Visualize Sports Stats

Get this in front of Bill Simmons immediately. He keeps begging Dork Elvis (Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey) for all of the secret stats that they collect on just about everything that happens in an NBA game. Get the Sports Guy to blog, chat, tweet, or podcast about this, and you'll have more traffic than you know what to do with.

Really cool. Pretty easy to use overall. I plan to play around with it a lot. My feedback is geared towards fantasy football, but here are my thoughts and suggestions:<p>1. Some stats categories aren't clear. Which one do I select to graph rushing yards allowed per game for a specific team?<p>2. How do I create a motion chart? I couldn't see how to do that and I didn't find any to copy from.<p>3. I'll never want to put an image in the background of a graph.<p>4. Add a category for fantasy points. Just use a simple default scoring system.<p>5. Can I resize the image or flash graph? I don't like the thumbnail because you can't tell what it is, and I want to be able to embed a graph that's about half the size of the current embedable graphs, like 400 pixels wide.<p>6. Any thoughts on a simple API? I see that the embedded graphs don't have any parameters. They have to be saved graphs. It would be cool to be able to embed a graph on different player pages by just changing parameters to the graph. For example, I'd like to be able to embed a graph into this page that shows stats for Pierre Thomas last year. <a href="http://www.fantasyfootballchatter.com/pierre-thomas" rel="nofollow">http://www.fantasyfootballchatter.com/pierre-thomas</a>. Bonus points if it doesn't require knowing player IDs and is just something like <a href="http://statplot.com/graph/nfl/pierre-thomas?cat=rushing-yards" rel="nofollow">http://statplot.com/graph/nfl/pierre-thomas?cat=rushing-yard...</a>. There could be a lot of sites out there that would embed charts if it was easier and didn't require creating an account and saving each one individually.

it's a great concept but there's a lot there and it's overwhelming.<p>there's definitely a demand for this but the real challenge is presenting sophisticated stats in an easy-to-use manner.<p>i would suggest dumbing down (simplifying) the presentation but not the content. cool idea though.

I'm interested in any feedback about StatPlot!