Capitals to purchase CapFriendly website (upd: deal finalized, site has been shut down)

[Albatros]

We should google a list of recent buyouts and boycott every company that bought out another company.

Facebook? Stop using it
Google? Stop using it
Utah bought Arizona, let’s never watch them.

Meta and Alphabet sound about right when it comes to the likeability of the Caps.

 

[Ledge And Dairy]

Capitals about to claim the new NHL salary cap was $880 million when they go over $800 million signing Duchene, Reinhart, Guentzel, Ohtani, Lebron and Ronaldo

They gonna bring Tom Brady out of retirement to make those sick passes to Ovechkin now. Anything for the goal record amirite.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

how pathetic is it that professional teams need Capfriendly. how do they not have their own databases?

 

[iCanada]

As a die hard Caps fan I hate this myself! You all lashing out at the Caps Team need to look up the history of their owner Ted Leonsis(his was tied to AOL before becoming a pro sports owner)! Hate him and not the team!

I officially hate him and I'll hate the team until he's gone and probably after.

Y'all leap frog'd Calgary and Vegas. Congrats.

 

[BernieParent]

CapsFiendly

 

[Viqsi]

Here's another option that you can take a look at and see if you find it user friendly

https://x.com/i/web/status/1799916027817476582

Oh hey would you look at that. An open-source implementation of much of the basic infrastructure. Guess I don't have to succumb to temptation after all.

Heck, if I had so succumbed, I'd likely have done the backend in Flask myself and that's what's that is using. Maybe I should look into contributing...

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I officially hate him and I'll hate the team until he's gone and probably after.

Y'all leap frog'd Calgary and Vegas. Congrats.

leap frog'd Montreal, Ottawa and Boston for me.

 

[Golden_Jet]

hope your right and its ready shortly after capfriendly shutdown. people will get over this too but right now its reasonable to be pissed at the caps

I don’t see that date possible for a new site and all the data, you would need a team of people.

 

[iCanada]

People thought the sky was falling when CapGeek was no longer a tool, look what we got from that? Another one will be here shortly

These billionaires don’t care about fans using a free service, these billionaires care about making their investments better.

I mean tbh only recently did Capfriendly reach what capgeek used to be.

This truly is a tragedy for the fans of the game. Years of usability gone for the sake of greed.

 

[Golden_Jet]

leap frog'd Montreal, Ottawa and Boston for me.

Nice, aren’t divisional rivalries great.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

I don’t see that date possible for a new site and all the data, you would need a team of people.

It would take maybe a few hours to scrape Cap Friendly of all it's data. And that's like one person going at it with one tool.

From there, maybe another few days to make a functional framework of a site, find a host, and put it up.

The ongoing data is more complex depending on how it's sourced and, more importantly, verified.

 

[Cancuks]

I'm surprised the Golden Knights didn't beat the Capitals to the punch after the news of LTIR playoff cap rules possibly being changed.

 

[Super Cake]

So is like 50% of HF, just with a more cohesive layout and mods that actually GAF.

True, but I like the ignore function more over here than on Reddit lol

 

[Based Anime Fan]

I'm surprised the Golden Knights didn't beat the Capitals to the punch after the news of LTIR playoff cap rules possibly being changed.

They already have the General Fanager guy.

True, but I like the ignore function more over here than on Reddit lol

Can't argue with that one.

 

[Viqsi]

It would take maybe a few hours to scrape Cap Friendly of all it's data. And that's like one person going at it with one tool.

From there, maybe another few days to make a functional framework of a site, find a host, and put it up.

The ongoing data is more complex depending on how it's sourced and, more importantly, verified.

This. The ongoing data sourcing and verification is the actually valuable bit, and with the Caps purchasing it that's basically going to die.

 

[WestCoastLeafs]

Hey, maybe the NHL itself will take this opportunity build a brdige to the fanbase and build a similar site with official information straight from central registry....

Then Bettman will sell it in a new franchise package deal

 

[Cancuks]

Petition is already up:

Sign the Petition

 

[Based Anime Fan]

And, you have to factor in, the CapFriendly team could have been willing to let go of it at this point and that's why the Capitals moved in.

What would you have done if they just came out and said "On this day, we're closing it. So long and thanks for all the fish"?

 

[Golden_Jet]

It would take maybe a few hours to scrape Cap Friendly of all it's data. And that's like one person going at it with one tool.

True, just I don’t know if that’s allowed from their site, without ending up in court down the line. Since they were already charging teams to use their tools/API

From there, maybe another few days to make a functional framework of a site, find a host, and put it up.

The ongoing data is more complex depending on how it's sourced and, more importantly, verified.

Agree

 

[McDNicks17]

It's kind of mind-boggling to me that a big company like Sportsnet doesn't jump all over the vacancy.

They could easily hire people to run it, it would be easy for them to be trusted by agents/etc. for verification and they'd bring a buttload of traffic to their site.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

True, just I don’t know if that’s allowed from their site, without ending up in court down the line. Since they were already charging teams to use their tools/API



Agree

When you mess around in website archiving and scraping, legality isn't an issue.

When we downloaded all of Geocities and DeviantArt, we got hit with so many CaDs we didn't even track them anymore.

And yes, you can download all of Geocities. It's only 630GB.

 

[Hivemind]

Or... hear me out... Teams could just hire people to do this for themselves.

That's exactly what the Capitals did. The people they hired were the ones that were best in the biz, the guys running CapFriendly.

 

[Evergreen]

This is just a big f*** you from Leonsis to the fans. He’s probably bitter the public torpedoed his plan to make them pay for his new arena in Virginia.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

This is just a big f*** you from Leonsis to the fans. He’s probably bitter the public torpedoed his plan to make them pay for his new arena in Virginia.

That's some conflation that is pretty pointless.

Buy CapFriendly in revenge for a civic issue. Likely less than 40% of your average hockey fan has even even been to CapFriendly once in their life.

 

[Daximus]

That's some conflation that is pretty pointless.

Buy CapFriendly in revenge for a civic issue. Likely less than 40% of your average hockey fan has even even been to CapFriendly once in their life.

Wouldn't put it past a billionaire to buy something to spite people.