Notes from the Sports Nerds
New Team Rankings Site is Live
- 4 comments - Site Updates - posted by tom on 08.13.09
In preparation for football season 2009-10, we’ve started a number of product initiatives that will roll out in the upcoming weeks and months. One of these initiatives is to update our web site design, both to address some issues and constraints we faced with the last version, as well as to incorporate the latest inspiration from our favorite data-centric web sites.
In short, we’re moving from a “flashier” (and it’s a real stretch to call our old site design that, but relatively, it’s true…) and more rigid design to one that is more spartan, extensible, and fast. We are intentionally making our site design more boring, because it will enable us to roll out new features more quickly and do cooler things in the future with data visualization.
A simpler design also has the benefit of being much easier to read, and we have a number of older users who hopefully will appreciate that.
One major caveat we need to mention is that we are nowhere near done with this effort. In fact, we plan to make design and layout improvements multiple times weekly for the foreseeable future. (First order of business is improving the navigation design.)
Nevertheless, it’s always good to get out of your comfort zone, so our preference is always to launch something as soon as we think it meets a minimum threshold of acceptance, and iterate from there.
So please let us know what you like and don’t like about this new site design. We already have a long list of improvements we plan to start making, and we’d love as much user input as we can get.
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The old site was better. I will pay to have it back!
In the old site, couldn’t you change the importance of various factors to come up with your own prediction? Can you do that with the new site???
I guess the old days where everything was free are gone. I agree with the other comment, I prefer the old edition and would gladly pay for it ( I\’ll pay either way for good and acurate info and stats anyway). I liked the fact you could make adjustments for different factors of a game which affected the outcome % or best solution. To much is not always better, though been a fan for a long time and will continue..
Thanks for the feedback Dirt, sb, and RK.
First of all, don\’t worry about the ability to create your own predictive model and choose different factors. The 2009 versions of those tools will be up on the site very soon, with improved functionality too. We\’re excited to hear what our users think about them.
Second, we\’d love to hear what else (if anything) you specifically liked better about the old site. Easier to understand or navigate? Looked better? The more specific feedback you can give, the better we can respond. In the meantime, we will continue to improve things week after week.