Laxpower
| Executive Director | Dr. Laurence A. Feldman |
|---|---|
| Categories | Lacrosse |
| Format | On Line Website and Forum |
| Founder | Dr. Laurence A. Feldman |
| Year founded | 1996 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | West Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Website | www |
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Laxpower was an online lacrosse media entity and forum community started in 1996 and shut down on August 28, 2018.
Laxpower included a lacrosse news website, an online internet forum, and a high school recruits database. The company was headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Laxpower.com was started by Dr. Laurence A. Feldman, a computer software developer with Lawrence Livermore Labs and the Air Force.[1]
Properties[edit]
Laxpower[edit]
Currently shut down, the main topics of interest were men's and women’s college, as well as high school lacrosse. Also receiving coverage was Major League Lacrosse, the National Lacrosse League, and club lacrosse.
Laxpower, in addition to their lacrosse forums, was best known for their proprietary computer power ratings for college and high school lacrosse.[citation needed] Power ratings were based on several criteria such as Margin of Victory, Strength of Schedule, Ratings Percentage Index, Quality Wins, Win-Loss Records as well as Polls.
Laxpower Forums[edit]
Laxpower forums covered everything in lacrosse from Division I men’s through high school and club lacrosse. It was considered one of the top, most insightful lacrosse forums on the web.[citation needed] Frequent contributors like "Stickhead" and "WhiteCarrera" were key forum members.
Laxpower High School[edit]
Laxpower ran the largest online high school lacrosse forums. They also maintained the only nationwide and by state high school rating system, as well as an extensive prep recruiting database.
History[edit]
Laxpower was started up by Laurence A. Feldman in 1996.
As of 2007, LaxPower.com was a subsidiary of The Active Network, Inc.
LaxPower offered up a for pay downloadable app in February 2017. This app took the best from LaxPower.com, allowing users to follow favorite teams, receive final score notifications.
Early on, Laxpower partnered with Lax.com, a still existing provider of men’s Division 1 through 3 statistics for all teams, as well as schedules going back to 2000.
At the time of the Active Network purchase, it was announced that Laxpower received more than 20 million page views per month during the lacrosse season.[2]
Laxpower shut down in August 2018.[3]
Awards and honors[edit]
- 1998 – USILA
- 2005 –
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Company Overview of LaxPower.com". Bloomberg.com. May 23, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
- ↑ "Active Network Acquires LaxPower.com, Number One Online Destination for High School and College Lacrosse". Activenetwork.com. May 23, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
- ↑ Eri Barrister (August 29, 2018). "College Crosse Prospectus - August 29, 2018: LaxPower Shuts Down; Richmond Year In Review". CollegeCross.com. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
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