NFBC Site Update Thread

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:56 pm

Sorry for the delay, but daily NFBC emails will begin going out to all league members starting Friday morning, around 6 am ET. The daily emails will contain the prior day's stats and Year To Date Standings for each league. Look for them tomorrow.

Setting lineups for forward periods, viewing previous periods lineups, and team stats pages are next. We also should have an updated Free Agent page tomorrow with load times that are much, much faster than they currently are. I'll update more as the site is upgraded. Thanks all for your patience.

wizardbw · Post by **wizardbw** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:00 am

Sorry if this is a duplicate request, but can we get a column next to the Probable Starters (especially the 2-Starts ones) showing what team they are on, or if they are FAs? ie. I see Millwood is a 2-starter, would be good to see right there if he's on a team already or not.

Bama · Post by **Bama** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:53 am

Whats the odds on getting this new free agent page to work and getting the free agents in the pools that are supposed to be there this week. The last time i weas able to look at free agents they still had a bunch of retired guys but didnt have guys that were supposed to be ther last week.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:06 am

Originally posted by Bama:

Whats the odds on getting this new free agent page to work and getting the free agents in the pools that are supposed to be there this week. The last time i weas able to look at free agents they still had a bunch of retired guys but didnt have guys that were supposed to be ther last week. Kenny, the new free agent page works great for everyone not using Internet Explorer. Try this on Firefox, Google Chrome or even Safari. It will take you less than a minute to load the new browser and you will speed with the new free agent pages. We hope to fix IE today and add some more speed to the free agent loading. All callups are automatically updated each morning from STATS by 5 am and all retired players were deleted from the player pools last week.

Glenneration X · Post by **Glenneration X** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:23 am

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

Kenny, the new free agent page works great for everyone not using Internet Explorer. Try this on Firefox, Google Chrome or even Safari. It will take you less than a minute to load the new browser and you will speed with the new free agent pages. We hope to fix IE today and add some more speed to the free agent loading. All callups are automatically updated each morning from STATS by 5 am and all retired players were deleted from the player pools last week. Firefox was a little buggy for me.....but Chrome worked great with this website. My suggestion is download Chrome.

Of the three I tried, their compatibility rating with this site (out of a possible 10)....

Chrome - 9.5

Firefox - 5

IE8 - negative infinity

Glenn

Top Dawg · Post by **Top Dawg** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:34 am

Thanks for the updates Greg. Anything your guys can do to help the FAAB system work better with IE would be greatly appreciated. Many of us have computers at our offices that are office equipment. Trying to add anything other than the standard Microsoft IE browser that is loaded on our computers/laptops might get us in a wee bit of trouble. As IE is universally the largest browser in the marketplace I'm sure your guys will get their software to load properly on it soon.

Pete

[ April 23, 2010, 02:34 PM: Message edited by: Top Dawg ]

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:17 pm

The Set Lineup page now has past, present and future options for all of your NFBC leagues. You can now see Period tabs on the Set Lineup page that allows you to look at the starting lineups you set for any past period, the ability to set your lineup for the current period and two periods ahead.

As you can see, weekly periods are broken down into 1 and 1 W. The one is for the Monday to Sunday period and the 1W is for the weekend lineup (Friday-Sunday). Look for all past starting lineups there.

Going forward, you can now see your team matchups for the current period and the matchups will stay if you need to set your weekend starting lineup and next week's matchups will be there for the next week's starting lineups.

Let us know what you think but thankfully we have the Set Lineup set now and going forward. Thanks for your patience all.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:20 pm

The Team Stats page has been completed late today with Bench stats showing along with a few more features, but we still wanted to test it this weekend before unveiling it with any possible hiccups. Sorry for the delay, but we should have this updated and better first thing next week. Look for that improved page soon.

Dub · Post by **Dub** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:20 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

The Team Stats page has been completed late today with Bench stats showing along with a few more features, but we still wanted to test it this weekend before unveiling it with any possible hiccups. Sorry for the delay, but we should have this updated and better first thing next week. Look for that improved page soon. Important for team stat page

Currently it only shows your teams fantasy stats. We should also have a drop down choice for MLB stats so that we can make comparisons on how well we are working our bench. While a player might only be batting .195 for my team, I still want to know how he is performing overall.

With regard to Live Scoring

There is currently a tracking category for DAILY fantasy points (not stats). This is a totally meaningless and useless tracking category that adds no value. It should be replaced with a DAILY trend category that truly shows how your teams is doing point wise for the day (ie: +2 hr, -1.5sb, etc)

Thanks

Plymouth · Post by **Plymouth** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:46 am

Originally posted by Dub:

quote:Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

The Team Stats page has been completed late today with Bench stats showing along with a few more features, but we still wanted to test it this weekend before unveiling it with any possible hiccups. Sorry for the delay, but we should have this updated and better first thing next week. Look for that improved page soon. Important for team stat page

Currently it only shows your teams fantasy stats. We should also have a drop down choice for MLB stats so that we can make comparisons on how well we are working our bench. While a player might only be batting .195 for my team, I still want to know how he is performing overall.

With regard to Live Scoring

There is currently a tracking category for DAILY fantasy points (not stats). This is a totally meaningless and useless tracking category that adds no value. It should be replaced with a DAILY trend category that truly shows how your teams is doing point wise for the day (ie: +2 hr, -1.5sb, etc)

Thanks [/QUOTE]Dub, I could not agree more. I have been asking to have MLB YTD added in the drop down box since the season started with no success. Thanks.

Glenneration X · Post by **Glenneration X** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:55 am

Originally posted by Dub:

quote:Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

The Team Stats page has been completed late today with Bench stats showing along with a few more features, but we still wanted to test it this weekend before unveiling it with any possible hiccups. Sorry for the delay, but we should have this updated and better first thing next week. Look for that improved page soon. Important for team stat page

Currently it only shows your teams fantasy stats. We should also have a drop down choice for MLB stats so that we can make comparisons on how well we are working our bench. While a player might only be batting .195 for my team, I still want to know how he is performing overall.

With regard to Live Scoring

There is currently a tracking category for DAILY fantasy points (not stats). This is a totally meaningless and useless tracking category that adds no value. It should be replaced with a DAILY trend category that truly shows how your teams is doing point wise for the day (ie: +2 hr, -1.5sb, etc)

Thanks [/QUOTE]I really like that second suggestion....

Glenn

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:04 am

Live scoring? daily stats? man, i must be doing something wrong. i don't follow the 'game' that closely.

Glenneration X · Post by **Glenneration X** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:08 am

Originally posted by Gekko:

Live scoring? daily stats? man, i must be doing something wrong. i don't follow the 'game' that closely. It's all part of the fun my friend.

Glenn

Top Dawg · Post by **Top Dawg** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:43 am

It would be great if the bench stats could be up and available in time for us to set lineups tomorrow. The 45 player DC leagues are a real drag to set lineups for when you have 20+ bench players to sort through manually.

Fun factor = 0 flags.

Pete

viper · Post by **viper** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:03 am

not having MLB YTD is becoming VERY annoying

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:19 pm

Just a heads up that you can now bid from the Watch List. This was added tonight.

You can also now bid on players (if available) from the Probable Pitchers page. We are working on that page now and trying to get probable pitchers two weeks in advance. Right now the data is just one week in advance. Again, we are working on that now.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:24 pm

The new team stats page is now finished, but we have decided to have one more night of stats for testing. Look for this tomorrow.

Also look for the ability to switch to other teams you own directly from the Live Scoring page hopefully by tomorrow. Sorry for the delay in these two areas, but they should be unveiled in the next day or two.

ceo3west · Post by **ceo3west** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:53 am

The site is much improved from a few weeks ago, nice work Greg & crew. There are still some tweaks that could be made to make it even better, here are some suggestions I have.

* Add points change (from yesterday) to standings

* Drop owners edge box to the bottom of league home page

* Replace draft order with partial transaction history (say last 10 moves for example), move this underneath standings

* Move player news next to transaction history

* Fix the links for "My Players" - the news associated with the players doesn't always drop down when the link is clicked

* Free agents default to utility and sort descending on at-bats

* In live scoring, replace TEAM with the team that the player is playing against

Da bears · Post by **Da bears** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:13 am

Any update on when the weekly overall standings will be added to the site in oder to determine the weekly winners? Thanks.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:29 am

Originally posted by Da bears:

Any update on when the weekly overall standings will be added to the site in oder to determine the weekly winners? Thanks. By the end of this week.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:36 am

There is now a Week 5 tab on Set Lineup that shows your matchups for Monday-Thursday. All matchups for previous periods, current period and the weekend matchups are now within Set Lineup. Enjoy.

rmaysey · Post by **rmaysey** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:41 pm

"Just a heads up that you can now bid from the Watch List. This was added tonight.

You can also now bid on players (if available) from the Probable Pitchers page. We are working on that page now and trying to get probable pitchers two weeks in advance. Right now the data is just one week in advance. Again, we are working on that now."

Awesome--thanks Greg.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:45 am

I haven't heard this officially yet from John and his team, but it looks like the Team Stats page is now updated. You can now see Bench Stats for all of your reserves this week and your team totals there along with your starters' stats and totals for the week. On Friday, you'll see this broken down for the players you moved to reserve and active differently from your Monday-Thursday starting lineup.

Take a look at Periods 2-4 and you'll see the breakout for full week and weekend stats among your starters and reserves.

Within the Week pulldown, we do not have an MLB To Date tab there yet. I do have that on my To Do List and was hopeful it would be included within this new look, but I don't see it there. Hopefully we can get that added at some point soon. Hopefully the new additions help you with your weekly lineup decisions. Good luck all.

colorado · Post by **colorado** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:48 am

I'll avoid any sarcasm by just asking when we can expect the daily email updates to begin.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:58 am

Originally posted by colorado:

I'll avoid any sarcasm by just asking when we can expect the daily email updates to begin. Scott, as I've posted elsewhere daily emails started last week and they are going out to those who have checked emails in their MY SETTINGS for each league. Now Fanball has had trouble getting emails blocked by certain providers and that appears to be part of the problem here. I'll contact IT again today to see if we can get around this problem so that everyone gets them. I'll post with an answer here when we have this solved. But they are going out; unfortunately not everyone is receiving them. We need to fix that.