New FAAB Has % Owned, Pinned Free Agents

[Outlaw]

Using IE 11.0.7. Been working fine up to late last night now it just don't want to do anything. all other pages I go to work fine, just not the new faab. Can get it to work but its at a snail pace.

Bama- Have to clean your cache, use ... http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download free version works fine.

None of these browsers clean cache, cookies, temp files, history, unless the settings are setup right. IE 11 is especially notorious for not cleaning anything... all browsers are designed with one thing in mind - total tracking of what anyone does online...they say for marketing, but who knows. Correct settings and a few precautions will keep browser's clean and running fast. Chrome used to be the fastest, but no more. Google wants one thing, your data and they designed that browser to collect everything it can.

Need to have up to date versions of Java and Flash players too. They come out with updates generally every 1-2 weeks on those programs. All browsers need them up to date to browse correctly and read most web pages correctly. Both Java and Flash also store there own cookies and cache... CC cleaner will clean those programs too..

[joshguy]

thanks for the tip on the cleaning outlaw. I did and it STILL runs super slow. It takes forever to load on start up and then if you want to change stats, another long load. Even more frustrating if you want to go back to your lineup page, then when you comeback another long load time. The only thing that doesnt take awhile to load is when I click on the player to put in a bid.Other than that, something is wrong.

If it helps the IT process Greg, Im using a mac. Any tips would be appreciated. The old version is working just fine, speed wise. But I would prefer to use the new if it wasnt so slow.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Using IE 11.0.7. Been working fine up to late last night now it just don't want to do anything. all other pages I go to work fine, just not the new faab. Can get it to work but its at a snail pace.

Ken, it's Internet Explorer 7 that is causing the problem. Download Firefox or Google Chrome (both are free) or even upgrade your Internet Explorer browseer and you will have no problems. Use Google Chrome as your browser and try it then. I trust you won't have any problems. In fact, for everything you do on that computer it will be faster with Google Chrome.

IE7 is the oldest possible browser. You definitely need a new browser and it should work fine.

The stats are definitely loading faster than we've had in the past.

No 9th category of stats on the initial page. The Rank is needed to initially rank the players; it's on other sites as well. BBs are one click away.

Hopefully the browsers and having your screen at 100% work for you. And next week we'll have more tweaks in place. Good luck tonight in FAAB everyone.

[KJ Duke]

No 9th category of stats on the initial page. The Rank is needed to initially rank the players; it's on other sites as well. BBs are one click away.

The trouble is not being able to see ERA/WHIP and K/BB on the same page, which together give a quick glimpse of the quality of the pitcher. My memory isn't good enough to scan a list of 20 pitchers and remember all of their ratios as I one- click over to see BBs.

How about on the "standard stats" tab replacing W/SV with ERA/WHIP ? There's really no need to duplicate W and SV on the second tab.

[Glenneration X]

Using IE 11.0.7. Been working fine up to late last night now it just don't want to do anything. all other pages I go to work fine, just not the new faab. Can get it to work but its at a snail pace.

Ken, it's Internet Explorer 7 that is causing the problem. Download Firefox or Google Chrome (both are free) or even upgrade your Internet Explorer browseer and you will have no problems. Use Google Chrome as your browser and try it then. I trust you won't have any problems. In fact, for everything you do on that computer it will be faster with Google Chrome.

IE7 is the oldest possible browser. You definitely need a new browser and it should work fine.

The stats are definitely loading faster than we've had in the past.

No 9th category of stats on the initial page. The Rank is needed to initially rank the players; it's on other sites as well. BBs are one click away.

Hopefully the browsers and having your screen at 100% work for you. And next week we'll have more tweaks in place. Good luck tonight in FAAB everyone.

The Champ's using IE 11 which is the latest version of that browser. I also have the latest version of IE on an ultrabook with hardware and software specs as high as they come for a mobile laptop. They don't make higher yet.

Still I've experienced the same lags, delays, freezes, etc. as others have mentioned here. It all started when the latest tweaks went into effect. Not sure why, but it would be nice if IT could figure it out and address it.

[Bama]

Using the debugger I get Webpage contains errors that might prevent it from working properly.


LIne 3

Error: object doesn't support property or method 'countdown'



Looks like ill be using the old version this week as it looks to be working okay.


Have found one other page with errors and it is the one to post messages. error on line 349 of the code.

[joshguy]

Using IE 11.0.7. Been working fine up to late last night now it just don't want to do anything. all other pages I go to work fine, just not the new faab. Can get it to work but its at a snail pace.

Ken, it's Internet Explorer 7 that is causing the problem. Download Firefox or Google Chrome (both are free) or even upgrade your Internet Explorer browseer and you will have no problems. Use Google Chrome as your browser and try it then. I trust you won't have any problems. In fact, for everything you do on that computer it will be faster with Google Chrome.

IE7 is the oldest possible browser. You definitely need a new browser and it should work fine.

The stats are definitely loading faster than we've had in the past.

No 9th category of stats on the initial page. The Rank is needed to initially rank the players; it's on other sites as well. BBs are one click away.

Hopefully the browsers and having your screen at 100% work for you. And next week we'll have more tweaks in place. Good luck tonight in FAAB everyone.

The Champ's using IE 11 which is the latest version of that browser. I also have the latest version of IE on an ultrabook with hardware and software specs as high as they come for a mobile laptop. They don't make higher yet.

Still I've experienced the same lags, delays, freezes, etc. as others have mentioned here. It all started when the latest tweaks went into effect. Not sure why, but it would be nice if IT could figure it out and address it.

Same thing here with this latest update. I did a cleanse of my system, updated flash, tried it in google chrome...it started with this past weeks update. The most frustrating part is even if I go to the old Faab and need to go back to my lineup page, when I go back to Faab, I have to wait for the new version to load before I can switch to the old.

Please bring back the "old" new system!

[KJ Duke]

No 9th category of stats on the initial page. The Rank is needed to initially rank the players; it's on other sites as well. BBs are one click away.

The trouble is not being able to see ERA/WHIP and K/BB on the same page, which together give a quick glimpse of the quality of the pitcher. My memory isn't good enough to scan a list of 20 pitchers and remember all of their ratios as I one- click over to see BBs.

How about on the "standard stats" tab replacing W/SV with ERA/WHIP ? There's really no need to duplicate W and SV on the second tab.

Here's a second issue ... if you click search while you have an open conditional bid, it closes the conditional bid.

[Red Sox Nation-]

We need first names instead of initials. I like the new updates and I'm finally using the new system. With 5 minutes to the deadline I clicked on OLD system and noticed I was dropping Jim Johnson instead of Josh Johnson. (sure they both suck) We have too many common names in this sport. Let's get this fixed. Thanks

[TParsons]

Ken, it's Internet Explorer 7 that is causing the problem. Download Firefox or Google Chrome (both are free) or even upgrade your Internet Explorer browseer and you will have no problems. Use Google Chrome as your browser and try it then. I trust you won't have any problems. In fact, for everything you do on that computer it will be faster with Google Chrome.

IE7 is the oldest possible browser. You definitely need a new browser and it should work fine.

The stats are definitely loading faster than we've had in the past.

No 9th category of stats on the initial page. The Rank is needed to initially rank the players; it's on other sites as well. BBs are one click away.

Hopefully the browsers and having your screen at 100% work for you. And next week we'll have more tweaks in place. Good luck tonight in FAAB everyone.

The Champ's using IE 11 which is the latest version of that browser. I also have the latest version of IE on an ultrabook with hardware and software specs as high as they come for a mobile laptop. They don't make higher yet.

Still I've experienced the same lags, delays, freezes, etc. as others have mentioned here. It all started when the latest tweaks went into effect. Not sure why, but it would be nice if IT could figure it out and address it.

Same thing here with this latest update. I did a cleanse of my system, updated flash, tried it in google chrome...it started with this past weeks update. The most frustrating part is even if I go to the old Faab and need to go back to my lineup page, when I go back to Faab, I have to wait for the new version to load before I can switch to the old.

Please bring back the "old" new system!

I'm getting this w/ Firefox as well. This is quickly becoming the most miserable fantasy baseball season I've ever experienced after all of the promises, none of which have lived up to their billing.

I'm not well versed as a techie, so anybody that is can feel free to jump in and tell me if this can't be done. I am wondering why the entire page needs to be refreshed any time you make an edit to the bid string? It seems that it's the FA list that takes forever to load and causes the lag. Can this not be made static after the initial load and then refresh only when the user makes changes to the filter (ie- going from P to OF, changing the sort from rank to % owned, changing the time frame from overall to 7 days, etc.)? Only updating the bid string when an edit is made to it would seem to cut down on the lag considerably.

[Glenneration X]

The lagging really needs to be addressed before the next FAAB.

[King of Queens]

Latest FAAB completely unusable on an iPhone (insert maniacal KJ Duke laugh here)

[BK METS]

What a miserable day with FAAB. Granted I have a lot of teams, but with the new FAAB not working on my droid or tablet and the old FAAB taking forever, my entire Easter was spent doing this. I have not said anything during everyone's complaints regarding this. This is it for me. I can't understand why this is so difficult to get right. I am so beyond frustrated right now. My family says I need to find a new hobby. Maybe they are right.

[Outlaw]

If I'm not mistaken, The FAAB, Live scoring, etc is all based on Flash technology and Java. If I'm guessing the problems are with Java. Anyone interested in seeing the amount of coding and programming that goes into these web pages, go to the new FABB in Chrome browser and right click anywhere on the page, choose inspect Element and you will see a lot of the coding. I looked at CBS and their Web pages load much quicker and do not appear to have as much coding or complicated coding found at the NFBC pages.

Java is a lot more problematic these days for web pages using it. They have issued 5 updates alone to their latest version released last month because of issues. There are some very valid technical reasons the NFBC web pages may be having all these issues. Bandwidth, Server size, Server connections, memory, etc..

All Greg and Tom can do is keep reporting the issues to their IT, but maybe they should have someone from IT start responding or put a help link from any user straight to IT. Maybe pin a Technical Issues only thread at the top of the Boards, so that IT cannot read those proactively. Software these days, whether is PC based windows, Apple Mac OS, Droid and windows software for any type phone/Pad is all buggy. It literally takes a knowledgeable user to keep their devices up to date, running clean, and setup properly and unfortunately that is not most people/consumer/home users.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Sorry for any problems you folks had this Sunday with FAAB. I've copied all of the issues and sent to IT this morning to look at and hopefully this week we can get every issue solved. I'm not sure why anything we did last week would have slowed down the loading of stats or affected usage on any of the tablets or iPhone. But we'll look at it all and add the other changes that are coming. It's important to get this perfect so that we save you time each Sunday, not have you spend more time each Sunday.

Yes, the old FAAB works, but we redesigned FAAB to load stats faster, to move primary bids more easily with drag 'n drop, to work on all tablets and mobile devices, etc. We have to perfect this to save you time and effort every week in the most time-consuming part of season-long games. We understand the importance of this and we have to perfect this.

[King of Queens]

The old FAAB works, but you've got to get to the bottom of the page quickly before the new FAAB corrupts your page with ghost-imaging, freezes, etc. When you get to the Free Agent screen, the trick is to immediately scroll to the bottom and then click on the old FAAB link.

Looking forward to the next version of this.

[joshguy]

Agree with the last few guys. Unless the problem is found, just ditch whatever updates were done for this last week and go back to what we had the week before, if thats possible. Having % owned was nice but not so nice when that or any other search takes forever. At least last week to go to the old FAAB to get the % owned was an instantaneous click away.

Or if possible, would it be possible to put the old FAAB link somewhere else so we dont have to go to the new FAAB and the time lag? That would help a lot of us iphone or ipad users. I tried going to the new FAAB on my iphone and gave up after a couple mins of loading and still nothing happening. At least that way I can bypass that.

[Deadheadz]

If you open the following link in a fresh browser page it will take you to the old FAAB directly, where you can bookmark the page and be able to bypass any problems the new FAAB page causes:


http://nfbc.stats.com/baseball/reports/ ... gs.2.0.asp


Load it right after you've gone into the league you selected from the My Teams page.
It should make things a bit easier until all the bugs get worked out.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Still trying to figure out what the icons to the left of the name are. I hover over the left blue whatchamajiggy and it says bid. The cbs icon says watch. What is the third one - the one that looks like a domino?

I have an answer: That indicates drag and drop can be used.

[Greg Ambrosius]

We've tested FAAB today on iPads and haven't seen any problems, but that doesn't mean there aren't bugs somewhere. Help us along as we want more feedback from any users having issues with FAAB, especially those on an iPad. Email me at [email protected] and I'll send to IT. Specifically, we'd like to know:

-iPad version
-iOS version
-Browser being used
-What specifically "doesn't work"

For iPhones, there's probably not a workaround solution for FAAB with the current setup. We need to build this out on the mobile app to really get the setup the way you need it for FAAB on an iPhone. Right now we've shrunk so much to fit in everything requested on the desktop version that it doesn't fit right on the iPhone. We need to build a separate version of the page, optimized for phones, which is going to have to be a future project.

We'll work on the items for this week that I suggested late last week and look at the other suggestions. But anyone struggling still on an iPad or other tablet, shoot me an email with the info above and we'll try to help each of you personally. Thanks.

[COZ]

Everything worked like a charm for me....on both IPAD and desktop this weekend, using Google Chrome and newest IPAD. Older IPADs without latest software update consistently will have problems with newer websites from my prior experience with my first generation IPAD.

COZ

[joshguy]

We've tested FAAB today on iPads and haven't seen any problems, but that doesn't mean there aren't bugs somewhere. Help us along as we want more feedback from any users having issues with FAAB, especially those on an iPad. Email me at [email protected] and I'll send to IT. Specifically, we'd like to know:

-iPad version
-iOS version
-Browser being used
-What specifically "doesn't work"

For iPhones, there's probably not a workaround solution for FAAB with the current setup. We need to build this out on the mobile app to really get the setup the way you need it for FAAB on an iPhone. Right now we've shrunk so much to fit in everything requested on the desktop version that it doesn't fit right on the iPhone. We need to build a separate version of the page, optimized for phones, which is going to have to be a future project.

We'll work on the items for this week that I suggested late last week and look at the other suggestions. But anyone struggling still on an iPad or other tablet, shoot me an email with the info above and we'll try to help each of you personally. Thanks.

Greg, is there anyway then to put the link to the old FAAB somewhere else without going to the new? That would seem like an easy compromise if we can't use our iPhones. It would really stink if we were out at the club on Sunday night and needed to make a fix to our FAAB at the last minute and couldn't do it.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Sure Josh, I will ask if we can make the old FAAB more accessible. Our main focus is adding these last tweaks to the new FAAB to make this better, but we'll see if we can help with the old FAAB too.

I received only one email last night about FAAB on tablets. Again, if you are having trouble with the new FAAB system on your iPad or tablet, please shoot me an email with:

*Browser you are using
* Operating system
* What is happening when you call up FAAB

We will personally look into any problems you are having. Thanks.

[BK METS]

Sure Josh, I will ask if we can make the old FAAB more accessible. Our main focus is adding these last tweaks to the new FAAB to make this better, but we'll see if we can help with the old FAAB too.

I received only one email last night about FAAB on tablets. Again, if you are having trouble with the new FAAB system on your iPad or tablet, please shoot me an email with:

*Browser you are using
* Operating system
* What is happening when you call up FAAB

We will personally look into any problems you are having. Thanks.

Sent you an email. Thanks.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Sure Josh, I will ask if we can make the old FAAB more accessible. Our main focus is adding these last tweaks to the new FAAB to make this better, but we'll see if we can help with the old FAAB too.

I received only one email last night about FAAB on tablets. Again, if you are having trouble with the new FAAB system on your iPad or tablet, please shoot me an email with:

*Browser you are using
* Operating system
* What is happening when you call up FAAB

We will personally look into any problems you are having. Thanks.

Sent you an email. Thanks.

Thanks. I just need to know the Operating System on that tablet now if you can email me that.