NFFC To Add New Pending FAAB Tool In 2023

[Greg Ambrosius]

IT IS DONE!!!

We have finally discovered -- or rather, we have finally created -- the PERFECT FAAB tool. Darik and I will create a video to show everyone how this new FAAB tool is going to work, but we are convinced that this is going to be a game-changer in the fantasy sports industry. We believe that this will save hours and hours per week in FAAB time for people who have multiple teams AND make playing fantasy baseball/football/basketball/hockey more ENJOYABLE.

It's a game-changer, folks, trust me. Unfortunately for NFFC players, it won't be available until the 2023 season, but you'll love it.

You will see how it works once we unveil the video, but the concept is so easy that I'll explain it here first. We believe that you will now be able to do MOST of your weekly FAAB for ALL OF YOUR TEAMS on one page. No more jumping from league to league or searching for individual free agents for every single team. We've made all of this so much easier.

Here's how it's going to work:

There are two key aspects of this that you need to familiarize yourself with: Player Watch List and Pending FAAB page. Those two areas will make this work for you.

Let's say you have 10 FAAB teams and they are a combination of 12-team and 15-team leagues. Put all the players you might want to pick up among those teams on your Player Watch List. You don't even need to know if they are available or not; just load your Player Watch List with every conceivable player you want to pick up this week and save it. Your Player Watch List will save you time.

Then go to your Pending FAAB page under Transactions. There you will click the green Import Watchlist button. A box will pop up with the list of potential free agents you want and a list of every FAAB team you own. You can then select any or all of the players you want to possibly bid on and you can select any or all of the teams you want to search for them on.

Let's click all of the players I'm looking for on all of the FAAB teams I have.

BOOM!!! In a second the software loads all the available players you wanted in all of the FAAB leagues you requested. A blue box also opens at the top of the page describing each player that wasn't available in every league. The players who are available in every league are now listed individually below.

NO MORE SEARCHING FOR INDIVIDUAL FREE AGENTS IN EVERY LEAGUE!!!

Now, close out of the blue box and for every individual league I click on the green Edit button. That's where I select which player from my roster I want to drop for each player I want to pick up. I can also set the dollar amount for each free agent I want from that page and the waterfall still works like it does on the individual FAAB page. You can also choose "drop players" from here now as well. All the tools are there for you to adjust your FAAB bids from the Pending FAAB page. Save your edited drops and dollar values for that individual league and you are done.

Then onto the next team, while STAYING ON THE PENDING FAAB PAGE!! You really don't need to leave this page now.

You still have to edit the dollar bids for every free agent you want and if you want more players for your conditional bids you'll likely have to go back to that league's FAAB page, but searching for the top free agents you want for every league can now be done in one swoop using your Player Watch List and the Pending FAAB page. Your remaining FAAB budget for each individual team is also on this Pending FAAB page. The Copy Bids feature is also on this page and those bids can be attached to any of your other teams right from that page.

We really think this will be a time-saver for everyone who has multiple NFBC or NFFC teams. Last year was the first step in improving the FAAB page with our Copy Bids feature, but this next addition -- which all credit goes to our IT department and in particular John Jochum -- is next level. This should allow you to target the key free agents you are looking for and add them in seconds rather than hours.

We have fully tested it and it will be ready for the upcoming baseball season. In fact, it likely will be available for you to test out once we start getting FAAB teams like the Rotowire Online Championship drafted. You're going to love it.

Again, look for the video in a couple of days and then give us your feedback. Let us know if this is the Holy Grail of time saving for you or if we can add even more features to this. Your feedback is what spurred this innovation -- Wayne Ellis actually suggested it to me a couple of weeks ago and our IT guys solved this quickly -- so we look forward to even more feedback.

Best of luck this week during the last FAAB deadlines of the 2022 season and then get ready to save a lot of time each Wednesday and Saturday night in 2023. Thanks all and good luck the rest of the way this season.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Okay, the informational video is done for the new Pending FAAB tool. Here it is:

https://youtu.be/F-Xn2uA382Y

The new Pending FAAB tool is tested and ready to go. In fact, NFFC owners will be able to check it out for Saturday's last FAAB deadline. Play with it and let us know what you think.

All feedback is welcome here (on the new FAAB tool, not the way Darik and I look on video!!!). Please provide feedback here and via email. Thanks all and enjoy.

[Greg Ambrosius]

From the NFBC Message Boards:

I guess I will be the first to reply on this. There is a lot to like here. The Pending Faab page has always been a great spot to go prior to deadline for a final look at your bids. More than once I have caught multiple same drops on a league, etc. Now showing the FAAB balance as well is great. Love that. The ability to quickly edit from that page as well which includes the waterfall feature - super! I will use that a lot.

The one area where I personally see difficulty is still the process of going from watch list to pending faab. First of all, I am a huge proponent of the Watch List page. I use that so much. I think it is a great tool. I have talked to others that don't use it all. We all have our own of doing FAAB. I'm not trying to diminish anyone's process nor make my process or suggestions seem better than others. For me...I would like to be able to filter the watch list and then apply that to each team. Example - I want to filter my watch list for all pitchers (ideally we would have the ability to filter for type of pitcher...currently all called "p") and then export that watch list of pitchers to each league (or import entire list per video but then have ability to filter by position before applying to each league). Seldom, if ever, do I ever have a string of hitters and pitchers together. Seldom do I ever have a string of OF mixed with CI. Generally you start on the team page and first identify the drop candidate(s) and then you plug in a string of that position to replace said drop. I think same applies to football. If you know you have Stafford on a bunch of leagues....you will be wanting a queue of QBs and would like to do that via a filter as opposed to just checking the ones that are QBs.

Taking it a step further....would love to be able to do a 15 team watch list and a 12 team watch list. Not sure if / how that would be possible. Generally I start with the 15 teamers and then I knock down the watch list for the 12s by taking many off and then doing the 12 team FAAB. I might be alone on all of the above...which is fine! What you have created is undoubtedly an improvement already.

A lot of great stuff here. Love the passion to make the best FAAB system in the world even better. Also appreciate the forum to comment and make suggestions! Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback here Champ. Much appreciated.

So it looks like you are requesting a customized Watch List, which makes sense. I ran it past IT and they think it's a great idea.

It seems like you are asking for a Watch List that allows you to tag all the players you are possibly interested in. Then within your Watch List, we would allow you to create subsets and have them appear like your My Teams. You could create "Pitchers" or "Quarterbacks" or "Main Event" or something like that. Seems like that makes sense and it's doable.

And yes, we are NEVER satisfied with the FAAB page. We know that's the biggest hurdle to people doing more teams and enjoying season-long fantasy sports more. We're improving it through suggestions from our customers and this is another good suggestion.