STATS got us up and running in November of 2003 and we've held this look for 5+ years for the NFBC and the NFFC. I've looked the same way for 30+ years, so as you can see I'm slow to change!! That being said, with our partnership with NBC Sports/Rotoworld.com it was time for a new look and we finally got together with STATS this off-season to create a new look and feel for the NFBC. We'll unveil that Friday and maybe even earlier. You will see right away that our partnership with NBC Sports is for real because the new site has their stamp all over it. I'm excited about the new look, but more importantly hopefully all of our various contests will be better organized now.
Since 2004, we've added something to the NFBC each year and we just added a link here or there for your information. By 2008, it was a jumble of links that weren't separated in any logical order and the satellite league offerings were all lumped together. Heck, some links weren't even added like for the Draft Champions League format as word-of-mouth was the way to spread the rules. That shouldn't have been done and it can't be done going forward, not with all of the offerings we now have.
So on Friday we'll have everything from video of what the events look like to testimonials to past winners photos, to a list of defending league champs, to links and explanations for every NFBC offering, REgistration links for all of our offerings and price ranges (which is there now), and even a space for the NFBC Hall of Fame. We only have five years of competition in the books and I believe you need 10 years of data to enter the MLB Hall of Fame, so we're not even close to inducting anyone here yet. But the space has been set aside and we can have fun with that feature during the next five years!!
Thanks to Rick Wolf at Rotoworld.com because he's the brains and push behind this effort. Zachary Williams of STATS has taken this upon himself to make this site look great and we owe him a ton of credit. It's an awesome look and the functionality is now there for Tom and I to update anything on the site ourselves, something that hasn't been available in the past. We will be able to program countdowns for every available event and the system will countdown for us every time a signup comes in. Features like that are cool and will create more timeliness for the main event, auction leagues, online championship and satellite leagues that we didn't have before.
So it's all good. Tom and I are adding text to each link on the site now and will be doing that all day, so enjoy the boards by yourselves. We will meet our Friday deadline to have this live as it's been several months of work to get this right. After we've tweaked everything here, we can duplicate this for the NFFC site, but give us a few weeks for that to happen.
Good luck all and get ready for the new look and feel in two days.
