TurdBurglar Posted June 10, 2024 Share Posted June 10, 2024 The Washington Capitals have purchased the site. The sale won’t be finalized until July 5th as part of the agreement to keep it active until after the draft. After the sale is finalized the site will go dark. https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/capitals-reach-agreement-to-purchase-capfriendly-website/sn-amp/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted June 10, 2024 Share Posted June 10, 2024 Puckpedia will likely be the new go to source for cap info for all 32 teams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hab29RETIRED Posted June 10, 2024 Share Posted June 10, 2024 1 hour ago, TurdBurglar said: The Washington Capitals have purchased the site. The sale won’t be finalized until July 5th as part of the agreement to keep it active until after the draft. After the sale is finalized the site will go dark. https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/capitals-reach-agreement-to-purchase-capfriendly-website/sn-amp/ I don't get why the capitals would even want the site??? Domain name??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLassister Posted June 10, 2024 Share Posted June 10, 2024 I'm guessing they're hiring the staff behind the site and are buying the whole technonlogy, tools and all the existing data behind it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted June 10, 2024 Share Posted June 10, 2024 19 minutes ago, JoeLassister said: I'm guessing they're hiring the staff behind the site and are buying the whole technonlogy, tools and all the existing data behind it. Bingo. They want the staff for themselves, and are closing the site so that the other 31 teams don't have free access to the data that they are now bringing in house. Keep in mind capfriendly is the third site where this has happened on cap related issues (and there have been some with analytics that its happened to as well). New sites will pop up to replace them, the fans aren't going anywhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 7 hours ago, Commandant said: Bingo. They want the staff for themselves, and are closing the site so that the other 31 teams don't have free access to the data that they are now bringing in house. Keep in mind capfriendly is the third site where this has happened on cap related issues (and there have been some with analytics that its happened to as well). New sites will pop up to replace them, the fans aren't going anywhere. So you're saying that the data and calculation coding on the site was so good that actual NHL teams used it, to the extent that the Caps wanted it for themselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 12 minutes ago, Fanpuck33 said: So you're saying that the data and calculation coding on the site was so good that actual NHL teams used it, to the extent that the Caps wanted it for themselves? I think they probably want the staff's coding ability to make their own internal sites.... and with the staff moving fulltime to the Caps, they shuttered the site. I mean the info is available to all 32 teams at an internal site kept by the league, there is also puckpedia and other sites that publicly post it. This has to be the Caps having a plan for something they want built and hiring the capfriendly staff to do it. Cap friendly was probably a very lucrative site for its creator as its one of the most visited hockey sites out there, so the caps buying it is probably at the level of several millions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 40 minutes ago, Commandant said: I think they probably want the staff's coding ability to make their own internal sites.... and with the staff moving fulltime to the Caps, they shuttered the site. I mean the info is available to all 32 teams at an internal site kept by the league, there is also puckpedia and other sites that publicly post it. This has to be the Caps having a plan for something they want built and hiring the capfriendly staff to do it. Cap friendly was probably a very lucrative site for its creator as its one of the most visited hockey sites out there, so the caps buying it is probably at the level of several millions. Ok, so it's kind like they're hiring key members of the staff under the condition that they give up the site, so as incentive to do so they're buying them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 22 minutes ago, Fanpuck33 said: Ok, so it's kind like they're hiring key members of the staff under the condition that they give up the site, so as incentive to do so they're buying them out. Thats my guess, yes. That was the case with other sites (cap and/or analytics) that have gone dark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfredoh2009 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 11 hours ago, Fanpuck33 said: So you're saying that the data and calculation coding on the site was so good that actual NHL teams used it, to the extent that the Caps wanted it for themselves? a new feature in the last few months was giving players a rating or position equivalent: 1st pair D (P1), 2nd pair D (P2), 1st Line F (L1) etc. that algorithm is valuable. Look at the COL team, for example: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 The rankings you're referring to aren't actually from CapFriendly and it's not an algorithm. They're scouting reports from Jason Bukala of The Pro Hockey Group, a former NHL scout. The Capitals (and every other NHL team) already have something like that in place for depth charts...at least they should. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfredoh2009 Posted June 13, 2024 Share Posted June 13, 2024 Ok, thanks . I was just guessing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHT120 Posted July 12, 2024 Share Posted July 12, 2024 A newcomer to the NHL salary information realm?capwages.com Seems to be "modelled" after CapFriendly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Minister Koivu Posted July 13, 2024 Share Posted July 13, 2024 1 hour ago, GHT120 said: A newcomer to the NHL salary information realm?capwages.com Seems to be "modelled" after CapFriendly I tinkered around there for a little bit and the site looks every bit as good as cap friendly. Great news 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 13, 2024 Share Posted July 13, 2024 One thing I've noticed with them is that the recent contracts aren't the most accurate. (Wrong AHL salary, missing performance bonuses, etc.) That means they're pulling contract info from elsewhere and not updating it as new info comes in. That will need to get sorted out before they can become reliable in terms of cap tracking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted July 13, 2024 Share Posted July 13, 2024 55 minutes ago, dlbalr said: One thing I've noticed with them is that the recent contracts aren't the most accurate. (Wrong AHL salary, missing performance bonuses, etc.) That means they're pulling contract info from elsewhere and not updating it as new info comes in. That will need to get sorted out before they can become reliable in terms of cap tracking. Exactly. Puckpedia may look different but appears far more accurate than these guys. Making the site look like capfriendly doesn't make them capfriendly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Minister Koivu Posted July 13, 2024 Share Posted July 13, 2024 If their information isn’t correct then that site is useless. Hopefully they figure it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 13, 2024 Share Posted July 13, 2024 40 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said: If their information isn’t correct then that site is useless. Hopefully they figure it out It seems like their focus is getting the various bells and whistles that CapFriendly had up and running. For lots of people, those are the tools they want to play with. But they'll also have to establish some connections with teams and agents to get some of the nitty gritty details that helped make CapFriendly the go-to place. They have some time to get it set up so we'll see what happens. In the meantime, I find myself using the three different options out there trying to piece together most of the stuff I could get on CF before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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