The New FAAB System Is Now Live

[Lunatic]

When attempting to change the person to drop I am taken to the player page of the person I am dropping. I see no way to edit the person in the drop box. What am I missing? I like the new look and feel. I think you could also make the shading of the top bid in each string a bit darker. Thanks.

You need to click the little pencil figure, then your roster shows up on the left and you choose another player to drop. Hope this helps

[Glenneration X]

When attempting to change the person to drop I am taken to the player page of the person I am dropping. I see no way to edit the person in the drop box. What am I missing? I like the new look and feel. I think you could also make the shading of the top bid in each string a bit darker. Thanks.

Hit the pencil next to the drop. That's the edit.

Thanks Glenn.

No problem Bud, just don't take any of my guys away from me in FAAB.

[COZ]

Love the new system. Very user friendly once I got my fingernails dirty with it. Just add % owned, % started and some of the other stats on another screen and its perfect. Also, could not sort by SB's and IP, unless I was doing something wrong. Great job with this, by far the best system of the ones I've used.

COZ

[TParsons]

The new system is a big improvement. I did have issues getting my list of bids to load with additional conditional bids closer to the deadline. I had to continually refresh to see my conditional bids. I assume this was traffic related as I didn't have the same problem yesterday or earlier today.

[Greg Ambrosius]

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.

The link to the old FAAB system remains at the bottom of your free agent page and will remain there all year. But we are confident that these next set of changes will save you even more time in FAAB going forward. Good luck all.

[Glenneration X]

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.

The link to the old FAAB system remains at the bottom of your free agent page and will remain there all year. But we are confident that these next set of changes will save you even more time in FAAB going forward. Good luck all.

Great job Greg. I already like the new FAAB much better than what we had in place in previous years. The drag & drop alone saves COUNTLESS steps and significant time in the process.

These additional improvements and tweaks you list above will surely enhance and better an already improved process. Thanks for getting this done, to both you and the STATS IT team. We frequently give those guys a hard time (and to be fair, often deservedly so), but they've done an outstanding job here.

[Greg Ambrosius]

You can now sort by name, alphabetically on the new FAAB setup. There is also a color added to the Pending Bids area if you have multiple bids. Good luck this week in FAAB.

Also, you can still use the old FAAB system by clicking on the link at the bottom of the first free agent page. We'll keep that link there throughout the season.

[Beans]

I do like the new FAAB screen, but agree with others that there are some enhancements that would make it even better. I agree that using a smaller font is likely the best solution to the space problem. As others have mentioned, it is very helpful to have more columns of data all right there, sortable ascending/descending.

I also prefer having the dropped player next to the added player. The colored 1, 2 to separate different bid lists does help, but using an additional line for each dropped player makes it feel cluttered, and not using space efficiently.

I would also rather see the player's eligible position(s) rather than the MLB team he plays for (or ideally both) in the free agent list. When I bring up the list of hitters/UT, it is helpful to see their positions. Or even if I am looking at 2B only, for example, it is nice to know if a guy is also eligible somewhere else. The positions show up once the player is added to a bid list, but it is not displayed in the free agent list itself.

Thanks for the improvements so far!