FAAB Results within Minutes

Glenneration X · Post by **Glenneration X** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:11 pm

Great job!!!

Glenn

Da bears · Post by **Da bears** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:13 pm

Awesome job guys!!!

Sebadiah23 · Post by **Sebadiah23** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:17 pm

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:21 pm

Bravo!!!

Real porgress!

Pleasantly surprised!

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:24 pm

Originally posted by sportsbettingman:

Bravo!!!

Real porgress!

Pleasantly surprised! Lance, if you were EVER going to edit a post, this is the one:

"porgress!"

this is how it ran last week too, but we double and triple checked everything. Glad the team had this working well tonight.

whipsaw · Post by **whipsaw** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:28 pm

nice work on the faab. everything seemed to process correctly in my league. can we get rosters unlocked now?

Red Sox Nation · Post by **Red Sox Nation** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:28 pm

I thought the title of the thread was a joke!

Nice job.

Next - Can we set our lineups? Still getting this

Set lineup is currently disabled while we process waivers. This page will be back up within the hour.

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:30 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

quote:Originally posted by sportsbettingman:

Bravo!!!

Real porgress!

Pleasantly surprised! Lance, if you were EVER going to edit a post, this is the one:

"porgress!"

this is how it ran last week too, but we double and triple checked everything. Glad the team had this working well tonight. [/QUOTE]I had to look it up to make sure it wasn't a bad word...nope! (whew)

This was something I hoped would come to pass.

Well done!

Tom Kessenich · Post by **Tom Kessenich** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:31 pm

Originally posted by Red Sox Nation:

I thought the title of the thread was a joke!

As Greg said, FAAB ran within minutes last week too but we wanted to go over everything as thoroughly as possible to make sure it ran correctly.

billywaz · Post by **billywaz** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:32 pm

VERY nice!

Keep up the porngress!

billywaz · Post by **billywaz** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:32 pm

VERY nice!

Keep up the porngress!

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:38 pm

Originally posted by billywaz:

VERY nice!

Keep up the porngress! Now Lance has admitted to drinking while he's posting, but he never said "porngress"!!!

Wow, Lance, can you believe how these vicious attacks happen on our boards? Welcome to the shark infested waters my friend.

whipsaw · Post by **whipsaw** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:42 pm

seriously though why can't i edit my roster yet?

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:42 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

quote:Originally posted by billywaz:

VERY nice!

Keep up the porngress! Now Lance has admitted to drinking while he's posting, but he never said "porngress"!!!

Wow, Lance, can you believe how these vicious attacks happen on our boards? Welcome to the shark infested waters my friend.

[/QUOTE]I don't watch TV...I get all my drama here!

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:50 pm

Originally posted by whipsaw:

seriously though why can't i edit my roster yet? So now we're being criticized for being too efficient?

We lock Set Lineup pages from 7-8 CT on Sundays to make sure we have time to react if there is an issue with the FAAB bids. Three guys are looking over everything again before unlocking rosters, which makes perfect sense.

Walla Walla · Post by **Walla Walla** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:54 pm

Why are slow drafts locked? There's no FAAB for them??

Glenneration X · Post by **Glenneration X** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:56 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

We lock Set Lineup pages from 7-8 CT on Sundays to make sure we have time to react if there is an issue with the FAAB bids. Good thing Greg, because I have a serious issue....

I was outbid on some guys I really wanted.

Think you can fix this for me before unlocking lineups?

In all seriousness Greg....today's FAAB was a nice success for you guys. This was as fast as any FAAB results in any of the contests I've been involved with over the last year or so...and much faster than last year's NFBC through STATS. Congrats, you deserve a Corona tonight. Well done.

Glenn

[ April 18, 2010, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Glenneration X ]

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:10 pm

corona 2nite greg!

whipsaw · Post by **whipsaw** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:25 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

quote:Originally posted by whipsaw:

seriously though why can't i edit my roster yet? So now we're being criticized for being too efficient?

We lock Set Lineup pages from 7-8 CT on Sundays to make sure we have time to react if there is an issue with the FAAB bids. Three guys are looking over everything again before unlocking rosters, which makes perfect sense. [/QUOTE]Thanks, you could have answered this the first time I asked. I wasn't criticizing you, I just wanted an answer. Quit being so freaking defensive.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:26 pm

Originally posted by Glenneration X:

quote:Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

We lock Set Lineup pages from 7-8 CT on Sundays to make sure we have time to react if there is an issue with the FAAB bids. Good thing Greg, because I have a serious issue....

I was outbid on some guys I really wanted.

Think you can fix this for me before unlocking lineups?

In all seriousness Greg....today's FAAB was a nice success for you guys. This was as fast as any FAAB results in any of the contests I've been involved with over the last year or so...and much faster than last year's NFBC through STATS. Congrats, you deserve a Corona tonight. Well done.

Glenn [/QUOTE]Trust me, you guys had me drinking looooooooong before FAAB ran tonight. But I agree, we never ran them this fast in the past. Hopefully it's a trend in the right direction.

I have a long new thread I hope to write tomorrow about the back-end systems for all games, but especially high-stakes. I believe what we're trying to do is the right way to survive, but we can't keep shooting ourselves in the foot. I'll explain tomorrow and hopefully I'll live long enough to see all of this come to fruition. If not, well, don't blame me.

husky88fan · Post by **husky88fan** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:48 pm

Just noticed a glitch in setting my lineup after FAAB ran. In a successful claim for Wigginton and drop of Navarro, the system automatically slotted Wiggy into the C slot where Navarro was. It had him listed in the starting lineup as a 2nd UT where the C slot should have been. I switched him back to the CI slot where I wanted him, but I wonder if the system would have allowed that illegal lineup.

Big Mac Attack · Post by **Big Mac Attack** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:23 pm

Originally posted by husky88fan:

Just noticed a glitch in setting my lineup after FAAB ran. In a successful claim for Wigginton and drop of Navarro, the system automatically slotted Wiggy into the C slot where Navarro was. It had him listed in the starting lineup as a 2nd UT where the C slot should have been. I switched him back to the CI slot where I wanted him, but I wonder if the system would have allowed that illegal lineup. I experience something similar. In one of my leagues, I claimed Navarro and instead of slotting him to my bench as I expected since I still had 2 starting catchers, the system inserted him into the group of starting pitchers, presumably because I dropped a SP to claim him? So the system was recognizing 8 SPs and Navarro (along with the other 2 starting C) as a valid lineup.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:55 am

Originally posted by husky88fan:

Just noticed a glitch in setting my lineup after FAAB ran. In a successful claim for Wigginton and drop of Navarro, the system automatically slotted Wiggy into the C slot where Navarro was. It had him listed in the starting lineup as a 2nd UT where the C slot should have been. I switched him back to the CI slot where I wanted him, but I wonder if the system would have allowed that illegal lineup. I'm not sure why the system did that, but each Monday morning we are alerted to illegal lineups like this and contact the owner if the lineup remains illegal before the first game. No illegal lineup is allowed and this would be an illegal lineup.

KJ Duke · Post by **KJ Duke** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:01 am

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

quote:Originally posted by husky88fan:

Just noticed a glitch in setting my lineup after FAAB ran. In a successful claim for Wigginton and drop of Navarro, the system automatically slotted Wiggy into the C slot where Navarro was. It had him listed in the starting lineup as a 2nd UT where the C slot should have been. I switched him back to the CI slot where I wanted him, but I wonder if the system would have allowed that illegal lineup. I'm not sure why the system did that, but each Monday morning we are alerted to illegal lineups like this and contact the owner if the lineup remains illegal before the first game. No illegal lineup is allowed and this would be an illegal lineup. [/QUOTE]It always does this. If you drop a player who is in a starting slot on your team, the player added gets inserted into that slot even if it's not legal.

Just another on the list of critical features that don't work properly with this crappy fanball system.

I'm sick of it, and I'm sick of having to recommend fixes to a team that reacts (and slowly and incompetently, at that) rather than anticipates or discovers problems.

I thought efforts were underway to get this system working properly. They were not. Time is up in my mind. Time to hire people who can handle the job.

[ April 19, 2010, 10:07 AM: Message edited by: KJ Duke ]

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:39 am

Originally posted by KJ Duke:

quote:Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

quote:Originally posted by husky88fan:

Just noticed a glitch in setting my lineup after FAAB ran. In a successful claim for Wigginton and drop of Navarro, the system automatically slotted Wiggy into the C slot where Navarro was. It had him listed in the starting lineup as a 2nd UT where the C slot should have been. I switched him back to the CI slot where I wanted him, but I wonder if the system would have allowed that illegal lineup. I'm not sure why the system did that, but each Monday morning we are alerted to illegal lineups like this and contact the owner if the lineup remains illegal before the first game. No illegal lineup is allowed and this would be an illegal lineup. [/QUOTE]It always does this. If you drop a player who is in a starting slot on your team, the player added gets inserted into that slot even if it's not legal.

Just another on the list of critical features that don't work properly with this crappy fanball system.

I'm sick of it, and I'm sick of having to recommend fixes to a team that reacts (and slowly and incompetently, at that) rather than anticipates or discovers problems.

I thought efforts were underway to get this system working properly. They were not. Time is up in my mind. Time to hire people who can handle the job. [/QUOTE]The player should just be added to your reserve roster and then you set your starting lineup, which is exactly what everyone is doing. We can see the illegal lineups and right now one person has it because he needs to add another starting outfielder. It looks like people are doing fine figuring this out.

The one easy solution which I have rejected so far is to disallow any FAAB bid that corresponds with an illegal lineup. I didn't want that in place until everyone understood how that would happen and until FAAB ran perfectly. I could see the emails coming with people saying they could have had a legal lineup if their third bid went through and that's what they were planning and now they didn't get this free agent because of the crappy Fanball system.

Instead, I allowed exactly what STATS did last year. We searched each Monday for illegal lineups as well and contacted owners if needed to make changes with their starting lineup. We are doing nothing different this year other than the switch for switch on your active rosters. Agreed, that player should just be added to reserve, but folks know what has to be done.