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FOXSports.com - MLB on FOX - Yankees All-Time Roster
Now try to find Babe Ruth on the All-Time Yankees roster. Is he listed in the OF. Nope! He is listed as a pitcher. For the Yankees! How much thought did FOX put into this when designing it. I had high hopes since STATS would be doing the web development, but it really isn't any different that CNN/SI's effort. In fact, it is pretty much the same thing.
They have a lot of stats that I don't have including game logs and splits for contemporary players, but would it kill them to have a nice search feature? I think a lot of these places want to say, "Oh, look we have stats online, so we aren't hiding anything." But they make it so unusable that what's the point.
Is there any real reason to place Charlies Shields's Fielding and Pitching stats on different pages? BTW, there is an error on Fox's page for Charlie. He played for the St. Louis Browns and Baltimore Orioles in 1902.
I think STATS Inc's books are really great. They are well designed and very useful, but they haven't really carried that over to the web yet.
Now try to find Babe Ruth on the All-Time Yankees roster. Is he listed in the OF. Nope! He is listed as a pitcher. For the Yankees! How much thought did FOX put into this when designing it. I had high hopes since STATS would be doing the web development, but it really isn't any different that CNN/SI's effort. In fact, it is pretty much the same thing.
They have a lot of stats that I don't have including game logs and splits for contemporary players, but would it kill them to have a nice search feature? I think a lot of these places want to say, "Oh, look we have stats online, so we aren't hiding anything." But they make it so unusable that what's the point.
Is there any real reason to place Charlies Shields's Fielding and Pitching stats on different pages? BTW, there is an error on Fox's page for Charlie. He played for the St. Louis Browns and Baltimore Orioles in 1902.
I think STATS Inc's books are really great. They are well designed and very useful, but they haven't really carried that over to the web yet.
posted by Sean Foran # 8:15 AM 
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