Automated Sports Content: The Future of Sports Journalism?

Natural language generation is a fun topic. I'm currently building automated overviews of web stats at http://overlytics.com. Its a much smaller data domain to report over.

This service just makes so much sense for both readers and the media outlets. Now every game in every sport can be summarized, plus it frees up time and resources that can be invested in expert analysis and other enhancements to the user experience.

The only thing I'd like to see is the ability to incorporate commentary from fans. ESPN and others already do live chats on various games and it seems like you could extrapolate meaningful events from that data if you had access to it.

Will the automated content include interviews with players or quotes from coaches? You would need to scrape that content from non-automated sports stories.

Holler when you get the hockey stats going! :)