Some fans have become upset over the years with statistics taking precedence over long-revered analysis of sports. With stats becoming the focal point of countless stories in recent years, they now threaten to actually become the entire story.
A new software program called StatSheet "takes sports statistics, integrates them with a human vocabulary and churns out news stories — all by itself — about baseball and football," according to Talking Points Memo.
"Within the next three to four years, it will be better than what a human can produce," inventor Robbie Allan told the website. "And the reason for that is pretty much the foundation of computation: We can analyze and access significantly more data than one person can on their own."
