Turn off scores on NWSL site?

If anyone can figure it out, I'd say ask Gilmoy .

 

There does not seem to be a way to jump directly to a game video only.
This work-around will be goofy as heck

1. Have a sheet of opaque paper in hand.
2. Surf to NWSL page. As it loads, hold paper over screen, leaving about a 1" gap from top of monitor visible.
3. The clickable scores banner is at the top. Lower paper until you just first see the red "Final" words at the banner. These will be toward the left side, since the scores banner usually shows a mix of past games and future games.

Directly below the "Final" word is the score. Don't peek!

4. The rightmost score with a red "Final" will be the most recent game. Click your mouse under that. Use paper to block off the entire page as it loads. Also, make your browser window short enough that it's only about 1/2 the height of the video window.

5. On the game page, the final score is displayed in two places:
a) in huge font, just above where the video will load
b) in bold small font, below the video, as the title of the recap article
You avoid (b) by making your browser window short.
You block (a) with your paper.

Without peeking, click in the scroll bar until the (a) block fully scrolls off the top of the screen. You can do this before the video loads, but then use your paper to block off (b) as it scrolls up.

6. When the video loads, it inserts itself between (a) and (b). Click full-screen.

You are now in the video, without having seen the score

Now, this method fails if you want to look up a particular old match amidst a block of old matches, because then you don't know which red "Final" is yours.

 

Another option is to recruit another human who can use the NWSL webpage link to start the game for you. The other human will see the result, while doing this, but you won't. Then you can watch. Of course, that can be a pain too, but seems better (if there's a willing human) than Gilmoy's work around.

Otherwise, the NWSL does have a big problem.

 

I think the problem is with people who want to watch sports without seeing scores.



Were you able to watch, say, the World Cup or March madness without seeing scores?

 

You got results.

When Spain and Portugal were playing at the same time in the Third group stage game, the Spain match announcers not only gave scores, they told you who would go through if the games ended at that stage.

At one point they told you that the Spain goal was being VARed in the 92nd minute that the same thing was happening another score in the Portugal Iran game. Then they told you at the end of the game that Spain won the Group which told you that Iran and Portugal must have tied because a win by either would have meant Spain couldn’t have won the group. Not only that, but it told you Portugal and Iran scored less than three goals and Iran didn’t win because of the second tiebreaker being goals scored. In that case Spain would not have gone to the knockout stage.


You can hear some of that in the Fox highlights videos. Listen at 4:45 , for instance where they announce a Portugal-Iran score.and at about 6:45 when they announce the the Iran- Portugal score again.

They also told you about the VAR in the Portugal game that was going on at the same time as the VAR on Spain’s second goal. That isn’t in this highlight, but it is in others.

 

understandable risk in those circumstances.

but if i chose the spain game as the most intriguing game to watch, the announcers of that game didn't (of course couldn't) display or declare the result, dissipating my interest, before the game even started.

that's what we talking about.

...and it's not an unheard of thing to turn off scores on a sports web page.

 

I usually put my hand over part of my eyes or try to cross my eyes into a blur until I can just see the part where you click the video. . Not kidding.

 

And if you're stoned, you can't read the score anyways.
So that's another strategy.

 

I'm nearsighted so I just take off my glasses when I go on the NWSL website to click on games.

 

Well, I guess these are all very precious pieces of advice!

 

I use a userScript that I made and Tampermonkey (it is an extension/add-on for Chrome and Firefox). You have to look away for a few seconds while the page loads (or don't look at the scores at the top), since that data gets pulled in after the page loads, so it takes a sec for the scores to get cleared out of that.

Code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Hide NWSL Scores
// @namespace   HNS
// @description Hides the scores shown on the NWSL website
// @include     /^https?://www\.nwslsoccer\.com/.*$/
// @require     https://gist.github.com/raw/2625891/waitForKeyElements.js
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

function actionFunction() {
  $('#scorebar-wrap').find('.score').each(function() {
      $(this).css('display', 'none');
  });
}

$('body').find('.score').each(function() {
  $(this).css('display', 'none');
});

$('.game-details-tabs').css('display', 'none');
$('#game-details').css('display', 'none');

waitForKeyElements ("#scorebar-wrap .slick-track", actionFunction);