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Friday, April 25, 2008
Searching for Chase Utley
Start here:
a. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb
b. http://www.espn.com
c. http://www.hardballtimes.com
d. http://www.baseball-reference.com
e. http://www.baseballprospectus.com
f. http://www.fangraphs.com
g. http://www.billjamesonline.net
h. http://www.mlb.com
i. Add whatever other site you use
How many clicks (including page downs), and how many keys do you tap, to answer this question:
1. Number of HBP by Chase Utley?
I get this:
a. I did 9, and I couldn’t find it, so I gave up.
b. I did 5, and I couldn’t find it, so I gave up.
c. 4 clicks (including hitting enter key), and typing his name
d. 3 clicks, and typing his name (cursor defaults to the player box!)
e. 4 clicks, and typing his name
f. 4 clicks, and typing his name
g. 5 clicks, and typing his name
h. 11 clicks
So, Forman is the smartest, in that he saved me one click by defaulting the cursor to the player search field. This is such an easy fix for THT and BP.
THT would have won if they put the cursor focus on the player name, and they didn’t make their screen display so wide. HBP column was just on the outside of my screen display. I’d change the padding to 4 or 3 (currently they have 5), and cellspacing to 0 (they don’t explicitly use it, I don’t think, so it might default to 4, or it could be 0).
Clearly, the “little guys” care about us. The big guys don’t care as much. MLB.com did come through, but it took a while to get there.