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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I was wondering about that. Is it possible that they are still updating the data as usual, but it's just on a private server now? Getting paid by the Caps for their time of course.
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Originally Posted by Jay Random
None of the data is proprietary. They get it all from public sources.
The Capitals bought the APIs and the algorithms behind the analytical tools.
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Whether the data is proprietary or not, the actual mining and inputing of that data, compiling it and putting into a readable and easily searchable format is a huge amount of legwork that it sounds like most NHL teams were happy to outsource to this free site. 100% they are still maintaining it on their own. I wouldn't be surprised if they hired people who worked for Capfriendly (did the guy do it all himself? That's got to be impossible).
I'm actually surprised it took a team this long to do it. Or maybe they've been getting offers all along and we're turning them down. Didn't the person who started it get very ill at one point?
Also that Benning article is so hilarious. "If he says I don't have wingers I can look at my fancy chart of names here to see in fact that he DOES have wingers. Benning'd."
