Two good summaries of the Bloomberg event have gone up this morning.
Bloomberg Event Summaries
The first, from Nationals blog Federal Baseball, has a list of features of both the fantasy product and also the professional product intended for MLB team use.
The second, from Jeremy Greenhouse, takes a different approach and offers a little more of an analysis. Says Greenhouse:
The fantasy product, to be released this month on a trial basis, contains a draft kit and in-season tools. Player news, stats, and data visualizations are all available with at most three clicks of the mouse. Bloomberg Sports is not providing any new data sources to the consumer, but in partnerships with MLB and Rotowire, BBGSports aggregates relevant player statistics and news, laying the data out in a friendly and efficient interface. Pretty much all of the offensive and pitching stats/splits available on Baseball Reference and FanGraphs are available in Bloomberg’s product. Even better, those stats that aren’t included can be written into the system. You can create new stats and the product is adaptable to the most obscure fantasy league settings. All of these stats can be easily ranked and charted. The best visualization I saw was their “spider” chart, which is similar to Justin Bopp’s DiamondView and Kevin Dame’s 5 Tool Analyzer.
Anybody interested in the product should take care to read both links. The fantasy software will roll out on February 18th.
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