized group of rounders called the Junior Common Room Poker Club at Trinity College that Andy Black began taking the game seriously.

Other members of the group include Donnacha O’Dea and Padraig Parkinson.

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• 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: €6,000 - €10,000 depending on faculty.
• Bonus Points: It’s easier to win money from people who have been drinking. Cha-ching!