RealGM
Encyclopedia
RealGM.com is a sports website created in 2000. The site was originally a basketball
site but has since expanded its scope to provide information about ice hockey
, baseball
, and American football
. According to Alexa
, the site ranks in the top 5000 of most visited sites, as of January 2009. The site features forums that are popular by users. The site is noted for its trade checker, a system developed to analyze hypothetical NBA trades according to the collective bargaining agreement. A professional version of the Trade Checker has been licensed to several NBA teams.
The site includes basketball team forums as well as off-topic, media, and graphic arts forums. On April 1, 2007 it added NHL, MLB, and NFL team boards. The site also offers the sale of sporting event tickets. It focuses its news mainly on players and their movement and actions in their respective leagues. The website is particularly popular amongst Canadian
Toronto Raptors fans and Derrick Rose fans.
Realgm has experienced a great deal of trouble in dealing with its volunteer legion of message board moderators. Moderators have caused numerous problems, including exacting personal vendettas against other posters, using moderator powers to promote a particular political agenda, and generally being careless and flippant in their disciplinary practices.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
site but has since expanded its scope to provide information about ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, and American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
. According to Alexa
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
, the site ranks in the top 5000 of most visited sites, as of January 2009. The site features forums that are popular by users. The site is noted for its trade checker, a system developed to analyze hypothetical NBA trades according to the collective bargaining agreement. A professional version of the Trade Checker has been licensed to several NBA teams.
The site includes basketball team forums as well as off-topic, media, and graphic arts forums. On April 1, 2007 it added NHL, MLB, and NFL team boards. The site also offers the sale of sporting event tickets. It focuses its news mainly on players and their movement and actions in their respective leagues. The website is particularly popular amongst Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
Toronto Raptors fans and Derrick Rose fans.
Realgm has experienced a great deal of trouble in dealing with its volunteer legion of message board moderators. Moderators have caused numerous problems, including exacting personal vendettas against other posters, using moderator powers to promote a particular political agenda, and generally being careless and flippant in their disciplinary practices.