I don't know where the consensus is on this, but to me the entire re-do of FAAB so far has been a massive missed opportunity to have something really good that streamlines the process. Based on Greg's response above, I see the same 'ol IT tech team that doesn't get it ... either that or my personal opinion is just wildly off base.Greg Ambrosius wrote:After receiving feedback from several owners on our new FAAB setup, we are working on several tweaks to make it even better. Some of these additions you'll see this week and some will go live next week. Thanks for the feedback everyone.
This week you'll see two new items within the new FAAB setup:
1. Sorting by player name
2. New color scheme to better separate multiple pending & conditional bids.
We are also working on items that should go live next week:
1. Pinning the free agent list so that your Pending Bids are always viewable. You will have a separate scroll bar for just the available free agents and the rest of the page stays stagnant.
2. Adding % Owned column to existing set of free agent rankings; an 8th column of data
3. Adding Other stats plus Date Activated data on a second tab with % Owned & % Activated also there
4. Creating a separate page with all of your Bid Groups listed in lines to quickly see each of your bids, with a tab that can quickly take you to all of your teams on this type of page. This should make a review of all of your bids for all of your teams on Sundays as quick as possible.
• As someone who works with a lot of data, it is the silliest thing in the world to me that we cannot see more than 7 or 8 columns (woohoo, they're bending and giving us 1 extra column!) of data on a single page. I can comfortably fit about 40 columns of data on one page going across the same-sized screen in a spreadsheet next to a player name. The font sizes used on the FAAB page look appropriate for kindergartners ... not to mention the NFBC banner which itself takes up about 40% of the FAAB page (that complaint began back in the fanball days, deaf ears). When I open the FAAB page, I see 11 players listed before I need to scroll down ... I am looking at two screens at this moment, the screen to my right has stock quotes ... with 80+ lines of stock prices. The STATS solution is, how about we just give you drop-down menus or tabs to look at other data, because why would anyone possibly want to see all relevant player stats AND % owned at the same time without a bunch of back and forth clicking?
• And how about those ingenious logos ... is it intuitive that something that looks like a luggage tag means "bid on a player", or a luggage tag with a plus symbol = "conditional bid"? Or an eyeball for our track list ... how much time was spent deciding eyeball over the check mark we were all accustomed to? Hey, how about a column header that tells me what those things mean, or go really nuts and just put the word "BID" for where I am supposed to click to make a bid ...
• And the worst of it all are the player adds and drops stacked on top of each other, which not only means that you have to scroll and scroll just to see longer bid strings, but that you can't even look at the list without thinking "ok, is that the guy I'm bidding on or the guy I'm dropping?" Additionally, instead of having a normal player name as on the old page, we now have it in database form "Blackmon, C." with no first name.
Greg asked me to forward my issues to him a few days ago ... I did ... IT doesn't like them, they want it their way. They seem to think they know best. Maybe they do, maybe I am wayyyyyy off base and no one else sees these things like I do. That's possible, but I wanted to post here to find out if I'm the only one (in which case I'll just have to learn to live with it), or if others are as frustrated as me with this long-awaited "upgrade". Yes, we got drag and drop functionality, which we've wanted for years, and a side-by-side view (which it sounds like it will be better after the upcoming fix), but in the process we lost a bunch of viewable data and ended up with jumbled-looking bid strings. Is is possible for the IT gang to change the things we don't like without changing/deleting the things we do like in the process ????
Per Greg's update, a few issues are being addressed in the next update, but the following suggestions all seem to be have been dismissed by the IT dept (and I didn't even bother bringing up the monster banner issue) ...
Reading this overly-long post of mine, I realize I haven't seen a Massotto rant in weeks.1) Have the players you are bidding on directly below each other, with the player drops to the right (as it was before) --- this is the deal-killer for me because it makes the list length 2x as long and jumbled looking.
2) Show all data from the old "standard stats" pulldown menu (incl % owned) on the page at once. Do not create separate tabs or pulldown menus so we can't see all we want to see at the same time. Have sortability on all columns, and reduce font size to fit all on the page. Dump the "fantasy vs standard" pulldown throughout the entire site, it's completely unnecessary. Ideally, a player's team and position should be sortable columns too, rather than attaching to the player name.
3) List player names in correct order in bid string as it was before (e.g., show "Charlie Blackmon", not "Blackmon, Charlie" or even worse "Blackmon, C.") ... do not drop player first name in favor of first initial anywhere on the site (especially for bids and in the draft room).
4) When selecting a player drop, have that in a drop down box as it was before, rather than having it flip to a new area.
5) Dump the goofy logos for tracking players, editing, bidding, etc. The check mark for tracking was good, but use the actual words "BID", "EDIT", "COND", "DEL" in a tiny font rather than symbols ... trying to recall what these 6 or 7 symbols mean when you're working with long bid strings creates the opportunity for a massive time-wasting screw up.
6) No pop-up box confirmations ... ever. I thought this was fixed a few years ago; everyone hates popups.
