Quit Refreshing
I don’t really visit the front of Yahoo Sports much, but they do have one of the cleaner NHL scoreboards, and the boxscore pages are nice too. It’s not that the information is any different, it’s just nice and neat.
If you visit either of these pages and if you have javascript turned on you’ll notice both pages auto-refresh. It’s not nearly as nice as Sportsline‘s Gamecenter non-refresh-auto-updates, but it works.
Yahoo’s scoreboard has the option to turn the auto-refresh off. The boxscores do not. What I don’t understand is why these pages continue to refresh after the games are over. There’s simply no need, and if you really want to read a boxscore, you’ll probably get irritated if you take more than 30 seconds and the page reloads for no reason.
These pages are obviously very dynamic. My suggestion: If all games are final (or if it’s hours away from the first one starting), default to no refresh on the scoreboard. If a game is over, don’t refresh the boxscore page. Read one variable, add one if/else statement, and you’ll have a more pleasant user experience. Please.
Update Dec 02 11pm: The boxscore pages do seem to have refresh options, and when a game is over, the boxscore will not refresh. I have zero idea when it was implemented, could have been there the whole time - so if I missed it, my apologies. The scoreboard should have that same functionality.
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