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Did not know CBS owned Maxpreps

gatorman001

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Went this evening to check on some teams, and instead found this: (Will be intersting to see how Maxpreps responds)

SHUTDOWN NOTICE: As many fans of our site know, we are contracted to provide data (national schedules/scores/ratings/projections/league+division alignments) to MaxPreps. Recently, for the eighth time since aquiring MaxPreps in 2007, CBS went back into breach and is willfully refusing for some unknown reason to act in a legal fashion and honor their legal/contractual obligations in terms of paying money owed to calpreps. We are out of funds at this point and have been forced to cease operations.

As you'd expect, we are in the process of suing CBS to recover owed monies plus damages, but that will no doubt not be resolved until many months or years after the conclusion of the 2024 playoffs, so we encourage any section/state associations who were relying on our ratings in order to run your playoffs this season to apply any pressure you may have the pull to apply to the rogue CBS accounting department, to attempt to presuade them to finally start to act in accordance with federal contract law. Thank you and we're sorry it's come to this, but frankly it was destined to never work with a company owned by CBS. We hope to partner with a non-CBS owned company in future seasons, but it's presumably not reasonable to expect that a deal could be struck with another company during the 2024 season, but if you are such a company and have interest, are ears are certainly open.
 
Calpreps updated message:
We have reached a quick resolution with MaxPreps, and the full site information will return in time for this weekend
 
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Gatorman, I was going to look into this today. Media companies can use their own platforms to negotiate like this. It’s similar to what we see when, for example, Spectrum scrolls a message about losing HBO because of contracts expiring.
 
MaxPreps data has always been woefully inaccurate.

Dont believe that was ever a intent on my part, in as far as debating the accuracy of rankings. My point for posting at the time was to bring attention to the fact, that CBS and Calpreps (which provides national and state rankings to Maxpreps), were apparently at a negoiations stalemate. Why is that important in the grand scheme of things? Because the FHSAA and Maxpreps have previously negoiated a agreement to have Maxpreps provide said rankings for football and volleyball to FHSAA.

https://fb.watch/v0UBtryYK8/
 
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