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The team's findings appear this week in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Review. "But they can use it to talk better smack when they're at the top of their standings." "They probably can't use our study to assemble better sports teams," says Hosoi, who is also the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

What ultimately do these results mean for the average fantasy player? Other fantasy sports such as baseball, basketball, and hockey also appear to be games of skill - considerably more so than activities based on pure chance, such as coin-flipping. "We ask, does that skill have an impact on the outcome of the game? In our analysis, the signal for skill in the data is very clear." "Some players may know more about statistics, rules of the game, which players are injured, effects of weather, and a host of other factors that make them better at picking players - that's the skill in fantasy sports," says Anette "Peko" Hosoi, associate dean of engineering at MIT.

Instead, the researchers found, based on the win/loss records of thousands of fantasy players over multiple seasons, that the game of fantasy football is inherently a contest that rewards skill. Those looking for ways to improve their fantasy game will have to look elsewhere: The study doesn't identify any specific qualities that make one fantasy player more skilled over another.