Experimental

[gothwalk]

As part of an ongoing series of tests, I'm working on specialised page per sport for sportsinteraction.com. Some of them will contain news and previews, and others will just be gateways to the betting options for that sport. However, I know sod all about the actual sports, in most cases, so I'd appreciate knowing what people who actually follow American Football think of the NFL landing page. All opinions considered useful...

Comments

Looking at the page....

[will-sample.livejournal.com]

... I'll assume some of the content (sidebars, headlines) is deemed indespensible for the purposes of the site. You obviously want quick links for people to actually bet on the games.

It might benefit the page to feature the weekly schedule more prominently, though. There are never going to be more than 17 games in any given week, so perhaps a schedule on the page featuring the lines on the week being bet upon might be a nice addition, within the space constraints-- something similar to the game description at the top of the page now, for a college basketball game. If you have permission to use NFL logos and such, tiny helmets or other team-specific page decorations may grab a bit more attention.

[goblin-insane.livejournal.com]

Okay as a NHL and NFL fan here our my main suggestions the layout is a little cluttered and the 't' in bet is missing on some of the betting option pages :). Now I'm having a little trouble navigating the pages as it is very slow, server issues???

But anyway you have most of the important things there, standings, scores, shedule and injuries, but some modifications could be made.

When you are in a sport would be possible to have a tab system at the top of the page so you can switch between the following things, standings,scores, schedule and team roosters (so you know who is out injured.) (scratch this it now appears this is in the side bar)

The scoreboard for the games results should be a simple layout so that all scores are viewable and then can link to either reports / betting options depending how you want to do the site. Now there should be a a tab/ calender feature to switch to previous games. This is really important for hockey as there are games every night. Football is only on Monday and Sunday nights for 17 weeks plus the post-season. (scratch this the way you have the hockey layout for scoreboard is good it just took this long to load for me.)

The next thing is the standings layout and this is really important in hockey seeing as they have such a high intenstity schedule (the run-in to the playoffs is 25 games for each team in 50 days)but it is also relevant to NFL. The Standings need to be capable of being sorted by division, conference, league and then each individual stat so it can be seen who are the wildcards. The stat of streak or Last 10 games needs to be there as well.

Stats pages are very good it seems. I also see your reports are being yoinked from espn (one of the reports I happened to read this morning.) but there is no acredit to this effect that I can see of. Oh and home team does not need to be in caps as in all american sports the home team is the team on the right!

If you want to talk more or anything we can meet for a pint and you can buzz and I can give you my point of view.

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

Am not really seeing a good graphical representation of trends (e.g. scoring, yardage) for particular teams over an entire season, and it's a feature I'd be interested in using, were I the sort to bet on American football. I don't know if that would be your purview, though.

[goblin-insane.livejournal.com]

There is a pretty comphrensive statistics page but it could do with some visual sprucing up alright. how come the side bar doesn't always appear?