Thanks! I picked the simplest thing that I know that could work.
That's really great insight, actually. I definitely thought about adding the affiliate links, however I am somewhat unsure about the legality of promoting sportsbooks within the US. I think there are certain licensing requirements. I may look into it in more detail in the future, if the site picks up in traffic and search rankings.
> See https://www.bestfightodds.com/ if you want a site that does this for MMA rather nicely
This is super on-point. BFO was my inspiration for doing this and I know Catena and other affiliates typically have an interest in successful sports sites, so that thought, as a potential eventual exit strategy, crossed my mind.
> If you eventually add historical data people will scrape your site and try to clone it so that may be a problem.
I do have historical data in the backend, but I haven't done anything with it yet. Great point about the scrapers. I don't have a solution for that yet, although I am aware CloudFlare offers certain tools.
Player pages are a great idea, although I need to think what data will be useful and, preferably, won't require a lot of manual upkeep.