Raise Your Game

The Best Champions to Win Long Games in League of Legends

November 4, 2022 by Gamsu

There’s more than one way to play League of Legends. From one-tricking your favorite Champion, to maining a certain role, rotating between highly competitive meta picks, or refining yourself down to a unique playstyle. Today, I’m going to talk about playstyle and narrow it down towards Champions that keep swinging...

Poker

Hand Analysis: Using a GTO Solver to Improve Play against a Human Opponent

October 6, 2022 by Cory

The best poker players in the world are no longer human. Developments in artificial intelligence over the last decade have made poker bots stronger than even the best professionals, being able to nearly replicate game theoretically optimal (GTO) play on the spot. But humans are capable of doing one thing...

Gaming

Rolling in Teamfight Tactics

September 16, 2022 by Andy

A note from SIG: Andy is a Duke University graduate and Quantitative Trader at SIG. Despite starting TFT only a year ago, Andy had the best average placement in NA across all three Dragonlands events and has become first North American representative for the Dragonlands Championship! Introduction Before going into...

Q&A With SIG Trading Intern Andrew Tang aka penguingm1

Gaming

Q+A with Bullet Chess Player and SIG Trading Intern, Andrew Tang

August 29, 2022 by Emily

Andrew Tang is known online as “penguingm1” and is widely regarded as one of the top bullet chess players. Andrew joined SIG this summer as a Trading Intern in our Bala Cynwyd office. Hi Andrew! We’re so excited to have you interning with us this summer. Can you tell us...

Sports

How SIG Makes Bets in Golf

June 30, 2022 by Emily

Curious to learn more about SIG’s Dublin-based sports betting team, Nellie Analytics? SIG Sports Trader, Doug Yass, joined The Turn golf podcast to discuss just that! Nellie does almost all of their trading through peer-to-peer exchanges where the margins are significantly lower than sportsbooks. Doug discussed the origins of his...

Gaming SIG x DIG

League of Legends Drafting Strategy

May 10, 2022 by Dignitas LCS Team

Drafting team compositions is an essential part of League of Legends, and is crucial to the success of your game. Dignitas LCS team professionals Biofrost, Blue, Enatron, and Mabrey explain the importance of the draft and illustrate drafting strategies that will help you improve your game.

Sports

Interesting Insights from SIG’s 2022 Super Bowl Square Probabilities

February 23, 2022 by Zach

Every year at SIG, we celebrate the Super Bowl with a firm-wide Super Bowl Sweepstakes. This year, every employee was randomly assigned Cincinnati or Los Angeles as the winner and the last digit of each team’s final score. In order to win, both the team you were assigned needed to...

Gaming

Ladies Knight Podcast Appearance

February 11, 2022 by Ella

As part of SIG’s sponsorship of U.S. Chess, I recently joined Jennifer Shahade, two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, on her chess podcast, Ladies Knight. Tune in to hear our conversation, where we talk about gender in chess, rating distribution, differences between human chess players and AI chess players and how...

Decision Making

Mental Tripwires

October 14, 2021 by Rob

Traders and decision makers acquire many of their skills through experience. When I read articles on improving decision-making, it sometimes feels like the answers I get, even from experts in the field, are vague and not easily applied to daily life. Below I give actionable advice you can use to...

Decision Making

Podcast: How to Make Better Long-Term Decisions

September 23, 2021 by Todd

Todd Simkin, an Associate Director at SIG, has played an integral role in the development of SIG’s firm-wide and trader education programs. Tune in to his recent interview on The Knowledge Project podcast to learn more about how we approach decision making.