Would it be hard to create a high school stats website better than milesplit or athletic.net for CA or NY?

NY already has a great one in tullyrunners.com

Prepcal exists as well but I actually find that site more aggravating then milesplit.

How hard is it though?

2 biggest issues you will find is 1 tracking down results from a large state (setting it up so people will send you things) and 2 lots of your sat evening and all day sunday working on it. You will put in many many hours and so you feel like doing it for little or no pay

A poor site that someone does as a hobby is still much better than having everything put behind a pay wall.

use a ready-made template

Check out swimming rank. Should be easy to beat milesplit. But swimming rank starts with all the results posted in the same format everywhere in the USA, albeit in separate regions. It's a lot easier to navigate than the official nationwide site

I've emailed the creator. He started doing his club team, then his region. Then the nation. Not to be overly technical, but he's got no database. All the pages are pre-generated html. I do think milesplit is due for a takedown, and if I didn't have this 'job' and 'kids' I'd do it, set it up with ads, set up a not for profit so I could take time or computer resource time as donations.

I think he makes enough coin from non pain in the ass ads (unlike milesplit) to keep the lights on.

This is a link to a kid who I know, but I'm not related, and not on his club team. It's useful as you get to see his progression over time, but also how he compares to division 1, 2 & 3 NCAA. It's also good to see upcoming meets , and the cuts to make those meets. This kid is fast enough that you'll be able to see Olympic trials when those cut times are out.

http://www.swimmingrank.com/mdva/strokes/strokes_pv/SMEUAACAO_100BK.html

You'd need to find local representatives in each state that are willing to submit the results of the meets. They will need to submit those results in the same exact format each time so that you can easily extract the data and put it into your database in a consistent manner.

The results you are receiving from your representatives need to be real results, can't have them changing things.

It really wouldn't be that hard, the biggest thing is getting enough people to help you enter the results into your system. The actual displaying of the data is simple, just querying the database of results for each event's performances and ordering them in a certain way.

But then you also need to let people know about it, how will you do this without some advertising? Could take a very long time for word of mouth to get around that you have this website out there.

NY already has tullyrunners, which is vastly superior in XC though he doesn’t post as many track results. Speed ratings alone make tullyrunners’ XC results the best in the country.

Dave Yendrzeski from yentiming.com keeps an amazing leaderboard for Section V. It's easy to use and easy to update. It would be amazing to have something like that for the entire state of New York

But why?

Unless you are going to add value with something unique like tullyrunners, it just makes more sense for everything nationally to show up in one or two ecosystems.

I’d be more interested to hear of efforts to go back in time and enter more historical meet results in athletic.net or milesplit.

It’s difficult to make any kind of site like that, but it would be pretty easy to beat milesplit because their site is pretty garbage. Tfrrs for college is much better, it’s only weakness is that the code written for it is horribly inefficient and so it’s extremely slow to load thing. Fix that and you have a good template.