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

[SantosHalper]

Capitals must employ lot of dumb people since they needed to buy a website to run their team.

There will be a new "capfriendly/geek", i don't worry about that but i don't understand Caps POV.

 

[Daximus]

The Capitals aren't in the business of helping other teams so it's kinda straight-forward thing to take it down from the Interwebz. I'd reckon that every team out there would prefer not have any of these armchairGM-websites in existance because it helps them in contract negotiations when the player agents do not have comparable contracts so easily available to them.

That part really isn't that difficult though. All of that info is publicly available in various parts of the web and there are other sites that track salary info like that. Puckpedia for instance. The finer details aren't always available but if an agent wnats to find a comparable contract it's not that difficult to do so without capfriendly.

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Capitals must employ lot of dumb people since they needed to buy a website to run their team.

There will be a new "capfriendly/geek", i don't worry about that but i don't understand Caps POV.

They also hired the people that run it. Which also might have been a big reason for the purchase.

 

[weastern bias]

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

This is arguably indicative of a tragedy on a greater scale than individual illness

CapGeek went down because one person got sick, it's very sad but it's unavoidable and it could happen to anyone, it just had an outsized effect since the person who passed made and updated a beloved shared tool

CapFriendly is going down becuase a billionaire and his organization is willing to dump a large enough sum of money that the owners can't refuse shutting down this shared resource, and all for the sake of completely tanking the value of the tool in question

This is a continuing story of people insulated in positions of purchasing power using their advantages to make life more difficult for everyone else for the sake of maybe, kind of, sort of making things easier on themselves, but then again maybe not, even

As people have pointed out, Vegas bought up another cap site in GeneralFanager and it didn't help them know the details of the Dadonov contract, I doubt the team that just gave a 30 year old Tom Wilson $45M dollars is suddenly going to better understand how to delicately manage their salary structure just because they made the sport more difficult to follow for literally every fan of the league

f*** the Caps and f*** Ted Leonsis

I can't be pissed at the creators of the site, they just had their retirements and their kids' college funds handed to them on a silver platter, hard to hold on to "principles" when that kind of offer is made in real life, I'm honestly happy for them

 

[HolyGhost]

wasn't capfriendly created by a one time poster of this site who started the capfriendly after the sad passing of the guy who did capgeek?

I know several posters started go fund me campaigns after capgeek announced it end and that he would not sell his site

 

[Menzinger]

The public version though? I don't really see how it makes that much difference. I get maybe the data feed or whatever, but maybe even just keep a dumbed down version of the website.

Other teams have done this in the past and the sites tend to come down quickly..Leafs bought out ExtraSkater the Wild WarOnIce, ect

 

[HolyGhost]

BTW

puckpedia.com is as good

 

[iCanada]

Other teams have done this in the past and the sites tend to come down quickly..Leafs bought out ExtraSkater the Wild WarOnIce, ect

Was that the guy that thought Draisaitl was like 180th in the league when he won the Hart? Or different guy?

 

[AirGut]

Craps

 

[SantosHalper]

They also hired the people that run it. Which also might have been a big reason for the purchase.

I can understand hiring the people but i think that it would be cheaper to hire them than buying the whole thing. I think that the people would be ecstatic to work for NHL org.

 

[uncleben]

BTW

puckpedia.com is as good

I really can't stand puckpedia's design layout

And a perk of CapFriendly was they'd actually break news and contract details.
Guess I'm going to have to get used to PuckPedia, but I wouldn't quite call it "as good"

 

[Super Cake]

I wouldn't be too sad.


Same. I rarely check it, I guess I'm not a real fan or something.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Where will you guys go to talk hockey though?

Reddit? That place is a cesspool of shit.

 

[Boonk]

Spotrac has a decent salary cap and contracts tool for their website. What an absolute joke by the Capitals.

 

[Dr Salt]

What a great resource gone from the public man. I'll miss it.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

That part really isn't that difficult though. All of that info is publicly available in various parts of the web and there are other sites that track salary info like that. Puckpedia for instance. The finer details aren't always available but if an agent wnats to find a comparable contract it's not that difficult to do so without capfriendly.

Sure, but now that capfriendly goes dark execs in some other team might think to themselves that they also might to purchase the next best thing in order to maintain access to these types of data and tools. Then you have a flurry of teams trying to outbid each other in this race or trying to create an internal website of their own etc.

 

[Super Cake]

I can't tell if people are memeing or serious with all the outrage.

Then again, I've checked the website out maybe a handful of times since it became the new tool to use.

I don't use it that much either, but it is just that it is kind of bullshit that a team is shutting down a heavily used site by many hockey fans.

 

[iCanada]

BTW

puckpedia.com is as good

 

[pantherbot]

The Capitals aren't in the business of helping other teams so it's kinda straight-forward thing to take it down from the Interwebz. I'd reckon that every team out there would prefer not have any of these armchairGM-websites in existance because it helps them in contract negotiations when the player agents do not have comparable contracts so easily available to them.

I get that but it feels like whack a mole? Something similar or better will come up. Don't really see how it's that much of a competitive advantage.

 

[Maurice of Orange]

BTW

puckpedia.com is as good

Puckpedia has just as much information but the format is more complex and specific then that of Capfriendly.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

I wonder if this boosts traffic here. Lurking on those forums (and comment sections of Armchair GM posts), there are some user names I recognize, but many I don’t.

 

[BKarchitect]

CapFriendly is awesome not because they have access to additional information that others don’t but because the formatting, reliability, quickness of breaking information and layers of tools that are all well designed and executed are without peer.

It’s not the information that I worry about missing, it’s the ease of access and nearly real-time updates.

 

[pantherbot]

The Capitals aren't in the business of helping other teams so it's kinda straight-forward thing to take it down from the Interwebz. I'd reckon that every team out there would prefer not have any of these armchairGM-websites in existance because it helps them in contract negotiations when the player agents do not have comparable contracts so easily available to them.

I guess my point is the minuscule competitive advantage the Caps gain pales in comparison to the public benefit CapFriendly provides. Hence it's an asshole move.

 

[uncleben]

Spotrac has a decent salary cap and contracts tool for their website. What an absolute joke by the Capitals.

Spotrac is alright.
Again, not my favourite UI, and hockey is not a priority for them



It'd be kind of dope for an existing hockey-dedicated site like Hockey-Reference or eliteprospects to spinoff into a cap site

 

[Daximus]

Spotrac is alright.
Again, not my favourite UI, and hockey is not a priority for them



It'd be kind of dope for an existing hockey-dedicated site like Hockey-Reference or eliteprospects to spinoff into a cap site

I'd much prefer if it was HRef. EP has become a mess of ads and subscriptions that completely turns me off from using them unless I have to. Most likely EP would lock it behind a monthly subscription.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

I get that but it feels like whack a mole? Something similar or better will come up. Don't really see how it's that much of a competitive advantage.

I think so too but I don't think these companies try to anticipate what's going to happen in the long term with these types of websites. A clever business model for a coder who has access to player salaries and related data would be to start churning out these armchairGM-website and approach teams about if they were interested in buying one.

 

[Daximus]

Puckpedia has just as much information but the format is more complex and specific then that of Capfriendly.

Pretty sure that a lot of their info on the deeper things in contracts actually comes from CapFriendly. I'd imagine once CF goes dark a lot of their more in depth information will as well.

Sure, but now that capfriendly goes dark execs in some other team might think to themselves that they also might to purchase the next best thing in order to maintain access to these types of data and tools. Then you have a flurry of teams trying to outbid each other in this race or trying to create an internal website of their own etc.

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