CapFriendly Replacements

[BigEezyE22]

Capitals hate hockey fans.

And kids

 

[Northernhawk]

I find it funny that the team that buys capfriendly.com INSTANTLY climbs to the top of payroll…how’s that working for you?

 

[H3ckt1k]

PuckPedia is not geared towards anyone. It has a mobile UI on a pc browser layout. It's attrocious UX.

Agreed.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Good summary. Just to add to that, it was mentioned somewhere that since the Capitals are part of the NHL and the league doesn't like this information public, they also had to shut down the site.

So I mostly blame the NHL first for being so backwards thinking and the Caps second for being the team that bought CapFriendly instead of just doing their own thing internally for the same cost.

It's so silly.

If anything, the NHL should've bought capfriendly and made it part of their overall platform. Both for fans and for the league to use a reference.

 

[JPT]

I find it funny that the team that buys capfriendly.com INSTANTLY climbs to the top of payroll…how’s that working for you?

Tbf they were already at the top of payroll before the sale went through.

 

[Northernhawk]

Well that timeline will never be known now…will it

 

[Dotter]

It's a wide open market for someone to come in and make a better version of CF. Washington wasted money buying CF and won't have "secret access" to anything more than what will be easily available online.

 

[Northernhawk]

It's a wide open market for someone to come in and make a better version of CF. Washington wasted money buying CF and won't have "secret access" to anything more than what will be easily available online.

Unless they ‘rebrand’ it and sell subscriptions

 

[Siludin]

Like it

Puckpedia has a lot of info but it's buried in weird places. They need a UX specialist badly.

 

[Face Of Bear]

my favorite part of cap friendly was looking updated 'depth charts' for each team that were kinda accurate instead of just mindlessly creating lines. anyone else do this well right now?

 

[BKarchitect]

my favorite part of cap friendly was looking updated 'depth charts' for each team that were kinda accurate instead of just mindlessly creating lines. anyone else do this well right now?

The guy(s) who ran the depth charts pages on CF have spun off and look like they are setting up to start their own thing per their X account.

Whether it will combine the actual salary cap tools of CF in any form or just be a more updated “line-up” site remains to be seen.

I agree that it was a super useful format - it had way more info and stats in an easy to digest format that “pure line-up” sites like Daily Faceoff or Leftwinglock. You could see stats, usage and contract info in an accurate line-up format along with minor league, loaned and reserve lists. It was the perfect franchise depth chart resource.

CapWages is a promising clone site but it’s just a long ways off still from anything close to the level of info CF had. That site will need lots of time.

Like many others, I just can’t with Puckpedia. It’s an infuriating to navigate site.

 

[PullHard]

I have to wonder who they had already hired if they had difficulty replicating surface level design/ interface elements from CF to their existing system. I’m not great at coding or programming but even I’ve kicked around the idea of making my own version of CapGeek or CapFriendly. It seems like a project that I would have had to do while I was doing my course.

 

[Drake1588]

Coming up with a site is easy. Positioning it to get people to use it and growing traffic is the tricky bit.

Puckpedia don't seem to get what people go to these pages for, and how important it is to avoid cluttering up the works. I go to their site and I need to scroll down three pages past Twitter streams and pointless team data to get to individual player AAV tables on each team page. Can't imagine it's better on mobile. If they aren't careful, they will fritter away their current name recognition advantage.

CapWages is almost too simple right now, but they prioritize giving you the data you came for right at the top, no window dressing. They'll gain a lot of adherents quickly by leaning that way and then adding more features over time.

 

[mattyboy]

Capwages isn’t accurate and it’s a bit weird they don’t have any terms/privacy policy/etc anywhere.

 

[jellybeans]

I like capwages not a fan of puckmedia.

 

[Ciao]

Yeah, I'm working on my own site too that does all the other stuff that CF didn't do but it's going a little slowly because I don't know much about hockey and almost nothing about computers and computer software.

Come to think of it, I don't really know shit about sweet f***-all.

 

[66-30-33]

My friend and I are also working on one that combines ALL the things. It focuses mainly on displaying all the stats that clearly indicate that Travis Hamonic is the best player in the league, and has been for years.

Pie charts only.

We figure it’s going to revolutionalize not only hockey stats, but also how we each see the world, and our place in it.


Just pie charts, mostly.

You had me at pie.

 

[joestevens29]

Puckpedia really dropped the ball here. Had a leg up on everyone and wasted it

 

[KevinRedkey]

I'm going to start using CapWages as I'm not a fan of PuckPedia TBH

 

[Dotter]

Unless they ‘rebrand’ it and sell subscriptions

wut?

 

[SI90]

Nice!

 

[Zeeker]

It wasn't so much wanting to put other teams in a bind, as wanting to avoid being that party that ends up in a bind if CF disappeared overnight.

We live in a Dark Forest

 

[Muffinalt]

I mostly used Capfriendly for it's amazing depth charts and armchair GM mode to have fun. A little bit their scouting reports feature too.

Don't see any sights even close to those things

 

[Look Up]

my favorite part of cap friendly was looking updated 'depth charts' for each team that were kinda accurate instead of just mindlessly creating lines. anyone else do this well right now?

Try Daily Faceoff

Don't get too comfortable using Puckpedia and Capwages - my beer league is close to putting in an offer for both.