StatSheet was an

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sports content network based in Durham, North Carolina, which was powered by an automated publishing platform. The network included 345 sites - one for every Division 1

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team. The company had previously announced that the network would continue to grow, and would include sites covering nearly every

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and

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by the end of 2011. StatSheet was founded in 2007 by Robbie Allen, a 13-year veteran of

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, where he worked as an engineer in their IT department. The company provided detailed statistics for

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. ...

basketball,

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, and the

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. In addition, the company provided a service called Embed StatSheet, which allowed customers to integrate historical or real-time stats, charts, and other graphical elements on a website or

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. Each sponsored site provided real time updates, game previews, game recaps, injury updates and other reports, all published automatically using no human

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s, or other writers. StatSheet also provided users with access to its

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visualization platform designed to organize, generate, and deliver relevant real-time and historical

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through a central portal. Users could query these statistics, build custom graphs and charts, and receive real-time updates on specific players and teams. Data was available for leagues, teams, players, coaches, and

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s. StatSheet changed its name to Automated Insights in 2011 to mark its expansion into non-sports topics such as

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and real estate.

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