The Baseball Scores Tool is a plug-in tool for Watson for Mac OS X that presents baseball game recaps pulled from baseball scoreboards on the web. By presenting the information in a native Mac OS X interface, you can browse the box scores, recaps, and other stats faster and more efficiently. If you've ever tried to check every box score on ESPN.com or MLB.com, you know how painful it is (click link, click back, click link, you get the idea). If you manage a fantasy team, you probably find yourself doing this every day (at least once).

In the words of its creator, Watson is "A Pioneering Desktop Interface to the Web." Essentially, Watson simplies the use of certain web sites by displaying the information and services on these sites by presenting them in pre-rendered, purposed Aqua interfaces. As a result, the web becomes simpler to use. It's also faster, since you're no longer waiting for the browser to render the web site. Watson is also extensible and comes with a number of excellent tools. It also won the 2002 Apple Design Award for Most Innovative Mac OS X Product. You can find out more about Watson at http://www.karelia.com/watson. Watson was developed by the fine folks over at Karelia Software, LLC..

Click on the Glossary link on the left. It has all the abbreviations used in the various stats display. Also, in case you're here just for the "AS" abbreviation, it stands for "Outfield Assists." Yes, it's not the best choice, but I haven't found one I like better. If you have any ideas, send me some feedback.

Of course I can. But I don't have any plans to yet. I actually watch and follow a number of other sports. For baseball, however, I participate in a number of fantasy leagues, and therefore have a really big need for a tool like this. I might be willing to do it if people really ask nicely or donate a few bucks and let me know that they want those tools. I am definitely willing to help another developer who wants to learn Cocoa and Watson to develop a tool for those other sports.

Also, it's really hard to develop these tools when the sport is out of season, because I've noticed that sites tend to change their page layouts at the start of each season. So, I might do one as the various seasons start.

Click on the License link on the left. It's basically a BSD style license, which means use the code any way you want.

There are two links to the left that should answer your questions. Please use the link that matches what you want to do (bugs to the bugs link, feature requests to the feature requests link).