Gannett papers using AI for high school football

[Tarheel316]

I can confirm this. In the last year every directive was to do as many lists (top 15 RBs, QBs, etc.) and recruiting stories as possible. To be honest they did return pretty good analytics, even for the small hyper local markets I was in.

That worked in my market, too. Listicles helped us keep jobs when COVID was at its worst.

 

[NNDman]

To piggyback on the Marshall Johnson post, if he couldn't get a score from th dispatcher at a sheriff's office, he'd phone the rescue squad or fire department knowing EMS would staff the games. The Virginia AP score list would run big schools to small schools top to bottom with each clashification's scores running from eastern schools to western schools. Now it's alphabetically without regard to clashification.

 

[dixiehack]

I think AP in Tennessee still lists scores east to west, broken down by the three grand divisions.

 

[Twirling Time]

I still look for the Slippery Rock score when I see AP national scores, either in the paper or online.

 

[DanOregon]

Out this way I'm surprised the G papers can do anything, between Salem and Eugene I counted about 20 total newsroom staffers (editors, reporters, multimedia etc).

 

[playthrough]

I still look for the Slippery Rock score when I see AP national scores, either in the paper or online.

You and the guys working the PA system at Michigan Stadium.

 

[MeanGreenATO]

Maybe we should shame Gannett more often!

 

[Woody Long]

It's forking embarrashing.

 

[jr/shotglass]

You and the guys working the PA system at Michigan Stadium.

That's because Shippensburg whipped their butts before 76,000 at Michigan Stadium in 1979! You can look it up!

 

[fossywriter8]

GameChanger has an automated program that produces a recap story based on a team's statistics; I believe it's been a part of the app for 10 years now.

The stories are still hot garbage. Can't identify the real turning points in a game, and the statistics it chooses to highlight are odd.

At least GameChanger adds names to its stories, if they're provided/inputted by someone. I've seen many a GameChanger box score that just had jersey numbers listed, but that's a rant for another time.

 

[Twirling Time]

The value to GameChanger is it provides PxP as well as pitching changes and you can suss out for yourself the turning point in the game.

 

[Tarheel316]

At least GameChanger adds names to its stories, if they're provided/inputted by someone. I've seen many a GameChanger box score that just had jersey numbers listed, but that's a rant for another time.

I've seen a GameChanger box score with first names and last initials. That, too, is a rant.