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http://plaintextsports.com has become one of my favorite websites for every single reason you just went off about

Thank you! (I made plaintextsports!)

On my to-do list is making a personalized page where you can select exactly which teams you want to follow, something closer to what dpeck wants, but I've been having trouble finding the time...

This would be awesome! I love plaintext sports and the minimalist aesthetics of it.

Curious, it seems college baseball scores are generally not as easy to find as others. Do they tend to be behind more restrictive APIs, or is it more just that there’s so little interest in it vs MLB?

For college football and basketball I just use some JSON endpoints that the ncaa.com frontend hits, and they're actually very good. Literally all I had to do to support Women's basketball in addition to Men's was change "men" to "women" in the url. I haven't checked the data for baseball, but I'm sure it's more than adequate. That being said, I personally don't have any interest in college baseball, and I don't think it has a huge following, so I'm not going to invest any time into it, especially when there are higher profile leagues that I still haven't added yet (specifically, all of European football).

completely understand that, and you’re right on the small following. I like the high energy (for baseball that is) offensive heavy style of play, but I know I’m an outlier vs the MLB fan base size.

Great site and wish you much continued success with it!

Oh hey! We talked over Twitter once about the site a few weeks ago, had no clue you were on HN :)

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