New ESPN Layout

Submitted by LJ on
Anyone been over to ESPN lately and see the new format? I've only been using it for 5 minutes, but it seems slow and clunky, and it places emphasis on page 2 and other garbage articles when the only reason I ever go to ESPN is just to get scores. They just keep getting worse and worse.
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JRC

January 5th, 2009 at 6:23 PM ^

I'm not really a fan. My good friend (who is a web developer) said that with the $$$ ESPN/Disney makes a much better site could be made. Oh well.

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colin

January 5th, 2009 at 6:27 PM ^

I use Yahoo Sports because I feel a lot better about my clicks going there than to ESPN. If there's something in a box in particular I'm looking for and Yahoo doesn't have it, then I'll go to ESPN to see if they do. But there's no reason for ESPN to be your default scoreboard check. Fox Sports, SI, and Yahoo are all viable alternatives. I really only go there when I remember Bill Simmons exists and I want to catch up on his posts. Shit, he might even have an RSS feed without a click through. I should check that.

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colin

January 5th, 2009 at 6:53 PM ^

fangraphs.com yo. it's a veritable wonderland. UZR > ZR or RZR. i'm super into sabermetric-y stuff (I write for a White Sox blog), so if you need any directions on where to get the best stats or some links to good saber-oriented blogs, i can help you out.

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Md23Rewls

January 5th, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^

I used to love Baseball Tonight. I'd get done watching the Yankee game (slightly OT, I apologize for their FA signings, not how I want them to win either), flip to BT, catch the highlights of the games and the updates as the games finished. Then someone must have made the decision to give us more analyst opinion, and I realized that after I watched the show I'd just be pissed about what one of the morons said. So, I stopped watching.

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MGoEOD

January 5th, 2009 at 7:05 PM ^

Thanks for the warning. I didn't get to see that much last year and now I'm dreading this year. You just can't beat Kurkjian, though. When that little geek gets excited about some obscure stat it's like watching your kids on Christmas. I also like Kruk. He is the Baseball equivalent of Chris Spielman with his player criticisms.

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Yinka Double Dare

January 5th, 2009 at 7:09 PM ^

Dewan's plus/minus system is pretty good too (very similar to PMR, actually), and pretty easy to understand as a stat the way they present it. I used BP's PECOTA fantasy draft tool to basically dominate my fantasy baseball league for several years (we redraft every year, no keepers) until this year when I was decimated by injuries and a pile of guys that had bad years. I already subscribed to BP Premium anyways, so the tool was a nice addition.

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colin

January 5th, 2009 at 7:21 PM ^

also: you have to pay for access, which is why i didn't bring it up. also: CHONE is at least as good as PECOTA, though the CHONE site and cards are obviously less detailed. but CHONE is friggin' free! Sean Smith = awesomeness to the max. also: this year i'm going to try to create a yahoo league using wOBA. also: i don't really like the "also:" construction, but i've kind of made my bed at this point.

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wlvrine

January 5th, 2009 at 6:28 PM ^

I was just there. It loaded slowly, and looked so different that I almost believed I was re-directed to a bogus site. Needless to say, I think it sucks.

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MGoEOD

January 5th, 2009 at 6:41 PM ^

I logged on at work today and a sportscenter announcer yells "WELCOME TO THE NEW ESPN.COM!!" with a Ford F-150 "driving" across my screen while I lunged for the volume knob on my speakers. That's the work equivalent of your wife catching you looking at porn...

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