NFL.com vs. NBA.com and MLB.com

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

The absolute best sites for stats and the like are the reference sites. Easily the best sports sites in existence.

www.pro-football-reference.com/
www.basketball-reference.com/
www.baseball-reference.com/
www.hockey-reference.com/

So simple, so easy to use,.so exhaustive. Couldn't tell you the last time I went anywhere else to check for sports info.

---------- Post added January-17th-2013 at 03:20 PM ----------

And gortiz, sorry for bringing up NFLN, MLBTV and NBATV. Wasn't trying to hijack your thread. I just thought they fit the overall discussion.

[Heavy Jumbo]

Watching highlights is the worst. No_Pressure hit the nail on the head there.

As far as the stats go, they changed the format sometime last year and I can't even find what I'm looking for most of the time. It's awful.

[SteveFromYellowstone]

The complaint I have about NFL.com is watching videos. Say you want to watch the highlights of the Packers-49ers game (and the game score info is still at the top of the screen). When you click on the game to bring up the game center (where the videos are held) it will automatically start playing the 1st video on the list. This video is almost never the highlights, and typically a highlight of one play, or a press conference after the game. A commercial which is unskippable begins playing right away. Say you click on another video to start playing that. Your commercial will finish, then another commercial will play (1 full minute of commercials now, typically about fantasy football on NFL.com which is highly annoying) and now the video plays. Only, in spite of being the video you wanted to see, it logs the change in video as being the end of the video which was originally playing and it automatically starts playing the video below the one you actually wanted to watch. You click the video you wanted to see, or the one above it and you are treated to another minute or two of commercials and you may not get the proper video.

I have learned to allow the first video to start playing for a little bit, then to turn off auto-play, then to click on the video I actually want. Sometimes it switches over without playing yet another commercial which is really nice. Its just that on NBA.com you have a 10 second commercial and then they get straight to the highlights. Videos don't play automatically when you click on game videos, etc.

I think the NFL probably does it because it bolsters the number of advertisements users are seeing, and I feel like the fact that the video section works so poorly is either by incompetence or design. The people who made it either made it so it functions poorly, or they made it so that confused users are more likely to watch 5 commercials in a row while attempting to watch the highlights of a particular game.

Oh well.

Oh man I totally 100% agree on the watching videos thing. So damn annoying. I used to love to go on NFL.com and watch highlight videos and look at the stat lists, but they changed their website all around within the last year and made it unbelievably difficult to navigate and find what you're looking for. It's hard to even look at the top 10 stat lists (passing yards leaders, sack leaders, INT leaders, etc...) anymore because they tried to get cute and just made it way worse. It was simple and clean (and much better) the way they did it before. They also made the "gamecenter" tabs complete ****.

[Fight4RGIII]

Mlbn>nfln>nbatv

[MattFancy]

Mlbn>nfln>nbatv

I'd agree with this. During baseball season I watch nothing but MLB Network. They do a good job showing highlights and they break into games throughout the night.

[gortiz]

And gortiz, sorry for bringing up NFLN, MLBTV and NBATV. Wasn't trying to hijack your thread. I just thought they fit the overall discussion.

No, on the contrary man, I had some opinions on NFLN as well ... I think it could so much better, but compared the website its great.