David Bartels

This post will share some of the research I've done on the Brazilian soccer/football team Atlético Mineiro (aka Atlético MG or Atlético) and try to anticipate players whose cards may be undervalued on Sorare . As of this writing, Atlético Mineiro is the only Brazilian team licensed on the platform. I'd never heard of the team prior to Sorare but I purchased on of the player's cards after some brief research to help me field some teams while the other summer leagues went on international break. As I've started to follow they've gone on an impressive run. They are 13-2-5 in their last 20 games, despite playing every midweek and having multiple players away on international duty & out with COVID. I haven't seen much if any coverage of the team in English, so with a bit of digging and a lot of Google Translate, I've started reading up on their lineup changes and even tracking it in spreadsheet form. It's a few weeks before I begin w/ lineups in my spread...

Intro  I'm resurrecting this blog to talk about my latest hobby. About a month ago I became aware of a platform called Sorare. I was immediately intrigued as it combined a long-enjoyed hobby of mine (fantasy sports) with a very recent one (cryptocurrency & blockchain technology). Think of the baseball cards you collected as a kid. If you grew up in the 90's like me then maybe your collection is sitting in the basement like this: While my trip down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole earlier this year made me a believer that crypto in some form is inevitably here to stay, I was slightly more mystified by the attraction of  NFTs (non-fungible tokens)  But as I learned about Sorare, my view shifted from one of "that's not for me" to "I need to try this out". Especially when compared to those sports cards I mentioned earlier, the cards on Sorare have some significant advantages: Easily sellable/transferrable (digital marketplace) Easily verifiable No worry of...