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Automating Sports Reporting

StatSheet Logo.png Robbie Allen of StatSheet.com is trying to automate sports reporting through monitoring of game statistics. In his description of his approach, looks like the final output will be in a bloggish format. My guess is that the results will feel closer to a liveblog than a polished newspaper article. ReadWriteWeb has a deeper conversation with Allen about what he’s attempting.

There’s also a similar project, called SportsMonkey, from some of my former colleagues at Northwestern University. From the ReadWriteWeb article you can get a sense of what SportsMonkey provides, and a floor for what StatSheet should be able to achieve.

It’ll be interesting to see if either approach gains traction. And as always with the news/publishing in these times, the key question is where the revenue comes from. Even if it’s automated, still gotta feed the servers.

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