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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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