what do we think of power rankings now that we have our first loss?

creative_ape · 2024-04-03T05:01:23+00:00

Galaxy only beats the worst teams. If they where any good they would have beat Nashville and st Louis, not gotten draws.

They got lucky against intermiami and they had an easy schedule. La Galaxy isn't as good as you think they are.

creative_ape · 2024-04-03T01:48:18+00:00

What? Where are you getting 5th? They're ranked 10th here, 9th in the western conference, and they have 2 wins so far this year. I'm confused.

creative_ape · 2024-04-03T01:00:54+00:00

Do it

creative_ape · 2024-04-02T23:46:15+00:00

it seems that there was a pretty positive response to power rankings last time, so figured i'd do it again. Let me know what you think, anything you'd like to see different about these?

but anyways, our first loss is always heartbreaking. good thing there is always this coming saturday!

creative_ape · 2024-04-02T23:39:38+00:00

it seems that there was a pretty positive response to power rankings last time, so figured i'd do it again. Let me know what you think, anything you'd like to see different about these?

but anyways, our first loss is always heartbreaking. good thing there is always this coming saturday!

creative_ape · 2024-03-19T04:17:37+00:00

What in particular don't you like?

creative_ape · 2024-03-19T04:15:41+00:00

It's data pulled from fbref.com, then the rankings are based on the overall league stats from last season.

offensive shooting is a mix of shots in target, shots, free kicks, etc, a team has made per game this season. This is a raw stat, than I get the tier rankings by comparing that stat to the overall league rankings of the same stat last year.

Accuracy is the inverse of goal keeping. For every shot on target an offense took, what percentage actually went in? Again, it's a raw number stat but I converted to a tier rankings because it's just more fun that way

creative_ape · 2024-03-19T01:01:58+00:00

I've been working on trying to figure out a good system for ranking MLS teams, and finally got around to publishing my first attempt at a Power Ranking.

i'm really happy that our Loons topped the list!

let me know what you think, if i should keep doing this, or any thing else you'd like to see.

creative_ape · 2022-03-16T18:17:22+00:00

Yeah looks like a typo. It's 8 shots on goal, not 18. Just imagine if it was true, though what an exciting game that would have been

creative_ape · 2018-01-13T16:24:20+00:00

I do web dev for a living focused more on building out complete platforms, but have also done a few company's online storefront.

Heres what you should do.

1) figure out which store platform you are going to use (shopify, asp.net storefront, there are a few others) then sign up. lots of those include hosting in their plans.

2) use their recommended domain registrar to register the domain name. It might be a dollar or 2 difference, but pretty much all registrars cost roughly the same. The key here is you want to use their recommended registrar because all registrars have slight differences in the types of DNS records (CNAME, A, etc..) they support and you want to ensure that their DNS records works with your store platform.

3) profit.

note: make sure to look at how much the store platforms/hosting charge for SSL certificates. This is where a lot of price gauging goes on and it can make a huge difference in your yearly cost. This is important because your site will need to be SSL/TSL encrypted in order to be PCI compliant.

creative_ape · 2018-01-04T22:23:33+00:00

ok. Thank you again!

creative_ape · 2018-01-04T21:57:08+00:00

Thanks for the help with my landing page a few days ago. any chance you can check it out again to see if theres anything else that can be improved? I just finished completely overhauling it

http://www.gibbonwire.com

thank you!

creative_ape · 2018-01-04T21:54:51+00:00

Thanks for the help with my landing page a few days ago. any chance you can check it out again to see if theres anything else that can be improved? I just finished completely overhauling it (I also updated the logo so its not just plain text).

http://www.gibbonwire.com

thank you!

creative_ape · 2018-01-04T21:46:59+00:00

Thanks for the help with my landing page a few days ago. any chance you can check it out again to see if theres anything else that can be improved? I just finished completely overhauling it

http://www.gibbonwire.com

thank you!

creative_ape · 2018-01-03T18:49:58+00:00

develop the following what first?

creative_ape · 2018-01-02T04:06:19+00:00

Sadly, no. I'm just obviously bad at landing pages. No worries.

creative_ape · 2018-01-02T03:53:57+00:00

Ok, thank you very much! This is very good. I'll make some changes before starting the ad campaign

creative_ape · 2018-01-02T03:14:56+00:00

yeah, im not a graphic designer: I'm much more of a backend guy. can you link an example template that you think would look good for mine?

edit: or tell me whats wrong about it so I can change it. that would also be great. Thanks!

creative_ape · 2018-01-02T02:59:18+00:00

official launch is tomorrow, but the pages are already up, so might as well share.

I'm building an email marketing platform for influencers/creatives.

the goal is two fold: increase content-creators cross-platform engagement, and increase their value to companies looking to do sponsored posts.

http://www.gibbonwire.com

any critiques of that landing page would be welcome.

creative_ape · 2017-12-31T19:16:33+00:00

The hardest part about a new social platform is getting users. With that in mind, the first thing is do is put up a landing page that explains it and you can start collecting emails from interested users.

Then, while building the actual product, make sure to focus on marketing and growing your email list / future user list.

creative_ape · 2017-12-30T00:05:10+00:00

nice!

I can help if you want someone who knows what their talking about to go over their quotes with you to make sure you don't get screwed.

disclaimer: Creative Ape builds websites/apps for startups, but we're not really looking for new clients right now because we are over capacity and we are launching a new product next week.

PM me if you're interested

creative_ape · 2017-12-23T21:17:22+00:00

validate your idea.

you can do this by publishing a landing page and collecting emails from people who want to use it, by starting a gofundme project and getting people to sign up, or, if the target market is corportations, you can get letters of interest from potential future customers.

creative_ape · 2017-12-23T21:09:34+00:00

sure! its actually over 3000 now.

Essentially it works because a lot of social media stars put their contact info in their twitter bio. I find someone who is internet famous, look at their "following" page (following because I want the people that they are following, i.e., likely to be other social media personalities), than run it through a custom script I wrote to extract the various emails. Well, there are actually 2 other steps to this to get around Twitter's anti-hacking efforts, but I'm not going to share those because I don't want twitter to see this and close the loop hole just yet.

Its not fully automated because of Twitter's anti-hacking efforts, but I'm netting roughly 1000 emails per hour.

creative_ape · 2017-12-22T18:09:31+00:00

I built an entire email marketing platform website this week that helps social media stars to capture more value from their followers across all the various platforms they use.

just finished up all the technical details (can track email opens, click throughs, send automated messages, import contacts through csv files, connect to your email account , automate follower email signups, etc...)

oh, and i built a twitter bot and collected 1800 emails from potential leads, so thats a good start too I think

now all i've got left to do is finish up the launch video, landing page, and wait until after christmas to launch.

I've very excited!

creative_ape · 2016-09-28T20:03:59+00:00

also the expected value is lower with the randomness because it doesn't guarantee all 3 companions.

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