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Monday, July 25, 2005 |
Pointless ESPN Gripes
- The new player pages are badly designed. You cannot tell at a glance what the player's key stats are; instead, you get an impenetrable table of data for the player's last seven games, season, projection (of unknown origin), and career, all the same font size.
- Even though game-by-game logs go back beyond 2002, you can't navigate to them.
- Dropdown navigation is weird and the categories chosen for it are arbitrary.
- Some of the stuff appearing in the dropdowns would also be good to show up, say, in the stats page. For instance: pitching probables. Why isn't there a link to this from the schedule page? There should be more than one way to do things.
- There's no way to navigate to the Page 2 (and Page 3) columnists from the MLB home page except through the ESPN home page.
- All the interesting content has gone to a subscription model. It isn't that good (but I'm paying for it anyway). Put it this way: Jay Jaffe is a more interesting writer and a better analyst than 13/14ths of the guys getting paid at ESPN.com, and he does it (largely) for free. Ditto for Jon Weisman. Ditto for Rich Lederer.
Comments:
I totally agree. they have been sliding downhill for sometime now.
I stopped going to ESPN a while back because of the changes and because of all the junk on the screen.
I stopped going to ESPN a while back because of the changes and because of all the junk on the screen.
# posted by 
: 7/25/2005 05:47:00 PM
: 7/25/2005 05:47:00 PM
Fortunately the best writing at ESPN (I refer, of course, to the occasional contributions of Anne Ursu) are still in the free area.
Just discovered the new player pages today: incredibly bad. In the main player page, the offensive stats don't include a couple of fairly basic stats: BB and K. I have to go to the stats page, rather than the player page, just to find this out. Why?
# posted by : 7/26/2005 10:14:00 PM
: 7/26/2005 10:14:00 PMNewer› ‹Older
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