How old are you? That’s some deep dive into that genre.Blood and Souls for Arioch!
How old are you? That’s some deep dive into that genre.Blood and Souls for Arioch!
Weird. Why can not the NHL as a league offer (for free) their clubs such an important thing via centralised system/app? If the KHL can do this, I do not believe the NHL does not have resources for it.They don't. It's up to the teams to keep track of this stuff. If it wasn't for the NHLPA, none of the contract details would be out there for the public either.
And obviously all teams have staff to keep track of this stuff. The issue here is, that apparently a lot of the teams were just using CapFriendly to do this stuff, instead of engineering their own software. So those teams are SOL pretty soon and need to figure out something.
My guess is that the NHL doesn't want this kind of info to be mainstream. If I'd put on my tinfoil hat for a sec, I'd bet they convinced a team to buy them just for appearances sake, rather than the league itself buying it and disbanding itWeird. Why can not the NHL as a league offer (for free) their clubs such an important thing via centralised system/app? If the KHL can do this, I do not believe the NHL does not have resources for it.
But .... the NHL is not able to put the lenghts and type of players contract on league´s website to be available to fans.
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It's funny that teams actually use this website and don't already keep tabs on this stuff internally, now they're scrambling to find an alternative.
Funny stuff from a mickey mouse league.
Fine, if the NHL does not want this kind of info to be available to public. Just make this app/system closed, just for teams like KHL did.My guess is that the NHL doesn't want this kind of info to be mainstream. If I'd put on my tinfoil hat for a sec, I'd bet they convinced a team to buy them just for appearances sake, rather than the league itself buying it and disbanding it
Huh, it's pretty clear the NHL has their own program that tracks every team's cap situation. Every trade and transaction like a call-up or waiver claim has to be approved by central registry and the team has to be cap compliant before the move can officially happen.They don't. It's up to the teams to keep track of this stuff. If it wasn't for the NHLPA, none of the contract details would be out there for the public either.
And obviously all teams have staff to keep track of this stuff. The issue here is, that apparently a lot of the teams were just using CapFriendly to do this stuff, instead of engineering their own software. So those teams are SOL pretty soon and need to figure out something.
Of course the NHL head office has something, but they don't make it available for the teams (or the public), that was the point. And even the central registry doesn't have all the details, like M-NTC -lists (see case Dadonov).Huh, it's pretty clear the NHL has their own program that tracks every team's cap situation. Every trade and transaction like a call-up or waiver claim has to be approved by central registry and the team has to be cap compliant before the move can officially happen.
Like I said, most teams probably have something, but not all of them have a system as elaborate as CF. Cap Friendly afaik also has some tools that are not available to the public?Also, Friedman on the 32 thoughts podcast or Marek's show (maybe both) backtracked after his original comments on how many teams were screwed without CapFriendly (which is still up as of this morning). He clarified by saying that many teams had something internally to keep track of teams cap situations and they were mad that Friedman's original comments made it seem like they were completely dependent on CF.
Thank you for actually reading about and breaking this down with reasonable analysis for those who didn’t (me included) instead of just saying “Caps bad”.From my readings of articles and such, the NHL central cap registry exists for all teams, but apparently it's quite clunky and requires a login every time, as well as being available intranet/VPN only. The same is probably true for most teams' internal cap databases. In terms of the entire league, their own team is perfectly represented in the database, but tracking the league manually probably would require at least a part-time data entry/analyst. I believe that was one of CapFriendly's sources of revenue, teams paid for an API that inputted those transactions into their databases automatically, for them to organize.
So because both of those sources were internally-accessible only, a lot of teams just used CapFriendly because a tab on a web browser is much easier to handle. To give a concrete example, you're a GM who is travelling in-season with your team, and you want to look at a few players you're interested in acquiring. To access your internal resources, you have to login to your VPN, then open up your internal cap database, and probably login to that as well, then finally go to the teams/players you're looking at. In contrast, you open your browser to CapFriendly, click on the team/player of interest, and have 95-99% of the information you need right there. Convenience always wins.
So basically the Caps were looking at upgrading their internal cap database, and were probably quoted somewhere between 200-500k, plus associated ongoing personnel costs for maintenance and such. The cost to acquire CapFriendly was probably 2x-3x that, with roughly the same ongoing personnel costs, and they get a database/GUI they know works with no development time.
So if a new site pops up to replace cap friendly, do you think the NHL will convince a team to buy that out as well?My guess is that the NHL doesn't want this kind of info to be mainstream. If I'd put on my tinfoil hat for a sec, I'd bet they convinced a team to buy them just for appearances sake, rather than the league itself buying it and disbanding it
And a new site like that will appear in a blink of an eye.So if a new site pops up to replace cap friendly, do you think the NHL will convince a team to buy that out as well?
But dont let this get in the way of wild conspiracy’s right?
Damn I'm legit sad now. The end is near. Bye bye CF you were awesome!
Thanks for nothing Washington. Again, a disgusting move. But also consistent with how the league treats its fans.
Other sites have been around for years as well, not as good imo, but exist.I'm sure there will be something new to replace it before long, but I really like the armchair GM feature for playing around with. CapGeek was great too back in the day, and Cap Friendly did a good job of replacing and improving on those features. Hopefully whatever comes next is also well built.