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Thanks again, AP

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by SF_Express, Jul 25, 2011.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

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

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  3. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    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?
     
  4. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Tell me about ...
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    It'll start with "Talk about ... "
     
  6. Matt Stephens

    Matt Stephens Well-Known Member

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

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  8. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  9. Southwinds

    Southwinds Member

    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.
     
  10. Smokey33

    Smokey33 Member

    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.
     
  11. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    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. :)
     
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  12. pseudo

    pseudo Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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