SAN JOSE — That was quick.
It took a harried day-plus to get it done, but Calpreps.com will be back in service this week.
The popular and critical prep football data site, a key component of Central Coast Section and North Coast Section decision-making relating to section tournament placement and seeding, announced it has resolved its dispute with CBS, the parent company of MaxPreps, and will return ahead of the Bay Area’s Week 6 football schedule.
“We have reached a quick resolution with MaxPreps, and the full site information will return in time for this weekend,” Calpreps said in an updated statement on its website.
The owner of Calpreps, Ned Freeman, had previously stated that CBS was not honoring the terms of its agreement with Calpreps to provide widespread data to MaxPreps, including national schedules, scores, ratings, projections, league and division alignments.
“Recently, for the eighth time since acquiring 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,” the website read for much of Sunday and Monday. “We are out of funds at this point and have been forced to cease operations.”
The restoration of Calpreps comes as a relief for many involved in high school football across the Bay Area, as the service had become essential to help section committees seed teams for playoff tournaments.
“I don’t think our playoffs are perfect, but the one thing we have been able to do with the system is eliminate a lot of the blowout games in the first round that were happening,” said Tim Lugo, the chair of the CCS football committee. “We still have a couple, but it’s better than the old system.”
