Thanks again, AP

I know college conferences are a'changing, but somehow I missed Houston moving to the European League.

 

The golf results on Sunday - the third round, as it ended Monday - were messed up in a way I had never seen from AP. The sequence of scores, from lowest to highest, had not been thoroughly sorted. Took a few minutes for me to get all the 210s and 211s and such grouped together.

 

AP said today it would be using bots to write NCAA hoops, other sports. I wonder, how does a bot ask questions at a post-game presser?

 

Tell me about ...

 

It'll start with "Talk about ... "

 

Original Poynter story was wrong. AP is trying it for NCAA baseball. Basketball will still be humans.

 

Yeah, I saw that it was only for sports they weren't previously staffing, like college baseball.

I still don't care for the idea of it though.

 

I'd be mad, but robot or human it's still more than they've done for regular season college baseball in at least the past decade.

 

I don't know - they moved a final edition women's college basketball tournament gamer today that didn't have a final score in it. The robots could probably do better than the humans in some cases.

 

I assumed they were already using bots. Might as well be. Those mid- to low-major college basketball gamers are completely devoid of any context. Just "Some guy scored 25 points as Some team beat Another team 76-65."

The winning team could be full of one-legged terminally ill dwarves and the AP gamer wouldn't say a thing.

 

Most of those are written off box scores...so unless the last names were Sleepy, Dopey, Horny, Hariy, Regis and Doc...they wouldn't know.

 

Pretty much. Only time AP staffs a basketball game at the local D-1 school is when a Top 25 team visits (Top 10 for women's BB) -- so, about one per season. Everything else is done by the desk.