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

[MarkovsKnee]

so where else can I see contracts? anyone know of any good subs? Im on capfriendly like every day, multiple times

So am I, puckpedia is next up.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

Apparently it benefits them... so to say it benefits no one is a bit of a stretch.

Obviously. Why does it need to be explained to you why its a bad thing?

 

[DustyDangler]

Now completely loathing a franchise I was previously indifferent to. May the Capitals miss the playoffs into infinity.

 

[Turin]

f*** the Caps before this but even more now

 

[Arthur Morgan]

So am I, puckpedia is next up.

this is so frustrating. mannnnn....... f*** that caps

 

[MarkovsKnee]

RIP alongside with capgeek and nhlnumbers

Damn, nhlnumbers. A blast from the past.

RIP, capgeek.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

so where else can I see contracts? anyone know of any good subs? Im on capfriendly like every day, multiple times

1) get Scrappy and Beautiful Soup
2) scrape scrape
3) parse data into your own ReactJS construct
4) update as needed

 

[Phrasing]

Anyone mention f*** the caps yet?

 

[TheNumber4]

So when the eventual Capfriendly replacement comes. And every team has access to the same tools again. The Caps will feel like dumbasses for trying to privatize publicly available information. I guess in that sense, the Caps WILL f*** themselves anyways. No need to ask them to. But I’ll do it anyways, go f*** yourself Caps.

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Nah, it's just an unnecessary purchase that benefits no one and inconveniences millions of fans.

Not vile ....just annoying. I bet they even pissed off some of their own fans too, with this move.

As stated, it benefits the people involved in the transaction. The owners because, $$$. The Caps because they get to make all the info the website go dark to other people/teams thus making them the sole beneficiaries (so strategic advantage)

Not to say that this is awful for us as fans. I hate capitalism sometimes (no pun intended).

 

[Danko]

Honest to God we at Hfboards should make our own.

Im a web dev, offering to chip in

 

[iCanada]

RIP alongside with capgeek and nhlnumbers

NHL numbers.

Damn.

 

[uncleben]

No Cap

" NoCap! " would actually be genius branding for whatever site comes next

It has so many layers

 

[Drumman44]

Im a web dev, offering to chip in

First step is archiving the publicly available data and making a list of features to recreate

 

[Viqsi]

1) get Scrappy and Beautiful Soup
2) scrape scrape
3) parse data into your own ReactJS construct
4) update as needed

Step 4 requires far, far more than you're giving it credit for. It's not a technical problem like the rest, it's a The People You Know problem.

 

[DRW895]

NHL numbers.

Damn.

We all know tragic fate of capgeek creator, but what happened to nhlnumbers?

 

[HockeyVirus]

Not sure what owning it and taking it offline does instead of just.. using it for free or paying a Sr dev to make you a custom UI that pulls from it's API.

Like I straight up don't understand the value of buying the site and then shutting it down to everyone when they could use it for free.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

First step is archiving the publicly available data and making a list of features to recreate

The joys of being part of Archive Team.

 

[iCanada]

Im a web dev, offering to chip in

Problem isn't so much the development side - with all due respect the code behind capfriendly is pretty rudimentary.

Problem is the relationships with NHL agents, NHL GM's, and the NHL Central registry that capfriendly had managed to curate that allowed them to be first and foremost in getting information as a neutral first party to stay up to date and accurate.

Without that the value of the tool is greatly diminished.

And that's a much harder nut to crack.

 

[Golden_Jet]

So when the eventual Capfriendly replacement comes. And every team has access to the same tools again. The Caps will feel like dumbasses for trying to privatize publicly available information. I guess in that sense, the Caps WILL f*** themselves anyways. No need to ask them to. But I’ll do it anyways, go f*** yourself Caps.

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[Based Anime Fan]

We all know tragic fate of capgeek creator, but what happened to nhlnumbers?

He just got burned out and sold it to GF, IIRC.

 

[Danko]

Its blatently obvious that the key is the data entry. Someone needs to manually update the data.

Once launched new site should sell an api and create plugins that can be purchased with a one time purchase fee and a reoccuring monthly payment.

 

[ReimanSum1908]

Dang, that's an unfortunate loss, though for less tragic reasons than Capgeek going dark.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

They likely wanted the site infrastructure and UX. And likely it was a 'no licensing, full sale or nothing' situation.

What does this mean for me, a dumbass ? They liked how everything was already set up ?

 

[Based Anime Fan]

Not sure what owning it and taking it offline does instead of just.. using it for free or paying a Sr dev to make you a custom UI that pulls from it's API.

Like I straight up don't understand the value of buying the site and then shutting it down to everyone when they could use it for free.

Another thought is they 'bought' the guys running it