As some of you know I’m a wiffleballer in my spare time. Some would say I’m a professional. I’ve been playing in the HRL: Twin Cities for about 10 years. But my other passion became creating and running its website. Obviously it’s become quite the destination, especially the real-time stats engine.

But it’s also kind of stalled in the past few years. It’s gone through one total rewrite before and I have started another. But it sits dormant on my PC at home. Time has been hard to come by, I’ll take a big part of the blame. But also to be honest, a part of it is that we don’t create as much other content as we used to. People in the league have grown older, don’t have as much time, plus the league is just evolving. Some of those hardcore writers have moved on. So it’s hard to know what to spend time on or how to enhance it where I think I’d like to do so. Plus I wonder what other leagues would want from it. I need a test audience to drive it further.

Which is where this public post comes in: if you run or participate in a wiffleball league out there and would like a site like the HRL’s for your own league, drop me a line. I’m looking at building out what I have with a brand new technology (already started) but also make it more flexible to meet the needs of other leagues. Whether it’s different rules, different scorekeeping, other features you may want, I’m interested in taking what I have and building a product out of it. A website (or sites) that I would host and you would use to enter news, stats, schedules, etc. I would likely charge a fee for use, but anyone who helps in designing it would likely have a reduced or nominal fee.

After I get some replies I will pick, say, 1-3 leagues to help me flush out what needs to be done to what I have, to support all of them at the same time. It’s something I think could take a good chunk of time and would like to tackle this offseason.

I appreciate and will respond to everyone, but if I don’t pick your league don’t fret. I’ll look to keep expanding down the road.

Cheers!

Dee