For years, I’ve been irritated that I couldn’t find a site that displayed live scores for every level of organized baseball on one page. If I wanted to find out how the Indians, Toledo Mud Hens, and Akron Rubberducks did, that involved multiple clicks and perhaps multiple sites.
So I solved my own problem and built it myself.
It displays probable pitchers, team records, scores, inning, outs, current batter with slash stats, current pitcher with W-L and ERA, baserunners on each base, pitchers of record for completed games, links to MLB.com Gameday for major league games, and links to live box scores for minor league games.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: May 16, 2017 at 01:13 PM (#5456511)* Thanks to David Peng (LA Podcasting Hombre of Anaheim) for feedback as I built the site.
* There's no real reason I used a .GQ domain, other than it being free.
* If the .GQ domain goes down, which it did for a while yesterday, you can reach the site at bit.ly/bbscores.
* Thanks to the fine people of Equatorial Guinea for the use of their TLD.
* I'm a hobbyist with no real training in code beyond some basic HTML. I'm teaching myself as I go along.
* On a related note, currently the scoreboards update every 180 seconds with a full page refresh. I'm struggling mightily to figure out how to fetch updates via AJAX, and would welcome assistance if any of you know how to get that done and want to help.
* I'm not running any ads or anything, and have no current plans to do so. Maybe, possibly, I'll put up a Paypal link for anyone who wants to donate to cover my costs, but the costs are minimal at this point.
And to drive enough traffic to bring in the advertising to support a future life of leisure, perhaps a large banner for the TIM TEBOW BOX SCORE?
But really, in it's current form, it's amazing so don't do what I said if it makes it worse in any way.
At this point, "breaking even financially" would equal seven or eight bucks a month, so it's not threatening to put me out on the street or anything.
#8: Fantastic, thank you. AJAX just makes my head spin - I can handle basic Javascript and some JQuery and Angular, but AJAX has been blowin' my mind up.
Perhaps a voluntary funding link for operational costs would fly under MLBAM radar? I would certainly kick in. I already sponsor a few pages on BB-REF.
Maybe you could donate the excess to one of MLB's favorite programs (like Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities, not the Rays).
GiantYankeebaseball bug.My 2 cents worth: keeping the page elements simple reduces your bandwidth usage (and costs) and makes it quicker to load for us, so I vote for that approach just as I did for B-Ref.
That AJAX stuff sounds close to voodoo so proceed with care, it might be a much bigger project than you thought.
I'm not sure how popular it would be, but I'd vote for whatever the buzzword for "fluid design" is this week. Rather than fixed frames with internal scroll bars, allow the page to resize naturally whether it's my big desktop screen or a tiny phone viewport or a tablet. Just kicking out some ideas to consider, but good work already!
I rarely know what's going on with the Rangers affiliates even at the AAA level, but now I know that Jurickson Profar is leading off for Round Rock and somehow they've reacquired Drew Stubbs to bat #2. I feel like an insider now :)
#25: Good question. I'll look into it - I pull my data directly from MLB.com's public Gameday API, so I'd need to see if there's an easy way to separate them. If I can, I will.
One note, the dates seem to be a bit goofy, unless today really is 12/16/2022.
Edge does goofy stuff with Javascript Date() calls, and I confess I haven't spent a ton of time looking into it.
Don't bother, it's not you, it's MicroSoft. More's the pity.
I am. I've been using Edge because it doesn't crash every 5 minutes while using Flash, which has been a huge problem for me with Firefox.
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