How much do MileSplit State Webmasters make?

I don't have numbers but it seems to be a $hit job. Big time demands and the one thing the sport needs at the HS level in most areas, actual reporting and real coverage, is too time intensive. That said, you're probably faced with the choice of doing fairly little and milking the product until the cow goes dry, or putting in a lot of effort and making close to negative wages.

The milesplit guy in our state does a decent job, but I'm sure he's always answering emails from parents who can't understand why their kid's results are posted yet, because it's affecting their kid's ranking. The rankings are a big deal with the helicopter parents, so you'll be putting a lot of time into collecting results every single week and spending a lot of time on email.

If you do it, I wouldn't wait too long. Our guy rarely does any real reporting with the site, he just passes along news stories, posts results and filtered rankings, so unless people really care about seemingly stupid $hit like whether you're ranked 100th or 101st in the Division A boys 1600 this year, I don't see how the site can continue as it is for much longer. The subscription is getting to be too high for what you actually get.

A lot of people really care about those rankings. Whether 200th or 205th. Their preseason rankings and coverage are usually pretty good as is their state meet coverage. They have lists of summer camps and stuff. Its fun to see your name mentioned in an article. As a highschooler back in the day (it was free then), I was on milesplit every few days or so. This is how milesplit stays afloat.

From what I've heard in our state, $0 is the amount you make. Maybe more in bigger states. No one in our state goes to milesplit anymore for that kind of stuff because you have to pay for it and the lists and rankings are a joke. We are an athletic.net state and simply put it is amazing.

The registration has jumped from $48/year to about $60/year for content that really just amounts to rankings, since any coverage you'd actually pay for is very little and far between. Meet results, video and photos are all posted there as well, but I believe that stuff's all free. There's no question it's a great site in terms of providing a home for all that stuff, but paying to see where you're ranked just doesn't seem worth it, at least not to me. When it comes to articles about big meets and access to rankings that seem to actually matter (like watchout's rankings - agree with them or not, it's what people actually refer to), then I'd say DyeStat is the way to go.

With fees at $60/year though, someone's getting paid, so maybe a good cut of that money is going to the State webmasters. If so, then our State guy must be doing pretty well, because we aren't getting a whole lot for that money.

monkey in the middle wrote:

With fees at $60/year though, someone's getting paid, so maybe a good cut of that money is going to the State webmasters. If so, then our State guy must be doing pretty well, because we aren't getting a whole lot for that money.

Huh?

Say whattttttttt? wrote:

monkey in the middle wrote:

With fees at $60/year though, someone's getting paid, so maybe a good cut of that money is going to the State webmasters. If so, then our State guy must be doing pretty well, because we aren't getting a whole lot for that money.

Huh?

He's saying there is actual little coverage taking place, meaning there are few expenses needing to be paid, thus a bunch of money is being made by someone.

$60 a year for that crap? haha, someone's gettin paid and laid