Included in the award for winning an NCIDEA grant is access to an MBA student from UNC or Duke over the summer. I was fortunate enough to land Marc Zawel.

Marc is not your ordinary intern. He's a Kenan-Flagler student focusing on entrepreneurship, is the 2009 Young Entrepreneur in Residence at NCIDEA, and has solid experience in digital media. 

Marc has already been very helpful in strategizing about StatSheet's future plans, and I'm excited to see how he contributes over the next couple months.

Welcome Marc!

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A couple weeks ago I was invited to speak at an upcoming Refresh the Triangle meeting. Refresh the Triangle is a local user group for web designers and developers. I've given a bunch of talks on technical topics during my book writing days (when I pumped out 10 books for O'Reilly in the span of 5 years), but I haven't done any entrepreneurship talks yet.

Do I have anything to say given my experience with StatSheet over the last couple of years? Turns out I do. There is a lot of conventional wisdom in the startup world. When I was at MIT taking classes on entrepreneurship, it was clear that there is a certain way you are supposed to run a startup. My experience with StatSheet runs counter to a lot of what I've heard and read about. StatSheet is still a work in progress and so is this presentation (consider it Part I). I'll add more to it as StatSheet evolves.

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Update: Over at Hacker News, malte pointed out that http://stat.us was one of the original domains considered for Twitter: Screenshot

Ugly Details

Back on May 4th, I chronicled the unfortunate situation of Twitter suspending all of the StatTweet accounts because I supposedly violated their terms of service.  Today marks the 2 month anniversary since Twitter suspended the accounts. I've decided to stop trying to get the accounts re-enabled despite their popularity (63,000 followers). Why? In short, because dealing with Twitter Support has been a nightmare...worse than my worst experiences dealing with cable and phone companies (and I've had some bad ones).

We can argue whether I violated their TOS and to what degree, but you'd be hard pressed to condone the way they've treated a developer that was simply trying to create an innovative service on top of Twitter.  From the first day I was very open about my intentions with the accounts and my willingness to change to meet their needs. Typically the kind of reply I'd get back would be a restatement of my TOS violations. I'd reply that there was a misunderstanding and my reasons for it. I'd get a reply back that they were "reviewing my accounts". This went on and on for 2 months! It was always a 1-way communication. This includes an email I got from @ev (Twitter CEO) after my story ran on TechCrunch (he never replied to my subsequent replies). It took me 7 days to create all the accounts and start populating them. Each account is virtually the same...just the team is different.  There is nothing to review!  Yet week after week they said they were "reviewing" my accounts.  And it often took up to 5 days to get a response to my email (if they responded at all).

Then out of the blue they asked for copy of my content licensing agreements (for stats and news).  WTF? They never said they had an issue with the content of my tweets before.  They gave me a fax number. They wanted me to send them a confidential corporate document to some fax machine that who knows who had access to with no promises that this would actually resolve the issue.  It is clear now that much more was going on behind the scenes related to this issue than they were letting on.

Finally, three weeks ago I was told that "SOME" of the accounts would be enabled the next week (ie, two weeks ago).  Guess what?  Didn't happen. I sent an email asking why and got nothing back.  I sent one last email asking for an update. Nothing. Why some and not all? Who knows.

I know everyone is real busy at Twitter. Yada-yada-yada.  At least with the cable/phone company, you can call someone up directly. You may get the run-around, but at least it is a human on the other end you can talk to. With Twitter, you are lucky if one of the support people decide to grace you with a form reply in 5 days.

They turned a 1-day issue (or 1-week at most) into a 2 month ordeal. Even if they didn't want to re-enable the accounts they could have just said so instead of dragging this out and being so unresponsive. All I was looking for was a little open communication.  That's what Twitter is supposed to be about, right?  Twitter corporate culture seems very anti-Twitter to me.

Adversity creates Opportunity

It is all for the best. I've never been one that needs much motivation, but this is the kind of thing that really gets me going. I'm moving full speed ahead with my own solution to the problem StatTweets was trying to solve. Real-time information is all the rage now and I'm going to provide a solution in the sports space. I recently acquired the domain stat.us and it's a perfect name for the service I'm building. I can't wait to share more in the coming weeks. Signup over on stat.us if you want to be informed of future updates.

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Who says North Carolina isn't a good place to start a tech company? Definitely not me. I'm happy to announce that StatSheet has been awarded a $47,000 grant from NC-IDEA, an organization chartered with "supporting North Carolina’s economic development by ensuring young, innovative companies grow, create jobs and become contributing business leaders". StatSheet is one of five companies to receive an award out of 117 applicants. Read more.

What kind of strings are attached to the "$47,000 grant"? None. It is a grant, not a loan or investment. No equity was exchanged. No promises for future involvement with the venture capital arm of NC-IDEA (although they would like to be considered). Essentially it is free money. It also comes with support from the NC-IDEA network as well as access to a MBA-student intern for the summer (more on this later).

I don't know if other states have similar organizations, but this should be viewed as a big benefit to lean-startups in North Carolina. You could go the tech incubator route (like YCombinator) and get $6K in exchange for equity and access to resources, or if you live in NC you have the chance to score up to $50K with no strings and still get access to a great entrepreneurial community plus an intern for the summer!

I funded StatSheet for the first two years and the NC-IDEA grant will fund the third year. It is my hope I can reach break even by next June and not need any additional funding (unless I decide to grow more aggressively and take on angel/VC funding).

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(Comment over at Hacker News)

The purpose of the StatSheet Network is pretty simple. I want to do interesting things with sports stats on the web. My goal is also straightforward: to create the most popular sports-related websites and web applications. Placing advertising on StatSheet does not support my purpose or my goal. It actually runs counter to both. Based on this simple logic, I'm in the process of removing every bit of advertising from the StatSheet Network properties (including statsheet.com).

Let's face it, no one likes to see ads on websites. They take away from form, functionality, or both! And that was the case on StatSheet. While I didn't plaster ads across the network, I did put a large banner ad at the top of every page.

There is a sad truth to web advertising. Unless you are 1) willing to put a half dozen ad units on every page and 2) serving tens of millions of page views per month, advertising will not help that much when it comes to paying a startup's bills (even a lean startup like StatSheet).

You can't really dip your toe into the advertising pool to see how it goes. If you want to make decent money, you have to go all in. And I'm not prepared to do that. A driving force behind StatSheet is to create the best user experience for consuming sports content on the web. Fortunately, that's pretty easy to do in the sports space because most sports sites either suck from a usability perspective or are littered with advertising. I can easily differentiate StatSheet by not showing any ads. None of the big sports media websites (ESPN, Yahoo!, etc) could get away with that. This is another aspect that makes it hard to compete with StatSheet.

But how will I pay the bills? The "no ads" lightbulb went off for me when I discovered a new business model that could potentially be pretty significant, which I'll write about in a future post. Instead of placing ads for some other company's services on StatSheet, I'll put highly targeted blurbs about the StatSheet subscription service. The goal won't be to hope a bunch of people click on a Google ad (and therefore leave StatSheet), but they'll click on the link that describes more about the StatSheet subscription offering.

Does this mean I'll never put outside ads on StatSheet again? Never say never. If I get enough page views consistently where the economics of advertising makes sense and I need additional revenue to supplement my other business models, I'd consider it. But I'd likely employ "sponsored" spots instead of Google Adsense type advertising.

Since I pulled down the ads, the StatSheet sites are already looking better to me. It's amazing how much cleaner a no-ads site looks compared to its ad-filled counterpart.

Here are a few recent articles and videos about how advertising is losing favor in the startup world:

• Does Twitter Hate Advertising?
• A Case for Non-Ad Revenue on the Web
• Ad Revenue on the Web? No Sure Bet
• Marketing Talks@Google: Fred Wilson
  

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Today is the two year anniversary of StatSheet's incorporation, and I'm more excited about the future than ever! StatSheet is maturing at the rate of a two year old toddler (I should know, my daughter just turned 2 as well).  I've made a lot of progress, but there is still a long way to go.  Many in the web startup world expect a million users and millions in revenue by year two, but not me.  As a one-man operation I have some inherent limitations that impede fast growth, but my current pace allows me to evolve organically instead of synthetically.  I'm following the opportunities as I see them develop instead of trying to plan out all my options from day 1 to please a VC or board of directors.

I didn't have all the answers when I started StatSheet. I had an idea that I thought would resonate with sports fans (ie, make sports stats more interesting on the web), but I didn't really have a clue how I would make money from it. I had some vague notions about a subscription service and advertising revenue, but that wasn't my initial focus. While there are certain things I'm not able to accomplish because I haven't taken outside funding, staying solo has given me complete flexibility.  Fortunately I'm in a position where I can continue to fund StatSheet for the near future.  That means I can take risks with things that no one in this space really can.  My larger competitors can't possibly think of expending resources in a down economy on something that has no obvious monetary return (e.g. StatPlot). But I can! I can dabble. I can try new stuff. I can push the envelope. And that's exactly what I'll continue to do. I want to make it difficult to compete with StatSheet. There is a method to my madness, I assure you.

The past 6 months have been a bit of a whirlwind. It started with the Crunchies nomination which brought a lot of attention to what I'm doing (I was the only single-person company nominated). I've received a significant amount of acquisition interest from a variety of companies, both large and small. Four venture capital firms have contacted me out of the blue about wanting to invest in StatSheet. I have options.  And if I have options now when the economy sucks, I should have even better options when the economy turns around. It's for that reason that I've decided to stay solo. I'm having too much fun and the opportunity in front of me is too big to sell-out now.

Expect to see regular blog posts from now on. I want to write more about what's going on at StatSheet and some of my future plans.

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The launch of StatPlot yesterday was successful. Several news outlets picked up the story. ReadWriteWeb wrote a glowing review, which also made it to the NYTimes. StatPlot also made it to the front page of Hacker News for several hours. And StatPlot has been tweeted over 200 times on Twitter.

Here is a sampling of some of the feedback I've received:

- StatPlot is the newest project of sports statistic aggregator StatSheet and you're likely to enjoy it whether you're a sports fan or not.

- Thanks for leading the way in truly democratizing data visualization, StatSheet.

- Your site is very cool! I teach a course in quantitative analysis and the info you have will provide me with tons of lesson plan material ... THANKS! 

- Cool new find - StatPlot lets you easily and quickly make charts of stats for your fav sports.

- StatPlot is internet sports analysis hotness

- Stat Plot may work with this lesson plan I found a couple weeks back.

- First impressions: this is awesome

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(Coverage: Hacker News | ReadWriteWeb)

Check out StatPlot.com and let me know what you think!

After creating a few hundred charts on StatSheet.com and taking requests for a dozen others, it became clear that I needed to put the power of creating charts in the hands of sports fans. No sense in me being the middle man.

There are other services (Swivel, iCharts.net, Many-Eyes) that allow you to upload data and create a variety of visualizations, but these all suffer from the same issue. The average sports fan does not have access to quality sports stats to upload. With StatPlot, you don't need to bring your own data because you can use the expansive StatSheet database!

Currently, NBA, College Basketball, NFL, College Football, and NASCAR are supported. More sports will be added soon (MLB and NHL are next). Let me know what sports you'd like to see.

Features of StatPlot:

• Create line, bar, pie or Google motion charts
• Charts come in three formats:
    interactive flash, static image, and thumbnail
• Embed any chart in a website or blog
• Comment, rate, save, and share charts
• Configure the size and colors to taste
• Set the background of a chart to a color or photo
• Copy and edit any existing chart
• Soon relevant charts will show up on the team/player pages on StatSheet.com
• Charts are tweeted to the @StatPlot Twitter account and relevant StatTweet team accounts (contingent on Twitter re-enabling my accounts)

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Yesterday, the response was pretty overwhelming to my blog post about Twitter shutting down StatTweets. And it got Twitter's attention. Within 30 minutes of the TechCrunch article @Crystal responded to one of my Twitter tickets. By the end of the day, @Ev replied to an email I sent him a couple weeks ago. Both re-stated their issues with my compliance with their TOS, so I re-stated my willingness to change the accounts as necessary. We'll see if anything comes from it. They've stated and restated their issues at least three or four times now (buying time?), so that should be really clear with everyone. What isn't clear are the actions they want me to take to rectify their issues.

Now for some stats. The bit.ly link I used to point to my blog post in my original tweet resulted in 6,300 clicks. My tweet or some variation was retweeted over 1,000 times yesterday and there were 7,700 visitors to my blog article. The story was picked up by a variety of media outlets, blogs, and web services including TechCrunch, Mashable, FT.com, Hacker News, and TechMeme. Much like the last time I had a blog post picked up by TechCrunch and Hacker News, the distribution of traffic was roughly the same with Hacker News still dominating any other source by a wide margin:

Hacker News: 1,500 visits

TechMeme: 480 visits

Twitter: 353 visits

TechCrunch: 345 visits

Google Reader: 295 visits

StumbleUpon: 176 visits

The Google numbers skew everything because those visitors could have been reading the TechCrunch article (or using the TechMeme feed) that linked to my blog.

Ultimately, I wish it hadn't come to me writing the blog post, but with Twitter not responding to my repeated inquiries, I didn't have any other recourse. It is still yet to be determined if my strategy to restore StatTweets will work. Stay tuned!

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UPDATE: Read the Day 2 Report Card

Show your support for StatTweets by retweeting this message. (Thanks for all the RT's so far)

Check out the discussion at Hacker News and TechCrunch. More coverage at Mashable and FT.com. If you are new to StatSheet, learn more here.

Overview

Back in December I created a new site for the StatSheet Network called StatTweets. In order to take advantage of the growing Twitter phenomenon, I wanted to create Twitter representations of the team pages you find on StatSheet (example here). (The StatSheet Network is all about trying to do interesting things with sports stats.) Instead of creating a single Twitter account and blasting every sport and team through it like so many large sports media companies do, I wanted to make up for Twitter's lack of filtering capabilities by creating accounts for each team page. So I did. My wife and I created 650 accounts over a long weekend for each NBA, NFL, College Basketball and College Football team. Then I plugged the Twitter API into the backend data processing I was already doing for StatSheet.com and started tweeting interesting stats, news, live score updates, point spread updates, etc. I even added the ability to retrieve stats dynamically via Twitter using the #StatMe hash tag. Read about it here.

In just 4 months, the StatTweet accounts gained over 63,000 followers. And that's with me doing very lttile marketing or promotion of the accounts. Twitter.com went from driving no traffic to StatSheet.com to being the #2 source of traffic behind Google. The feedback I got was overwhelmingly positive (even from TechCrunch).

Two weeks ago I noticed one of my accounts was suspended. Then I discovered all of the accounts had been suspended (actually they missed two of them: @NuggetsStats and @SunsStats UPDATE: Twitter just suspended these accounts now too, thanks for that). I opened a ticket with Twitter Customer Support and got back the following less-than-helpful response:

Hi,

The accounts were suspended for violation of our Terms of Service:

1. Copyright infringement

2. Mass account creation

3. Squatting

Please honor Twitter's Terms of Service accordingly. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

Cheers, 

Twitter Support

Let me address each one of their issues:

1) Copyright infringement - They said because I used team logos I was infringing on copyright. I've talked to two lawyers and they don't think Twitter OR the teams would have a case. Why? A) the images used are very small and low resolution, B) I'm not pretending to be an official team account and C) there are dozens of other accounts using these logos on Twitter. The last point is perhaps most important. To have a successful copyright/trademark infringement case, you have to show that you are going after all known offenders. Do a quick search on "Celtics" on Twitter. There are 9 accounts using the exact same logo. And that's just the accounts with "Celtics" in the name. I can only imagine the total number of accounts using that logo would be at least 2 or 3 dozen. It is clear Twitter has singled me out in this case.

That said, I would take down the logos if Twitter feels strongly about it. But guess what? They never asked me despite their own documentation stating they would work with accounts that are providing a service to the community:

"Accounts created to help a community or provide information will be contacted with the appropriate steps to take to keep the account"

2) Mass account creation - Ok, they got me on this one. But what is the issue here in my case? I can understand you don't want spammers creating a bunch of unnecessary accounts, but each of my accounts represent a discrete entity (namely, a team's page on StatSheet.com). There are dozens of account networks on Twitter (e.g., BuzzTap), so why aren't they being targeted too? How many is too many? 5, 10, 100 accounts? And I didn't use any automated means to create the accounts (I wish). My wife and I created each account by hand over a weekend.

3) Squatting - This is the most bogus one of all. Because some of my college football accounts hadn't been updated in a couple of months, they accused me of "squatting" on the names. There haven't been any updates to those accounts because college football season is over! Those accounts are just as inactive as their pages on StatSheet.com. As soon as college football season comes around, the tweets will start back up. If inactivity is going to be the bar for what defines squatting, there are millions of squatters on Twitter.

Conclusion

I waited semi-patiently for 2 weeks in the hopes that Twitter would come around, but @Caroline and @Crystal (Twitter Support) have been unresponsive other than a couple of form responses. I'm sure now that Twitter is post-Oprah, my request is at the bottom of the priority queue. But aren't they biting the hand that feeds them? I'm providing a unique information service on Twitter and they shut me down without so much as a warning. To make it worse, they haven't even responded to my repeated inquiries. This doesn't bode well for other businesses that are trying to use Twitter. We are all at the whim of a Twitter Support person's interpretation of how you are using your accounts and how that complies with their TOS.

To bring the Heat, you must Retweet!

The only way I know to fight back is to have Twitterers show support for StatTweets by retweeting this message. Twitter hasn't listened to me, but maybe they would listen to YOU. Let's get #SaveStatTweets trending on Twitter!!

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I got a query from someone today asking if they can find the lead safeness of a game in-progress. You can if you are following the StatTweets team account on Twitter where I tweet live game scores (e.g., @UNCStats) or after the game on statsheet.com, but not for in-progress games on statsheet.com.

Well I just went a step further than that. I added a "Game Flow" link to the College Basketball Scoreboard. You can see the Game Flow for every game underway or that has completed. Part of each Game Flow chart are lines for lead safeness (if applicable).

This gives you another way to monitor March Madness scores on a single page! Let me know what you think.

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I've been a little quiet over the last couple of weeks because I've been heads down adding a new sport to StatSheet. I'm happy to announce today the introduction of NASCAR Stats! Please pass this along to any NASCAR fans you may know. I'm interested in feedback.

NASCAR Stats you may be asking? Who has ever heard of NASCAR Stats? And that's exactly the reason I did it. Not a lot has been done to date on the web with NASCAR stats and I wanted to get things kick-started. The state of NASCAR stat analysis is kind of like pre-Bill James baseball. The area is ripe of innovation and interesting analysis that hasn't been done before. It took the better part of a month, but now I think I have a good starting point.

Below is a brief list of some of the more interesting features I've developed. I crammed about a year's worth of work into 1 month, so it is far from complete, but it will give you the general idea. If you have any suggestions or requests, please let me know!

• Compare Races, Drivers, Cars, Owners, or even Manufacturers
• Drill down a Driver's Race Log, Stats, Trends, and Standings
• Get Season Stats, Race Stats, Driver Stats, Car Stats, Owner Stats, and Manufacturer Stats
• See current or historical Driver Standings and watch them in motion
• Drill down on races to find stats, a cool caution chart, and lap leader chart
  

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Today is a milestone at StatSheet. Back on Dec 12th, I mentioned how StatSheet achieved over 500,000 page views for a 30 day period. Then on January 28th, I reported that StatSheet hit 750,000 page views for 30 days. Now, I'm happy to report getting over 1 million page views in 30 days! This is pretty significant considering that last year at this time my peak traffic was 315,000 page views (4 months after launch).  StatSheet.com is 16 months old now and the traffic has tripled. If I can keep tripling every year, I'll be pretty happy.

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CBS Sports has finally started copying StatSheet features. They have a Player Matchup feature (link) that looks eerily similar to the StatSheet Player Comparison. But of course their version is considerably weaker. Heck, you can't even get a link to a particular comparison. Also, a lot fewer stats and no charts. Oh, and no historical player comparisons. I guess it is a start ;-)

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A few months ago I completed the Game High Stats section. With it you can find which teams and players have had the best games for any stat for any of the past 13 seasons or combination of seasons. Pretty cool stuff, but I got to thinking: why not also show the Game Low leaders as well?

Now you can. You can look up things like:

• Which teams made the fewest field goals in a game this year (see here)
• Which ACC teams have scored the fewest points in the first half this season (see here)
  
• What is the fewest points UNC has scored in a game since 1996 (see here)

This is the kind of stuff you can't find anywhere else!

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Kansas currently has the longest home court winning streak in the nation, so someone asked me yesterday why they are listed as having a home record of 14-1 on StatSheet. Good question. The first time I asked my stats provider they said the loss at the Sprint Center to UMass counted as a home loss. Ok, but what about the loss to Syracuse at the Sprint Center? Why didn't that count as a home loss? And why is the Sprint Center considered Home for Kansas?

Here is the response I got:

The NCAA has an odd way of determining "home" vs."neutral" as far as designation goes.  The first game was considered a home loss because the NCAA determined it was a home game for Kansas; this determination often comes from who provides the refs, stat crew, etc ... for the game.
 
The Syracuse game was from a preseason tournament (CBE Classic) so it was considered neutral by the NCAA.
 
These are odd determinations, but we have checked on this issue specifically with the NCAA and they have confirmed what we have.

So Kansas does officially have the longest HOME COURT winning streak, but they do no have the longest streak as the HOME TEAM.

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Are you as tired as I am of websites that are so out of touch with their users that you feel you have no say in the evolution of the site? Do you think you have good ideas for how to improve a website but really don't want to submit a form letter to god knows who or send an email to customerservice@company.com or info@company.com?

StatSheet is a one-man operation. There is no co-founder. There is no team. Most entrepreneurs and VCs will tell you this is a horrible idea. You have to have other people on the team. One person can't do it all, right? I'd agree with that except that it depends on how you define your "team". My team consists of anyone that has ever emailed me to give feedback or suggestions about the site. It also consists of anyone that has registered and contributed to the site. Most teams consist of a handful of dedicated people that get paid to work. My team consists of 1 dedicated person and thousands of part-time people that contribute for the fun of it.

When I talk to people about StatSheet, my biggest challenge is getting them to think about it different than you do 99% of the websites out there. Most people browse around the web kind of like browsing around a mall. You don't think you are empowered to influence your environment. Maybe you visit the Apple Store a lot and would really like a Starbucks cafe in the store. You never think to ask the store manager if they can see about adding Starbucks. It is the same on the web. Most of the time when you visit a website you feel confined to the features the company decided to create.

At StatSheet, I want, in fact I need, people to tell me what they'd like to see on the site. I don't have a big team of designers and product managers to sit around and think of new features to implement. Sure, I have a long list of stuff i've got in mind, but some of the best features I've implemented have come from ideas someone emailed me or IM'd me. Consider yourself a designer of StatSheet. What features would you like to see? Do you have an idea for something you've never seen before but think it would be cool? Don't limit your thinking to the realm of what's been done before. Go far beyond that. Would you like to see how players from Georgia do on the free throw line compared to players from Washington? Let me know. Do you think it would be neat to see a visual of contributions from bench players vs starters for the past 10 NCAA champions? Tell me about it.

The one big caveat in all of this is I can't implement every request I receive. But I've been surprised at the request-to-implementation ratio. It is actually quite high. I'd estimate that I implement at least 1 new thing a week based on a user request. Sometimes it is much more. But if I don't implement your request now, that doesn't mean I won't in the future. Every request goes into a list. If I see a similar request from another person, the priority goes up. Also, if you are hardcore StatSheet user the priority goes up. If you are very stat-savvy the priority goes up. If you are a blogger your requests go near the top.

Regardless of the priority, I'll listen to every request and you'll get a personal response from me. How many of my competitors can say that?

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Last June, I started accepting user submissions for College Basketball Referee photos. This turned out to be very successful as I've received many photos from fans and the refs themselves. As a result, I'm going to open up all of StatSheet for user photo submissions. Eventually I'll create a form so you can upload them, but until then just send me an email. But first, you need to agree to this:

If you hold the copyright to a photo (e.g. you photographed it yourself) and would like StatSheet to be able to use it, you will need to release it under a free license, such as the GNU Free Documentation License or the Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution/Share-alike licenses, which allow everyone to use, alter, and redistribute your work for any purpose, including commercial use.

The vast majority of images on the internet are not acceptable for use on StatSheet - you should only provide an image if you are the copyright holder.

If you agree to these terms, please send an email to robbie@statsheet.com and attach the photo.

Thank you!

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Back on Dec 12th, I wrote that StatSheet eclipsed the 500,000 page view mark for the prior 30 days. Now, just a month and a half later, I'm getting 750,000 page views per month. I'm still hopeful that I'll pass the million page view mark by March madness. Maybe I'll see a lot more than that!

The interesting thing is that the top 10 pages are college basketball or high school basketball related. That's good news that those sections are able to grow on their own, but bad news that I haven't done enough yet to the NBA and NFL sections. I've actually put those on hold for a couple of weeks while I finish up a NEW sport for StatSheet. That's right, I'm working on adding another sport right now and it has nothing to do with basketball or football. It's going to be pretty cool when I'm done and unlike anything else you can find for that sport on the web currently.

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On the heels of my revamp of the College Basketball Team Comparison feature, I've also updated the College Basketball Player Comparison feature.

I've made two big changes. Now, if you select the Career option in the player's seasons drop down, it shows career totals for every stat, not just the basic stats. That means you can see career averages for all the tempo-free stats. Moving forward, these career stats will be updated automatically after every game so they should remain current (previously I updated career stats after the season).

The other big change is I've added a charting option. Now you can see charts for career trends and intra season average trends based on the seasons you select. You can chart up two different stats (I could allow more, but the charts become hard to read).

Here is an example comparing some of the best point guards in the nation.

I'm interested in any feedback!

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