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Tim Tebow A No Show As StatSheet Beats NFL to All-Pro Punch

StatSheet, the robotic sports news service that provides stories and stats as they happen, jumped ahead of the National Football League today by releasing ranks and grades that show how each player performed on a game-by-game basis.

In its selections, StatSheet demonstrated statistically that Denver Broncos phenom QB Tim Tebow is nowhere near qualified to play in the game in Hawaii.

The complete list of StatSheet selections at the key offensive positions appears at the bottom of this blog post.

The NFL is scheduled to release its All-Pro selections later today.

StatSheet’s All-Pro team was created by Joe Procopio — the StatSheet team member most responsible for promoting StatSheet, and developing its community. The listing is branded by StatSheet as the NFL All-StatSheet Team. Mobile sports fans can expect to see this grow into an annual event, as StatSheet works to become a trusted source for fast and accurate sports information .

StatSheet works differently than ESPN, CBS Sports, Yahoo Sports and most competitors. It draws in-depth information from all available sources of real-time sports information, and assembles it into automated sports stories, drill-down statistics and graphics. Sports is the first subject interested StatSheet’s parent company is tackling, but it is likely to eventually compete or partner in financial services with such companies as Bloomberg.

Here is StatSheet’s 2011 All-Pro team:

Quarterback

AFC
Tom Brady
New England Patriots
100+ points = A+
4,897 yards, 36 TD, 11 INT

Matt Schaub
Houston Texans
90.0 points = A-
2,479 yards, 15 TD, 6 INT

Injury Replacement
Philip Rivers
San Diego Chargers
87.0 points = B+
4,314 yards, 24 TD, 19 INT

NFC
Aaron Rodgers
Green Bay Packers
100+ points = A+
4,643 yards, 45 TD, 6 INT

Drew Brees
New Orleans Saints
100+ points = A+
5,087 yards, 41 TD, 13 INT

Running Back

AFC
Fred Jackson
Buffalo Bills
100+ points = A+
934 yards, 6 TD

Maurice Jones-Drew
Jacksonville Jaguars
100+ points = A+
1,437 yards, 8 TD

Injury Replacement
Arian Foster
Houston Texans
100+ points = A+
1224 yards, 10 TD

NFC

LeSean McCoy
Philadelphia Eagles
100+ points = A+
1,309 yards, 17 TD

Matt Forte
Chicago Bears
94.1+ points = A
997 yards, 3 TD

Injury Replacement
Skipping over Jahvid Best, Detroit Lions, 94.1/A and Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings, 91.3/A-
Marshawn Lynch
Seattle Seahawks
91.1 points = A-
1,118 yards, 12 TD

Wide Receiver

AFC
Wes Welker
New England Patriots
100+ points = A+
1,518 yards, 9 TD

Mike Wallace
Pittsburgh Steelers
94.9 points = A
1,182 yards, 8 TD

NFC
Calvin Johnson
Detroit Lions
100+ points = A+
1,437 yards, 15 TD

Victor Cruz
New York Giants
97.1+ points = A+
1,358 yards, 8 TD

Tight End

AFC
Rob Gronkowski
New England Patriots
100+ points = A+
1,219 yards, 15 TD

Aaron Hernandez
New England Patriots
99.3 points = A+
772 yards, 6 TD

NFC
Jimmy Graham
New Orleans Saints
100+ points = A+
1,213 yards, 10 TD

Tony Gonzalez
Atlanta Falcons
97.6 points = A+
867 yards, 7 TD

StatSmack Provides Legitimate Breakthrough in Sports Social Media

StatSheet has launched something simple, and simply ingenious, to the sports social media public.

Called StatSmack, and available online, through App Store and Android Market, the service allows sports fans to select their favorite team and an opponent from drop-down boxes, and access statistics that will make their tweets more relevant, edgier, and cutting.

Why StatSmack is a Big Deal

This is a legitimate breakthrough in sports social media.

Today, whether following a twitter stream or a game space for social media interaction, you’ll notice that the majority of people are not that creative when it comes to what they share.

During a New England Patriots versus New York Giants game, it would not be surprising to see 70 percent or more of all tweets saying nothing more than “Go Patriots” or “Go Giants,”  for example.

StatSmack pulls information from wide and various sources to give people edgy perspective, and ideas about what they might tweet about. It uses artificial intelligence to scour the Internet for statistics to construct the tweets, which can range from traditional sports statistics, to average heights and weights of players to city crime statistics.

StatSmack in Action

Using StatSmack, here are some of the 15 tweets a Giants fan could get online, on their smart phone or on their tablet:

Allow me to direct you to the scoreboard. Last time they played, the Giants beat the Patriots by 4 points (Nov. 6, 2011).

The giants sacks leader (Jason Pierre Paul w/16.5) is better than the Patriots sacks leader (Mark Anderson w/10.0)

More people watch the Giants than the Patriots (TV market rank: #1 versus #7)

A Patriots fan would get 32 smacks in a display that looks like this:

 StatSmack in Social Media

StatSmack has implications for sports social media in many ways.

Today, such companies as GiveMojo are creating game spaces out of Twitter streams. In those scenarios, tweet volume and the quality of tweets are counted and refereed, with teams competing during games to see which team outscores the other. StatSmack is an important new tool for those applications because it provides fodder for fans who otherwise might be stymied to come up with original things to say.

Automated Insights CEO Robbie Allen

In addition, StatSmack breaks new ground by landing what many other companies are still trying to reel in — sponsorship.

According to StatSheet founder and CEO Robbie Allen, a deal with a large financial services company has been signed to provide promoted smacks as part of the service. It marks one of the first times a sports social innovation has been quick to monetize, and could signal that other companies will have an easier time landing financial support in 2012.

“It worked out that we found the right sponsor at the right time,” Allen said, while declining to name the company because the deal has not been formally announced. “The big advantage for us that’s very difficult for other media companies to match is that we can embed the sponsor in the content.”

Media Company on the Rise

StatSheet’s release of StatSmack marks the continued rise of a media company to be reckoned with in years to come.

Part of Automated Insights, StatSheet uses artificial intelligence to transform publicly available statistics into articles, summaries and headlines in real time. Focused today on NCAA college basketball, Major League Baseball and the National Football League, StatSheet transforms the information into comprehensive coverage of individual teams, tailored to the fan’s point of view.

Venture funded to the tune of $5.3 million, Automated Insights has the potential to compete and partner with big media, including the ability to takes its automated approach to data collection to such sectors as financial services, according to an earlier Mobile Sports Report article.

 

Can CBSSports.com Become the iTunes for Fantasy Sports?

In a move expected to be announced at this week’s Fantasy Sports Conference in Las Vegas, CBSSports.com is going to open up its fantasy sports game infrastructure to independent developers, in an effort to perhaps become the iTunes of fantasy sports.

Reported by the Sports Business Journal Daily, CBSSports.com’s move is a bold one in the largely secular world of fantasy sports, where almost every provider has traditionally tried to keep customers to itself. Unfortunately for fantasy players that often means that if you play in different leagues on different platforms you must maintain separate lists of teams, passwords and logins, an especially tough task if you are trying to access your league info on a mobile device.

Theoretically, by opening up its fantasy infrastructure CBSSports.com could build an iTunes-like ecosystem where third-party developers could create applications that blend the CBSSports.com player environment either with new over-the-top apps (like ones that allow fantasy players to talk smack to each other) or with apps that might let a player access teams from different fantasy platforms in one place. Just like under iTunes, developers will share revenue with CBSSports.com on a 70-30 split, with 70 percent of associated revenue going to developers and 30 percent back to CBSSports.com.

MSR favorite developers Bloomberg Sports and StatSheet are part of the first wave of CBSSports.com partners, according to the SBJD report. Here’s a money quote from Bloomberg head honcho Bill Squadron:

“This effort by CBS connects directly with the vision for fantasy that we also have,” said Bill Squadron, head of Bloomberg Sports. Bloomberg will enhance its Front Office fantasy baseball and Decision Maker fantasy football applications using the CBSSports.com fantasy data. “Having this level of deep integration is going to be very helpful.”

Here’s the Wall Street Journal take on the announcement.

Frookie Speaks Out: DeSean Jackson Sulk Underscores Game-Day Picture Power

A picture is worth a thousand words, and increasingly during the 2011 National Football League season it is a sideline image that tells the most compelling game-day story.

Thursday night, it was troubled Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson ignoring quarterback Vince Young during an embarrassing, nationally televised 34-14 loss to the mediocre Seattle Seahawks:

Vince Young (left) and DeSean Jackson during loss to Seahawks. Photo from FoxPhilly.com

This isn’t the first time that a sideline image or video clip, perfect for smartphone distribution, has dominated post-game conversation in the 2011 NFL football season. An image of Washington Redskin’s QB Rex Grossman after teammate John Beck threw a touchdown pass had many of the team’s fans questioning whether Grossman isn’t just in it for himself:

Is this a meaningless expression, or the telltale sign of a selfish football player?

Frookie Speaks Out: Media outlets distinguish themselves in today’s sports media arena when they come up with a great photo, video clip, player profile or analysis. In fact, I’m less likely than ever to read a run-of-the-mill game recap on any website other than StatSheet, because StatSheet’s automated approach gives me a cleaner, more consistent read, and all the statistics I need to optimize my sports betting and Fantasy experiences. But, give me a good image or video clip that I can share via a smartphone, and I am all over it.  And share opinion or insight that allows me to contribute to my sports discussions with friends, and I am all over that, too. Just don’t waste my time producing anything less.

On the Eagles:

Frookie Speaks Out: After taking a flyer on Michael Vick and having it work out, the Philadelphia Eagles came to believe they could be successful with any talented player no matter what transgressions they had, or what the Wonderlic Test revealed about their character (or lack thereof).  Eagles fans are paying a steep price for that hubris.  Beginning with coach Andy Reid and general manager Howie Roseman, the Eagles should clean house. Then, they should build a winning team of character, befitting the city and state they represent. In that way, Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians can again have at least one  nationally recognized football team they can be proud of.  That would be the picture-perfect solution.

Finally, here’s a link to footage where the photo of Grossman originated. Decide for yourself whether this is simply an NFL QB hankering to get into the game, or a selfish player you’d be better off not having on your team.

 

 

Frookie Speaks Out: STAT.US Debut Rocks Sports Information Industry

 

 

 

 

 

In a blockbuster move, Automated Insights Inc. has launched STAT.US, which allows sports fans to pick a favorite team or player and receive automated updates on their performance.

The website enables the average Twitter sports fan to quickly become a power user, and will drive traffic to the emerging StatSheet sports information network.

Make no mistake:

MobileSportsReport expects STAT.US to emerge as a killer application of Twitter in sports within a year, elevating the average sports fan into a mobile device power user.

In fact, STAT.US‘ parent company is emerging as odds-on favorite to lead the convergence of sports viewing, sports information and mobile device ubiquity.

In short, today’s launch of STAT.US, when coupled with the rest of Automated Insights’ offerings, have the potential to tilt the sports information industry on its axis.

STAT.US Explained

Sample of StatSheet's Automated Sports Content -- Powerful Stuff

In essence, STAT.US is the consumer user interface to a sports information network that Automated Insights has built using Twitter.

Automated Insights has created the Twitter accounts that feed into STAT.US, and will be responsible for updating those accounts, including game-day stats that match or exceed the most robust offerings currently available to Fantasy team owners.

Moreover, links featured on STAT.US will drive people to StatSheet content, which uses artificial intelligence to craft stories about live sporting events, and presents sophisticated statistical data in dazzling ways.

Automated Insights COO Scott Frederick

“We turn data into automated content,” Automated Insights COO Scott Frederick told Mobile Sports Report. “”We just want smarter more passionate fans.”

Easy to Use Interface

The prime reason STAT.US is such a powerful idea is because it is easy to use.

Once you go to STAT.US, you simply provide your Twitter log-in information, and then name NFL, NBA, MLB players or teams, or favorite NCAA Basketball or NCAA Basketball teams. From within the STAT.US domain, your selections are automatically added to your Twitter stream, and also presented through the STAT.US portal. Each STAT.US data stream is managed on Twitter by StatSheet.com, meaning that StatSheet’s real-time information can be promoted throughout a live sporting event via tiny URLs.

Making Money, Raising Money

Automated Insights makes no bones about its plans to monetize the STAT.US service.  Since those Twitter accounts feed into STAT.US, and a percentage of fans will opt to receive information through the STAT.US portal, Automated Insights Inc. will own the advertising, marketing and e-commerce opportunities that go along with the captured audience. Today, the website has AdChoices placed on every page. That’s simply a signal that it plans to monetize the website in more meaningful ways once a user base is established, and familiarizes consumers with the idea that they will receive marketing messages along with information services.

As of Nov. 30, greater than 250,000 fans were actively using the network, according to an email from the company.

Automated Insights CEO Robbie Allen

Automated Insights has had no trouble raising money to pursue its goals.

In 2010, it raised $1.3 million in funding, and got an additional investment of $4.0 million from Court Square Ventures and OCA Ventures in September.

The history, the team

Automated Insights and STAT.US is the brainchild of former Cisco engineer Robbie Allen, who figured out that the Twitter lists functions could be easily leveraged to provide NFL, college and NBA fans with statistical analysis, charts and stats tailored to specific players. Others on the Automated Insights team are also impressive, including former Valhalla Partners venture capitalist Frederick, who will create business opportunity for the company, VP Operations & Finance Adam Smith and VP of Product Engineering Joe Procopio.

The Big Picture

Sports is the tip of the iceberg for Automated Insights. Eventually, it will drive its business model into every vertical that has consumers interested in real-time data, including financial services. In so doing, it will compete with everyone from Bloomberg News Service to the local newspaper. That Automated Insights incursion begins with sports data underscores the desirable demographic sports attracts, as well as the natural fit between the live sports viewing experience and real-time information accessed through mobile devices.

Automated Insights has embarked upon a game-changing strategy in the information-services industry, and if Stat.US and other content offerings successfully grows a large user base in the year ahead, it won’t be stopped in the sports vertical.

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