I don't talk about sports much here, but I'm a closet sports junkie. I grew up at the intersection of ACC and Big East country. I've been listing to sports talk forever, practically daily since about 1993. The first weekend of the NCAA tournament was essentially a 4 day holiday for a few years in grad school.
In honor of that fine event, I'll tip my hat to PaidContent.org for actually taking online sports seriously and pointing towards Alan Karben's Statsology blog. The site is a veritable cornucopia of links to topics I've been looking for for years. I always thought sports would be a fine segment of the online market to be involved in. Passionate communities, tons of numbers to crunch, serious money and a patina of real journalism, what's not to like?
Karben is doing a great job of hitting each of these points in his coverage of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. Who knew! This strikes me as a space where some social software experiments would turn up some interesting results.
P. S. Looks like I went 16-0 on a bracket today, and while I do play multiple sheets it's not like I go hog wild. One rational, one radical, and one for rooting does it.