Everybody wants a piece of the pie I guess.
I can't really blame them. New company buys out Milesplit and then sees the pay markets work better. Then gets a little snooty on the forums when everyone commenting is in an uproar about the pay system. Well, duh. All the mice had their cookies and milk and now you want to charge for the milk and possibly promise extras? Yeah, people are going to be upset. Plus now every single athlete needs a subscription to check stats? I have 20-30 throwers. There's about 60-80 track and field athletes. Assuming ....let's say even 25% of them subscribe that is still in the ballpark of 700 bucks or more a season. Oh yea, and the ads on the pages are still running. Nice.
It's not all tragic, I guess. We can still enter meets, see results, and supposedly look at articles despite the very first article I wanted to see was under subscription. Which, ironically, is how I even found out today. Just random curiosity on who is who that is returning this year. My exact reaction?
Well here's my plan. Since my interests essentially lie only in the throws I'll just mash together my own ranking system. Hopefully I can get some help with results getting sent in. So if by random chance you're an Ohio throws coach (sorry, not doing the rest of the country) here's my email dprater200@gmail.com . Send in those results. Then with some collaboration maybe I'll filter out the D1 and D2/3 division.
I already did this before but the rankings were easy to access. Now this may get a little tricky.
