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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

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Gamecast Viz

Sure, they've been around for a while, so it's a sliver shy of revolutionary that I'm calling your attention to the gamecast college basketball visualizations provided by ESPN.com.  There's something subtly inviting for me in the gliding mouse-over of the running score for a full game.  Pause at a spot; get the score for that moment in the game.  My only complaint: after the game has ended, the scores page drops the gamecast link and you have to wait a few minutes for the running score chart to be available again in the recap. Still, much better than anything going at CNNSI or CBS Sportsline (play-by-plays, stats leaders, etc.).

Bookmark and Share Posted by dmueller at January 10, 2006 9:45 PM to (Di)stances
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Pretty cool; I'll have to try it. I hope it functions better than the Gametracker broadcasts, to which I've been consigned in order to follow some of the WVU men's and Colgate women's games. Gametracker tends to freeze about 5 minutes before the conclusion of the match. Not. very. nice.

Posted by: senioritis at January 11, 2006 3:53 AM

I'm curious if they provide the score visualizations for every game or if it's only for top-25 or major conferences. I didn't check whether they had it for Colgate. Of course, I'm most interested in adapting the interface for other stuff like reading families of terms across the fifty-year history of CCC and such. ;)

Posted by: Derek at January 11, 2006 6:00 PM

I "watch" my beloved (and 16-0!) Gators on ESPN.com a lot, and the broadcast freezes a lot. I have to reload all the time.

I haven't been able to figure out the way they pick the games which are scored live. My guess is it has to do with whatever statistics agencies (Elias, etc) are present.

Posted by: cbd at January 15, 2006 12:29 AM

The Gators are on a tear, and they have a string of winnable games remaining. First loss at Tennesee? Or will they go undefeated? SU and UConn tomorrow night should worth watching, too.

I've had the game-flow screen hang a few times. The auto refresh is semi-reliable at best. And I think you're right about the statistics processing. ESPN must have an application (or require hosting schools to have some software) that syncs with the courtside statistics-keeping.

Posted by: Derek at January 15, 2006 8:53 AM

"It's important, I think, to have students work with lived texts of desire (rather than, say, the middlebrow academia of a Jane Tompkins or Mary Louise Pratt) in order to develop a passional aesthetic like Cornell's and Benjamin's" (117). Sirc, "Box-logic" in Writing New Media.