Judge TMC: This site has some highs and some lows. The highs would be the Fast Plasic tournaments in every region with a schedule, results (read: scores, no boxscores), a magazine that isn't great...but interesting for what it is and the ability to allow users update their own tournament results. This brings out more results which pollutes the site with content.
Bad news is that is really about it and the site gets boring after awhile. Reading some results from the Pacific Northwest tournament sounds cool, but really isn't and the rankings could be interesting, if it was more than just a team name and a number.
Did you know that the Drillers are 6-5 and ranked 32? Yeah, it's true, no lie!
Bad navigation and tons of pointless links tires you of the site quickly.
Final Say: Did you know that as of 7/6/05 In The Box is ranked number 1 with a 0-0 record? Sounds like my kind of league!
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Judge JRC: What is with some of these wiffleball sites? Fastplastic.net is supposedly one of the leaders behind the push to get this ridiculous sport some national exposure. They hold tournaments, qualifiers, etc that all lead to a big "National Championship" sometime in the fall in Texas. I'm not knocking that by any means, more power to them. But by accepting and supporting this "leader" tag, they are responsible with how they present themselves, be it in the smoky backrooms or on this new-fangled thing called the "Internet." It seems many of the larger sites that are big players in the wiffleball world suffer the same problems.
1) Their sites, invariably, look like they were made in the 20th century.
Wiffleball will always be a joke to anyone on the outside if webmasters can't pony up the money/time to put together a web presence that looks anything near "fresh," "current," or "professional."
2) It's not uncommon to find grammatical errors in the fucking LOGOS or BANNERS.
The sites, no matter how "fresh," "current," or "professional," will be laughed at if they have grammatical errors on the fucking LOGOS or BANNERS. Is it *that* hard to add an apostraphe to "its"? Even if it was that hard, it's still worth the work.
3) No baserunning?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
Claim to be the "plastic brother" of baseball, or the "little brother" of baseball all you want...but you ain't running the bases, so you're really not all that much more strenuous than that Scrabble tournament you curse for being on ESPN instead of you. Change the rules and make running part of the game. Maybe then you'll be considered a sport. If not then the "National Horseshoe Pitchers Association" have just as big a right to bitch as you do. You're no more sport than they are.
Final Say: Content-wise, there is less than meets the eye |
