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

[CokenoPepsi]

For how much?

 

[Svechhammer]

Man what shitty results for the average fans. Getting squeezed financially for everything that used to be free and now we are completely losing access to information because greedy assed owners don't want us plebes to have it?

Just more bullshit behavior from a league that can't get out of its own way. This information shouldn't be privatized. The league can't allow this to happen

 

[Based Anime Fan]

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

Basically, the layout and backend are pretty well baked, so they might have bought it for that reason.

 

[Viqsi]

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.

There legitmately isn't any. That infrastructure could be recreated with about a few months' worth of paying webapp contractors, of which there are about eleventy billion out there all looking for work. That isn't the part that's actually valuable, but that's the part they paid for and they're effectively discarding the rest.

 

[Forge]

Im a web dev, offering to chip in

I can be the site mascot?

 

[93gilmour93]

Leonsis watching people enjoy something..

 

[SniperHF]

Everyone hating on the Caps should realize the Capfriendly guys are just as if not more culpable.
I'm sure their enterprise was viable as it was and they did not NEED to sell. But they took the payday. Many such cases.

 

[weastern bias]

Ted Leonsis is a f***ing piece of shit

 

[Arthur Morgan]

how does the NHL allow this to happen? buy it themselves. what a complete joke. they are just trying their best to push fans away

 

[red devil]

Good for the owners who developed a website and a tool that NHL organizations used and were able to sell it to one of them

 

[iCanada]

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

I thought it was a dual purpose thing - iirc he got a front office gig doing cap management for an NHL team at the same time.

 

[kingsholygrail]

What an odd move.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Everyone hating on the Caps should realize the Capfriendly guys are just as if not more culpable.
I'm sure their enterprise was viable as it was and they did not NEED to sell. But they took the payday. Many such cases.

good on the capfriendly guys for getting paid, they deserve it. still f*** the Caps. the NHL should be doing this deal not a team for their own benefit.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

I thought it was a dual purpose thing - iirc he got a front office gig doing cap management for an NHL team at the same time.

That def. rings a bell.

 

[DRW895]

At the same time - too much hate. This isn`t the only site about nhl contracts. Nothing gonna last forever

 

[BraveCanadian]

Someone will just make another or traffic will shift to another existing site. Weird move by the Caps tbh. Every team should have all this info at their fingertips already.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

good on the capfriendly guys for getting paid, they deserve it. still f*** the Caps. the NHL should be doing this deal not a team for their own benefit.

NHL Stats

The official source for NHL Stats including skaters, goalies, teams stats and more.

www.nhl.com

You want the NHL to run CapFriendly when they can't even figure out a simple stats page?

LMAO.

 

[max21]

This is odd to me, I figured there was a database for contracts the NHL already used. Not a website

 

[Arthur Morgan]

NHL Stats

The official source for NHL Stats including skaters, goalies, teams stats and more.

www.nhl.com

You want the NHL to run CapFriendly when they can't even figure out a simple stats page?

LMAO.

How did u come up with this anyways? no they pay and buy the people who currently own it. Im assuming the guys that run it and coming along for the ride with the Caps.
but the NHL should be the one buying this and keeping it the way it is for the fans

 

[max21]

How did u come up with this anyways? no they pay and buy the people who currently own it. Im assuming the guys that run it and coming along for the ride with the Caps.
but the NHL should be the one buying this and keeping it the way it is for the fans

So you’re more upset with the NHL or the Capitals?

 

[Daximus]

This is a major blow to hockey fans.

Yes there are some other sites that have some of this info out there but I'd imagine quite a few of them actually use capfriendly to keep their own databases up to date.

It's not only going to take someone with the know how to build a site like this, but also have the connections they did to keep it up to date.

Not only that we lose a tonne of the tools that they have introduced over the years. Depth charts, draft pick tracking, trade tracking, explanations on the cap, arcmhair GM, mock draft sim, trade proposal sim, scouting reports, contract comps.

There is a boatload of things CF offers that it's competitors, which are few and far between, don't offer.

A dark day for hockey fans everywhere when this site goes dark.

 

[Viqsi]

G-d, I wish I had the spare time available and wasn't already developing a webapp as part of my day job. The temptation to start an open source version of the infrastructure just to spite these pigf***ers is rapidly growing.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Basically, the layout and backend are pretty well baked, so they might have bought it for that reason.

Watch them change it into something user unfriendly because reasons.

 

[EXTRAS]

Thanks, washington, for helping to ruin fantasy hockey leagues for all the nhls fans.

 

[Artemi Panarin]

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