Everything is behind the JavaScript
The Detroit MSBL runs adult baseball in the Detroit metropolitan area under the national MSBL. Its website delivers exactly one piece of readable content: the words Detroit MSBL Home. Everything else — the teams, the schedule, the standings, the fees, the fields, the people running it — arrives only after a browser has downloaded and executed better than thirty separate script files. To anything that reads a page as a page, this league does not exist.
That is not a small problem. Search engines index what a page says on arrival, and a man in Livonia or Royal Oak searching for adult baseball finds a title and stops. High Cheese publishes a league's schedule, standings, rosters and rules as plain text on an address it owns, which is the difference between a league that has a website and a league that can be found.
Detroit MSBL in detail
- No fixture, date, time or field reaches the page.
- Whatever table exists is delivered only to a browser.
- No result reaches the page.
- Not one club is named.
- No batting or pitching figure reaches the page.
- No address, email or telephone number reaches the page.
- No fee, deadline, form or route in is readable.
- No ballpark is named.
- No rulebook is readable.
- No announcement is readable.
- No image is readable.
- No sponsor is named.
- No bracket or postseason is readable.
- No founding year or champion is readable.
- Nobody is named.
- None of the five are answered, because none of the page is delivered.
- No document is readable.
- No date is readable.
- No merchandise is readable.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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