@ Mathew. Could a news organisation get that data to pay? It would seem that it would be almost as easy for an enthusiast to put it together. Where it costs, like sending a football expert to every game looks more promising for big guys, but even there I’m not sure they could effectively corner the market forever.

These projects, if done right, would always be as fresh as the data.

If the data is pulled or scraped dynamically from a government agency or any other group that puts this sort of information together and updates it, the dynamically updated information would keep the news project fresh.

Just yesterday I was talking to a former colleague from The Independent Florida Alligator (http://alligator.org). He was telling about the loads of data sets the government here in the states puts out for wide consumption.

His most recent endeavor as the managing editor of online media was to create a heat map of Florida depicting the recent reports of gas price gouging by county in the wake of the most-recent hurricane.

The data set came from a government agency and the end result was very encouraging though it was not finished in time to be posted. He hopes to use his experience yesterday to do more of these sorts of things.

Perhaps that sort of data organization would be better for on-going stories, constantly changing information (such as the stock market?) or maybe to keep track of certain political figures and their old and new policies and voting habits?

Perhaps I’m wrong though. I’ve never done fantasy football and I would imagine you don’t mean “American football” so that furthers skews my view of fantasy football.