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I'll probably get down-voted for this but "powerful insights" for fantasy sports? Really?

Amazing that people are putting their collective intelligence and resource into fantasy sports.

Like sports? Get off your ass, grab a ball and some friends and get out on the field/court.

What about pivoting to a site for finding local people to form recreational teams? I'd use that!

Depending on the data being analyzed the app could have a use for sports organizations as well. But that's a more difficult market to break in to directly.

A company I helped with on a few apps had a table at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference this spring. One of the apps looks at boxscores to provide custom sports news for fans and identify interesting plays. I'm guessing it is much less involved than this project but a number of club officials found it intriguing because it could surface numbers from across the league.

Interesting point and angle.

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