News Article: OT - General fanager closed down!

[Wafflewhipper]

Got hired by a team

http://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-news-carey-price-returns-general-fanager-closes/

Click to read more...

 

[htpwn]

I'm sure this Poruszka fellow is a smart dude and all (and hell, good for him for getting hired by an NHL team), but I don't understand what he could possibly add to an NHL front office. The previous NHL hires from private companies/websites have all worked in advanced stats. A website tracking player salaries seems a little more basic by comparison.

Anyways... I switched to CapFriendly from GeneralFanager months ago. It's the better of the two IMO.

 

[FlareKnight]

Well guess it's back to NHLnumbers for decent access to cap information. Kind of annoying though that teams are buying these guys up whenever a reliable site gets established.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

I'm sure this Poruszka fellow is a smart dude and all (and hell, good for him for getting hired by an NHL team), but I don't understand what he could possibly add to an NHL front office. The previous NHL hires from private companies/websites have all worked in advanced stats. A website tracking player salaries seems a little more basic by comparison.

Anyways... I switched to CapFriendly from GeneralFanager months ago. It's the better of the two IMO.

He offers more than stats, he has an incredible network of connections within the NHL.

This could be beneficial for Las Vegas when requiring financial insight on other teams.

 

[Mess]

Well guess it's back to NHLnumbers for decent access to cap information. Kind of annoying though that teams are buying these guys up whenever a reliable site gets established.

Cap Friendly is your friend

https://www.capfriendly.com/

 

[SprDaVE]

I always thought cap friendly was better to be perfectly honest. Loaded faster and easier to navigate.

Hopefully the guy from capfriendly doesn't get snagged up too. Then we're really screwed.

 

[taurine330]

I always thought cap friendly was better to be perfectly honest. Loaded faster and easier to navigate.

Hopefully the guy from capfriendly doesn't get snagged up too. Then we're really screwed.

That's pretty selfish way to view it.

 

[SprDaVE]

That's pretty selfish way to view it.

I mean as a fan of the sport it would suck. I'm happy for them as human beings I guess... I don't really know them though?

 

[theIceWookie]

I'm sure this Poruszka fellow is a smart dude and all (and hell, good for him for getting hired by an NHL team), but I don't understand what he could possibly add to an NHL front office. The previous NHL hires from private companies/websites have all worked in advanced stats. A website tracking player salaries seems a little more basic by comparison.

Anyways... I switched to CapFriendly from GeneralFanager months ago. It's the better of the two IMO.

It's an operations job. And a big part of operations in the NHL is understanding the contracts side of the CBA. So having a guy who has a high level understanding of that (which he demonstrated through GeneralFanager) would be a plus (not to mention the connections he has like others have said).

 

[Daisy Jane]

cap friendly is better anyway - and let's remember, how fast capfriendly/general fanager came up when the CEO of capgeek passed away.

what really sucks is that Betteman still thinks no one wants to know things like league transactions, money and stuff. like what?

 

[Cor]

I'm gonna make one of these sites and get myself an NHL job

 

[deletethis]

Guy does lots of hard work, makes a quality website that many hockey fans visit. It's a success story. Good for the guy. What business wouldn't want to hire such an enterprising coder? The quizzical thing is that the league must have wanted the site taken down immediately upon his hiring which suggests this is as much about buying out the site as it is about hiring the talent. Others will fill this void, it's like whack-a-mole if the NHL is attempting to shut down every NHL cap site.

 

[Bluelines]

Time to dust off my HTML5, PHP, SQL, Apache skills.....

 

[Budsfan]

Vegas NHL franchise hires General Fanager creator

http://www.tsn.ca/talent/vegas-nhl-franchise-hires-general-fanager-creator-1.587383

Another prominent member of the online hockey community has made the jump from the web to the front office.

The Las Vegas NHL expansion franchise announced the hiring of Tom Poraszka, better known as the creator of GeneralFanager.com, as hockey operations analyst on Monday.

Poraszka, a 28-year-old Toronto resident, launched GeneralFanager.com as a comprehensive salary cap database in 2015 with inspiration from the passing of CapGeek.com founder Matthew Wuest.

General Fanager quickly became the go-to resource for all financial aspects of the game, including player contracts, known no-trade or no-movement clauses, waiver and arbitration eligibility, historical earnings and even insider details such as specific performance bonus thresholds in player contracts.

GeneralFanager.com was rendered inactive with Monday’s news, leaving competitor CapFriendly.com as the top remaining salary cap reference point on the web.

 

[Caesium]

Time to dust off my HTML5, PHP, SQL, Apache skills.....

I'd be on board, just maybe not PHP

The real problem is tracking down all of the contract information.

 

[Leaf_Crazy]

I'd be on board, just maybe not PHP

The real problem is tracking down all of the contract information.

Easiest part.

 

[LeafSadist]

 

[Caesium]

Easiest part.

That's the part that seems difficult to me, but I avoid social media like the plague. Maybe I'll break out the thinking cap.

 

[deletethis]

That's the part that seems difficult to me, but I avoid social media like the plague. Maybe I'll break out the thinking cap.

I think the NHLPA and hockey agents are more than willing to share out this information.

 

[Sypher04]

I think its funny people think this guy has contacts that'd be worthwhile to an NHL club. He's a programmer.

And even if he did have any before. He's owned by a team now, changes everything

 

[Nooodles]

Easiest part.

Not sure about that. The guy was real quick too, sometimes tweeted about the contracts and its details even before insiders like Bobby Mac. Pretty sure he had some good connections already.

 

[deletethis]

I think its funny people think this guy has contacts that'd be worthwhile to an NHL club. He's a programmer.

And even if he did have any before. He's owned by a team now, changes everything

The NHLPA and hockey agents were probably generously sharing their clients' contract details because there's an overall benefit for the players to it getting published publicly. If this information starts being used privately, they may cease having any interest in sharing it.

If his role is switching to preparing this sort of stuff for the team privately, he's overqualified because you don't need a website guru, you just need someone capable of working with spreadsheets.

 

[TLeafsFan]

LOL, the Nation Network never will get that serviceable cap site they want.

 

[Bluelines]

I'd be on board, just maybe not PHP

The real problem is tracking down all of the contract information.

You can build crawlers (scrubbers) that scour the internet for this information, that would parse and update your site automatically. Its takes a while to build the back bone for the site but once you do, its mostly just maintenance and cosmetic changes. I built one for hockey, football, baseball, basketball a year or so ago but never published it because I wanted certain data (stats) on it that was going to cost me $10k per month to buy.

The cost as not worth the hobby website

 

[Matthews34]

http://theleafsnation.com/2016/9/15/the-nation-network-buys-generalfanager-com

I'm not so sure it's shutting down.