Bloomberg Analysts are offering a product called Decision Maker.
http://www.bloombergsports.com/fanofferings/
It looks like an interesting product - maybe not a replacement for Lineup Dominator but an interesting use as a Trade Analyzer or a "Who do I Start?"
Has anybody had a chance to test it out? Is it worth the $8 price tag?
You made me curious so I just signed up. It seems interesting. But they seem to baseline projections at per total game stats instead of per played game stats or any other adjustments. For every game starters this will be fine, but if you look at Vick, for instance, their base projection for him is 85 passing yards. Pretty ridiculous. They do say that he has a lot of 'upside' but their baseline projection is not that high. They could certainly use improvement. Depends on what you play and how good you are without it, I guess, but if you play reasonable stakes at all, basically any reasonable info source is worth $8, IMO...
I guess that's the question - is it going to be reasonable? Please keep us posted....
Been playing around with it a bit more: bottom line, don't think it's worth much at this point. Instead of building forward looking projections into account, taking views on specific players and their changing circumstances, they seem to be more historically data-mining to find predictive factors. In and of itself, that sounds fine and should provide a useful complementary view to a site like FBG. However, they need someone from FBG (or similar) as a consultant because their analysis doesn't seem to be sophisiticated enough (as in my Vick example above where they didnt differentiate between games he started and games he didnt even play in developing his baseline). There also are major issues with their GUI since they only allow you to filter based on position and team or to select two individuals to compare. Much more useful would be something similar to the MyFBG team projections, where you can select (and save) a set of players and then view the projections for all of those players (baseline, upside, and downside) all together in one table. Without that it's too frustrating to sit there comparing individual players or creating pseudo-cheatsheets by filtering by position. Finally, in the consumer version they don't allow custom scoring mechanisms. That is only available in the co-branded professional version that they apparently offer jointly with some other commercial providers. Basically, if they hired me to be a consultant for them, or they tried more closely to emulate the FBG cheatsheet/MyFBG offerings, it would be a good counter-viewpoint well worth $8. For now, though, not worth it.
